Jean Baptiste François René Koehler (7 March 1860, Saint-Dié – 19 April 1931, Lyon) was a French zoologist best known for his research of echinoderms.

In 1889 he became a member of the faculty of sciences in Lyon, where in 1894, he attained the chair of zoology.

[1] In 1911 he was selected as president of the Société zoologique de France.

[2] In 1988 the genus Koehleria (Cherbonnier) of the family Cucumariidae was named in his honor.

[2] He made contributions to the section on echinoderms in the series Faune de France.