| Post: | Governor |
| Body: | North Borneo |
| Style: | His Excellency |
| Residence: | Sandakan (before 1946), Kota Kinabalu (1946–1963) |
| Inaugural: | William Hood Treacher |
| Last: | William Allmond Codrington Goode |
| Abolished: | 1963 |
| Formation: | 1881 |
The Governor of North Borneo was the appointed head of the government of North Borneo.
Originally the Governor was appointed by the North Borneo Chartered Company, which was responsible for the administration of the protectorate. Upon North Borneo becoming a Crown colony in 1946, in the aftermath of the Second World War, the Governor of British North Borneo became an appointee of the Crown (i.e. of the Government of the United Kingdom).
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" colspan="6" | British North Borneo | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" rowspan="2" | № | Portrait | Name | Tenure | Monarch | |
| From | To | |||||
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" | 1 | William Hood Treacher | 1881 | 1887 | Victoria House of Hanover (20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901) | |
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" | 2 | William Maunder Crocker | 1887 | 1888 | ||
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" | 3 | Charles Vandeleur Creagh | 1888 | 1895 | ||
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" | 4 | Leicester Paul Beaufort | 1895 | 1899 | ||
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" | 5 | Hugh Charles Clifford | 1900 | 1901 | ||
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" | 6 | Ernest Woodford Birch | 1901 | 1903 | Edward VII House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (22 January 1901 – 6 May 1910) | |
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" rowspan="2" | 7 | Edward Peregrine Gueritz | 1904 | 1911 | ||
George V House of Windsor (6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936) | ||||||
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" | 8 | Francis Robert Ellis | 1911 | 1912 | ||
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" | 9 | Sir James Scott Mason | 1912 | 1912 | ||
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" | 10 | Cecil William Chase Parr | 1913 | 1915 | ||
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" | 11 | Aylmer Cavendish Pearson 1st term | 1915 | 1922 | ||
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" | 12 | William Henry Rycroft | 1922 | 1925 | ||
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" | 13 | Aylmer Cavendish Pearson 2nd term | 1925 | 1926 | ||
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" | 14 | John Lisseter Humphreys | 1926 | 1929 | ||
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" | 15 | Arthur Frederick Richards | 1930 | 1933 | ||
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" | Douglas James Jardine | 1934 | 1937 | |||
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" rowspan="3" | 16 | |||||
Edward VIII House of Windsor (20 January 1936 – 11 December 1936) | ||||||
George VI House of Windsor (11 December 1936 – 1 April 1942) | ||||||
| align=center style="background:gold; color:red;" | 17 | Charles Robert Smith | 1937 | 1942 | ||
| align=center style="background:white; color:red;" colspan="6" | Japanese Occupation of British Borneo From 1 April 1942 to 10 June 1945. | |||||
| align=center style="background:red; color:white;" colspan="5" | British Military Administration of Borneo (1945-1946) | George VI House of Windsor (10 June 1945 – 6 February 1952) | ||||
| 18 | Charles Robert Smith | 1945 | 1946 | |||
| align=center style="background:darkblue; color:white;" colspan="5" | Crown Colony of North Borneo | |||||
| align=center style="background:darkblue; color:white;" | 19 | Edward Francis Twining | 1946 | 5 May 1948 | ||
| align=center style="background:darkblue; color:white;" | 20 | James CalderOfficer Administering the Colony | 5 May 1948 | 10 January 1949 | ||
| align=center style="background:darkblue; color:white;" rowspan="2" | 21 | Herbert Ralph Hone | 10 January 1949 | 1954 | ||
Elizabeth II House of Windsor (6 February 1952 – 16 September 1963) | ||||||
| align=center style="background:darkblue; color:white;" | 22 | Roland Evelyn Turnbull | 1954 | 1959 | ||
| align=center style="background:darkblue; color:white;" | 23 | William Allmond Codrington Goode | 1960 | 1963 | ||