Pierre Vial (born 25 December 1942) is an academic medievalist tied to the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3.

A Nouvelle Droite leader, he is the founder of the far-right, neopagan association Terre et Peuple.

[4] He soon reached the leadership ranks of the FN,[3] serving as a member of the Institute of Formation of the party.

[5] However, Vial complained in both GRECE and the FN of a lack of focus on the ethnic dimension of identity, and he eventually decided to establish his own movement Terre et Peuple in 1994, launched publicly in 1995.

[3][6] In a public declaration delivered at a Terre et Peuple meeting in May 2000, Vial lamented the "ethnic colonization" of France by non-European immigrant communities with a different "biological infrastructure".