François Pierre-Alype (11 April 1886 – 5 February 1956) was a French civil servant and statesman, in post in the colonial administration, then prefect.

[1] He joined the colonial administration in 1906, as chief of staff to the governor of Réunion, then clerk of indigenous affairs in French West Africa (AOF) in 1908.

[2] He became close to Léonce Lagarde, a former ambassador to Ethiopia, whom he received in his house in La Baule, Brittany.

[2] From 9 February to 28 April 1926, he took over from Damascus, on an interim basis, the leadership of the Syrian state, within a civil triumvirate set up by Henry de Jouvenel.

In January 1933, he served as the director of the cabinet of the Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, Albert Dalimier.