Lieutenant General Charles Tombeur, 1st Baron of Tabora (4 May 1867 – 2 December 1947) was a Belgian military officer and colonial civil servant.

His military career culminated in the capture of Tabora in German East Africa in September 1916.

[1] In 1912, Tombeur returned to the Congo as an civilian inspector general (inspecteur d'état) where he became the senior administrator for Katanga Province and presided over the first years of the city of Élisabethville (modern-day Lubumbashi).

The expeditionary force soon headed for the German military stronghold at Tabora in modern-day Tanzania.

[1] Tombeur was recalled to Europe in late 1916 and was replaced as commander in East Africa by Armand Huyghé.