Henry Potez (Méaulte, 30 September 1891 – Paris, 9 November 1981[1]) was a French aircraft industrialist.

With Marcel Dassault, he was the inventor of the Potez-Bloch propeller which, after 1917, have been set on most of all Allied planes of World War I.

[citation needed] In 1919, he founded his own company, Aviations Potez, that, between the wars, built many planes and seaplanes, in factories which were at that time considered the most modern in the world.

Forty prototypes were designed and more than twenty passed to production - this was remarkable at that time.

After the Second World War, Potez purchased a controlling interest in Air-Fouga who designed and produced the Magister, a two-seat twin engined trainer aircraft, which was a big success.