List of colonial governors in 1899

Belgium

 * Congo Free State
 * Théophile Wahis, Governor-General of the Congo Free State (1892–1908)
 * Émile Wangermée, acting Governor-General of the Congo Free State (1896–1900)

France

 * Côte d'Ivoire –
 * Louis Mouttet, Governor-General of Côte d'Ivoire
 * Adrien Jules Jean Bonhoure, Governor-General of Côte d'Ivoire (1898)
 * Jean Penel, Acting Governor-General of Côte d'Ivoire
 * French Indochina – Paul Doumer, Governor-General of French Indochina (1897–1902)
 * French Somaliland –
 * Léonce Lagarde, Governor of French Somaliland (1888–1899)
 * Louis Mizon, acting Governor of French Somaliland (1899)
 * Alfred Albert Martineau, Governor of French Somaliland (1899–1900)
 * Guinea – Paul Jean François Cousturier, Lieutenant-Governor of Guinea (1898–1900)

Japan

 * Taiwan – Kodama Gentarō, Governor-General of Taiwan (26 February 1898 – April 1906)

Germany

 * Kamerun – Puttkamer, Jesko von, 1895–1907
 * Deutsch-Südwestafrika – Theodor Leutwein

Portugal

 * Angola – António Duarte Ramada Curto, Governor-General of Angola (1897–1900)

United Kingdom

 * Jamaica – Augustus William Lawson Hemming, Governor of Jamaica (1898–1904)
 * Malta Colony
 * Arthur Fremantle, Governor of Malta (1893–1899)
 * Francis Wallace Grenfell, Governor of Malta (1899–1903)
 * Colony of Natal – Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson (1893–1901)
 * New South Wales
 * Viscount Hampden, Governor of New South Wales (1895–1899)
 * William Lygon, Lord Beauchamp, Governor of New South Wales (1899–31 December 1900 then State Governor on Australia's Federation to 1901)
 * North-Eastern Rhodesia – Robert Edward Codrington, Administrator of North-Eastern Rhodesia (1898–1907)
 * North-Western Rhodesia – Robert Thorne Coryndon, Administrator of North-Western Rhodesia (1897–1907)
 * Queensland – Charles Cochrane-Baillie, Governor of Queensland (1896–31 December 1900 then State Governor on Australia's Federation to 1901)
 * Tasmania – Jenico Preston, Lord Gormanston, Governor of Tasmania (1893–1900)
 * South Australia
 * Sir Thomas Buxton, Governor of South Australia (1895–1899)
 * Lord Hallam Tennyson, Governor of South Australia (1899–31 December 1900 then State Governor on Australia's Federation to 1902)
 * Victoria – Thomas, Earl Brassey, Governor of Victoria (1895–1900)
 * Western Australia – Lieutenant-Colonel Gerard Smith, Governor of Western Australia (1895–1900)