[[Image:johann_dirichlet.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]]
{{Infobox_Scientist
| name = Lejeune Dirichlet
| image = Peter_Gustav_Lejeune_Dirichlet.jpg|300px
| image_width = 300px
| caption = Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
| birth_date = {{birth date|1805|2|13|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Düren]], [[French Empire]]
| death_date ={{death date and age|1859|5|5|1805|2|13|mf=y}}
| death_place = [[Göttingen]], [[Hanover]]
| residence = [[Image:Flag of Germany.svg|20px|]] [[Germany]]
| nationality = [[Image:Flag of Germany.svg|20px|]] [[Germany|German]]
| field = [[Mathematician]]
| work_institution = [[University of Berlin]]
| alma_mater = [[Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn|University of Bonn]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[Simeon Poisson]]</br>[[Joseph Fourier]]
| doctoral_students = [[Ferdinand Eisenstein]]</br>[[Leopold Kronecker]]</br>[[Carl Wilhelm Borchardt]]
| known_for = [[Dirichlet function]]</br>[[Dirichlet eta function]]
| prizes =
| religion = <!-- (Insert religious belief system/affiliation) -->
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