Dr Léonce Alphonse Noël Henri Jore (21 May 1882 – 29 September 1975)[1] was a French colonial administrator.

Born in Hell-Ville on the Malagasy island of Nosy Be,[1] Jore left school in 1900 and began his career in French West Africa, serving as Deputy District Administrator of Bamako from 1906 until 1906, before becoming Acting District Commander of Kita.

He moved to Guadeloupe to become Private Secretary of Governor Victor Ballot in 1907, but returned to Africa the following year to become Resident in Fatick.

[1] He became District Commander of Dagana, before joining the Directorate of Administrative and Political Affairs of the Governor of French West Africa in 1909, where he worked until 1914.

Jore was Secretary-General of the Ivory Coast in 1918–19, before becoming an inspector for the High Commissioner of the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon.