Jonathan Manne Dorfan (born October 10, 1947) is a particle physicist and the President-Emeritus of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate University.

Thereafter he worked on various projects at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) including the Mark II detector and BaBar experiment before becoming director in 1999.

The official citation states, "For leadership in the BABAR and Belle experiments, which established the violation of CP symmetry in B meson decay, and furthered our understanding of quark mixing and quantum chromodynamics".

[5] On 7 November 2017, the Emperor of Japan, awarded Dr. Jonathan Dorfan, President Emeritus of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, one of Japan's most distinguished national decorations.

The official citation states that the decoration is in recognition of "contributions to the development of our nation's research and education in science and technology".