List of colonial governors in 1716

France

 * Louisiana –
 * Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, Governor of Louisiana (1713–1716)
 * Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, Governor of Louisiana (1716–1717)
 * Saint-Domingue – Louis de Courbon, comte de Blénac, Governor-General of Saint-Domingue (1714–1717)

Great Britain

 * Bombay – Charles Boone, Governor of Bombay (1715–1722)
 * Massachusetts –
 * William Tailer, Acting Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1715–1716)
 * Samuel Shute, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1716–1723)

Oman

 * Mombasa – Nasr ibn Abdallah al-Mazru‘i, Wali of Mombasa (1698–1728)

Portugal

 * Angola – João Manuel de Noronha, Governor of Angola (1713–1717)
 * Macau – D.Francisco de Alarcao Sotto-Maior, Governor of Macau (1714–1718)

Netherlands

 * Dutch East Indies – Christoffel van Swoll, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1713–1718)
 * Zeylan –
 * Hendrik Bekker, Governor of Zeylan (1707–1716)
 * Isaak Augustyn Rumpf, Governor of Zeylan (1716–1723)