List of governors of French Guiana

The government of the French colony of French Guiana was headed by a governor until 1946, when the territory became an overseas department of France.

Governors of Guiana during the Portuguese occupation (1809-1817)

 * January - October 1809          Colonel of Artillery Manuel Marques
 * October 1809 - February 1812    Pedro Alexandrino Pinto de Sousa
 * February 1812 - November 1817   João Severiano Maciel da Costa

Governors of French Guiana (1817-1946)

 * 1817 - 1819 Claude Carra de Saint-Cyr
 * 1819 - 1823 Pierre Clément de Laussat
 * 1823 - 1825 Pierre Bernard Milius
 * 1825 - 1826 Charles de Muyssart
 * 1826 - 1827 Joseph de Burgues de Missiessy
 * 1827 - 1829 Louis Henri de Saulces de Freycinet
 * 1829 - 1836 Jean Jubelin
 * 1836 - 1837 François-Dominique Laurens de Choisy
 * 1837 - 1839 Paul de Nourquer du Camper
 * 1839 - 1841 Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Augustin Gourbeyre
 * 1841 - 1843 Pons-Guillaume-Bazile Charmasson de Puylaval
 * 1843 - 1845 Marie Jean-François Layrle
 * 1845 - 1846 Jean-Baptiste Bertrand Armand Cadéot
 * 1846 - 1850 André-Aimé Pariset
 * 1850 - 1851 Eugène Maissin
 * 1851       Jean-François Vidal de Lingendes
 * 1851 - 1852 Octave Pierre Antoine Henri de Chabannes-Curton
 * 1852 - 1853 Joseph Napoléon Sébastien Sarda Garriga
 * 1853 - 1854 Martin Fourichon
 * 1854 - 1855 Louis Adolphe Bonard
 * 1855 - 1856 Antoine Alphonse Masset
 * 1856 - 1859 Auguste Baudin
 * 1859 - 1864 Louis-Marie-François Tardy de Montravel
 * 1864 - 1865 Antoine Favre
 * 1865 - 1870 Agathon Hennique
 * 1870       J. A. A. Noyer
 * 1870 - 1877 Jean-Louis Loubère
 * 1877       A. E. Bouet
 * 1877 - 1880 Marie Alfred Armand Huart (1826 - ?)
 * 1880       P. A. Trève
 * 1880 - 1883 Charles Alexandre Lacouture (1829 - 1917)
 * 1883 - 1884 Henri Isidore Chessé (1839 - 1912)
 * 1884 - 1885 Jean Baptiste Antoine Lougnon (1843 - ?)
 * 1885 - 1887 Léonce Pierre Henri Le Cardinal (1830 - 1891)
 * 1888 - 1891 Anne Léodor Philotée Metellus Gerville-Réache (1849 - 1911)
 * 1891 - 1893 Louis Albert Grodet (1853 - 1933)
 * 1893       Paul Émile Joseph Casimir Fawtier (1837 - 1903)
 * 1893 - 1895 Camille Charvein (1834 - ?)
 * 1895 - 1896 Henri Félix de Lamothe (1843 - 1926)
 * 1896 - 1898 Henri Éloi Danel
 * 1898       Henri Roberdeau
 * 1899 - 1901 Louis Mouttet
 * 1901 - 1903 Émile Merwart
 * 1904 - 1905 Louis Albert Grodet
 * 1905       Charles Emmanuel Joseph Marchal
 * 1905 - 1906 Victor François Ferdinand Rey
 * 1906       Louis Alphonse Bonhoure (1864 - 1909)
 * 1906 - 1907 Édouard Picanon (1854 - 1939)
 * 1907 - 1909 François Pierre Rodier (1854 - ?)
 * 1909 - 1910 William Maurice Fawtier (1867 - ?)
 * 1910       Fernand Ernest Thérond
 * 1910 - 1911 Paul Samary (1848 - 1911)
 * 1911       Denys Joseph Goujon (1863 - ?)
 * 1911 - 1913 Fernand Lévecque
 * 1913 - 1914 Pierre Didelot
 * 1914 - 1916 Fernand Lévecque
 * 1916       Pierre Didelot
 * 1916 - 1917 Georges Lévy (1867 - ?)
 * 1917       Jules Gérard Auguste Lauret (1866 - ?)
 * 1917 - 1918 Antoine Joseph Xavier Barre (1864 - 1924)
 * 1918 - 1923 Henri Alphonse Joseph Lejeune
 * 1923       Julien Edgard Cantau
 * 1923 - 1926 Marc Émile Charles Jean Chanel (1882 - 1943)
 * 1926 - 1927 Gabriel Henri Joseph Thaly
 * 1927       François Adrien Juvanon (1875 - ?)
 * 1927 - 1928 Émile Buhot-Launay (1881-1970)
 * 1928 - 1929 Camille Théodore Raoul Maillet
 * 1929 - 1931 Bernard Siadoux
 * 1931 - 1933 Louis Joseph Bouge (1878 - 1960)
 * 1933 - 1935 Julien Georges Lamy
 * 1935 - 1936 Charles Max de Masson de Saint-Félix
 * 1936       Pierre Tap
 * 1936 - 1938 René Veber
 * 1938 - 1942 Robert Paul Chot-Plassot
 * 1942 - 1943 René Veber
 * 1943 - 1944 Jean Alexandre Léon Rapenne (1901 - 1952)
 * 1944 - 1946 Jules Eucher Surlemont (1897 – 1983)