| Post: | Governor |
| Body: | British Cyprus |
| Insignia: | Badge of Cyprus (1905–1960).svg |
| Insigniasize: | 100px |
| Insigniacaption: | Badge of the governor of Cyprus |
| Style: | His Excellency |
| Residence: | Government House |
| Appointer: | King/Queen of the United Kingdom |
| Precursor: | High Commissioner of Cyprus |
| Formation: | 10 March 1925 |
| First: | Sir Malcolm Stevenson |
| Last: | Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot |
| Abolished: | 16 August 1960 |
| Succession: | President of Cyprus |
This article lists the colonial governors and administrators of British Cyprus.
Hitherto Ottoman Cyprus, a territory of the Ottoman Empire, a British protectorate under Ottoman suzerainty was established over Cyprus by the Cyprus Convention of 4 June 1878. The United Kingdom declared war on the Ottoman Empire on 5 November 1914 and annexed Cyprus. Turkey recognised British possession of Cyprus by the Treaty of Lausanne on 24 July 1923 and the island became a Crown Colony on 10 March 1925. Following the London and Zürich Agreements of 19 February 1959 Cyprus became an independent republic on 16 August 1960, and joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1961.
| Name | Portrait | Term of office | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord John Hay (acting) | 12 July 1878 | 22 July 1878 | ||
| Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley | 22 July 1878 | 23 June 1879 | ||
| Sir Robert Biddulph | 23 June 1879 | 9 March 1886 | ||
| Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer | 9 March 1886 | 5 April 1892 | ||
| Sir Walter Joseph Sendall | 5 April 1892 | 23 April 1898 | ||
| Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith | 23 April 1898 | 17 October 1904 | ||
| Sir Charles Anthony King-Harman | 17 October 1904 | 12 October 1911 | ||
| Hamilton Goold-Adams | 12 October 1911 | 8 January 1915 | ||
| Sir John Eugene Clauson | 8 January 1915 | 31 December 1918 † | ||
| Sir Malcolm Stevenson | 31 December 1918 | 10 March 1925 | ||
| Name | Portrait | Term of office | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sir Malcolm Stevenson | 10 March 1925 | 30 November 1926 | ||
| Sir Ronald Storrs | 30 November 1926 | 29 October 1932 | ||
| Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs | 29 October 1932 | 8 November 1933 | ||
| Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer | 8 November 1933 | 4 July 1939 | ||
| William Denis Battershill | 4 July 1939 | 3 October 1941 | ||
| Charles Campbell Woolley | 3 October 1941 | 24 October 1946 | ||
| Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster | 24 October 1946 | 4 August 1949 | ||
| Sir Andrew Barkworth Wright | 4 August 1949 | February 1954 | ||
| Sir Robert Perceval Armitage | February 1954 | 25 September 1955 | ||
| Sir John Alan Francis Harding | 3 October 1955 | 22 October 1957 | ||
| Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot | 3 December 1957 | 16 August 1960 | ||