Father José Francisco de Paula Señan (March 3, 1760 – August 24, 1823) was a Spanish missionary to the Americas.
In 1784 he was incorporated in the missionary College of San Fernando de Mexico, and in 1787 traveled to California.
There he was assigned to the Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo and remained until 1795, when he retired to Mexico and reported on the missionary conditions in the territory to the viceroy.
Señan was familiar with the language of the Indians, and his reports and mission entries are distinguished by their exactness and beauty of penmanship.
The Commissary-General of the Indies directed him to write a history of the missions, and Señan in 1819 promised to comply, but he left no papers on the subject.