The following is a list of masters of Jesus College, Cambridge:
| Name | Portrait | Term of office | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Chubbes | 1497 | 1505 | ||
| John Eccleston | 1505 | 1516 | ||
| Thomas Alcock | 1516 | |||
| William Capon | 1516 | 1546 | ||
| John Reston | 1546 | 1551 | ||
| Edmund Pierpoint | 1551 | 1557 | ||
| John Fuller | 1557 | 1558 | ||
| Thomas Redman | 1559 | 1560 | ||
| Edward Gascoyne | 1560 | 1562 | ||
| John Lakin | 1562 | 1563 | ||
| Thomas Ithell | 1563 | 1579 | ||
| John Bell | 1579 | 1589 | ||
| John Duport | 1590 | 1617 | ||
| Roger Andrewes | 1618 | 1632 | ||
| William Beale | 1632 | 1634 | ||
| Richard Sterne | 1634 | 1644 | ||
| Thomas Young | 1644 | 1650 | ||
| John Worthington | 1650 | 1660 | ||
| Richard Sterne | 1660 | |||
| John Pearson | 1660 | 1662 | ||
| Joseph Beaumont | 1662 | 1663 | ||
| Edmund Boldero | 1663 | 1679 | ||
| Humphrey Gower | 1679 | |||
| William Saywell | 1679 | 1701 | ||
| Charles Ashton | 1701 | 1752 | ||
| Philip Yonge | 1752 | 1758 | ||
| Lynford Caryl | 1758 | 1781 | ||
| Richard Beadon | 1781 | 1789 | ||
| William Pearce | 1789 | 1820 | ||
| William French | 1820 | 1849 | ||
| George Elwes Corrie | 1849 | 1885 | ||
| Henry Arthur Morgan | 1885 | 1912 | ||
| Arthur Gray | 1912 | 1940 | ||
| Wynfrid Duckworth | 1940 | 1945 | ||
| Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard | 1945 | 1959 | ||
| Denys Page | 1959 | 1973 | ||
| Alan Cottrell | 1973 | 1986 | ||
| Colin Renfrew | 1986 | 1996 | ||
| David Crighton | 1997 | 2000 | ||
| Robert Mair | 2001 | 2011 | ||
| Ian H. White | 2011 | 2019 | ||
| Sonita Alleyne | 2019 | Incumbent | ||