Alexis Coquillard (September 28, 1795 – January 8, 1855) was an American fur trader, explorer, and the founder of South Bend, Indiana.

[2] Coquillard was a friend to Father Edward Sorin, and was instrumental in the founding of the University of Notre Dame in 1842.

[2] Coquillard had been a fur trader, an industry heavily dependent on Native labor.

[2] Coquillard and Lathrop M. Taylor gifted land for the South Bend City Cemetery.

They had one child, Alexis T.[2] Coquillard died following a head injury from a beam falling during a fire at his mill on January 6, 1855.