Jean-Baptiste-Sauveur Gavaudan (8 August 1772 – 10 May 1840) was a French opera singer who sang leading tenor roles, primarily with the Opéra Comique in Paris.

[2] The youngest sister, Emilie [fr], having failed to make her way in the Opéra's company, had a minor career after the Revolution at the Théâtre Feydeau and the Opéra-Comique.

[4] Gavaudan was seven when his father died leaving the family in financial difficulty; he had finally just been hired as a choir haute-contre by the Paris Opera, and was closely followed by his two aforementioned older daughters and his dancing son.

However, their friends in the Committee of Public Safety had them recalled to Paris as "essential artists" and in 1794 he rejoined the Opéra Comique moving from the Théâtre Feydeau to the Salle Favart troupe.

When the two Opéra Comique troupes combined in 1801, Gavaudan became a Sociétaire of the company and remained there for the next 15 years, creating numerous roles in world premieres.

He returned to the Opéra Comique in 1822 to sing in his wife's farewell performance and again in 1824 when the management engaged him to reprise some of his most well-known roles, although according to Fétis, by that time, his voice was only a shadow of what it once been.

Their daughter, Marie Agathe Gavaudan who performed under the name Madame Raimbaux, was an opera singer of some note who studied under Manuel García.