Germain Pinel (Paris, c.1600 – October 1661) was a French lutenist and composer.
From 1647, he was called to teach the lute to the young Louis XIV, aged 9.
In 1658, his post passed to his son Séraphin, who, despite his promising debut, no longer appeared as a lutenist after his father's death in 1661.
In 2014 the Franco-Portuguese luthist Miguel Serdoura [fr] devoted a record to him for the Dutch label Brilliant Classics, entitled "les-rois-de-versailles".
Rob MacKillop has recorded the two theorbo pieces on a théorbe de pièces: Prelude and Courante.