Claire Huchet Bishop (30 December 1898 – 13 March 1993) was a Swiss-born American children's novelist and librarian. She was renowned for her contributions to children's literature, including two Newbery Medal runners-up: Pancakes-Paris (1947) and All Alone (1953). Her book Twenty and Ten (1952) won the Josette Frank Award.
Her first English-language children's book, The Five Chinese Brothers, illustrated by Kurt Wiese and published in 1938, became a classic and was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1959.
An American born in Geneva, Switzerland, Bishop grew up in France and Geneva. She completed her education at the Sorbonne and was instrumental in starting the first children's library in France. After marrying American concert pianist Frank Bishop, she moved to the United States and worked for the New York City Public Library from 1932 to 1936.
Claire Huchet Bishop was an advocate for Roman Catholicism and an opponent of antisemitism. She was also an accomplished lecturer.