Omar Bongo, Gabonese lieutenant and politician, President of Gabon (died 2009)

Omar Bongo Ondimba was a Gabonese politician who was the second president of Gabon from 1967 until his death in 2009. A member of the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), Bongo was promoted to key positions as a young official under Gabon's first President Léon M'ba in the 1960s, before being elected the second vice president in his own right in 1966. In 1967, after M'ba's death, he became the country's president.

The president of Gabon is the head of state and government of Gabon. A total of four people have served as president since the post was formed in 1960.