(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
| Term | Incumbent | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| French Suzerainty | |||
| French colony (under the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique) | |||
| 1635 | Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc, Governor | ||
| 1635 to 1636 | Jean Dupont, Governor | ||
| 1636 to 1646 | Jacques Dyel du Parquet, Governor | 1st time | |
| February 1646 to January 1647 | Jérôme du Sarrat, sieur de La Pierrière, interim Governor | ||
| 1647 to 1650 | Jacques Dyel du Parquet, Governor | 2nd time | |
| Granted to the Dyel du Parquet family | |||
| 1650 to 1658 | Jacques Dyel du Parquet, Governor | 2nd time | |
| 1658 to 1659 | Marie Bonnard du Parquet, Governor | ? | |
| 1659 to October 1662 | Adrien Dyel de Vaudroques, Governor | ||
| 1662 to 1663 | Médéric Rolle de Goursolas, Governor | ||
| 1663 to 1664 | Jean Dyel de Clermont, Governor | ||
| Under the Compagnie des Indes Occidentales | |||
| 1664 to 1665 | Jean Dyel de Clermont, Governor | ||
| February 1665 to December 1667 | Robert de Clodoré, Governor | ||
| 1667 to 1672 | François Rolle de Laubière, acting Governor | ||
| December 1672 to 1674 | Antoine André de Sainte-Marthe, Governor | ||
| French crown colony | |||
| 1674 to December 1679 | Antoine André de Sainte-Marthe, Governor | ||
| 1680 to 1687 | Jacques de Chambly, Governor | ||
| 1687 to 1689 | Charles de Pechpeyrou-Comminges de Guitaut, Governor | ||
| February 1689 to 31 March 1689 | Claude de Roux de Saint-Laurent, interim Governor | ||
| 1689 to June 1711 | Nicolas de Gabaret, Governor | ||
| 1711 to 1716 | Jean-Pierre de Charitte, Governor | Did not take up post | |
| 1716 | Abraham de Bellebat, marquis du Quesne, Governor | ||
| 7 January 1717 to 23 May 1717 | Antoine d'Arcy, sieur de La Varenne, Governor | ||
| 1717(?) to 1720 | Florimond Hurault de Montigny, Governor | Supposedly hanged by pirate Bartholomew Roberts[1] [2] [3] [4] | |
| 1720 to 1727 | Jacques Charles de Bochard de Noray de Champigny, Governor | ||
| 1728 to March 1742 | Jean François Louis de Brach, Governor | ||
| 1742 to 1744 | André Martin, sieur de Pointesable, Governor | ||
| 1744 to 12 May 1750 | Charles de Tubières de Caylus, Governor | ||
| 1750 to 1752 | Maximin de Bompart, Governor | Acting to 1752 | |
| 1752 to 1757 | Alexandre Rouillé de Rocourt, Governor | ||
| May 1757 to 7 February 1761 | François V de Beauharnais, Governor | ||
| February 1761 to February 1762 | Louis-Charles Le Vassor de La Touche, Governor | ||
| British Occupation | |||
| February 1762 to July 1763 | William Rufane, Governor | ||
| French Suzerainty | |||
| July 1763 to April 1764 | François Louis de Salignac, Governor | ||
| 25 January 1765 to 1768 | Victor-Thérèse Charpentier, Governor | ||
| Part of the French Antilles | |||
| 1768 to 1772 | Victor-Thérèse Charpentier, Governor | ||
| 9 March 1772 to 15 March 1776 | Vital Auguste, marquis de Grégoire, comte de Nozières, Governor | ||
| 15 March 1776 to May 1777 | Robert d'Argout, Governor | ||
| May 1777 to March 1783 | François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, Governor | ||
| Separate colony | |||
| March 1783 to March 1791 | Claude Charles de Marillac, vicomte de Damas, Governor | ||
| July 1789 to April 1790 | Charles du Houx de Vioménil, acting Governor | Acting for Damas | |
| 12 March 1791 to September 1792 | Jean Pierre Antoine, comte de Béhague, Governor | ||
| January 1793 to 22 May 1794 | Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau, Governor | ||
| Term | Incumbent | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| British Occupation | |||
| 1794 | Robert Prescott, Governor | ||
| 1794 to 1795 | Sir John Vaughan, Governor | ||
| 1795 to 1796 | Sir Robert Shore Milnes, Governor | ||
| 1796 to 1802 | Sir William Keppel, Governor | ||
| French Suzerainty | |||
