Yvon Garlan (16 July 1933 – 8 July 2022) was a French historian and academic.^[1] He specialized in classical antiquity.

Born in 1933, Garlan studied at the École normale supérieure^[2] and earned an agrégation in history.^[3] A specialist in the Hellenistic period, he was a professor at Rennes 2 University. His research led to the expansion of knowledge on Ancient Greek slavery, the Greek wars, and the amphoric stamp [fr]. His studies on the stamp systems of Thasos, Sinope, and Heraclea Pontica were highly notable.^{[citation needed]}

In February 1979, Garlan was one of 34 signatories of a declaration written by Léon Poliakov Pierre Vidal-Naquet to dismantle the historical negationism of Robert Faurisson.^[4] In 1991, he became a correspondent of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.^[5]

Yvon Garlan died on 8 July 2022 at the age of 88.^[6]

• La Guerre dans l'Antiquité (1972)
• Recherches de poliorcétique grecque (1974)
• Les Révoltes bretonnes de 1675 (1975)
• Les Esclaves en Grèce ancienne (1982)
• Vin et amphores de Thasos (1988)
• Guerre et économie en Grèce ancienne (1989)
• Pleumeur-Bodou : chronique d'une commune trégorroise entre l'Ancien régime et la révolution spatiale (1994)
• Les Timbres amphoriques de Thasos (1999)
• Les Timbres céramiques sinopéens sur amphores et sur tuiles trouvés à Sinope (2004)