Jeremy Kagan, also known as Jeremy Paul Kagan, (born December 14, 1945, Mount Vernon, New York) is an American television director. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1967 and went on to attend the newly formed NYU Graduate Institute of Film & Television.

He has been a prolific television director. In 1996, his work with the Chicago Hope episode Leave of Absence won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series. He has been involved in other television series, including Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Roswell, and Picket Fences. He has directed feature films, including Heroes, The Big Fix, The Chosen and By the Sword.

Jeremy Kagan is a director/writer/producer of feature films and television. His credits include the box-office hits Heroes (1977), Big Fix, The (1978) and Chosen, The (1981). His Journey of Natty Gann, The (1985) was the first US film to win a Gold Prize at the Moscow Film Festival. Other directing credits include Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987) (TV) (winning the ACE Award for Best Dramatic Special) and Roswell (1994) (TV), which he produced and directed and which was nominated for a Golden Globe. In 1996, his episode of "Chicago Hope" (1994) won him an Emmy for Outstanding Direction of a Dramatic Series. One of his segments of "Picket Fences" (1992) was listed by TV critics among the top 100 television episodes. His recent work includes en episode of Steven Spielberg (I)'s Emmy-winning anthology _"Taken" (2002/I) (mini)_ and numerous episodes of such hit series as "West Wing, The" (1999) and "Guardian, The" (2001). His Bobbie's Girl (2002) (TV) was the highest rated film on Showtime 2003 and his movie Crown Heights (2004) (TV), which he produced and directed, won the Humanitas Award for "affirming the dignity" of every person and was nominated for a Directors Guild Award in 2004. Mr. Kagan is a graduate of Harvard University, where he wrote his thesis on Sergei M. Eisenstein, has a Masters from NYU and was in the first group of Fellows at the American Film Institute. He is a tenured full professor at USC, where he is in charge of the directing track, and has served as the Artistic Director of Robert Redford (I)'s Sundance Institute. He is on the National Board of the Directors Guild and is Chairperson of its Special Projects Committee and author of the book "Directors Close Up" and was presented the 2004 Robert Aldrich Award for "extraordinary service to the guild."