| May 1802 to 1804 | Charles-Henri Bertin, Colonial Prefect | ||
| 1804 to 1809 | Pierre-Clément de Laussat, Colonial Prefect | ||
| September 1802 to 21 February 1809 | Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, Captain-General | ||
| British Occupation | |||
| 21 February 1809 to 1809 | Sir George Beckwith, Captain-General | ||
| 10 June 1809 to 1812 | Major-General John Brodrick, Captain-General | ||
| 1812 to 1814 | Sir Charles Wale, Captain-General | ||
| 1814 | Sir John Lindsay, Captain-General | ||
| Term | Incumbent | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| French Suzerainty | |||
| 1814 to 10 September 1817 | Pierre René Marie, comte de Vaugiraud, Captain-General | ||
| 10 September 1817 to 1818 | Pierre René Marie, comte de Vaugiraud, Governor | ||
| 1818 to 1826 | François Xavier, comte de Donzelot, Governor | ||
| 1826 to 1829 | François Marie Michel de Bouillé, Governor | ||
| 1829 to 1830 | Louis Henri de Saulces de Freycinet, Governor | ||
| 1830 to 1834 | Jean Henri Joseph Dupôtet, Governor | ||
| 1834 to 1836 | Emmanuel Halgan, Governor | ||
| 1836 to January 1838 | Ange René Armand, baron de Mackau, Governor | ||
| January 1838 to July 1838 | Claude Rostoland, acting Governor | 1st time | |
| 1838 to 1840 | Alphonse Louis Théodore de Mogès, Governor | ||
| 1840 to 1844 | Étienne Henri Mengin Duval d'Ailly, Governor | ||
| 1844 to March 1848 | Pierre Louis Aimé Mathieu, Governor | ||
| March 1848 to 3 June 1848 | Claude Rostoland, acting Governor | 2nd time | |
| 3 June 1848 to November 1848 | François Auguste Perrinon, Governor | ||
| 1848 to 1851 | Armand Joseph Bruat, Governor | ||
| 11 April 1851 to 1853 | Auguste-Nicolas Vaillant, Governor | ||
| 1853 | Jacques Brunot, acting Governor | ||
| 15 June 1853 to September 1856 | Louis Henri de Gueydon, Governor | ||
| 1856 | Louis André Lagrange, acting Governor | 1st time | |
| August 1856 to 1859 | Armand Louis Joseph Denis, comte Fitte de Soucy, Governor | ||
| 1859 | Louis André Lagrange, acting Governor | 2nd time | |
| 1859 to 1864 | Antoine Marie Ferdinand de Maussion de Candé, Governor | ||
| 1864 to 1867 | François Théodore de Lapelin, Governor | ||
| 1867 | André César Vérand, acting Governor | ||
| 1867 to 1869 | Charles Bertier, Governor | ||
| 1869 to 1870 | Marie Gabriel Couturier, acting Governor | ||
| Term | Incumbent | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1870 to 1871 | Charles Louis Constant Menche de Loisne, Governor | ||
| 1871 | Octave Bernard Gilbert-Pierre, acting Governor | ||
| 1871 to 1874 | Georges Charles Cloué, Governor | ||
| 1874 | François Charles Michaux, acting Governor | ||
| 1875 to 1877 | Thomas Louis Kirkland Le Normant de Kergrist, Governor | ||
| 1877 to 1879 | Marie Bruno Ferdinand Grasset, Governor | ||
| 1879 | Charles Alexandre Lacouture, acting Governor | ||
| 1879 to 1881 | Hyacinthe Laurent Théophile Aube, Governor | ||
| 1881 | J. C. Morau, acting Governor | ||
| 1881 to 1887 | Vincent Gaëtan Allègre, Governor | ||
| 1887 | Coridon, acting Governor | ||
| 1887 to 1889 | Louis Albert Grodet, Governor | ||
| 20 October 1889 – 1 September 1890 | Germain Casse, Governor | ||
| 4 February 1891 to June 1895 | Delphino Moracchini, Governor | ||
| 1895 to 1898 | Noël Pardon, Governor | ||
| 1898 to 1901 | Marie Louis Gustave Gabrié, Governor | ||
| 16 July 1901 to 8 May 1902 | Louis Mouttet, Governor | ||
| May 1902 to 1902 | Georges Lhuerre, acting Governor | ||
| 1902 to 1904 | Jean Baptiste Philémon Lemaire, Governor | ||
| 1904 to 1906 | Louis Alphonse Bonhoure, Governor | ||
| 10 March 1906 to 1908 | Charles Louis Lepreux, Governor | ||
| 1908 to 1913 | Fernand Foureau, Governor | ||
| 1913 to 1914 | Joseph Henri Alfred Vacher, Governor | ||
| 1914 to 1915 | Georges Virgile Poulet, Governor | ||
| 1915 to 1920 | Camille Lucien Xavier Guy, Governor | ||
