Vivian Fox-Strangways (born 29 July 1898, dead 21 November 1974) was a British officer (Colonel, British Army), Resident Commissioner of the partly occupied by Japan Gilbert and Ellice Islands, from 1941 to 1946. He was appointed Resident Commissioner as a Major, in Tulagi, British Solomon Islands, two days before Japan occupied Makin on 9 December 1941. His office and headquarters were placed in Funafuti (Ellice Islands), until, on 22 November 1943, he could land on Tarawa, at the end of Battle of Tarawa. The provisional headquarters of the colony stayed in Funafuti until 1946 and the rebuilding of South Tarawa with a new airport in Bonriki.