Pierre Paul Marie Benoît de La Grandière was a French admiral who was Governor of the colony of Cochinchina from 1863 to 1868. He consolidated French control over Vietnam, and developed the city of Saigon as a major port.

Louis Adolphe Bonard was a French admiral who served in the Mediterranean and then for many years in the Pacific. He was governor of French Guiana from 1853 to 1855, and governor of Cochinchina from 1861 to 1863.