The following is a list of governors, commodore-governors, and lieutenant governors of Newfoundland and Labrador. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in Newfoundland and Labrador came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1949, the post is a continuation from the first governorship of Newfoundland in 1610.
Proprietary governors of Newfoundland, 1610–1728
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| colspan="6" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under James VI and I <small>(1610–1625)</small>:</span>
|-
|
| 75px
| John Guy
| Cuper's Cove
| 1610
| 1614
|-
|
| 75px
| John Mason
| Cuper's Cove
| 1615
| 1621
|-
|
| 75px
| Robert Hayman
| Bristol's Hope
| 1618
| 1628
|-
|
| 75px
| Sir Richard Whitbourne
| Renews
| 1618
| 1620
|-
|
| 75px
| Sir Francis Tanfield
| South Falkland
| 1623
| 1626
|-
|
| 75px
| Edward Wynne
| Ferryland
| 1621
| 1625
|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="9" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under Charles I <small>(1625–1649)</small>:</span>
|-
|
| 75px
| Sir Arthur Aston
| Avalon
| 1625
| 1627
|-
|
| 75px
| George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
| Avalon
| 1627
| 1629
|-
|
| 75px
| Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
| Avalon
| 1629
| 1632
|-
|
| 75px
| William Hill
| Avalon
| 1634
| 1638
|-
| <small>1.</small>
| 75px
| Sir David Kirke
| Newfoundland
| 1638
| →
|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="6" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under Oliver Cromwell <small>(1649–1658)</small>:</span>
|-
| <small>1.</small>
| 75px
| cont...
|
| ←
| 1651
|-
| <small>2.</small>
| 75px
| John Treworgie
| Newfoundland
| 1653
| →
|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="6" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under Richard Cromwell <small>(1658–1660)</small>:</span>
|-
| <small>2.</small>
| 75px
| cont...
|
| ←
| →
|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="6" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under Charles II <small>(1660)</small>:</span>
|-
| <small>2.</small>
| 75px
| cont...
|
| ←
| 1660
|}
Governors of Plaisance, 1655–1713
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| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under Louis XIV <small>(1655–1713)</small>:</span>
|-
|
| 75px
| Sieur de Kéréon
| 1655
| 1655
|-
|
| 75px
| Nicolas Gargot de la Rochette
| 1660
| 1660
|-
|
| 75px
| Thalour Du Perron
| 1662
| 1663
|-
|
| 75px
| Lafontaine Bellot
| 1664
| 1667
|-
|
| 75px
| Sieur de la Palme
| 1667
| 1670
|-
|
| 75px
| Sieur de la Poippe
| 1670
| 1684
|-
|
| 75px
| Antoine Parat
| 1685
| 1690
|-
|
| 75px
| Louis de Pastour de Costebelle
| 1690
| 1691
|-
|
| 75px
| Jacques-François de Monbeton de Brouillan
| 1690
| 1701
|-
|
| 75px
| Joseph de Monic
| 1697
| 1702
|-
|
| 75px
| Daniel d'Auger de Subercase
| 1702
| 1706
|-
|
| 75px
| Philippe Pastour de Costebelle
| 1706
| 1713
|}
Lieutenant-governors of Placentia, 1713–1770
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| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Lieutenant-Governors under George I <small>(1713–1727) (Subject to Governor of Nova Scotia and Placentia)</small>:</span>
|-
| <small>1.</small>
| 75px
| John Moody
| 1714
| 1717
|-
| <small>2.</small>
| 75px
| Martin Purcell
| 1717
| 1719
|-
| <small>3.</small>
| 75px
| Samuel Gledhill
| 1719
| 1729
|-
| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Lieutenant-Governors under George II <small>(1727–1760)</small>:</span>
|-
| <small>1.</small>
| 75px
| Henry Cope
| 1736
| ?1742
|-
| <small>1.</small>
| 75px
| Otho Hamilton
| 1744
| c.1764
|-
| <small>1.</small>
| 75px
| Joseph Goreham
| 1770
|
|}
Commodore-governors of Newfoundland, 1729–1825
The Commodore-Governor was a Royal Navy officer who was commander of the annual fishing convoy which left England each spring to fish off Newfoundland and was charged with protecting the convoys from harm. He was also responsible for various administrative and judicial functions, including assisting the fishing admirals in maintaining law and order and compiling the annual report on the fishery for the English government. By 1818, the colony had a significant enough permanent population to justify having a resident governor.
