List of colonial governors in 1877

Portugal

 * Angola – Caetano Alexandre de Almeida e Albuquerque, Governor-General of Angola (1876–1878)

United Kingdom

 * Malta Colony – Charles van Straubenzee, Governor of Malta (1872–1878)
 * New South Wales – Hercules Robinson, Lord Rosmead, Governor of New South Wales (1872–1879)
 * Queensland
 * William Cairns, Governor of Queensland (1875–1877)
 * Sir Arthur Kennedy, Governor of Queensland (1877–1883)
 * Tasmania – Major Frederick Weld, Governor of Tasmania (1875–1880)
 * South Australia
 * Sir Anthony Musgrave, Governor of South Australia (1873–1877)
 * Lieutenant-General William Jervois, Governor of South Australia (1877–1883)
 * Victoria – George Bowen, Governor of Victoria (1873–1879)
 * Western Australia
 * Sir William Robinson, Governor of Western Australia (1875–1877)
 * Major-General Harry Ord, Governor of Western Australia (1877–1880)