Jean André Wahl (1888 - 1974) was a French philosopher. He was professor at the Sorbonne from 1936 to 1967, broken by World War II. He was in the USA from 1942 to 1945, having been interned as a Jew at the Drancy concentration camp (north-east of Paris) and then escaped.

He began his career as a follower of Henri Bergson. He is known as one of those introducing Hegelian thought in France in the 1930s, ahead of Alexandre Kojève's more celebrated lectures. He was also a champion in French thought of the Danish proto-existentialist Kierkegaard. These enthusiasms, which became the significant books Le malheur de la conscience dans la philosophie de Hegel (1929) and Études kierkegaardiennes (1938) were controversial, in the prevailing climate of thought. He became known as an anti-systematic philosopher, in favour of philosophical innovation and the concrete.

While in the USA, Wahl with Gustave Cohen and backed by the Rockefeller Foundation founded a 'university in exile', the École Libre des Hautes Études, in New York. Later, at Mount Holyoke where he had a position, he set up the Décades de Mount Holyoke, also known as Pontigny-en-Amérique, modelled on meetings run from 1910 to 1939 by Paul Desjardins at the site of Cistercian abbey of Pontigny in Burgundy. These successfully gathered together French intellectuals in wartime exile, ostensibly studying the English language, with Americans including Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens and Roger Session . Wahl, already a published poet, made translations of poems of Stevens into French.

In post-war France Wahl was an important figure, as a teacher and editor of learned journals.