Jean Roy (1916 – 22 September 2011, aged 95) was a French music critic and musicologist, born in Paris.
In 1946, with Armand Panigel, Jean Roy was among the co-founders of the radio program la Tribune des critiques de disques for the RTF then France Musique, a journalist for La Revue musicale of Henry Prunières, for Diapason then le Monde de la musique , secretary of the annual magazine Cahiers Maurice Ravel, whose number 14 of 2011 was dedicated to him. He was vice-president of the "Amis de Francis Poulenc", president of the "Amis de Darius Milhaud", and president of the "Roger Désormière commitee".