Jean-Pol Vigneron (5 March 1950 – 24 June 2013) was a Belgian physics professor. Jean-Pol started his career working on semi-conductor physics, but was best known for his later work on the physics of animal colours, photonic crystals and naturally occurring optical devices. In 2007, he was elected a member of the respected Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium, he was also a professor at the Université de Namur and lectured at the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and in Morocco. A conference in his honour is scheduled to be held in Namur in April 2014.