The following persons have served as Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge:
| Name | Portrait | Term of office | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert de Thorpe | 1347? (1354)[1] | 1364 | ||
| Thomas de Bingham | 1364[2] | 1374 | ||
| John Tynmouth or Tinmew | 1374? (1380) | 1385† | ||
| Richard Morys | 1385? (1389)[3] | 1406? | ||
| John Sudbury | 1406 | 1428 (resigned) | ||
| John Langton | 1428 | 22 May 1447† | ||
| Hugh Damlet | 1447 | 1449 (resigned) | ||
| Lawrence Booth | 31 May 1450 | 19 May 1480† | ||
| Thomas Rotherham | 1480 | 1488 (resigned) | ||
| George Fitzhugh | 14 September 1488 | November 1505† | ||
| Roger Leyburn | 29 November 1505 | 1 August 1507† | ||
| Richard Foxe | 1507 | 19 October 1518 (resigned) | ||
| Robert Shorton | 1518 | 1534 (resigned) | ||
| Robert Swinburn | before 4 October 1534 | October 1537 (resigned) | ||
| George Folberry | 1537 | October 1540† | ||
| Nicholas Ridley | October 1540 | 1554 (deprived) | ||
| John Young (I) | 24 December 1554 | 20 July 1559 (deprived) | ||
| Edmund Grindal | 20 July 1559 | 16 August 1561 (resigned) | ||
| Matthew Hutton | 14 May 1562 | 1567 (resigned) | ||
| John Whitgift | 21 April 1567 | July 1567 (resigned) | ||
| John Young (II) | 12 July 1567 | 16 March 1578 (resigned) | ||
| William Fulke | 10 May 1578 | 28 August 1589† | ||
| Lancelot Andrewes | 6 September 1589 | 1605 (resigned) | ||
| Samuel Harsnett | November 1605 | 18 February 1616 (resigned) | ||
| Nicholas Felton | 29 June 1616 | 18 February 1619 (resigned) | ||
| Jerome Beale | 21 February 1619 | September 1630† | ||
| Benjamin Lany | 25 December 1630 | 13 March 1644 (ejected) | ||
| Richard Vines | 13 March 1644 | 1 October 1650 (ejected) | ||
| Sidrach Simpson | 1650 | April 1655† | ||
| William Moses | April 1655 | 1660 (ejected) | ||
| Benjamin Lany | 1660 (restored) | 16 August 1662 (resigned) | ||
| Mark Frank | 23 August 1662 | January 1664† | ||
| Robert Mapletoft | May 1664 | 20 August 1677† | ||
| Nathaniel Coga | 20 August 1677 | 8 January 1694† | ||
| Thomas Browne | 10 February 1694 | 9 March 1707† | ||
| Edward Lany | 19 March 1707 | 9 August 1728† | ||
| John Hawkins | 15 August 1728 | October 1733 (resigned) | ||
| Roger Long | 12 October 1733 | 16 December 1770† | ||
| James Brown | 16 December 1770 | 30 September 1784† | ||
| Joseph Turner | 6 October 1784 | 3 August 1828† | ||
| Gilbert Ainslie | 15 August 1828 | 9 January 1870† | ||
| John Power | 14 January 1870 | 18 November 1880† | ||
| Charles Edward Searle | 24 November 1880 | 29 July 1902† | ||
| Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bt. | 26 August 1902 | 7 February 1903† | ||
| Arthur James Mason | 11 March 1903 | 15 June 1912 (resigned) | ||
| William Sheldon Hadley | 19 June 1912 | 25 December 1927† | ||
| Arthur Hutchinson | 16 January 1928 | 30 September 1937 (retired) | ||
| Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler | 1 October 1937 | 31 July 1948 (retired) | ||
| Sir Sydney Castle Roberts | 1 August 1948 | 1958 | ||
| Sir William Vallance Douglas Hodge | 1 August 1958 | 1970 | ||
| William Anthony Camps | 1970 | 1981[4] | ||
| The Lord Adrian | 1981 | 1992 | ||
| Sir Roger Tomkys | 1992 | 2004 | ||
| Sir Richard Dearlove | 2004 | 31 July 2015 (retired) | ||
| The Lord Smith of Finsbury | 2015 | incumbent | ||