- Paul Doumer
Paul Doumer was the President of France from June 13, 1931 until his assassination. Born in Aurillac, in the Cantal "département", in France. He was Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902. After returning from French Indochina, Doumer served as President of the Chamber of Deputies (a post equivalent to the speaker of parliament) from 1902 to 1905. He was elected President of the French Republic on May 13, 1931, …
- Henri Gouraud
Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud was a French general, best known for his leadership of the French Fourth Army at the end of the First World War. Born in la Rue de Grenelle, Paris, an infantryman, he graduated from St. Cyr in 1890.
- Louis Mizon
Louis Alexandre Antoine Mizon (1853-1899) was a French explorer and colonial administrator. Born in Paris in 1853, Mizon entered in the French Navy in 1869. Between 1880 and 1883 he was at Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza's orders, whith whom he had difficulties working. In 1890 he was given the command of an expedition meant to find a viable route between the Niger and the Congo rivers by passing by the Benue and Sangha River.
- Saint-John Perse
Saint-John Perse (pseudonym of Alexis Léger, also Alexis Saint-Legér Léger was a French poet and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry."
- Joseph François Dupleix
Joseph François Dupleix was governor general of the French establishment in India, and was the great rival of Robert Clive. Dupleix was born in Landrecies, France. His father, François Dupleix, a wealthy farmer, wished to bring him up as a merchant, and, in order to distract him from his taste for science, sent him on a voyage to India in 1715 on one of the French East India Company's vessels. He made several voyages to the Americas and India, …
- Pierre Messmer
Pierre Messmer (born Vincennes, March 20, 1916) is a French Gaullist politician. He served as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1972 to 1974.
- Joost van Vollenhoven
Joost van Vollenhoven (born 21 July 1877, Rotterdam – died 20 July 1918, Parcy-et-Tigny, Aisne "département") was a Dutch-born French soldier and colonial administrator. He lived in Algeria, then a French colony, for most of his youth, and became a naturalized French citizen in 1899. His most important postings were as acting governor of Senegal and Guinea (1907), acting governor-general of French Indochina (1914-1915), …
- Thomas Arthur comte de Lally
Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally, baron de Tollendal (January, 1702 - 1766), French general, was born at Romans, Dauphin, being the son of Sir Gerald Lally, an Irish Jacobite from Tuam, County Galway, who married a French lady of noble family, from whom the son inherited his titles. Entering the French army in 1721 he served in the war of 1734 against Austria; he was present at Dettingen (1743), …
- Bernard Jauréguiberry
Jean Bernard Jauréguiberry was a French admiral and statesman. A native of Bayonne, Jauréguiberry entered the French Navy in 1831. He rose steadily through the ranks, becoming a lieutenant in 1845, a commander in 1856, and a captain in 1860. After serving in the Crimea and in China, and being governor of Senegal, he was promoted to rear-admiral in 1869. He served on land during the second part of the Franco-Prussian War, in the rank of auxiliary general of division.
- Xavier Coppolani
Xavier Coppolani was a French military and colonial leader, who was instrumental in the colonial occupation and creation of modern-day Mauritania. Born to Corsican parents in French-ruled Algeria, he was transferred to Senegal to lead the expansion of colonial rule north of the Senegal river, where Moorish tribes held firm against French rule. Their tribal rivalries provided Coppolani with an opportunity, and in 1901, …
- Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, was a French general during World War II, he became Marshal of France posthumously, in 1952. He was born Philippe François Marie, comte de Hauteclocque, but changed his legal name in 1945 to incorporate his French resistance alias Jacques-Philippe Leclerc. He is generally known in France simply as Maréchal Leclerc.
- Paul Bert
Paul Bert (October 17, 1833 - November 11, 1886) was a French physiologist and politician.
- Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau
Charles Joseph Patissier, Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau was the French Governor General between (1783-1785), born in 1718, died in 1785 for Pondichéry. He was used with distinction under Joseph François Dupleix in the Indies; contributed to make raise to British the seat of Pondichéry in 1748, and was named in 1782 ordering armies of land and sea beyond Cape of Good Hope.
- Félix Éboué
Félix Adolphe Éboué was a Black French (French Guianan-born) colonial administrator and Free French leader.
- Émile Gentil
Émile Gentil was a French colonial administrator, naval officer, and colonial military leader. Born at Volmunster in the department of Moselle, he later attended the École Navale, the school that formed French naval officers. As an ensign, he was assigned to making hydrographic soundings along the Gabonese coast. (1890-1892). In 1892 joined the colonial administration in Gambon.
- Guillaume de Bellecombe
Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe was Governor General of Réunion, Haiti and Pondichéry. He was born in 1728 in France. Bellecombe engaged to Royal Roussillon and took part in French military expeditions overseas of the 2nd part of the 18th century. He had his last battles in New France (1755-1760) and a surprise expedition at St Jean, Newfoundland in 1762. He opposed the English everywhere, whether on the seas, or in the American continent, or in the Indies.