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|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under George II <small>(1729–1760)</small>:</span>
|-
| <small>3.</small>
| 75px
| Henry Osborn
| 1729
| 1730
|-
| <small>4.</small>
| 75px
| George Clinton
| 1731
| 1731
|-
| <small>5.</small>
| 75px
| Edward Falkingham
| 1732
| 1732
|-
| <small>6.</small>
| 75px
| Robert MacCarty, Viscount Muskerry
| 1733
| 1734
|-
| <small>7.</small>
| 75px
| FitzRoy Henry Lee
| 1735
| 1737
|-
| <small>8.</small>
| 75px
| Philip Vanbrugh
| 1738
| 1738
|-
| <small>9.</small>
| 75px
| Henry Medley
| 1739
| 1740
|-
| <small>10.</small>
| 75px
| Thomas Smith
| 1741
| 1741
|-
| <small>11.</small>
| 75px
| John Byng
| 1742
| 1742
|-
| <small>10.</small>
| 75px
| Thomas Smith (second time)
| 1743
| 1743
|-
| <small>12.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Charles Hardy
| 1744
| 1744
|-
| <small>13.</small>
| 75px
| Richard Edwards
| 1745
| 1745
|-
| <small>14.</small>
| 75px
| Sir James Douglas, 1st Baronet
| 1746
| 1746
|-
| <small>15.</small>
|75px
| John Bradstreet
| 1747
| 1747
|-
| <small>15.</small>
| 75px
| Charles Watson
| 1748
| 1748
|-
| <small>16.</small>
| 75px
| George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney
| 1749
| 1749
|-
| <small>17.</small>
| 75px
| Francis William Drake
| 1750
| 1752
|-
| <small>18.</small>
| 75px
| Hugh Bonfoy
| 1753
| 1754
|-
| <small>19.</small>
| 75px
| Richard Dorrill
| 1755
| 1756
|-
| <small>20.</small>
| 75px
| Richard Edwards
| 1757
| 1759
|-
| <small>21.</small>
| 75px
| James Webb
| 1760
| →
|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under George III (1760–1820):</span>
|-
| <small>21.</small>
| 75px
| cont...
| ←
| 1760
|-
| <small>22.</small>
| 75px
| Thomas Graves
| 1761
| 1763
|-
| <small>23.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Hugh Palliser
| 1764
| 1768
|-
| <small>24.</small>
| 75px
| John Byron
| 1769
| 1771
|-
| <small>25.</small>
| 75px
| Molyneux Shuldham
| 1772
| 1774
|-
| <small>26.</small>
| 75px
| Robert Duff
| 1775
| 1775
|-
| <small>27.</small>
| 75px
| John Montagu
| 1776
| 1778
|-
| <small>28.</small>
| 75px
| Richard Edwards
| 1779
| 1781
|-
| <small>29.</small>
| 75px
| John Campbell
| 1782
| 1785
|-
| <small>30.</small>
| 75px
| John Elliot
| 1786
| 1788
|-
| <small>31.</small>
| 75px
| Mark Milbanke
| 1789
| 1791
|-
| <small>32.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Richard King, 1st Baronet
| 1792
| 1793
|-
| <small>33.</small>
| 75px
| Sir James Wallace
| 1794
| 1796
|-
| <small>34.</small>
| 75px
| William Waldegrave
| 1797
| 1799
|-
| <small>35.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Charles Pole, 1st Baronet
| 1800
| 1801
|-
| <small>36.</small>
| 75px
| James Gambier
| 1802
| 1803
|-
| <small>37.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Erasmus Gower
| 1804
| 1806
|-
| <small>38.</small>
| 75px
| John Holloway
| 1807
| 1809
|-
| <small>39.</small>
| 75px
| Sir John Duckworth
| 1810
| 1812
|-
| <small>40.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Richard Goodwin Keats
| 1813
| 1816
|-
| <small>41.</small>
| 75px
| Francis Pickmore
| 1817
| 1818
|-
|
| 75px
|John Bowker
|1818
|1818
|-
| <small>42.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Charles Hamilton, 2nd Baronet, of Marlborough House
| 1818
| →
|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under George IV (1820–1825):</span>
|-
| <small>42.</small>
| 75px
| cont...
| ←
| 1825
|}
Civil governors of Newfoundland, 1825–1855
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|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under George IV (1825–1830):</span>
|-
| <small>43.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Thomas John Cochrane
| 1825
| →
|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under William IV (1830–1837):</span>
|-
| <small>43.</small>
| 75px
| cont...
| ←
| 1834
|-
| <small>44.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Henry Prescott
| 1834
| →
|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="9" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under Queen Victoria (1837–1855):</span>
|-
| <small>44.</small>
| 75px
| cont...
| ←
| 1841
|-
| <small>45.</small>
| 75px
| Sir John Harvey
| 1841
| 1846
|-
|
| 75px
| Robert Law (colonial administrator)
| 1846
| 1847
|-
| <small>46.</small>
| 75px
| Sir John Le Marchant
| 1847
| 1852
|-
| <small>47.</small>
| 75px
| Ker Baillie-Hamilton
| 1852
| 1855
|}
Colonial governors of Newfoundland, 1855–1907
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|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under Queen Victoria <small>(1855–1901)</small>:</span>
|-
| <small>48.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Charles Henry Darling
| 1855
| 1857
|-
| <small>49.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Alexander Bannerman
| 1857
| 1864
|-
| <small>50.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Anthony Musgrave
| 1864
| 1869
|-
| <small>51.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Stephen John Hill
| 1869
| 1876
|-
| <small>52.</small>
| 75px
| Sir John Hawley Glover
| 1876
| 1881
|-
| <small>53.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Henry Berkeley Fitzhardinge Maxse
| 1881
| 1883
|-
| <small>52.</small>
| 75px
| Sir John Hawley Glover (second time)
| 1883
| 1885
|-
| <small>54.</small>
| 75px
| Sir William Des Vœux
| 1886
| 1887
|-
| <small>55.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Henry Arthur Blake
| 1887
| 1889
|-
| <small>56.</small>
| 75px
| Sir John Terence Nicholls O'Brien
| 1889
| 1895
|-
| <small>57.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Herbert Harley Murray
| 1895
| 1898
|-
| <small>58.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Henry Edward McCallum
| 1898
| →
|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under Edward VII <small>(1901–1907)</small>:</span>
|-
| <small>58.</small>
| 75px
| cont...
