Joséphine Pauline Boulay (22 May 1869 – 5 August 1925) was a French organist, composer and professor.

She was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris in 1887 and studied with César Franck and Jules Massenet.

[1] In 1888, she became the first blind woman to win a first prize in organ at the Conservatoire.

[2] Appointed a professor at the National Institution for the Blind, she took charge of the organ and composition classes there while continuing her musical apprenticeship at the Conservatoire.

[3] For thirty-seven years she taught piano, organ, composition and harmony for young blind students at the institute.