This is a list of masters of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Fitzwilliam House, the body established in 1869 for non-collegiate students attached to the University of Cambridge, was presided over by a Censor. Once the non-collegiate system was ended and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge was established as a full college of the university in 1966 the college head became known as the Master.
| Name | Years in office | Career | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walter Wyatt Grave | 1966 - 1971 | Academic administrator | |
| Edward Miller | 1971 - 1981 | Historian, Chairman of the Victoria County History Project and the History of Parliament Trust, Editor of the Agrarian History of England and Wales | |
| Sir James Holt | 1981 - 1988 | Medieval historian, President of the Royal Historical Society (1981–1985), Vice-president of the British Academy (1987–89) | |
| Gordon Cameron | 1988 - 1990 | Economist | |
| Alan Cuthbert | 1991 - 1999 | Pharmacologist, Sheild Professor (1979–99) | |
| Brian F. G. Johnson | 1999 - 2005 | Chemist, executive at EPSRC and Academia Europaea, expert authority on nanoparticles | |
| Robert Lethbridge | 2005 - 2013 | Expert on French Language and Literature, awarded Chevalier des Palmes académiques, Provost of the Gates Cambridge Trust (2010–13) | |
| Nicola Padfield | 2013 - 2019 | Expert on Criminal and Penal Justice | |
| Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton | 2019 - |