# List of colonial and departmental heads of Guadeloupe

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
Note: currently, the prefect is not the true departmental head, which is the President of the General Council. The prefect is merely the representative of the national government.

## Ancien regime

Governors under the Ancien Régime were:
| Term | Incumbent | Notes |
| French Suzerainty |||
| 28 June 1635 – 4 December 1635 | Jean du Plessis d'Ossonville | Died 1635 |
| 28 June 1635 – 1640 | Charles Liènard de l'Olive [fr] | Governor; died 1643 |
| 25 November 1640 – 1643 | Jean Aubert | |
| 1643–1664 | Charles Houël du Petit Pré | Governor |
| August 1644 – May 1645 | Marivet | Acting |
| 8 July 1654 – 1656 | Charles Houël du Petit Pré | 2nd time, acting, also de Boisseret |
| 23 June 1664 – November 1664 | Ducoudray | Acting |
| 5 November 1664 – 14 September 1674 | Claude François du Lyon | |
| 1677 | M. de Baas de l'Herpinière | Did not take office |
| 5 July 1677 – 15 June 1695 | Pierre Hincelin | Acting, then confirmed governor |
| 15 July 1695 to 1702 | Charles Auger | Governor |
| 1703–1705 | Joseph d'Honon de Gallifet | Did not take office |
| 1702–1705 | Bonnaventure-François de Boisfermé | Acting governor for absent Galiffet |
| 1706 – 1 May 1717 | Robert Cloche de La Malmaison | Governor |
| May 1717 to 18 March 1718 | Savinien-Michel de Lagarrigue de Savigny [fr] | Interim governor |
| 22 June 1717 | François de Pas de Mazencourt, marquis de Feuquières | Did not take office |
| June/July 1719 – October 1727 | Alexandre Vaultier, comte de Moyencourt [fr] | Governor |
| 21 October 1727 – 27 July 1734 | Robert Giraud du Poyet [fr] | Governor |
| 27 July 1734 – 17 August 1737 | Charles de Brunier, marquis de Larnage | Acting governor |
| 17 August 1737 – 1753 | Gabriel de Clieu | Governor |
| October 1749 – December 1750 | de Lafond | Acting for d'Erchigny) |
| 27 December 1753 – 1757 | Jean Antoine Joseph de Mirabeau [fr] | Governor |
| 15 January 1757 – 1 May 1759 | Charles François Emmanuel Nadau du Treil | Governor |
| British Suzerainty |||
| May 1759 | John Barrington | |
| May 1759 – 11 March 1760 | Byam Crump | Governor |
| March 1760 – 4 July 1763 | Campbell Dalrymple | Governor |
| French Suzerainty |||
| 4 July 1763 – 24 June 1764 | François-Charles de Bourlamaque | Governor |
| 1764 to 1765 | Henri Édouard de Copley | Interim governor |
| 20 March 1765 to 29 November 1768 | Pierre Gédéon de Nolivos | Governor |
| 29 November 1768 – 1769 | Anne Joseph Hippolyte de Maurès de Malartic | Governor |
| 27 February 1769 – 1771 | François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé | Governor |
| August 1771 to 1773 | Louis François de Dion | Governor |
| 14 April 1773 – 1776 | Édouard Hilaire Louis de Tilly | Governor |
| 1776–1782 | Bache-Elzéar-Alexandre d'Arbaud de Jouques | Governor |
| 16 Nov 1782 – 1783 | Claude Charles de Marillac, vicomte de Damas | Governor |
| 1783–1784 | Beaumé de la Saulais | Governor |
| 1784 – 25 July 1792 | Charles François de Clugny de Thénissey | Governor |

