Paul Hurault, 8th Marquis de Vibraye (1809–1878) was an amateur archaeologist from France.

He was born Guillaume-Paul Louis Maximilien Hurault, son of a notable politician and military officer Anne-Louis Victor Denis Hurault [fr].

It was found in about 1864 by at the famous archaeological site of Laugerie-Basse in the Vézère valley (one of the many important Stone Age sites in and around the commune of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in Dordogne, southwestern France).

The Magdalenian "Venus" from Laugerie-Basse is headless, footless, armless but with a strongly incised vaginal opening.

It is from this name that we get the term "Venus figurines" commonly used for Stone Age sculptures of this kind.