Governors-General of Fort William (1773-1833 )

• Warren Hastings (1773–1785)
• John Macpherson (1785–1786) (Provisional)
• Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1786–1793)
• Sir John Shore , 1st Baronet (1793–1798)
• Sir Alured Clarke (1798) (Provisional)
• Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1798–1805)
• Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1805)
• Sir George Hilario Barlow (1805–1807) (Provisional)
• Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Baron Minto (1807–1813)
• Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (1813–1823)
• John Adam (1823) (Provisional)
• William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1823–1828)
• William Butterworth Bayley (1828) (Provisional)
• The Lord William Bentinck (1828–1833)

Governors-General of India (1833-1858 )

• The Lord William Bentinck (1833–1835)
• Sir Charles Metcalfe, 2nd Baronet (1835–1836) (Provisional)
• George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1836–1842)
• Edward Law, 2nd Baron Ellenborough (1842–1844)
• William Wilberforce Bird (1844) (Provisional)
• Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1844–1848)
• James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1848–1856)
• Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1856–1858)

Governors-General and Viceroys (1858-1947 )

• Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1858–1862)
• James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1862–1863)
• Sir Robert Napier (1863) (Provisional)
• Sir William Denison (1863–1864) (Provisional)
• Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence (1864–1869)
• Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (1869–1872)
• Sir John Strachey (1872) (Provisional)
• Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier (1872) (Provisional)
• Thomas George Baring, 2nd Baron Northbrook (1872–1876)
• Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Baron Lytton (1876–1880)
• George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1880–1884)
• Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood , 1st Earl of Dufferin (1884–1888)
• Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1888–1894)
• Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin (1894–1899)
• George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon (1899–1904)
• Arthur Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill (1904) (Provisional)
• George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon (1904–1905)
• Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (1905–1910)
• Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1910–1916)
• Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 3rd Baron Chelmsford (1916–1921)
• Rufus Isaacs, 1st Earl of Reading (1921–1925)
• Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton (1925–1926) (Provisional)
• Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Baron Irwin (1926–1931)
• George Joachim Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen (1929) (During Lord Irwin's absence on leave)
• Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Earl of Willingdon (1931–1936)
• Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1936–1943)
• Archibald Wavell, 1st Viscount Wavell (1943–1947)
• Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1947)