Jacobus Cornelis van der Breggen Paauw (born 14 June 1797 – 19 January 1830) was a Dutch colonial administrator on the Gold Coast.

[1] Van der Breggen Paauw was one of the colonial administrators that accompanied the designated Governor-General Herman Willem Daendels during his journey to the Gold Coast in 1815.

Daendels's appointment as Governor-General of the scattered and rather unimportant Dutch colonial holdings on the Gold Coast was a consequence of him being a leader of the Patriot faction in the Batavian Republic and Kingdom of Holland.

[3][4][1] Van der Breggen Paauw and his wife Martha Johanna Theodora Rühle both drowned when the ship that was to take them to the Netherlands sank near the Isles of Scilly.

[5] When he was Acting Commander of the Dutch Gold Coast, Jacobus van der Breggen Paauw married the Euro-African Martha Johanna Theodora Rühle according to local rites on 12 June 1827 in Elmina.