Claude Bourdet (28 October 1909 – 20 March 1996) was a writer, journalist, polemist, and militant French politician.
Bourdet, a son of the dramatic author Édouard Bourdet and the poet Catherine Pozzi, was born and died in Paris.
He left the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich with an engineering diploma in technical physics in 1933.
After his military service in the Artillerie de Montagne, he was put in charge of a mission for the Economy Ministry, during the government of the Front populaire.
He was very active in French Resistance movements.
He participated in the foundation of the resistance newspaper Combat along with Henri Frenay, of which he was a member of the management committee, until the departure of Frenay to London and later Algeria in 1943, when he was made its representative.