| ←
| 1901
|-
| <small>59.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Charles Cavendish Boyle
| 1901
| 1904
|-
| <small>60.</small>
| 75px
| Sir William MacGregor
| 1904
| 1907
|}
Governors of the Dominion of Newfoundland, 1907–1934
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|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under Edward VII <small>(1907–1910)</small>:</span>
|-
| <small>60.</small>
| 75px
| Sir William MacGregor (continued)
| 1907
| 1909
|-
| <small>61.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Ralph Champneys Williams
| 1909
| →
|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under George V <small>(1910–1934)</small>:</span>
|-
| <small>61.</small>
| 75px
| cont...
| ←
| 1913
|-
| <small>62.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Walter Edward Davidson
| 1913
| 1917
|-
| <small>63.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Charles Alexander Harris
| 1917
| 1922
|-
| <small>64.</small>
| 75px
| Sir William Allardyce
| 1922
| 1928
|-
| <small>65.</small>
| 75px
| Sir John Middleton
| 1928
| 1932
|-
| <small>66.</small>
| 75px
| Sir David Murray Anderson
| 1933
| 1934
|}
Commission governors of Newfoundland, 1934–1949
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|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under George V <small>(1934–1936)</small>:</span>
|-
| <small>66.</small>
| 75px
| Sir David Murray Anderson (continued)
| 1934
| 1935
|-
| <small>67.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Humphrey T. Walwyn
| 1936
| →
|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under Edward VIII <small>(1936)</small>:</span>
|-
| <small>67.</small>
| 75px
| cont...
| ←
| →
|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under George VI <small>(1936–1949)</small>:</span>
|-
| <small>67.</small>
| 75px
| cont...
| ←
| 1946
|-
| <small>68.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Gordon MacDonald
| 1946
| 1949
|}
Lieutenant governors of Newfoundland, 1949–1999
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|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Lt. Governors under George VI <small>(1949–1952)</small>:</span>
|-
| <small>69.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Albert Walsh
| 1949
| 1949
|-
| <small>70.</small>
| 75px
| Sir Leonard Outerbridge
| 1949
| →
|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Lt. Governors under Elizabeth II <small>(1952–1999)</small>:</span>
|-
| <small>70.</small>
| 75px
| cont...
| ←
| 1957
|-
| <small>71.</small>
| 75px
| Campbell Leonard Macpherson
| 1957
| 1963
|-
| <small>72.</small>
| 75px
| Fabian O'Dea
| 1963
| 1969
|-
| <small>73.</small>
| 75px
| Ewart John Arlington Harnum
| 1969
| 1974
|-
| <small>74.</small>
| 75px
| Gordon Arnaud Winter
| 1974
| 1981
|-
| <small>75.</small>
| 75px
| William Anthony Paddon
| 1981
| 1986
|-
| <small>76.</small>
| 75px
| James McGrath
| 1986
| 1991
|-
| <small>77.</small>
| 75px
| Frederick Russell
| 1991
| 1997
|-
| <small>78.</small>
| 75px
| Arthur Maxwell House
| 1997
| 1999
|}
Lieutenant governors of Newfoundland and Labrador, 1999–present
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|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under Elizabeth II <small>(1999–2022)</small>:</span>
|-
| | <small>78.</small>
| 75px
| Arthur Maxwell House
| 1999
| 2002
|-
| | <small>79.</small>
| 75px
| Edward Roberts
| 2002
| 2008
|-
|80.
| 75px
| John Crosbie
| 2008
| 2013
|-
|bgcolor="#D0F0C0" | <small>81.</small>
| 75px
| Frank Fagan
| 2013
| 2018
|-
|bgcolor="#D0F0C0" | <small>82.</small>
| 75px
| Judy Foote
| 2018
| →
|-
|- bgcolor="#F5F5F5"
| colspan="5" align="left"|<span style="color:black;">Governors under Charles III <small>(2022–present)</small>:</span>
|-
|bgcolor="#D0F0C0" | <small>82.</small>
| 75px
| cont...
| ←
| 2023
|-
| <small>83.</small>
| 75px
| Joan Marie Aylward
| 2023
| Present
|}
See also
- Office-holders of Canada
- Canadian incumbents by year