Marie-Claire Pauwels (3 September 1945, 15th arrondissement of Paris^[1] – 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.^[1]

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.

• 1988: Mon chéri, Éditions Flammarion ISBN 978-2-0806-6042-8; 1989, J'ai lu, ISBN 978-2-2772-2599-7
• 2002: Fille à papa, Albin Michel, ISBN 978-2-2261-3607-7 — Prix Roger Nimier (2003)

• Marie-Claire Pauwels on Who's Who
• Stéphane Bern on Marie-Claire Pauwels in Le Figaro