Jacques Ferron (January 21, 1921 - April 22, 1985) was a Canadian physician and author.

Jacques Ferron was born in Louiseville, Québec. He is the son of Joseph-Alphonse Ferron and Adrienne Caron. On march 5th of 1931 his mother passed away. He attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf for high school where he was kicked out in 1936, he will continue at Collège Saint-Laurent and then be readmitted at Jean-de-Brébeuf, to be in turn, kicked out again. September 1941, He is accepted at Université de Laval where he will study to become a doctor. July 22nd 1943, he marries a fellow student in right, Magdeleine Thérien whom he will divorce in 1949. 1945, he is enroled in the canadian army as a medic, he trains in British-Columbia and Ontario and is after that sent to Québec and New-Brunswick as a medic. When he is relieved of duty in 1946, he settles in Rivière-Madeleine. March 5th 1947, death of his father. In 1963 he founded the Parti Rhinocéros, which he described as "an intellectual guerrilla party". In 1948, he returns to Montréal. 1949, he moves to Longueuil, his first book is published: L'ogre. 1951, his first publication of a 30-year collaboration with "L'Information médicale et paramédicale". June 28 1952, he marries Madeleine Lavalée. In 1954 he becomes an important member of the "Congrès Canadien pour la Paix"(Canadian Peace Congress). 1959 he helps in the foundation of the magazine Situations. 1960, with the help of Raoul Roy, he creates "L'Action socialiste pour l'indépendance du Québec". 1962, He receives the Governor General prize of Canada for his book "Contes du pays incertain". 1963, with family members, he founds the Parti Rhinocéros which will last until around the 1990s, he also begins to write for the magazine "Parti pris". 1966, for 1 year, he is a doctor at the Mont-Providence psychiatric ward(now Rivière-des-Prairies hospital). In september he is the official representative for "L'Information médicale et paramédicale" at a congress of National Conference on Mental Retardation held in Moncton, NB. 1969, he becomes a member of the Parti québécois. 1970, he work at the Saint-Jean-de-Dieu psychiatric ward(now Louis-H. La Fontaine hospital) for 1 year. 1972, May 10th, he receives the France-Québec prize for his book: Les roses sauvages, November 23rd, he is given the Duvernay prize by the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal. 1973, he travels do Warsaw to assist a congres, L'Union mondiale des écrivains médecins. 1977, the Québec government gives him the Athanase-David prize. 1981, he is nammed honorable member of the Union des écrivains québécois. He dies in 1985 in his home in Saint-Lambert, he was 64. He is believed to have shot himself when he realised that Québec would never become a sovereign country.