- Jean Decoux
Jean Decoux was the Governor-General of French Indochina from 1940 to 1945, representing the Vichy government. Decoux’s task in Indochina was to reverse the policy of appeasement towards the Japanese led by his predecessor general Georges Catroux, but political realities soon forced him to continue down the same road. Arrested and tried after the war, Decoux was not convicted. He later wrote the book "A la barre de l'Indochine".
- Louis Briere de L'Isle
Louis Alexandre Esprit Gaston Briere de l'Isle (1827-1897). French military officer, was Governor of Senegal (1876-81), then Commander-in-Chief during the Sino-French War of 1885.
- Jean Antoine Ernest Constans
Jean Antoine Ernest Constans was a French politician and colonial administrator.
- Louis Jean Girod
Louis Jean Girod was Governor General of Pondicherry in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic
- Horace Valentin Crocicchia
Horace Valentin Crocicchia was Governor General for various colonies in French Colonial Empire
- Hubert Jean Victor Marquis de Saint-Simon
Hubert Jean Victor, Marquis de Saint-Simon was Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire during the July Monarchy.
- Robert Paul Marie de Guise
Robert Paul Marie de Guise was Governor General for various colonies in French Colonial Empire
- Louis Edouard Bouët-Willaumez
Louis Edouard Bouët-Willaumez was a French admiral. He was born Louis Edouard Bouët, the son of a businessman (and mayor of Lambezeller) in Maison-Lafitte, near Paris. Having joined the French Navy, in 1824 he embarked on a five-year voyage, first in the Mediterranean (where he saw action at the Battle of Navarino in 1827) and then in the Indian Ocean. In 1829 he was promoted to ship's Ensign, and served in the Morean expedition.
- Charles François Marie Baron
Charles François Marie Baron was Governor General (later High Commissioner) of Pondicherry after France after Libération (1944–1946) during Fourth French Republic. During his time, Inde française became and TOM for France. So, His service was changed to "Haut Commissaire" from "Gouverneur Général".
- Napoléon Joseph Louis Bontemps
Napoléon Joseph Louis Bontemps was Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire during the last days of the Second Empire of France and in the initial era of the Third Republic
- Ernest Fernand Lévecque
Ernest Fernand Lévecque was born on 2 November 1852 at Beaurieux, Aisne département, France. He was a Governor General in French Colonial Empire
- Raymond de Saint-Maur
Raymond de Saint-Maur was Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire under Second French Empire under Napoleon III
- Louis Hippolyte Marie Nouet
Louis Hippolyte Marie Nouet was Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic
- François Caron
François Caron, was a French Huguenot refugee to the Netherlands who entered the Dutch East India Company, and became the first French person to set foot in Japan.
- Alfred Albert Martineau
Alfred Albert Martineau was a notable Governor-General in the French Colonial Empire. He was born in 1857 and died in 1941.
- Adrien Jules Jean Bonhoure
Adrien Jules Jean Bonhoure was a Governor General in French Colonial Empire. He was born in 1860 and died in 20th century.
- François Adrien Juvanon
François Adrien Juvanon was born in 13 August 1875 at La Balme (now La Balme-les-Grottes), Isère département, France. He was Governor General for various colonies in French Colonial Empire
- Paul de Nourquer du Camper
Paul de Nourquer du Camper was Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire during the July Monarchy. During his period an annaul statastics manual was written by Pierre Constant Sicé in th year of 1842, which desribes and narrates various situations in Inde française
- François Martin
François Martin was the first Governor General of Pondicherry. He founded Pondicherry, the future capital of French India in 1674. He was Commissioner of French East India Company before holding this post and was preceded by François Baron and succeeded by Pierre Dulivier. There is a street named François Martin in Pondichéry.
- Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis
Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis was born on 1871 at Toulon, France. He was Governor General for various colonies in French Colonial Empire
- François Pierre Rodier
François Pierre Rodier was born in 1854 in Vieille-Brioude of Haute Loire département, France. He was Governor General for various colonies in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic
- Victor Louis Marie Lanrezac
Victor Louis Marie Lanrezac was Governor General of Pondicherry in Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic
- Guillaume Dufresne D' Arsel
Guillaume Dufresne d' Arsel established French rule of Mauritius under the French East India Company in 1715.
- Louis Archinard
Louis Archinard (b. 11 February 1850, La Havre - d. 8 May 1932, Villiers-le-Bel) was a French General at the time of the Third Republic, who contributed to the colonial conquest of French West Africa. He was traditionally presented in French histories as the conqueror and 'pacificateur' of French Soudan (today Mali).