Louis Joseph de Bourbon (9 August 1736 – 13 May 1818) was Prince of Condé from 1740 to his death. A member of the House of Bourbon, he held the prestigious rank of Prince du Sang.

Born on 9 August 1736 at Chantilly, Louis Joseph was the only son of Louis Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon (1692–1740) and Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg (1714–41). As a cadet of the reigning House of Bourbon, he was a prince du sang. His father Louis Henri, was the eldest son of Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (known as Monsieur le Duc) and his wife Louise Françoise de Bourbon, legitimated daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan.

During his father's lifetime, the infant Louis Joseph was known as the Duke of Enghien, (duc d'Enghien). At the age of four, following his father's death in 1740, and his mother's death in 1741, he was placed under the care of his paternal uncle, Louis, Count of Clermont, his father's youngest brother.

He had an older half sister, Henriette de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Verneuil (1725–1780).

Through his mother, he was a first cousin of Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia and of the princesse de Lamballe. His paternal cousins included the Louise Henriette de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans (mother of Philippe Égalité) and sister of Louis François, prince de Conti, head of another cadet branch of the royal dynasty. Viktoria of Hesse-Rotenburg, the Princess of Soubise was another first cousin.

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