Rear Admiral Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (Condé-sur-Noireau, (Normandy), May 23, 1790 - Meudon, Paris, May 8, 1842), was a French naval officer, geographer, explorer and botanical collector who carried out several expeditions aboard the corvette Astrolabe through the South Pacific and the Antarctic, carrying out exploration campaigns in Australia, New Zealand, Oceania and Antarctica.

He is also remembered for having acquired the Venus de Milo for the French government and for perishing, with his family, in the first railway accident in France in the town of Meudon.