Eugène Marin Labiche (5 May 1815 - 23 January 1888) was a French dramatist.
He was considered a successful but undistinguished vaudevillist until the success of his five-act farce, Un Chapeau de paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat) in August 1851. For the next twenty-five years, he continued to write successful comedies and vaudevilles. "Of all the subjects," he said, "which offered themselves to me, I have selected the bourgeois. Essentially mediocre in his vices and in his virtues, he stands half-way between the hero and the scoundrel, between the saint and the profligate."
Labiche died in Paris and was buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre.
