Léonce Lagarde, comte de Rouffeyroux, (1860, Lempdes (Haute-Loire) – 15 February 1936, Paris) was a French colonial governor of French Somaliland and ambassador.
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As ambassador to Ethiopian emperor Menelik II, Lagarde built-up French presence in the Horn of Africa to protect the colony from British domination, which was slowly expanding from Egypt.
Christine Lagarde | Leonce and Lena | Paul de Lagarde | Maurice L. "Mel" Lagarde | Maurice L. Lagarde | Lagarde | Léonce Laugier | Léonce Girardot | Léonce Bénédite | Lagarde, Moselle |