Eugène-Louis Hauvette-Besnault (5 February 1820 – 28 June 1888) was a 19th-century French Indologist.
Eugène-Louis Hauvette-Besnault was professor of sanskrit at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE).
Agrégé de lettres in 1853, he translated volumes IV and V of the Bhagavata Purana.
Among his own students in Sanskrit were James Darmesteter and Abel Bergaigne.
The historian and epigrapher René Cagnat was his stepson.