Lieutenant-Governors
- Charles La Trobe, 1851-1854*
- Captain Sir Charles Hotham, 1854-1855
* La Trobe was Superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales 1839-1851
Governors
- Captain Sir Charles Hotham, 1855
- Sir Henry Barkly, 1856-1863
- Sir Charles Darling, 1863-1866
- Sir John Manners-Sutton, 1866-1873
- Sir George Bowen, 1873-1879
- George Phipps, Marquess of Normanby, 1879-1884
- Sir Henry Loch, 1884-1889
- John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, 1889-1895
- Thomas Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey, 1895-1900
- Sir George Clarke, 1901-1903
- Major-General Sir Reginald Talbot, 1904-1908
- Sir Thomas Carmichael, 1908-1911
- Sir John Fuller, 1911-1914
- Sir Arthur Stanley, 1914-1920
- Colonel George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke, 1921-1926
- Lieutentant-Colonel Arthur Somers Cocks, 6th Baron Somers, 1926-1931
- Captain William Vannecke, 5th Baron Huntingfield, 1934-1939
- Major-General Sir Winston Dugan, 1939-1949
- General Sir Dallas Brooks, 1949-1963
- Major-General Sir Rohan Delacombe, 1963-1974
- Sir Henry Winneke, 1974-1982
- Rear-Admiral Sir Brian Murray, 1982-1985
- The Reverend Dr Davis McCaughey, 1986-1992
- Richard McGarvie, 1992-1997
- Sir James Gobbo, 1997-2000
- John Landy, 2001-present
