Jules René Bourguignat (19 August 1829, Brienne-Napoléon, Aube – 7 April 1892) was a French malacologist, a scientist who studied mollusks.

He served as secretary-general of the Société malacologique de France.

[1] He traveled widely, visiting, for example, Lake Tanganyika and North Africa.

[2][3] He reportedly defined 112 new genera and around 2540 new species of mollusks.

[4] Bourguignat named and described many genera and species of mollusks, including: (partly in French)