# 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)