Jacques-Noël Sané (18 February 1740, Brest – 22 August 1831, Paris) was a French naval engineer.

In 1793, as director of Brest Harbour, he decided to raze the older ships Brutus, Pluton and Argonaute.

[8] He was made a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1796, and naval construction inspector on 7 July 1798, responsible for the coast of the Atlantic and of the English Channel; his duty comprised inspection of the harbours and selection of timbers from the forests in the Pyrenees.

In 1820, aged 80, he was made president of the Commission de Paris, although he never involved himself in the upcoming steamship revolution.

[12] The class of 2004 of the École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées Bretagne was named in his honour.