Yves Chauvin (born October 10, 1930) is a French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate. He was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock, for his work from the early 1970s in the area of olefin metathesis.

Chauvin received his degree from the Lyon School of Chemistry, Physics and Electronics in 1954.