Pierre Lescure (born July 2, 1945), is a French journalist and television executive. He is known for having founded the French TV music show Les Enfants du rock broadcast on public television from 1981 to 1988 and for having led the French Canal+ channel from its creation in 1984 to 2002. Since 2015 he has been the president of the Cannes Film Festival.

He is the son of François Lescure, French Resistance member and journalist for the French communist daily newspaper L'Humanité, and the grandson of Pierre de Lescure, founder of the publishing house Les Éditions de Minuit. He grew up in Choisy-le-Roi. He studied journalism at the Centre de formation des journalistes de Paris.

He started his career at the radio station RTL, where he was reporter and news anchor from 1965 to 1968, and moved to RMC from 1968 to 1972.

He started working in television as a news anchor of the evening news program of the French public network Antenne 2. In 1981, he created the TV music show Les Enfants du rock.

He supported the candidacy of François Hollande during the 2012 French presidential election, and has led a mission about Culture and Media in his government.

He became president of the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.

Pierre Lescure, né à Paris le 2 juillet 1945 et élevé à Choisy-le-Roi, est un journaliste, homme de radio et de télévision, et homme d'affaires français. Il est le petit-fils de Pierre de Lescure, cofondateur avec Vercors des Éditions de Minuit.

Au cours de sa carrière, qui le voit débuter à la radio, il ira jusqu'à des postes de direction, présentera des journaux télévisés, ou encore créera des émissions. En 1984, il fonde Canal+ avec André Rousselet, le président directeur général. Il lui succède de 1994 à 2002. Il est élu président du Festival de Cannes le 14 janvier 2014. Le 16 janvier 2017, il est réélu à l’unanimité à la tête de ce festival pour une période de 3 ans.