Claude Charles Goureau (15 April 1790, Pisy, Yonne – 6 February 1879, Santigny) was a French soldier and entomologist.
He then spent two years at L’école du génie, a military academy in Metz where he was awarded the rank of second lieutenant.
During the siege of Magdeburg in 1812, he was promoted to the rank of captain, then, in 1814 to capitaine d’état-major and he also received the Légion d'honneur.
He was in command of various fortifications, not only those of Paris in 1840, but also forts guarding the English Channel at Mayenne and Ille-et-Vilaine.
He is credited as being the first to recognize structural colors in the seemingly clear transparent wings of Drosophilidae in 1843.