Arthur Phillip  26 January 1788 – 10 December 1792

Interregnum: 11 December 1792 - 11 December 1794 Major Francis Grose

12 December 1794 - 11 September 1795 Captain William Paterson

John Hunter  11 September 1795 – 27 September 1800

Philip Gidley King  28 September 1800 – 12 August 1806

William Bligh  13 August 1806 – 26 January 1808

Interregnum: 26 January 1808 - 29 July 1808 Major George Johnston

29 July 1808 - 8 January 1809 Major Joseph Foveaux

9 January 1809 - 31 December 1809 Colonel William Paterson

Lachlan Macquarie  1 January 1810 – 1 December 1821

Sir Thomas Brisbane  1 December 1821 – 1 December 1825

Ralph Darling  19 December 1825 – 22 October 1831

Sir Richard Bourke  3 December 1831 – 5 December 1837

Sir George Gipps  24 February 1838 – 11 July 1846

Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy  3 August 1846 – 20 January 1855

Sir William Thomas Denison  20 January 1855 – 22 January 1861

Sir John Young  16 May 1861 – 24 December 1867

Somerset Richard Lowry-Corry, Earl of Belmore  8 January 1868 – 21 February 1872

Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson  3 June 1872 – 19 March 1879

Sir Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus  4 August 1879 – 9 November 1885

Charles Robert Carrington, Baron Carrington  12 December 1885 – 3 November 1890

Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, Earl of Jersey  15 January 1891 – 2 March 1893

Sir Robert William Duff  29 May 1893 – 15 March 1895

Henry Robert Brand, Viscount Hampden  21 November 1895 – 5 March 1899

William Lygon, Earl Beauchamp  18 May 1899 – 30 April 1901

Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson  27 May 1902 – 27 May 1909

Frederic John Napier Thesiger, Baron Chelmsford  28 May 1909 – 11 March 1913

Sir Gerald Strickland, Count della Catena  14 March 1913 – 27 October 1917

Sir Walter Edward Davidson  18 February 1918 – 16 September 1923

Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair  28 February 1924 – 8 April 1930

Sir Philip Woolcott Game  29 May 1930 – 15 January 1935

Sir Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven  21 February 1935 – 22 January 1936

Sir David Murray Anderson  6 August 1936 – 30 October 1936

John de Vere Loder, Baron Wakehurst  8 April 1937 – 8 January 1946

Sir John Northcott  1 August 1946 – 31 July 1957

Sir Eric Winslow Woodward  1 August 1957 – 31 July 1965

Sir Arthur Roden Cutler  20 January 1966 – 19 January 1981

Sir James Anthony Rowland  20 January 1981 – 19 January 1989

Sir David Martin  20 January 1989 – 7 August 1990

Peter Ross Sinclair  8 August 1990 – 29 February 1996

Gordon Jacob Samuels  1 March 1996 – 28 February 2001

Marie Roslyn Bashir  1 March 2001 –