| Incumbent | Tenure |
| Léon Frédéric Hubert Metzinger | 1 May 1895 — 6 May 1895 |
| Jacques Charles René Achille Duchesne | 6 May 1895 —
1895 |
| Émile Jean François Régis Voyron | 1895 — 1895 |
| Joseph Simon Gallieni | 1895 — 1886 |
| Charles Le Myre de Vilers, Plenipotentiary | 28 April 1886 to March 1888 |
| Paul Augustin Jean Larrouy, Resident-General | March 1888 to 12 December 1889 |
| Maurice Bompard, Resident-General | 12 December 1889 to 11 October 1891 |
| Jean Aurélien Lacoste, Acting Resident-General | 11 October 1891 to October 1892 |
| Paul Augustin Jean Larrouy, Resident-General | October 1892 to 8 September 1894 |
| Albert d'Anthouard de Waservas, Acting Resident-General | October 1894 |
| Charles Le Myre de Vilers, Plenipotentiary | 14 October 1894 to 1 December 1895 |
| Achille Ranchot, Acting Resident-General | September 1894 to 21 February 1895 |
| Robert Édouard Alphonse Chaloin, Acting Resident-General | February 1895 to 1 December 1895 |
| Hippolyte Laroche, Resident-General | 1 December 1895 to 28 September 1896 |
| Joseph Gallieni, Resident-General | 28 September 1896 to 31 July 1897 |
| Incumbent | Tenure |
| Joseph Gallieni, Military Governor then Governor-General | 6 August 1896 to 11 May 1905 |
| Charles Louis Lépreux, Acting Governor-General | 11 May 1905 to 1 January 1906 |
| Victor Augagneur, Governor-General | 1 January 1906 to 13 December 1909 |
| Hubert Auguste Garbit, Acting Governor-General | 13 December 1909 to 16 January 1910 |
| Henri François Charles Cor, Acting Governor-General | 16 January 1910 to 31 October 1910 |
| Albert Jean George Marie Louis Picquié, Governor-General | 31 October 1910 to 5 August 1914 |
| Hubert Auguste Garbit, Governor-General | 5 August 1914 to 24 July 1917 |
| Martial Henri Merlin, Governor-General | 24 July 1917 to 1 August 1918 |
| Abraham Schrameck, Governor-General | 1 August 1918 to 12 July 1919 |
| Marie Casimir Joseph Guyon, Acting Governor-General | 12 July 1919 to 22 June 1920 |
| Hubert Auguste Garbit, Governor-General | 22 June 1920 to 13 March 1923 |
| Auguste Charles Désiré Emmanuel Brunet, Acting Governor-General | 13 March 1923 to 20 February 1924 |
| Marcel Achille Olivier, Governor-General | 20 February 1924 to 30 January 1929 |
| Hugues Jean Berthier, Acting Governor-General | 30 January 1929 to 1 May 1930 |
| Léon Henri Charles Cayla, Governor-General | 1 May 1930 to 22 April 1939 |
| Léon Maurice Valentin Réallon, Acting Governor-General | 22 April 1939 to 10 June 1939 |
| Jules Marcel de Coppet, Governor-General | 10 June 1939 to 30 July 1940 |
| Léon Henri Charles Cayla, Governor-General | 30 July 1940 to 11 April 1941 |
| Armand Léon Annet, Governor-General | 11 April 1941 to 30 September 1942 |
| Robert Grice Sturges, Commander | 5 May 1942 to 11 October 1942 |
| Gerald Russell Smallwood, Commander | 11 October 1942 to 1945 |
| Anthony Sillery, Occupied Territories Administrator | 25 September 1942 to 7 January 1943 |
| Victor Marius Bech, Acting Governor-General | 30 September 1942 to 7 January 1943 |
| Paul Louis Victor Marie Legentilhomme, High Commissioner of Free French Possessions in the Indian Ocean | 7 January 1943 to 3 May 1943 |
| Pierre de Saint-Mart, Governor-General | 3 May 1943 to 27 March 1946 |
| Robert Boudry, Acting Governor-General | 27 March 1946 to 19 May 1946 |
| Jules Marcel de Coppet, High Commissioner | 19 May 1946 to 23 December 1947 |
| Pierre Gabriel de Chevigné, High Commissioner | February 1948 to 3 February 1950 |
| Robert Isaac Bargues, High Commissioner | 3 February 1950 to October 1954 |
| Jean Louis Marie André Soucadaux, High Commissioner | October 1954 to 1 May 1959 |