François Liénard de la Mivoye

François Liénard de la Mivoye (born 29 July 1782, Visakhapatnam, died 6 November 1862, Paris) was a Francophone Mauritian naturalist, ichthyologist, zoologist and mariner.

He lived most of his life in Mauritius and, in 1829, was a founder member and treasurer of the société d'histoire natural locale alongside Charles Telfair, Wenceslas Bojer, Jacques Delisse and Julien Desjardins.

[1] Liénard is commemorated in the specific name of the predatory sea snail Conus lienardi.

He is also commemorated in a white marble obelisk which sits in the Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden in Mauritius.

He married Marie Françoise Chapon in Port Louis on 19 August 1807, and the couple had a daughter Elizé Liénard on 2 September 1808 and a son Jules Victor Liénard on 10 April 1811, both born in Port Louis.