Louis Marin (22 May 1931 – 29 October 1992) was a French philosopher, historian, semiotician, and art critic.
He was also an Associate of the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University from 1985 until his death in 1992 in Paris.
Marin was widely known for his work in a variety of areas: linguistics, semiotics, theology, philosophy, anthropology, rhetoric, art, and institutional history and literary theory.
Throughout his career, Marin's main intellectual focus was seventeenth-century French literature and art, particularly the works of Blaise Pascal, Perrault, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne.
In addition, he published numerous articles on the visual arts, religious texts and utopias.