| Post: | Governor |
| Body: | the Sakhalin Oblast |
| Incumbent: | Valery Limarenko |
| Flag: | Flag of Sakhalin Oblast.svg |
| Insignia: | Sakhalin Oblast Coat of Arms.svg |
| Flagborder: | yes |
| Flagcaption: | Flag of Sakhalin Oblast |
| Insigniacaption: | Coat of Arms of Sakhalin Oblast |
| Incumbentsince: | September 12, 2019 |
| Department: | Government of Sakhalin Oblast |
| Style: | His Excellency, Mr. Governor |
| Residence: | Communist Avenue 32, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk |
| Seat: | Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk |
| Termlength: | 5 years |
| Formation: | 1991 |
| First: | Valentin Fyodorov |
The Governor of Sakhalin Oblast (Russian: Губернатор Сахалинской области) is the head of the executive branch of the Government of Sakhalin Oblast and the highest official of the oblast. The governor has a duty to enforce state laws in the region and to approve bills passed by the Sakhalin Oblast Duma or to disapprove it.
Since the formation of the position in 1991 there have been eight governors, including two interim governors. Igor Farkhutdinov was the only governor to die in office. The current governor, Valery Limarenko, has been interim governor since December 7, 2018.
The longest serving governors were Igor Farkhtdinov and Aleksandr Khoroshavin, who both served for 8 years in the office.
| No | Image | Governor | Took office | Left office | Party | Election | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Valentin Fyodorov (1939–2021) | 8 October 1991[1] | 8 April 1993 | Independent | |||
| 2 | Yevgeny Krasnoyarov (born 1939) | 8 April 1993 | 25 April 1995 | ||||
| 3 | Igor Farkhutdinov (1950–2003) | 25 April 1995 | 20 August 2003 | 1996----2000 | |||
| — | Ivan Malakhov (born 1953) | 20 August 2003 | December 2003 | United Russia | 2003[2] | ||
| 4 | December 2003 | 7 August 2007[3] | |||||
| — | Aleksandr Khoroshavin (born 1959) | 7 August 2007 | 9 August 2007 | 2007----2011 | |||
| 5 | 9 August 2007 | 25 March 2015[4] | |||||
| — | Oleg Kozhemyako (born 1962) | 25 March 2015 | 13 September 2015 | 2015 | |||
| 6 | 13 September 2015 | 27 September 2018 | |||||
| — | Vera Shcherbina (born 1958) | 27 September 2018 | 7 December 2018 | ||||
| — | Valery Limarenko (born 1960) | 7 December 2018 | 12 September 2019 | Independent | 2019 | ||
| 7 | 12 September 2019 | Incumbent | |||||