Marie-Claire Pauwels (3 September 1945, 15th arrondissement of Paris – 22 May 2011) was a French journalist, the daughter of Suzanne Brégeon and Louis Pauwels. In April 1980, she launched the magazine Madame Figaro of which she became the first editor-in-chief and received the Prix Roger Nimier in 2003 for her autobiographical work Fille à papa. In 1975, she created the magazine Jacinte of which she became editor-in-chief until 1980. She then took over, under the authority of her father, the direction of the women sections of Le Figaro Magazine.