Étienne Heudelet de Bierre (12 November 1770 – 20 April 1857) joined the French army as a volunteer lieutenant in 1792.

In April 1800 he was a brigade commander in Jean Victor Tharreau's division in Moreau's army.

His unit was soon transferred to the II Corps and fought in Nicolas Soult's invasion of Portugal at Oporto in 1809.

After first submitting to King Louis XVIII of France, Heudelet rejoined Napoleon during the Hundred Days and led a division on the Rhine front.

Restored to favor after the July Revolution of 1830, he became an inspector general of infantry until 1835 when he again went on the inactive list.