Gounelle is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
André Gounelle (1933–2025), French Protestant theologian, pastor, and academic Eugène Gounelle, French engineer, father of the entomologist :fr:Laurent Gounelle, author of L'homme qui voulait être heureux Matthieu Gounelle (born 1971), curator of meteorites at Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris 6948 Gounelle, asteroid Pierre-Émile Gounelle (1850–1914), French entomologist Rémi Gounelle (born 1967), French Protestant theologian