| Name | Image | Master from | Notes |
| Walter de Thaxted | | 1326 | University Hall at this time |
| Ralph Kerdington | | 1342 | No longer University Hall; now Clare Hall |
| Nicholas de Brunne | | 1359 | - |
| John de Donewich | | 1371 | - |
| John de Charteresse | | 1392 | - |
| William Radwinter | | 1400 | |
| William Wymbyll | | 1421 | - |
| William Gull | | 1440 | - |
| William Wilflete | | 1446 | - |
| John Millington | | 1455 | - |
| Thomas Stoyll | | 1466 | - |
| Richard Stubbs | | 1470 | - |
| Gabriel Silvester | | 1496 | - |
| William Woodruff | | 1506 | - |
| Edmund Natures | | 1514 | - |
| John Crayford | | 1530 | - |
| Roland Swynbourne | | 1539 | First term |
| John Madew | | 1549 | - |
| Roland Swynbourne | | 1553 | Second term |
| Thomas Baily | | 1557 | - |
| Edward Leeds | | 1560 | - |
| Thomas Byng | | 1571 | - |
| William Smith | | 1601 | - |
| Robert Scott | | 1612 | - |
| Thomas Paske | | 1620 | - |
| Ralph Cudworth | | 1645 | - |
| Theophilus Dillingham | | 1654 | 1st term |
| Thomas Paske | | 1660 | - |
| Theophilus Dillingham | | 1661 | 2nd term |
| Samuel Blythe | | 1678 | - |
| William Grigg | | 1713 | - |
| Charles Morgan | | 1726 | - |
| John Wilcox | | 1736 | - |
| Peter Godard | | 1762 | - |
| John Torkington | | 1781 | - |
| William Webb | | 1815 | - |
| Edward Atkinson | | 1856 | Priest, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1862–1863, 1868–1870, and 1876–1878 |
| William Mollison | | 1915 | Scottish mathematician |
| Godfrey Wilson | | 1929 | Australian-born politician, Member of Parliament for Cambridge University, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, 1935–1937 |
| Sir Henry Thirkill | | 1939 | Vice-Chancellor of the university from 1945 to 1947 |
| Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby | | 1958 | British botanist, president and vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge |
| Robin Matthews | | 1975 | Economist |
| Sir Bob Hepple | | 1993 | South African-born legal academic |
| Tony Badger | | 2003 | Paul Mellon Professor of American History |
| Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner |
| 2014 | British barrister, peer in the House of Lords, President of the University of Law since 2015 |
| Loretta Minghella |
| 2021 | Former CEO of Christian Aid and served as the First Church Estates Commissioner |