李燕，1943年生于北京。现为清华大学美术学院教授、李苦禅纪念馆副馆长、中国国家画院国画院研究员。曾任荣宝斋编辑等职。1965年毕业于中央美术学院中国画系。

Li Yan was born in 1943 in Beijing. He is a professor at the Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University, a deputy director of the Li Kuchan Memorial Hall and a research fellow at the Traditional Chinese Painting Institute of China National Academy of Painting. He was an editor at Rongbaozhai. In 1965 he graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts.