Arnaud Beauville (born 10 May 1947 ) is a French mathematician, whose research interest is algebraic geometry. Beauville earned his doctorate from Paris Diderot University in 1977, with a thesis regarding Prym varieties and the Schottky problem, under supervision of Jean-Louis Verdier. He has been a professor at the Université Paris-Sud, then Director of the Mathematics Department at the École Normale Supérieure. He is currently Professor emeritus at the Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis. Beauville was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the summer of 1982. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1986 at Berkeley. He was a member of Bourbaki. He has had 25 Ph.D. students, among them Claire Voisin, Olivier Debarre, Yves Laszlo. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.