## Revolution and First Empire

| Term | Incumbent | Notes |
| 1792 to 1793 | René Marie, vicomte d'Arrot, interim Governor |
| 5 January 1793 to 18 March 1793 | Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse, provisional Governor |
| 18 March 1793 to 20 April 1794 | Victor Collot, Governor |
| British Suzerainty |
| 20 April 1794 to 3 June 1794 | Thomas Dundas, Governor |
| French Suzerainty |
| 7 June 1794 to 6 January 1795 | Victor Hugues, Commissioner |
| 6 January 1795 to January 1796 | Victor Hugues, Co-Commissioner |
| 6 January 1795 to January 1796 | Lebas, Co-Commissioner |
| 6 January 1795 to June 1795 | Goyrand, Co-Commissioner |
| January 1796 to 25 October 1797 | Victor Hugues, Agent of the French Executive Directory |
| January 1796 to 25 October 1797 | Lebas, Agent of the French Executive Directory |
| 25 October 1797 to 19 April 1801 | Département |
| 25 October 1797 to 22 November 1798 | Victor Hugues, Agent of the French Executive Directory | Co-Agent |
| 25 October 1797 to 22 November 1798 | Lebas, Agent of the French Executive Directory | Co-Agent |
| 22 November 1798 to 3 October 1799 | Edme Étienne Borne-Desfourneaux, Agent of the French Executive Directory |
| 3 October 1799 to 11 December 1799 | Paris, provisional Agent of the French Executive Directory |
| 11 December 1799 to 30 May 1801 | Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin, Agent of the French Executive Directory | Co-Agent |
| 11 December 1799 to 30 December 1800 | René Gaston Baco de la Chapelle, Agent of the French Executive Directory | Co-Agent |
| 11 December 1799 to 28 February 1800 | Étienne Maynaud de Bizefranc de Laveaux, Agent of the French Executive Directory | Co-Agent |
| 28 February 1800 to 30 May 1801 | Bresseau | Co-Agent |
| 30 May 1801 to 14 May 1802 | Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse, Captain-General | 1st Term |
| 24 October 1801 to 6 May 1802 | Magloire Pélage, President of Provisional Council of Government | In rebellion |
| 14 May 1802 to 3 September 1802 | Antoine Richepanse, Captain-General |
| 4 August 1802 to 8 May 1803 | Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse, Captain-General |
| 4 August 1802 to 3 September 1802 | Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse, Captain-General | 2nd Term |
| 3 September 1802 to 8 May 1803 | Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse, acting Captain-General |
| 8 May 1803 to 6 February 1810 | Jean Augustin Ernouf, Captain-General |
| British Suzerainty |
| 6 February 1810 to 7 December 1814 | British occupation |
| 6 February 1810 to 26 June 1813 | Sir Alexander Cochrane, Governor |
| 26 June 1813 to December 1814 | John Skinner, Governor |
| French Suzerainty |
| 7 December 1814 to 12 December 1814 |
| 12 December 1814 to 10 August 1815 | Charles Durand, comte de Linois, Governor |
| British Suzerainty |
| 10 August 1815 to 25 July 1816 | British occupation |
| 10 August 1815 to 24 April 1816 | Sir James Leith, Governor |
| 24 April 1816 to 25 July 1816 |

## Restoration, Second Republic, Second Empire

| Term | Incumbent |
| French Suzerainty |
| 1816 to 1823 | Antoine Philippe de Lardenoy, Governor |
| 1823 to 1826 | Louis Léon Jacob, Governor |
| 31 May 1826 to 1830 | Jean Julien Angot des Rotours, Governor |
| 31 January 1830 to 8 July 1831 | Louis François Vatable, Governor |
| 1831 to 20 June 1837 | René Arnous des Saulsays, Governor |
| 1837 to 1841 | Jean-Guillaume Jubelin, Governor |
| 1841 to 7 June 1845 | Augustin Gourbeyre, Governor |
| 24 August 1845 to 5 June 1848 | Jean-François Layrle, Governor |
| 5 June 1848 to 1848 | Alexandre Gatine, acting Governor |
| 1848 to 1849 | Jean Jacques Louis Fabvre. acting Governor |
| 1849 to 1849 | Jean Jacques Louis Fabvre |
| 9 September 1849 to 1851 | Jacques Amédée Philippe Fiéron |
| 1851 to 1851 | Chaumont, acting Governor |
| 15 September 1851 to 1853 | Tranquille Aubry-Bailleul, Governor |
| 30 September 1853 to 1856 | Philibert Augustin Bonfils, Governor |
| 1856 to 1857 | Guillet, acting Governor |
| March 1857 to April 1859 | Philippe Victor Touchard, Governor |
| 1859 to January 1860 | Louis Bontemps, Governor |
| January 1860 to 1864 | Charles Victor Frébault, Governor |
| 1864 to 1864 | Joseph Desmazes, acting Governor |
| 1864 to 1870 | Louis Hippolyte de Lormel, Governor |

