Below is a list of governors of Aceh, one of the provinces of Indonesia, from Indonesian independence to the present day.
| Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Period | Note | Vice Governor | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teuku Nyak Arif | 3 October 1945 | 1946 | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Teuku Daud Syah | 1946 | 1947 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Teungku Daud Beureu'eh | 1947 | 1950 | 3 | ||||
| 1950 | 1951 | 4 | ||||||
| 4 | B. M. Danubroto (Coordinator Resident) | 1951 | 1953 | 5 | ||||
| 5 | Teuku Sulaiman Daud (Government Coordinator) | Mei 1953 | September 1953 | 6 | ||||
| — | Abdul Wahab | 1953 | 1954 | |||||
| 6 | Abdul Razak | 1954 | 1956 | 7 | ||||
| 7 | Ali Hasjmy | 1957 | 1959 | 8 | ||||
| 1959 | 1964 | 9 | ||||||
| 8 | Nyak Adam Kamil | 10 April 1964 | 30 August 1966 | 10 | ||||
| 9 | Hasby Wahidi | 30 August 1967 | 15 May 1968 | 11 | [1] | |||
| 10 | Abdullah Muzakir Walad | 15 May 1968 | 27 June 1973 | 12 | ||||
| 27 June 1973 | 27 August 1978 | 13 | ||||||
| 11 | Abdul Madjid Ibrahim | 27 August 1978 | 15 March 1981 | 14 | ||||
| — | Eddy Sabara | 15 March 1981 | 27 August 1981 | |||||
| 12 | Hadi Thayeb | 27 August 1981 | 27 August 1986 | 15 | ||||
| 13 | Ibrahim Hassan | 27 August 1986 | 25 May 1993 | 16 | [2] | |||
| 14 | Syamsudin Mahmud | 26 May 1993 | 26 May 1998 | 17 | Zainuddin AG | |||
| 26 May 1998 | 21 June 2000 | 18 | [3] [4] [5] | |||||
| — | Ramli Ridwan (Acting) | 21 June 2000 | 25 November 2000 | |||||
| 15 | Abdullah Puteh | 25 November 2000 | 19 July 2004 | 19 | [6] [7] | Azwar Abubakar | ||
| — | Azwar Abubakar (Acting) | 19 July 2004 | 30 December 2005 | — | ||||
| — | Mustafa Abubakar (Daily Acting) | 30 December 2005 | 8 February 2007 | — | ||||
| 16 | Irwandi Yusuf | 8 February 2007 | 8 February 2012 | 20 | Muhammad Nazar | |||
| — | Tarmizi Abdul Karim (Acting) | 8 February 2012 | 25 June 2012 | — | — | |||
| 17 | Zaini Abdullah | 25 June 2012 | 25 June 2017 | 21 | [8] | Muzakkir Manaf | ||
| — | Soedarmo (Acting) | 28 October 2016 | 11 February 2017 | — | [9] | — | ||
| — | Dermawan (Daily Acting) | 25 June 2017 | 5 July 2017 | |||||
| (16) | Irwandi Yusuf | 5 July 2017 | 5 July 2018 | 22 | [10] | Nova Iriansyah | ||
| — | Nova Iriansyah | 5 July 2018 | 5 November 2020 | [11] | — | |||
| 18 | 5 November 2020 | 5 July 2022 | [12] | |||||
| — | Achmad Marzuki (Acting) | 6 July 2022 | incumbent | — | [13] | — |