List of colonial governors and administrators of Nevis

This is a list of viceroys in Nevis from the island's settlement by English in 1628 until its union with Saint Kitts and Anguilla to form Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla in 1883.

Governors of Nevis (1628–1685)

 * Anthony Hilton, 1628–1629
 * George Hay, 1629–1630
 * Anthony Hilton, 1630–1631, second time
 * Thomas Littleton, 1631–1634
 * Luke Stokes, 1634–1635, first time
 * Thomas Sparrow, 1635–1637
 * Henry Huncks, 1637–1638
 * John Jennings, 1639
 * Jenkin Lloyd, 1640
 * John Meakem, 1640–1641
 * John Kettleby, 1641
 * Jacob Lake, 1641–1649
 * Luke Stokes, 1649–1657, second time
 * James Russell, 1657–1671
 * Sir William Stapleton, 1672–1685

Deputy Governors of Nevis (1672–1737)

 * Randall Russell, 1672–1676
 * William Burt, 1685
 * James Russell, 1685–1687
 * John Netheway, 1687–1691
 * Samuel Gardner, 1692–1699
 * Roger Elrington, 1699–1702
 * John Johnson, 1703–1706
 * Walter Hamilton, 1706–1712
 * Daniel Smith, 1712–1722
 * Charles Sibourg, 1722–1732
 * William Hanmer, 1733–1737

Presidents of Nevis (1737–1882)

 * Michael Smith, 1731–1744
 * James Symonds, 1745–1756
 * William Maynard, 1756–1761
 * James Johnston, 1761–1771
 * Joseph Richardson Herbert, 1771–1782
 * François Claude Amour, Marquis de Bouille, 1782–1783 Governor (French occupation)
 * Joseph Richardson Herbert, 1784–1793, restored
 * James Daniell, 1807–1840
 * Josiah Webbe Maynard, 1840–1841
 * Ralph Cleghorn, 1841–1842
 * Lawrence Graeme, 1842–1844
 * Willoughby J. Shortland, 1845–1854
 * Frederick Seymour, 1854–1857
 * Sir Arthur Rumbold, 1857–1860
 * George Cavell Webbe, 1860–1864
 * James Watson Sheriff, 1864–1866
 * Charles Monroe Eldridge, 1872–1873
 * Alexander Augustus Melfort Campbell, 1873–1876
 * Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy, 1876–1877
 * Arthur Elibank Havelock, 1877–1878
 * Charles Spencer Salmon, 1879–1882

In 1883 Nevis formed part of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, with a president on Saint Christopher (Saint Kitts). For a list of viceroys in Nevis following this, see List of colonial heads of Saint Christopher.