Frédéric Charles Jean Gingins de la Sarraz (14 August 1790 – 27 February 1863) was a Swiss historian and botanist.

[1] As a historian, he published numerous works from 1833 up until his death in 1863, most notably writings associated with the First and Second Kingdoms of Burgundy.

[2] In 1823 he published a treatise on the botanical family Violaceae titled "Mémoire sur la famille des Violacées".

[3] As a taxonomist he described a number of species within the genus Viola[4] and contributed the chapter on Violarieae in Candolle's Prodromus (1824).

[5] In 1828 Augustin Pyramus de Candolle named the genus Ginginsia in his honor.