Jean-Baptiste Thomas Médée Cécille was a French Admiral and politician who played an important role in the French intervention of Vietnam. He also circumnavigated the globe.

Léonard Victor Joseph Charner was an Admiral of the French Navy. As a commander of French naval forces in Asia from May 1860 to September 1861, including the Second Opium War and the Cochinchina campaign, he was a significant participant in the establishment of French Indochina.