Jean-Paul Aron (born 27 May 1925, Strasbourg - 20 August 1988) was a French writer, philosopher and journalist. His most notable work is Les Modernes, which was published in 1984. He was an early person of renown in France to die of AIDS, and is widely credited for giving the disease a human face and challenging the public perception of the disease. During his lifetime, he published several historical works that examined middle-class social practices. He is buried at 6, rue du Repos in Paris.