Jean Baptiste Noël Bouchotte (French: [ʒɑ̃ batist nɔɛl buʃɔt]; 25 December 1754 – 8 June 1840) was a minister in the government of the French First Republic.

At the outbreak of the Revolution he was a captain of cavalry, and his zeal led to his being made colonel and given the command at Cambrai.

When Dumouriez delivered up to the Austrians the minister of war, the marquis de Beurnonville, in April 1793, Bouchotte, who had bravely defended Cambrai, was called by the Convention to be minister of war, where he remained until 31 March 1794.

[1] The predominant role of the Committee of Public Safety during that period did not leave much scope for the new minister, yet he rendered some services in the organization of the republican armies, and chose his officers with insight, among them Kléber, Masséna, Moreau and Bonaparte.

[1] During the Thermidorian Reaction, in spite of his incontestable honesty, he was accused by the anti-revolutionists.