Jean-Baptiste Jacques Paul Maurou, known as Paul Maurou was a French painter and lithographer.

Paul Maurou was born on July 25, 1848 in Avignon. He became a student of Charles Michel Guilbert d'Annelle (1820-1889), director of the Avignon drawing school.

Maurou exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1875, mainly lithographs. He then became a member of the Salon des Artistes Français.

In December 1884, he co-founded the Society of French Lithographic Artists with Alfred Lemercier, of which he became president in the early 1900s. He went on to play a fundamental role in the organization.

In the 1880s, he worked as an illustrator for the Maison Quantin.

He was a poster artist and also taught in the first lithography workshop set up at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, from 1906.

The following year, he published the Traité complet de l'art lithographique au point de vue artistique et pratique with Garnier frères, together with his former student and assistant, Alfred-Jean Broquelet.

He died in 1931.

His students included the lithographer Marie-Edmond Höner.