Jean Varenne (12 June 1926 – 12 July 1997) was a French Indologist and a prominent figure of the Nouvelle Droite.

[3] Varenne also worked as a visiting professor at El Colegio de México and at the University of Chicago in the second part of the 1960s.

[4][1] In 1974, Varenne joined the patronage committee of Nouvelle École, a review published by GRECE, an ethno-nationalist think tank led by Alain de Benoist.

[7] He served as the president of GRECE from 1984 to 1987,[3][8] and was also a member of the Institute of Formation of the Front National (FN) of Jean-Marie Le Pen.

[10] At the end of his life, Varenne was working on an Encyclopedic Dictionary of Religions; only articles on Hinduism were published at the time of his death on 12 July 1997.