List of colonial governors of the British Virgin Islands
List of Colonial Heads of the British Virgin Islands
| Term | Incumbent | Notes |
| English colony | English colony | English colony |
| 1666 | ||
| 1741 | John Pickering | President |
| 1742 to 1750 | John Hunt | President |
| 1750 to 1751 | James Purcell | President |
| 1751 to 1775 | John Purcell | President |
| 1775 to 1782 | John Nugent | President |
| 1782 to 1811 | ... | President |
| 1811 to 18.. | Richard Hetherington | President |
| Part of the Leeward Islands | Part of the Leeward Islands | Part of the Leeward Islands |
| 1833 to 1839 | ||
| 1839 to 1850 | Edward Hay Drummond Hay | President |
| 1852 to 1854 | John Cornell Chads | President |
| 1854 to 1857 | Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright | President |
| 1859 to 1861 | Thomas Price | President |
| 1861 to 1864 | James Robert Longden | President |
| 1866 to 1869 | Sir Arthur Carlos Henry Rumbold | President |
| 1869 to 1872 | Alexander Wilson Muir | President |
| 1873 to 1879 | Richard Mahoney Hickson | President |
| 1879 to 1882 | John Kemys Spencer-Churchill | President |
| 1882 to 1884 | Richard Henry Kortright Dyett | President |
| 1884 to 1887 | Fredrick Augustus Pickering | President |
| 1887 to 1893 | Edward John Cameron | Administrator |
| 1894 to 1896 | Alexander R. Mackay | Administrator |
| 1896 to 1903 | Nathaniel George Cookman | Administrator |
| 1903 to 1910 | Robert Stephen Earl | Administrator |
| 1910 to 1919 | Thomas Leslie Hardtman Jarvis | Administrator |
| 1919 to 1922 | Herbert Walter Peebles | Administrator |
| 1922 to 1923 | R. Hargrove | Administrator |
| 1923 to 1926 | Otho Lewis Hancock | Administrator |
| 1926 to 1934 | Frank Cecil Clarkson | Administrator |
| 1934 to 1946 | Donald Percy Wailling | Administrator |
| 1946 to 1954 | John Augustus Cockburn Cruikshank | Administrator |
| 1954 to 1956 | Henry Anthony Camillo Howard | Administrator |
| 1956 to 1959 | Geoffrey Poole Allsebrook | Administrator |
| 1959 to 1 January 1960 | Gerald Jackson Bryan | Administrator |
| 1 January 1960 | Dissolution of the Leeward Islands | |
| 1 January 1960 to 1962 | Gerald Jackson Bryan | Administrator |
| 1962 to 1967 | Martin Samuel Staveley | Administrator |
| 1967 to 1971 | John Sutherland Thomson | Administrator |
| 1971 to 1974 | Derek George Cudmore | Governor |
| 1974 to 1978 | Walter Wilkinson Wallace | Governor |
| 1978 to 1981 | James Alfred Davidson | Governor |
| 1982 to 1986 | David Robert Barwick | Governor |
| 1986 to 1991 | J. Mark A. Herdman | Governor |
| 14 October 1991 to 21 June 1995 | Peter Alfred Penfold | Governor |
| 21 June 1995 to 1998 | David Mackilligin | Governor |
| 3 July 1998 to 5 October 2002 | Frank Savage | Governor |
| 5 October 2002 to 14 October 2002 | Elton Georges | Acting Governor |
| 14 October 2002 to 18 April 2006 | Tom Macan | Governor |
| 18 April 2006 to 5 August 2010 | David Pearey | Governor |
| 20 August 2010 to 1 August 2014 | William Boyd McCleary | Governor |
| 15 August 2014 to 22 August 2017 | John S. Duncan OBE | Governor |
| 22 August 2017 to present | Augustus Jaspert | Governor |