| Jean Auguste Margueritte | |
| Birth Date: | 15 January 1823 15 January 1823 |
| Birth Place: | Manheulles, France |
| Death Place: | Beauraing, Belgium |
| Allegiance: | Second French Empire |
| Serviceyears: | 1837–1870 |
| Rank: | Général de division |
| Commands: | 1st Chasseurs d'Afrique Regiment |
| Battles: | French intervention in Mexico Franco-Prussian War |
Jean Auguste Margueritte (15 January 1823 - 6 September 1870), French General, father of Victor Margueritte and Paul Margueritte.
After a career in Algeria,[1] General Margueritte was mortally wounded in the great cavalry charge at Sedan, in which the Emperor was defeated and captured. He died in Belgium. An account of his life was published by his son, Paul Margueritte as Mon père (1884; enlarged ed., 1897).
The sand cat is named in his honour, being given the binomial name Felis margarita.[1]