Lists of governors
This is list of lists of office holders known as governor.
- Note: Years denote times when the office was called governor, not governor-general, etc.
Africa
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- List of provincial governors of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- List of governors of Katanga
- List of governors of Kasaï (former province)
- List of governors of Kasaï Oriental Province
- List of governors of Kasaï-Occidental
- List of governors of Léopoldville / Bandundu
- List of governors of Kongo Central
- List of governors of Kinshasa
- List of governors of Équateur (former province)
- List of governors of Orientale Province
- List of governors of Kivu
- List of governors of Maniema
- List of governors of North Kivu
- List of governors of South Kivu
Egypt
- List of governors of Islamic Egypt (640–1517)
- List of Ottoman governors of Egypt (1517–1805)
Italian East Africa
- List of Italian governors of Amhara (1936–1941)
- List of colonial governors of Eritrea (1896–1941)
- List of Italian governors of Scioa (1939–1941)
- List of Italian governors of Galla-Sidamo (1936–1941)
- List of Italian governors of Harar (1936–1941)
- List of colonial governors of Italian Somaliland (1889–1941)
Kenya
- List of county governors of Kenya (current)
- List of colonial governors and administrators of Kenya (1905–1963, United Kingdom)
Mauritius
- Governor of British Mauritius (1810–1968, United Kingdom)
- Governor of Dutch Mauritius (1598–1710, Dutch East India Company)
- Governor of Isle de France (Mauritius) (1721-1810, France)
Nigeria
- Lists of Nigerian state governors
- List of governors and governors-general of Nigeria (1914–1963, United Kingdom)
South Sudan
Sudan
- List of current state governors in Sudan
- List of governors of pre-independence Sudan (1893–1899, United Kingdom), mostly Governor-Generals and other titles
Zimbabwe
- List of provincial governors of Zimbabwe (current)
Other
- List of Ottoman governors of Algiers
- List of colonial governors of Angola (1589–1834, Portugal)
- List of colonial governors of Cameroon (France)
- List of colonial governors of Chad (France)
- List of colonial governors of the Comoros (France)
- List of colonial governors of Dahomey (France)
- List of colonial governors of the Danish Gold Coast (1668–1850)
- List of colonial governors of Eritrea (various; 1896–1941, Italy)
- List of governors of French Somaliland
- List of colonial governors of Gabon (France)
- List of governors of the Gold Coast (1621–1960, England/United Kingdom)
- List of colonial governors of Italian Cyrenaica (1912–1935, Italy)
- List of colonial governors of Italian Tripolitania (1911–1933, Italy)
- List of colonial governors of Ivory Coast (France)
- Agents and governors of Liberia (two governors of the American Colonization Society between 1839 and 1848)
- List of colonial governors of Mali (France)
- List of colonial governors of Mozambique (1609–1836, Portugal)
- List of colonial governors of Nyasaland (1907–1964, United Kingdom)
- List of governors of Oran (Spain, Ottoman Empire)
- List of governors of Portuguese Guinea (1879–1974, Portugal)
- List of colonial and departmental heads of Réunion (France)
- List of colonial governors of Senegal (France, United Kingdom)
- List of colonial governors and administrators of Seychelles (France, United Kingdom)
- List of colonial governors of Sierra Leone (1792–1827, 1837–1961, United Kingdom)
- List of colonial governors of Spanish Guinea (1778–1781, 1859–1961, 1964, Spain)
- List of colonial governors of South West Africa (1898–1915, Germany)
- List of governors of Tanganyika (Germany, United Kingdom)
- List of governors of Tangier (1471–1662, Portugal) (1662–1684, England)
- List of colonial governors of Togo (German Empire, United Kingdom)
- List of colonial governors of Ubangi-Shari (France), now the Central African Republic
- List of governors of Uganda (1910–1962, United Kingdom)
Asia
Afghanistan
India
- Lists of Indian governors, both before and after independence
Indonesia
Japan
Malaysia
- List of governors of Penang, before and after independence
Pakistan
Philippines
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Other
- List of colonial governors of Burma
- List of governors of Dutch Ceylon (1640–1796)
- Governor of Hong Kong (1843–1997, England/United Kingdom)
- Governors of Azerbaijan (Iran)
- List of Umayyad governors of Iraq
- Governor of Labuan (1848–1890, United Kingdom)
- Governor of North Borneo (1890–1906, North Borneo Company)
- List of governors of the Straits Settlements (1906–1942, British East India Company) (1867–1946, United Kingdom)
- Governor of Northern Rhodesia (1924–1964)
- Governor of Macau (1623–1999, Portugal)
- List of caliphal governors of Medina
- Crown Colony of Sarawak (1946–1963, United Kingdom)
- List of governors of Singapore (British East India Company, United Kingdom)
- List of Abbasid governors of Tarsus
- List of governors of Alanya, Turkey
Europe
Austria
Norway
Sweden
Other
- List of Umayyad governors of al-Andalus
- List of Ottoman governors of Bosnia
- Governor of Brittany
- List of governors of Carlisle, England
- List of governors and heads of state of Fiume (Kingdom of Hungary and Austro-Hungarian Empire)
- List of governors of Guernsey (12th century–1835, England/United Kingdom)
- List of governors of the Habsburg Netherlands (1501–1794)
- Governor of the Isle of Man (1595–1828, England/United Kingdom)
- Governor of Limburg (Belgium)
- List of governors of Luxembourg (while ruled by various powers from the 15th to 19th centuries)
- List of governors of Malta (1801–1964, United Kingdom)
- List of governors of the Duchy of Milan
- List of governors of Siena
- List of governors of the Province of Trieste (1918–1954, various)
North and Central America
Canada
- List of governors of the Hudson's Bay Company
- Governor of Montreal, now in Canada (1642–1760, France) (1760–1764, United Kingdom)
- List of governors of Trois-Rivières, now in Canada (1634–1760, France) (1760–1764, United Kingdom)
- List of governors of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, now in Canada (1849–1871, United Kingdom)
Caribbean
- List of colonial governors and administrators of Anguilla (1982–present, United Kingdom)
- List of governors of the Bahamas (1648–1973, United Kingdom)
- Governor of the Cayman Islands (1971–present, United Kingdom)
- List of colonial governors of Cuba (1511–1899, Spain, except for 1762–1763, when Cuba was captured by the British) (1899–1909, United States, except for part of 1902, when Cuba became independent)
- List of governors of the Danish West Indies (various, 1665–1862?)
- List of colonial governors and administrators of Grenada (1649–1762, France) (1762–1802, 1967–1974, United Kingdom)
- List of colonial and departmental heads of Guadeloupe (various)
- List of governors of Jamaica (Spain, England/United Kingdom)
- List of governors of the Leeward Islands (1671–1958, England/United Kingdom)
- List of colonial and departmental heads of Martinique (various)
- List of colonial governors of Saint-Domingue, now Haiti (France)
- Governors of Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten (1639–1854, Netherlands)
- List of governors of Trinidad (1506–1797, Spain) (1797–1889, United Kingdom)
- List of governors of Trinidad and Tobago (1889–1962, United Kingdom)
- Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands (1973–present, United Kingdom)
- List of governors of the Windward Islands (United Kingdom)
Mexico
United States
Other
Oceania
Australia
Kingdom of Hawaii
Other
- Governor of Fiji (United Kingdom)
- List of colonial and departmental heads of French Polynesia
- List of colonial and departmental heads of New Caledonia (France)
- List of current state governors in Palau
- List of colonial governors of Samoa (1900–1914, Germany)
- List of resident commissioners and governors of the Solomon Islands (1953–1978, United Kingdom)
South America
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Colombia
Other
- List of governors of British Guiana (1831–1966, United Kingdom)
- Royal Governor of Chile (1540–1788, Spain)
- List of governors of the Falkland Islands (1848–1982, 1985–present, United Kingdom)
- List of colonial and departmental heads of French Guiana
- Royal Governor of Panama (1508–1818, Spain)
- List of colonial governors of Suriname (1650–1975, back and forth between England/United Kingdom and the Netherlands)
Ancient Rome
- List of Roman governors of Achaea
- List of Roman governors of Africa
- List of Roman governors of Arabia Petraea
- List of Roman governors of Asia
- List of Roman governors of Bithynia and Pontus
- List of Roman governors of Britain
- List of Roman governors of Cappadocia
- List of Roman governors of Cilicia
- List of Roman governors of Creta et Cyrenaica
- List of Roman governors of Roman Cyprus
- List of Roman governors of Dacia Traiana
- List of Roman governors of Dalmatia
- List of Roman governors of Egypt
- List of Roman governors of Gallia Belgica
- List of Roman governors of Gallia Narbonensis
- Roman Republican governors of Gaul
- List of Roman governors of Germania Inferior
- List of Roman governors of Germania Superior
- List of Roman governors of Macedonia
- List of Roman governors of Mauretania Tingitana
- List of Roman governors of Mauretania Caesariensis
- List of Roman governors of Moesia
- List of Roman governors of Lower Moesia
- List of Roman governors of Upper Moesia
- List of Roman governors of Noricum
- List of Roman governors of Pannonia Inferior
- List of Roman governors of Pannonia Superior
- List of Roman governors of Raetia
- List of Roman governors of Sicilia
- List of Roman governors of Syria
By century
- List of governors of dependent territories in the 15th century
- List of governors of dependent territories in the 16th century
- List of governors of dependent territories in the 17th century
- List of governors of dependent territories in the 18th century
- List of governors of dependent territories in the 19th century
- List of governors of dependent territories in the 20th century
- List of governors of dependent territories in the 21st century
Banking institutions
- List of governors of the Bangladesh Bank
- Governor of the Bank of Canada
- List of governors of the Banque Centrale du Congo
- Governor of the Bank of England
- Governor of the Bank of France
- Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
- Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya
- Governor of Central Bank of Malaysia
- List of governors of the State Bank of Pakistan
- Governor of the National Bank of Romania
- List of governors of national banks of Serbia and Yugoslavia
- List of governors of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
- Federal Reserve Board of Governors of the United States
Female governors
- List of female provincial governors in Argentina
- List of female state governors in Australia
- List of female state governors in Brazil
- List of female governors in India
- List of female lieutenant governors and administrators in India
- List of female state governors in Mexico
- List of female heads of federal subjects of Russia
- List of female governors in the United States
- List of first women governors and chief ministers
Other
- Governor of the Military Knights of Windsor, an office of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom