Julian Kornhauser (born 20 September 1946 in Gliwice, Poland) is a Polish-Jewish poet and literary critic.
He was born to Jewish father and a Catholic mother, as a son of Jakub and Małgorzata Kornhauser. He is an author of poems, novels, literary sketches; as well as translations of Serbian and Croatian poetry. At present, he works as a professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Through his daughter Agata Kornhauser-Duda, his son-in-law is Andrzej Duda, the President of Poland, member of the Law and Justice party for the office of President of Poland in the 2015 Polish presidential elections.