This is a list of governors of Tangier during the period when it was under European control. {|class="wikitable" Tenure Incumbent Notes |- |colspan=3|Portuguese Suzerainty |- |28 August 1471 to 1484?||Rodrigo Afonso de Melo, 1st Count of Olivença, Governor |- |1484? to 1486||Manuel de Melo, Count of Olivença, Governor |- |1486 to 1489||João de Meneses, 1st Count of Tarouca, Governor||1st Term |- |1487 to 1489||Fernão Martins Mascarenhas, Interim Governor |- |1489 to 1490||Manuel Pessanha, Interim Governor |- |1490? to 1501||Lopo Vaz de Azevedo, Governor |- |1501 to 1508||João de Meneses, 1st Count of Tarouca, Governor||2nd Term |- |1508 to 1521||Duarte de Meneses, Governor||1st Term |- |1521 to 1522||Henrique de Meneses, Governor |- |1522 to 1533||Duarte de Meneses, from Évora, Governor |- |1533 to 1536||Gonçalo Mendes Sacoto, Governor |- |1536 to 1539||Duarte de Meneses, Governor||2nd Term |- |1539 to 1546||João de Meneses, Governor |- |1546 to 1548||Francisco Botelho, Governor |- |1548 to 1550||Pedro de Meneses, Governor |- |1550 to 1552||João Álvares de Azevedo, Governor |- |1552 to 1553||Luís de Loureiro, Governor |- |1553||Fernando de Menezes, Governor |- |1553 to 1554||Luís da Silva de Meneses, Governor |- |1554 to 1564||Bernardim de Carvalho, Governor |- |1564 to 1566||Lourenço de Távora, Governor |- |15 July 1566 to 1 August 1572||João de Meneses, Governor |- |1572 to 1573||Rui de Carvalho, Governor |- |1573 to 1574||Diogo Lopes da Franca, Governor |- |1574 to 15 August 1574||António of Portugal, Governor |- |1574 to 1578||Duarte de Meneses, Viceroy of Portuguese India, Governor |- |1578 to September 1578||Pedro da Silva, Governor |- |7 September 1578 to 25 July 1581||Jorge de Mendonça, Governor |- |25 July 1581 to 1590||Francisco de Almeida, Governor |- |1590 to June 1591||Belchior da França and Simão Lopes de Mendonça, Governors |- |17 June 1591 to 24 August 1599||Aires de Saldanha, Governor |- |24 August 1599 to 22 September 1605||António Pereira Lopes de Berredo, Governor |- |22 September 1605 to March 1610||Nuno de Mendonça, Governor |- |March 1610 to June 1614||Afonso de Noronha, Governor |- |June 1614 to October 1614||Luís de Meneses, 2nd Count of Tarouca, Governor |- |October 1614 to August 1615||Luís de Noronha, Governor |- |August 1615 to 22 December 1616||João Coutinho, 5th Count of Redondo, Governor |- |22 December 1616 to 1 July 1617||André Dias da França, Governor |- |1 July 1617 to 1621||Pedro Manuel, Governor |- |1621 to 13 March 1622||André Dias da França, Governor |- |13 March 1622 to July 1624||Jorge de