René Hérault, Seigneur de Fontaine-l'Abbé et de Vaucresson, simply known as René Hérault, and sometimes as René Hérault de Vaucresson, was a French magistrate and administrator who served as Lieutenant General of Police of Paris from 1725 to 1739.

Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles was a French judge, freemason and politician who took part in the French Revolution.