Jean-Baptiste Céran-Jérusalémy

Jean-Baptiste Heitarauri Céran-Jérusalémy (4 February 1921 — 15 May 2014) was a French Polynesian politician who served twice as president of the Assembly of French Polynesia. He was a founder of the Democratic Rally of the Tahitian People.

Céran-Jérusalémy was born in Papeete.

He was elected President of the Assembly following the 1953 French Oceanian legislative election. As president, he advocated for French Oceania to become a French Department. He resigned as president in October 1953 after the Assembly rejected a motion for Departmentalisation. In August 1954 he interrupted an Assembly session to demand reinstatement, but was unsuccessful.

In 1956 he was elected president of the RDPT.

He was re-elected to the Assembly in the 1962 election as the only representative of the Pupu Tiama Maohi. The party was banned along with the RDPT by the French colonial authorities in November 1963 for advocating against French nuclear testing. He then founded the Pupu Tahoeraa Maohi, which was accused by the French of being a renewal of the same party. He lost his seat in the Assembly in the 1967 election.