Note: currently, the prefect is not the true deparmental head, which is the president of the general council. The prefect is merely the representative of the national government.
| Term
| Incumbent
| Notes
|
| French Suzerainty
|
| 28 June 1635 | French colony
|
| 1695 to 1702 | Charles Auger , Governor
|
| 1702 to 1703 | De Mahaut , Governor
|
| 1703 to 1706 | Joseph d'Honon de Gallifet , Governor
|
| 1706 to 1717 | Hemon Coinard de la Malmaison , Governor
|
| 1717 to 1719 | Michel Savinien Lagarigue de Savigny , Governor
|
| 1719 to 1728 | Alexandre Vaultier, comte de Moyencourt , Governor
|
| 1728 to 1734 | Robert Giraud du Poyet , Governor
|
| 1734 to 1737 | Charles de Brunier, marquis de Larnage , Governor
|
| 1737 to 1753 | Gabriel d'Erchigny de Clieu , Governor
|
| 1753 to 1757 | Jean Antoine Joseph de Mirabeau , Governor
|
| 1757 to 1759 | Charles François Emmanuel Nadau du Treil , Governor
|
| British Suzerainty
|
| April 1759 to 1763 | British occupation
|
| April 1759 to 1760 | Byam Crump , Governor
|
| 1760 to 1763 | Campbell Dalrymple , Governor
|
| French Suzerainty
|
| 1763 to 1764 | François Charles de Bourlamaque , Governor
|
| 1764 to 1765 | Édouard de Copley , Governor
|
| 20 March 1765 to 29 November 1768 | Pierre Gédéon de Nolivos , Governor
|
| 1768 to 1769 | Anne Joseph Hippolyte de Maurès de Malartic , Governor
|
| 1769 to 1771 | François Claude Amour du Chariol, marquis de Bouillé , Governor
|
| 1771 to 1773 | Louis François de Dion , Governor
|
| 1773 to 1775 | Édouard Hilaire Louis de Tilly , Governor
|
| 1775 to 1782 | Bache Elzéar Alexandre d'Arbaud de Jouques , Governor
|
| 1782 to 1783 | Claude Charles de Marillac, vicomte de Damas , Governor
|
| 1783 to 1784 | Beaumé de la Saulais , Governor
|
| 1784 to 25 July 1792 | Charles François de Clugny de Thénissey , Governor
|
| 1792 to 1793 | René Marie, vicomte d'Arrot , interim Governor
|
| 5 January 1793 to 18 March 1793 | Jean Baptiste Raymond Lacrosse , provisional Governor
|
| 18 March 1793 to 20 April 1794 | Victor Collot , Governor
|
| British Suzerainty
|
| 20 April 1794 to 7 June 1794 | British occupation
|
| 20 April 1794 to 3 June 1794 | Thomas Dundas, Governor
|
| 7 June 1794 to 6 January 1795 | Victor Hugues , Commissioner
|
| 6 January 1795 to January 1796 | Victor Hugues , Co-Commissioner
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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 Bizefranc, comte 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 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 Richepance , Captain-General
|
| 4 August 1802 to 8 May 1803 | Jean Baptiste Raymond Lacrosse , Captain-General
|
| 4 August 1802 to 3 September 1802 | Jean Baptiste Raymond Lacrosse , Captain-General | 2nd Term
|
| 3 September 1802 to 8 May 1803 | Jean Baptiste Raymond Lacrosse acting for Richepance , 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
|
| 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 | Desmazes , acting Governor
|
| 1864 to 1870 | Louis Hippolyte de Lormel , Governor
|
| 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 17 July 2004 | Dominique Vian, Prefect
|
