List of governors of Saitama Prefecture

Appointed governors

 * Morihide Nomura 1871-1873
 * Tasuke Shirane 1873-1882
 * Kiyohide Yoshida 1882-1889
 * Eitaro Komatsubara 1889-1891
 * Kanichi Kubota 1891-1892
 * Tsunao Hayashi 1892-1894
 * Tomi Senketaka 1894-1897
 * Tadashi Munakata 1897–1898
 * Ogimachi Sanemasa 1899–1900
 * Yamada Shunzō 1900–1902
 * Shuichi Kinoshita 1902–1905
 * Marquis Okubo Toshi Takeshi 1905–1907
 * Shimada Gotaro 1907–1913
 * Soeda Keiichiro 1913–1914
 * Akira Masaya 1914–1916
 * Tadahiko Okada 1916–1919
 * Horiuchi Hidetaro 1919–1923
 * Motoda Tashio 1923–1924
 * Saito Morikuni 1924–1927
 * Yashu 1927
 * Miyawaki Umekichi (1st time) 1927–1929
 * Shirane Takekai 1929
 * Hosokawa Chohei 1929–1930
 * Niwa Shichiro 1930–1931
 * Kozo Yamanaka 1931
 * Miyawaki Umekichi (2nd time) 1931–1932
 * Shigezo Fukushima 1932–1933
 * Hirose Hisatada 1933–1934
 * Ichisho Inuma 1934–1935
 * Saito Juri 1935–1936
 * Jitsuzo Kawanishi 1936–1938
 * Toki Ginjiro 1938–1941
 * Miyano Shozo 1941–1942
 * Toshio Otsu 1942–1943
 * Sudo Tetsushin 1943-1944
 * Ryuichi Fukumoto 1944-1945
 * Sekigaiyo Otoko 1945-1946
 * Jitzuzo Nishimura (1st time) 1946-1947

Elected governors

 * Hitoshi Miyawaki 1947
 * Jitzuzo Nishimura (2nd time) 1947-1949
 * Yoshida Tadakazu 1949 (acting)
 * Yuuichi Oosawa 1949-1956
 * Hiroshi Kurihara 1956-1972
 * Yawara Hata 1972–1992
 * Yoshihiko Tsuchiya 1992-2003
 * Nobuyuki Aoki (acting) 2003
 * Kiyoshi Ueda 2003–2019
 * Motohiro Ōno 2019-present