## Third, Fourth, Fifth republics

| Term | Incumbent |
| 1870 to 1880 | Gabriel Couturier, Governor |
| 1880 to 1881 | Mazé, acting Governor |
| 1881 to 1886 | Léonce Laugier, Governor |
| 1886 to 1886 | Sainte-Luce, acting Governor |
| 1886 to 1891 | Antoine Frédéric Henry Le Boucher, Governor |
| 1891 to 1894 | Louis Hippolyte Marie Nouet, Governor |
| 1894 to 1895 | Noël Pardon, Governor |
| 1895 to 1901 | Delphino Moracchini, Governor |
| 1901 to 1903 | Martial Merlin, Governor |
| 1903 to 1905 | Paul Marie Armand de La Loyère, Governor |
| 1905 to 1907 | Léon Jules Pol Boulloche, Governor |
| 1907 to 1909 | Victor Marie Louis Ballot, Governor |
| 1909 to 1910 | Henri Cor, Governor |
| 1911 to 1913 | Jean Jules Émile Peuvergne, Governor |
| 1913 to 1917 | Émile Merwart, Governor |
| 1917 to 1920 | Maurice Gourbeil, Governor |
| 1920 to 1924 | Pierre Louis Alfred Duprat, Governor |
| 1924 to 1924 | Jocelyn Robert, Governor |
| 1924 to 1926 | Maurice Beurnier, Governor |
| 1926 to 1929 | Louis Gerbinis, Governor |
| 1929 to 1931 | Théophile Antoine Pascal Tellier, Governor |
| 1931 to 1934 | Alphonse Choteau, Governor |
| 1934 to 1936 | Louis Bouge, Governor |
| 1936 to 1938 | Félix Éboué, Governor |
| 29 November 1938 to 21 February 1940 | François Pierre-Alype, Governor |
| 30 April 1940 to 15 July 1943 | Constant Sorin, Governor |
| 1944 to 1946 | Maurice Pierre Eugène Bertaut, Governor |
| 19 March 1946 | French overseas département |
| 30 April 1946 to 12 October 1947 | Ernest de Nattes, Governor |
| 26 December 1947 to 24 November 1950 | Gilbert Eugène Félicien Marie Philipson, Prefect |
| 16 January 1951 to 18 May 1954 | Gaston Villéger, Prefect |
| 18 May 1954 to 18 December 1955 | Jacques Ravail, Prefect |
| 22 December 1955 to 22 May 1956 | Guy Malines, acting Prefect |
| 22 May 1956 to 6 March 1958 | Guy Malines, Prefect |
| 6 March 1958 to 1 October 1960 | Jean-Pierre Abeille, Prefect |
| 1 October 1960 to 1 August 1965 | Albert Bonhomme, Prefect |
| 1 August 1965 to 12 July 1967 | Pierre Bolotte, Prefect |
| 16 August 1967 to 16 December 1969 | Jean Deleplanque, Prefect |
| 16 December 1969 to 1 July 1973 | Pierre Mathieu Brunon, Prefect |
| 12 July 1973 to 15 November 1975 | Jacques Le Cornec, Prefect |
| 15 November 1975 to 15 October 1978 | Jean-Claude Aurousseau, Prefect |
| 15 October 1978 to 28 February 1982 | Guy Maillard, Prefect |
| 28 February 1982 to 10 May 1982 | Robert Miguet, Prefect |
| 10 May 1982 to 13 February 1984 | Robert Miguet, Commissioner of the Republic |
| February 1984 to April 1986 | Maurice Saborin, Commissioner of the Republic |
| 9 April 1986 to 4 November 1987 | Yves Bonnet, Commissioner of the Republic |
| 4 November 1987 to 24 February 1988 | Bernard Sarazin, Commissioner of the Republic |
| 24 February 1988 to November 1989 | Bernard Sarazin, Prefect |
| November 1989 to 18 July 1991 | Jean-Paul Proust, Prefect |
| 31 July 1991 to 6 October 1993 | Franck Perriez, Prefect |
| 6 October 1993 to 21 November 1994 | Alain Frouté, Prefect |
| 21 November 1994 to 16 October 1996 | Michel Diefenbacher, Prefect |
| 12 November 1996 to 16 August 1999 | Jean Fedini, Prefect |
| 16 August 1999 to 6 August 2002 | Jean-François Carenco, Prefect |
| 6 August 2002 to 7 July 2004 | Dominique Vian, Prefect |
| 7 July 2004 to 29 October 2009 | Paul Girot de Langlade, Prefect |
| 29 October 2009 to 24 August 2011 | Jean-Luc Michel Fabre, Prefect |
| 17 July 2011 to 11 September 2011 | Philippe Jaumouillé, Acting Prefect |
| 11 September 2011 to 23 January 2013 | Amaury de Saint-Quentin, Prefect |
| 23 January 2013 to 21 December 2014 | Marcelle Pierrot, Prefect |
| 21 December 2014 to present | Jacques Billant, Prefect |