Joseph Eddy Fontenrose (17 Juni 1903 – 7 Juli 1986) adalah seoran cendekiawan klasik asal Amerika Serikat. Ia utamanya meminati agama Yunani kuno dan mitologi Yunani. Ia juga merupakan pakar dari John Steinbeck, mengkomentari mitologi dalam karya Steinbeck.

• Python; a study of Delphic myth and its origins (1959)
• John Steinbeck; an introduction and interpretation (1963)
• The Ritual Theory of Myth (1966)
• The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations (1978)
• Orion: The Myth of the Hunter and the Huntress (1981)
• Steinbeck's Unhappy Valley. A Study of The Pastures of Heaven (1981)
• Classics at Berkeley, The First Century (1869-1970) (1982)
• Didyma. Apollo's Oracle, Cult and Companions (1988)

• Joseph Fontenrose at the Database of Classical Scholars
• "Joseph Edward Fontenrose, Classics: Berkeley"