Simon Canuel (29 October 1767 – 11 May 1840) was a French general of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
He entered military service on January 3, 1787, as a soldier in the Limousin regiment [fr], and he earned all his military ranks in the War in the Vendée, as he was promoted by Jean Antoine Rossignol and Jean-Baptiste Kléber, to become a general.
Napoleon I decided not to put Canuel on active service, keeping him in command of various quiet strongholds.
Bored at the inaction, he went over to the Bourbons in 1814 and so during the Hundred Days the following year had to take refuge among the Royalist insurgents of the Vendée.
Later on, he took part in several conflicts, including the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis mission in Spain.