Henri Gouraud (1867–1946) was a French soldier, best known for his leadership of the French Fourth Army at the end of the First World War. An infantryman, he graduated from St. Cyr in 1890. Like many of his generation, his principal experience before the war was abroad in colonial service. As commander of the French forces committed in the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915 he lost his right arm. From July of 1917 until the end of the war he commanded the Fourth Army on the Western Front, where he gained distinction for his use of elastic defense during the Second Battle of the Marne.

After the war Gouraud served from 1919 to 1923 as representative of the French Government in the middle east where he presided over the creation of the state of Lebanon on september 1st 1920. From 1923 to 1937, he was Military Governor of Paris and served on the Supreme Allied War Council from 1927 until 1937, when he retired. General Gouraud died in 1946.