| René Couanau | |
| Birth Date: | 10 July 1936 |
| Office: | French parliamentarian |
| Term Start: | 1988 |
| Term End: | 2012 |
| Predecessor: | new constituency |
| Successor: | Gilles Lurton |
| Constituency: | Ille-et-Vilaine's 7th constituency |
| Party: | UMP (2002-2010) |
| Otherparty: | UDF (until 2002) |
René Couanau (born 10 July 1936) was a member of the National Assembly of France between 1988 and 2012. He represented the Ille-et-Vilaine department,[1] and was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
Since 1989, he was mayor of Saint-Malo,[2] the second largest city in Ille-et-Vilaine,[3] but was defeated 30 March 2014 by his former deputy major Claude Renoult.