Jean-Baptiste-François Pitra, OSB (1 August 1812 – 9 February 1889) was a French Catholic cardinal, archaeologist and theologian.

He was born in Champforgeuil. Joining the Benedictine Order, he entered the Abbey of Solesmes in 1842, and was collaborator of Abbe Migne in the latter's Patrologia latina and Patrologia Graeca. He was created cardinal in 1863, and was given the titular church of San Callisto in 1867,^[1] before being appointed librarian of the Vatican Library in 1869. He is especially noteworthy for his great archaeological discoveries, including the Inscription of Autun, and is the author of numerous works on archaeological, theological, and historical subjects.

Pitra died in Rome.

• Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata (in Latin). Vol. 1. Paris. 1876.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata (in Latin). Vol. 2. Paris. 1884.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata (in Latin). Vol. 4. Paris. 1883.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Paulin Martin; Jean Baptiste François Pitra (2010). Analecta Sacra Patrum Antenicaenorum ex Codicibus Orientalibus : Syriac and Armenian Fragments of Ante-Nicene Writings. Syriac Studies Library (in Latin and English) (2nd ed.). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781463224349. OCLC 1110709933 – via archive.is. {{cite book}}: External link in |via= (help)

• Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata, 1876

• List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics