This is a list of British colonial administrators of Aden from the 1839 Aden Expedition to the 1967 withdrawal from Aden. They were appointed from British India until 1937 when the Chief Commissioner's Province of Aden became the Colony of Aden under the responsibility of the Colonial Office in London.
Aden merged into independent South Yemen on 30 November 1967. For British representation since then, see: List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Yemen.
| Political Agents | |||
| Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Indian Navy | 1839 | 1854 | |
| Major-General James Outram | 1854 | 1856 | |
| Political Residents | |||
| Colonel William Marcus Coghlan | 1854 | 1862 | |
| Major-General R. W. Honner | 1862 | 1862 | |
| Colonel William Marcus Coghlan | 1862 | 1863 | |
| Major William Merewether | 1863 | 1867 | |
| Major-General Sir Edward Russell | 1867 | 1870 | |
| Major-General Charles William Tremenheere | 1870 | 1872 | |
| Brigadier John Schneider | 1872 | 1877 | |
| Brigadier Francis Adam Ellis Loch | 1877 | 1882 | |
| Brigadier James Blair | 1882 | 1885 | |
| Brigadier Adam George Forbes Hogg | 1890 | 1890 | |
| Brigadier John Jopp | 1890 | 1895 | |
| Brigadier Charles Alexander Cunningham | 1895 | 1899 | |
| Brigadier Garratt O'Moore Creagh | 1899 | 1901 | |
| Brigadier Pelham James Maitland | 1901 | 1904 | |
| Major-General Harry Macan Mason | 1904 | 1906 | |
| Major-General Ernest de Brath | 1906 | 1910 | |
| Brigadier James Alexander Bell | 1910 | 1914 | |
| Brigadier Charles Henry Uvedale Price | 1915 | 1915 | |
| Major-General James Marshall Stewart | 1916 | 1920 | |
| Major-General Thomas Edwin Scott | 1920 | 1925 | |
| Major-General John Henry Keith Stewart | 1925 | 1928 | |
| Lieutenant Colonel George Stewart Symes | 1928 | 1930 | |
| Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Rawdon Reilly | 1930 | 1932 | |
| Chief Commissioner | |||
| Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Rawdon Reilly | 1932 | 1937 | |
| Governors | |||
| Sir Bernard Reilly | 1937 | 1940 | |
| Sir John Hathorn Hall | 1940 | 1944 | |
| Sir Reginald Champion | 1944 | 1951 | |
| Sir Tom Hickinbotham | 1951 | 1956 | |
| Sir William Henry Luce | 1956 | 1960 | |
| Sir Charles Johnston | 1960 | 1963 | |
| High Commissioners | |||
| Sir Kennedy Trevaskis | 1963 | 1965 | |
| Sir Richard Turnbull | 1965 | 1967 | |
| Sir Humphrey Trevelyan | 1967 | 1967 | |