Jean-Baptiste Donnet, was born on 28 September 1923 in Pontgibaud (Puy-de-Dôme) and died on 30 November 2014 in Sentheim (Haut-Rhin).
He is a French chemist who is noted as a pioneer in the surface chemistry of carbon black and as a founder of the Upper Alsace University.He is the father of French journalist Pierre-Antoine Donnet.