Jules-Émile Saintin (14 August 1829 – 13 July 1894) was a neoclassic French painter.

He was a pupil of Michel Martin Drolling and François-Édouard Picot at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1845.

In April 1854, he went to live and work in the United States, where he painted portraits, landscapes and Indian subjects.

He returned to Paris in 1860 and developed a workshop where he made paintings with American themes, and genre scenes.

Jules Émile Saintin was a friend of the architect Charles Garnier and the painter Paul Baudry.