Maxime Crochemore (born 1947) is a French computer scientist known for his numerous contributions to algorithms on strings.

[2][3][1] Crochemore earned his doctorate (PhD) in 1978 and his Doctorat d'état (DSc) in 1983 from the University of Rouen.

[citation needed] Crochemore holds an honorary doctorate (2014) from the University of Helsinki.

[4] A festschrift in his honour was published in 2009 as a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science.

He in particular introduced new algorithms for pattern matching,[6] string indexing[7] and text compression.