List of colonial governors in 1769

France

 * French India – Jean Law de Lauriston, Governor of French India (1767–1777)
 * Isle de France (Mauritius)
 * Jean Guillaume Steinauer, Acting Governor General of Mauritius (1768–1769)
 * François Julien du Dresnay, chevalier Desroches, Governor-General of Mauritius (1769–1772)

Great Britain

 * Bahamas – William Shirley, Governor of the Bahamas (1760–1775)
 * Bengal -
 * Harry Verelst, Governor of Bengal (1767-1769)
 * John Cartier, Governor of Bengal (1769-1772)
 * Bermuda – George James Bruere, Governor of Bermuda (1764–1780)
 * Bombay – Thomas Hodges, Governor of Bombay (1767–1771)
 * Connecticut Colony –
 * William Pitkin, Governor (1766–1769)
 * Jonathan Trumbull, Governor (1769–1776)
 * East Florida – James Grant, Governor (1763–1771)
 * Province of Georgia – James Wright, Governor of Georgia (1760–1776)
 * Gibraltar – Edward Cornwallis, Governor of Gibraltar (1761–1776)
 * Gold Coast –
 * Gilbert Petrie, Governor of the Committee of Merchants of the Gold Coast (1766–1769)
 * John Crossle, Governor of the Committee of Merchants of the Gold Coast (1769–1770)
 * Jamaica – William Trelawny, Governor (1767–1772)
 * Madras – Charles Bourchier, President of the East India Company based at Madras (1767–1770)
 * Isle of Man – John Wood, Governor of the Isle of Man (1761–1777)
 * Province of Maryland –
 * Horatio Sharpe, Governor (1753–1769)
 * Robert Eden, Governor (1769–1776)
 * Province of Massachusetts Bay
 * Francis Bernard, Governor (1760–1769)
 * Thomas Hutchinson, Governor (1769–1774)
 * Newfoundland Colony – John Byron, Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland (1769–1771)
 * Province of New Hampshire – John Wentworth, Governor of New Hampshire (1767–1775)
 * Province of New Jersey – William Franklin, Governor (1763–1776)
 * Province of New York –
 * Henry Moore, Governor (1765–1769)
 * Cadwallader Colden, Acting Governor (1769–1770)
 * Province of North Carolina – William Tryon, Governor (1765–1771)
 * Province of Pennsylvania
 * Chief Proprietor – Thomas Penn, 1746–1771
 * Lieutenant Governor – John Penn 1763–1771
 * Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
 * Josias Lyndon, Governor (1768–1769)
 * Joseph Wanton, Governor (1769–1775)
 * Province of South Carolina –
 * Charles Montagu, Governor (1766–1773)
 * William Bull II, Acting Governor of South Carolina during Montagu's frequent and prolonged absences
 * Colony of Virginia – Norborne Berkeley, Governor of Virginia (1768–1770)
 * West Florida
 * Montfort Browne, Governor (1767–1769)
 * John Eliot, Governor (1769)
 * Elias Durnford, Governor (1769–1770)

Netherlands

 * Ceylon – Iman Willem Falck, Governor (1765–1785)

Ottoman Empire

 * Algiers – Muhammad V, Dey of Algiers (1766–1791)

Portugal

 * Angola – Francisco Inocéncio de Sousa Coutinho, Governor of Angola (1764–1772)
 * Macau – Diogo Fernandes Salema e Saldanha, Governor of Macau (1767–1770)

Spain

 * Captaincy General of Chile – Juan de Balmaseda, Governor of Chile (1768–1770)
 * Louisiana –
 * Charles Philippe Aubry, Acting Governor of Louisiana (1768–1769)
 * Alejandro O'Reilly, Captain-General of Louisiana (1769)
 * Mexico – Carlos Francisco de Croix, Viceroy of Mexico (1766–1771)