List of governors of Guiana
The government of the French colony of French Guiana was headed by a governor until 1946, when the territory became an overseas department of France.
Governors of Guiana during the Portuguese occupation (1809-1817)
- January - October 1809 Colonel of Artillery Manuel Marques
- October 1809 - February 1812 Pedro Alexandrino Pinto de Sousa
- February 1812 - November 1817 João Severiano Maciel da Costa
Governors of French Guiana (1817-1946)
- 1817 - 1819 Claude Carra de Saint-Cyr
- 1819 - 1823 Pierre Clément de Laussat
- 1823 - 1825 Pierre Bernard Milius
- 1825 - 1826 Charles de Muyssart
- 1826 - 1827 Joseph de Burgues de Missiessy
- 1827 - 1829 Louis Henri de Saulces de Freycinet
- 1829 - 1836 Jean Jubelin
- 1836 - 1837 François-Dominique Laurens de Choisy
- 1837 - 1839 Paul de Nourquer du Camper
- 1839 - 1841 Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Augustin Gourbeyre
- 1841 - 1843 Pons-Guillaume-Bazile Charmasson de Puylaval
- 1843 - 1845 Marie Jean-François Layrle
- 1845 - 1846 Jean-Baptiste Bertrand Armand Cadéot
- 1846 - 1850 André-Aimé Pariset
- 1850 - 1851 Eugène Maissin
- 1851 Jean-François Vidal de Lingendes
- 1851 - 1852 Octave Pierre Antoine Henri de Chabannes-Curton
- 1852 - 1853 Joseph Napoléon Sébastien Sarda Garriga
- 1853 - 1854 Martin Fourichon
- 1854 - 1855 Louis Adolphe Bonard
- 1855 - 1856 Antoine Alphonse Masset
- 1856 - 1859 Auguste Baudin
- 1859 - 1864 Louis-Marie-François Tardy de Montravel
- 1864 - 1865 Antoine Favre
- 1865 - 1870 Agathon Hennique
- 1870 J. A. A. Noyer
- 1870 - 1877 Jean-Louis Loubère
- 1877 A. E. Bouet
- 1877 - 1880 Marie Alfred Armand Huart
- 1880 P. A. Trève
- 1880 - 1883 Charles Alexandre Lacouture
- 1883 - 1884 Henri Isidore Chessé
- 1884 - 1885 Jean Baptiste Antoine Lougnon
- 1885 - 1887 Léonce Pierre Henri Le Cardinal
- 1888 - 1891 Anne Léodor Philotée Metellus Gerville-Réache
- 1891 - 1893 Louis Albert Grodet
- 1893 Paul Émile Joseph Casimir Fawtier
- 1893 - 1895 Camille Charvein
- 1895 - 1896 Henri Félix de Lamothe
- 1896 - 1898 Henri Éloi Danel
- 1898 Henri Roberdeau
- 1899 - 1901 Louis Mouttet
- 1901 - 1903 Émile Merwart
- 1904 - 1905 Louis Albert Grodet
- 1905 Charles Emmanuel Joseph Marchal
- 1905 - 1906 Victor François Ferdinand Rey
- 1906 Louis Alphonse Bonhoure
- 1906 - 1907 Édouard Picanon
- 1907 - 1909 François Pierre Rodier
- 1909 - 1910 William Maurice Fawtier
- 1910 Fernand Ernest Thérond
- 1910 - 1911 Paul Samary
- 1911 Denys Joseph Goujon
- 1911 - 1913 Fernand Lévecque
- 1913 - 1914 Pierre Didelot
- 1914 - 1916 Fernand Lévecque
- 1916 Pierre Didelot
- 1916 - 1917 Georges Lévy
- 1917 Jules Gérard Auguste Lauret
- 1917 - 1918 Antoine Joseph Xavier Barre
- 1918 - 1923 Henri Alphonse Joseph Lejeune
- 1923 Julien Edgard Cantau
- 1923 - 1926 Marc Émile Charles Jean Chanel
- 1926 - 1927 Gabriel Henri Joseph Thaly
- 1927 François Adrien Juvanon
- 1927 - 1928 Émile Buhot-Launay
- 1928 - 1929 Camille Théodore Raoul Maillet
- 1929 - 1931 Bernard Siadoux
- 1931 - 1933 Louis Joseph Bouge
- 1933 - 1935 Julien Georges Lamy
- 1935 - 1936 Charles Max de Masson de Saint-Félix
- 1936 Pierre Tap
- 1936 - 1938 René Veber
- 1938 - 1942 Robert Paul Chot-Plassot
- 1942 - 1943 René Veber
- 1943 - 1944 Jean Alexandre Léon Rapenne
- 1944 - 1946 Jules Eucher Surlemont