Pierre Antoine Monneron (16 January 1747 – 8 June 1801) was a French merchant, banker, writer and politician.
Monneron was born on 16 January 1747 in Annonay, Ardèche. He was deputy to the French National Convention for Mauritius. On 13 May 1791, he spoke at the National Assembly as a representative of Mauritius on behalf of the rights of people of colour.
His brothers, Joseph François Augustin Monneron and Louis Monneron, were also active in French national and colonial politics of the time, whilst his brother Charles Claude Ange Monneron was an engineer and explorer.
Pierre Monneron died on 8 June 1801 in Pamplemousses, Mauritius, aged 54.
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