Jean-Claude Merlin

Jean-Claude Merlin (born 1954) is a French astronomer, founder-president of the Burgundy Astronomical Society () and a discoverer of minor planets. He was laureate of the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Fondation de la Vocation in 1982 and received the "Prix Georges Bidault de l'Isle" of the Société astronomique de France in 1999.
The main-belt asteroid 57658 Nilrem, discovered by Michel Ory at the Jura Observatory in 2001, is named after him. Its naming citation was published on 6 March 2004 ().