List of colonial governors in 1899 explained
Belgium
France
Japan
Germany
Portugal
- Angola – António Duarte Ramada Curto, Governor-General of Angola (1897–1900)
United Kingdom
- Jamaica – Augustus William Lawson Hemming, Governor of Jamaica (1898–1904)
- Malta Colony
- Arthur Fremantle, Governor of Malta (1893–1899)
- Francis Wallace Grenfell, Governor of Malta (1899–1903)
- Colony of Natal – Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson (1893–1901)
- New South Wales
- Viscount Hampden, Governor of New South Wales (1895–1899)
- William Lygon, Lord Beauchamp, Governor of New South Wales (1899 - 31 December 1900 then State Governor on Australia's Federation to 1901)
- North-Eastern Rhodesia – Robert Edward Codrington, Administrator of North-Eastern Rhodesia (1898–1907)
- North-Western Rhodesia – Robert Thorne Coryndon, Administrator of North-Western Rhodesia (1897–1907)
- Queensland – Charles Cochrane-Baillie, Governor of Queensland (1896 - 31 December 1900 then State Governor on Australia's Federation to 1901)
- Tasmania – Jenico Preston, Lord Gormanston, Governor of Tasmania (1893–1900)
- South Australia
- Sir Thomas Buxton, Governor of South Australia (1895–1899)
- Lord Hallam Tennyson, Governor of South Australia (1899 - 31 December 1900 then State Governor on Australia's Federation to 1902)
- Victoria – Thomas, Earl Brassey, Governor of Victoria (1895–1900)
- Western Australia – Lieutenant-Colonel Gerard Smith, Governor of Western Australia (1895–1900)