List of colonial governors in 1890

Belgium

 * Congo Free State – Camille Janssen, Governor-General of the Congo Free State (1886–1891)

France

 * French Somaliland – Léonce Lagarde, Governor of French Somaliland (1888–1899)
 * Riviéres du Sud – Jean-Marie Bayol, Lieutenant-Governor of Riviéres du Sud (1882–1891)

Portugal

 * Angola – Gilherme Auguste de Brito Capelo, Governor-General of Angola (1886–1892)

United Kingdom

 * British Virgin Islands – Edward John Cameron, Administrator of the British Virgin Islands (1887–1894)
 * Falkland Islands – Thomas Kerr, Governor of the Falkland Islands (1887–1891)
 * Malta Colony – Henry Augustus Smyth, Governor of Malta (1890–1893)
 * New South Wales – Charles Wynn-Carington, Lord Lincolnshire, Governor of New South Wales (1885–1890)
 * Queensland – Field Marshal Sir Henry Norman, Governor of Queensland (1889–1895)
 * Tasmania – Robert Hamilton, Governor of Tasmania (1887–1892)
 * South Australia – Algernon Keith-Falconer, Lord Kintore, Governor of South Australia (1889–1895)
 * Victoria – John Hope, Earl of Hopetoun, Governor of Victoria (1889–1895)
 * Western Australia
 * Sir Frederick Broome, Governor of Western Australia (1883–1890)
 * Sir William Robinson, Governor of Western Australia (1890–1895)