| 1920 to 1921 | Jules Maurice Gourbeil, Governor | ||
| 1921 to 1922 | Fernand Ernest Levecque, Governor | ||
| 1922 to 1923 | Charles Sergent-Alleaume,[5] interim Governor | ||
| 1923 to 1926 | Henri Marius Richard, Governor | ||
| 1926 to 1928 | Robert Paul Marie de Guise, Governor | ||
| 14 February 1928 to 15 July 1932 | Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis, Governor | 1st time | |
| 15 July 1932 to 23 August 1932 | Adolphe Félix Sylvestre Éboué, acting Governor | 1st time | |
| 23 August 1932 to 4 June 1933 | Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis, Governor | 2nd time | |
| 4 June 1933 to 7 January 1934 | Adolphe Félix Sylvestre Éboué, acting Governor | 2nd time | |
| 7 January 1934 to 1934 | Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis, Governor | 3rd time | |
| 1934 | René Veber, Governor | ||
| 1934 to 1935 | Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, Governor | ||
| 1935 to 1936 | Louis Jacques Eugène Fousset, Governor | ||
| 1936 | Marie Marc Georges Pelicier, Governor | ||
| 22 October 1936 to 7 January 1938 | Jean-Baptiste Alberti, Governor | ||
| 1938 | Léopold Arthur André Allys, acting Governor | ||
| 1938 to 1939 | Maurice Xavier Joseph Dechartre, Governor | ||
| 1939 to 1940 | Georges Aimé Spitz, Governor | ||
| 1940 to March 1941 | Louis Henri François Denis Bressoles, Governor | ||
| March 1941 to July 1943 | Yves Maurice Nicol, Governor | ||
| 14 July 1943 to 31 July 1944 | Louis Georges André Ponton, Governor | Acting to 17 September 1943 | |
| 1944 to January 1945 | Antoine Marie Angelini, Governor |
| Term | Incumbent | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 January 1945 to 1946 | Georges Hubert Parisot, Governor | ||
| French overseas département | |||
| 1946 to 1947 | Georges Louis Joseph Orselli, Governor | ||
| 18 July 1947 to 27 July 1950 | Pierre Albert Trouillé, Prefect | ||
| 25 August 1950 to 1 November 1954 | Christian Robert Roger Laigret, Prefect | ||
| 1 November 1954 to 16 June 1957 | Gaston Claude Villéger, Prefect | ||
| 1 August 1957 to 1 January 1960 | Jacques Alphonse Boissier, Prefect | ||
| 1 January 1960 to 25 April 1961 | Jean Parsi, Prefect | ||
| 25 April 1961 to 8 November 1963 | Michel Grollemund, Prefect | ||
| 21 November 1963 to 16 September 1966 | Raphaël Roman Hubert Petit, Prefect | ||
| 16 September 1966 to 1 August 1967 | Pierre Francis Lambertin, Prefect | ||
| 7 August 1967 to 20 June 1969 | Jean Deliau, Prefect | ||
| 1 September 1969 to 15 June 1970 | Pierre Béziau, Prefect | ||
| 1 July 1970 to 1 July 1973 | Jean Benjamin Terrade, Prefect | ||
| 1 July 1973 to 15 November 1975 | Christian Ernest Orsetti, Prefect | ||
| 15 November 1975 to 20 May 1978 | Paul Noirot-Cosson, Prefect | ||
| 20 May 1978 to 3 May 1979 | Raymond Raoul Émile Heim, Prefect | ||
| 3 May 1979 to 27 July 1981 | Marcel Lucien Paul Julia, Prefect | ||
| 27 July 1981 to 10 May 1982 | Jean Chevance, Prefect | ||
| 10 May 1982 to 6 March 1985 | Jean Chevance, Commissioner of the Republic | ||
| 6 March 1985 to 4 November 1987 | Édouard Lacroix, Commissioner of the Republic | ||
| 4 November 1987 to 24 February 1988 | Jean Jouandet, Commissioner of the Republic | ||
| 24 February 1988 to 12 April 1989 | Jean Jouandet, Prefect | ||
| 12 April 1989 to 4 September 1991 | Jean-Claude Roure, Prefect | ||
| 4 September 1991 to 6 January 1995 | Michel Morin, Prefect | ||
| 6 January 1995 to 24 August 1998 | Jean-François Cordet, Prefect | ||
| 31 August 1998 to 21 June 2000 | Dominique Bellion, Prefect | ||
| 24 July 2000 to 28 March 2003 | Michel Cadot, Prefect | ||
| French overseas region | |||
| 28 March 2003 to 9 February 2004 | Michel Cadot, Prefect | ||
| 9 February 2004 to 20 June 2007 | Yves Dassonville, Prefect | ||
| 20 June 2007 to 2 August 2007 | Patrice Latron, interim Prefect | ||
| 2 August 2007 to Present | Ange Mancini, Prefect | ||