Antoine-Joseph Pernety, known as Dom Pernety (February 23, 1716, Roanne – October 16, 1796, Avignon) is a French writer.
At various times he is a Benedictine, and librarian of Frederic the Great of Prussia.
Together with the Polish Count Tadeusz Grabianka, also influenced by the Christian mysticism of Swedenborg, he founds in 1760 the secret society of ‘Rite hermétique’ or Illuminati of Avignon.