François Bréda (Hungarian: Bréda Ferenc; 20 February 1956 – 16 May 2018) was a Romanian essayist, poet, literary critic, literary historian, translator and theatrologist.
In 1991 he was a founding member of the György Bretter Literary Circle, a society with great literary traditions that had ceased to exist in 1983 and being revived after the 1989 revolution in Romania.
Bréda died on 16 May 2018 at the age of 62.