Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) was a French novelist and duelist.

He became widely known not only because of the play Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) by his compatriot Edmond Rostand—later adapted many times for film—but also because he authored two of the earliest works of science fiction, drawing on the scientific and astronomical discoveries of his time.

These include Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon and Comical History of the States and Empires of the Sun, the latter of which he did not complete before his death.