Lucie Simplice Camille Benoît Desmoulins (March 2, 1760 – April 5, 1794) is a journalist and politician who plays an important role in the French Revolution.

He is a childhood friend of Maximilien Robespierre and a close friend and political ally of Georges Danton, who are influential figures in the French Revolution.

Danton is his ally and, in the end, the Committee of Public Safety sentences both of these men to death.