List of colonial and departmental heads of French Guiana
Introduction This article lists the '''colonial and departmental heads of French Guiana''', since the establishment of the French suzerainty over the territory of French Guiana in 1643, to the present day. (Dates in italics indicate ''de facto'' continuation of office)
Ancien Régime TermIncumbentNotes'''French Suzerainty'''''French colony'' 1643 to 1644  Charles Poncet de Brétigny, Governor    Huet de Navarre, Commander '''Dutch Occupation'''  to 1664  Guerin Spranger, Commander    Jan Claessen Lagedijk or Jan Classen Langedijk, Governor '''French Suzerainty''' 15 May 1664 to 1665  Antoine Lefèbvre de La Barre, Governor  1st time 1665  Antoine de Noël de la Trompe d'Or, acting Governor 1665 to 1668  Cyprien Lefebvre de Lézy, Governor  1st time 1668 to 1670  Antoine Lefèbvre de La Barre, Governor 2nd time 1670 to 1676  Cyprien Lefebvre de Lézy, Governor  2nd time'''Dutch Occupation''' 5 May 1676 to December 1676  Jacob Binckes, Commander '''French Suzerainty''' 1676 to 1679  Cyprien Lefebvre de Lézy, Governor  3rd time 1679 to October 1684  Pierre-Eléonore de La Ville, marquis de Férolles, Governor  1st time 1684 to 1687  Pierre de Sainte-Marthe de Lalande, Governor  1687 to 1688  Pierre-Eléonore de La Ville, marquis de Férolles, Governor  2nd time 1688 to 1691  François Lefebvre de la Barre, Governor  1691 to January 1700  Pierre-Eléonore de La Ville, marquis de Férolles, Governor  3rd time 1700 to 1701  Rémy Guillouet d'Orvilliers, Governor  1st time 1701 to 5 August 1705  Pierre-Eléonore de La Ville, marquis de Férolles, Governor  4th time 1705 to 15 September 1706  Antoine de Querci de Rionville, Governor  1706 to July 1713  Rémy Guillouet d'Orvilliers, Governor  2nd time 1713  Chevalier de Béthune, Governor  1713 to September 1716  Pierre de Morthon de Laumière de Grandville, interim Governor  1716 to December 1720  Claude Guillouet d'Orvilliers, Governor  1st time 1720 to 1722  François de la Motte-Aigron, Governor  1722 to September 1729  Claude Guillouet d'Orvilliers, Governor  2nd time 1729 to June 1730  Michel Marshalek de Charanville, Governor  1730 to 2 August 1730  Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers, Governor  1st time 1730 to 30 August 1736  Henri Dussault de Lamirande, Governor  1736 to December 1736  Henri de Poilvillain, baron de Grenay, Governor  1736 to 9 July 1738  Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers, Governor  2nd time 9 July 1738 to June 1743  Antoine Le Moyne de Chateauguay, Governor  1743 to June 1751  Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers, Governor  3rd time 1751 to May 1752  Jean Baptiste Hyacinthe de Saint-Michel Dunezat, Governor  1st time 1752 to July 1753  Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers, Governor  4th time 1753 to April 1757  Jean Baptiste Hyacinthe de Saint-Michel Dunezat, Governor  2nd time 1757 to May 1763  Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers, Governor  5th time 1763 to 2 January 1764  Jean Pierre Antoine de Béhague, Governor  1st time 1764 to 22 December 1764  Louis-Thomas Jacau de Fiedmont, Governor  1st time 22 December 1764 to April 1765  Brule Tout de Préfontaine, acting Governor  April 1765 to 1765  Étienne-François Turgot, Governor  1765 to 28 January 1766  Jean Pierre Antoine de Béhague, Governor  2nd time 1766 to 15 December 1781  Louis-Thomas Jacau de Fiedmont, Governor  2nd time 1781 to 13 July 1785  Alexandre Ferdinand, baron de Bessner, Governor  1785 to 16 August 1785  Louis de La Vallière, interim Governor  1785 to 17 May 1787  Thomas de FitzMaurice, Governor  May 1787 to 22 October 1788  Pierre François de Mareuilh de Villeboi, Governor  1788 to 19 June 1789  Charles Guillaume Vial d'Alais, Governor  1789 to 5 January 1791  Jacques Martin de Bourgon, Governor
First Republic and Empire TermIncumbentNotes 1791 to 26 September 1792  Henri Benoît, acting Governor  1792 to May 1793  Frédéric Joseph Guillot, Civil Commissioner  1793 to November 1794  Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin, Civil Commissioner  1st time November 1794 to April 1796  François Maurice Cointet de Fillain, Commissioner  April 1796 to ''25 October 1797''  Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin, Agent Particulier  2nd time''French département'' 25 October 1797 to ''5 November 1798''  Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin, Agent Particulier  2nd time November 1798 to 2 December 1799  Étienne Laurent Pierre Burnel, Agent Particulier  13 December 1799 to 8 January 1800  Étienne Franconie, President of the Departmental Administration  8 January 1800 to ''1801''  Jean Baptiste Victor Hugues, Agent ''French colony'' ''1801'' to ''1804''  Jean Baptiste Victor Hugues, Agent  ''1804'' to 12 January 1809  Jean Baptiste Victor Hugues, Imperial Commissioner '''Portuguese Occupation''' 12 January 1809 to October 1809  Manuel Marques, Governor  October 1809 to February 1812  Pedro Alexandrino Pinto de Sousa, Governor  February 1812 to 8 November 1817  João Severiano Maciel da Costa, Governor
Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy TermIncumbentNotes 1817 to 25 July 1819  Jean-François Claude Carra de Saint-Cyr, Commandant  25 July 1819 to 12 March 1823  Pierre Clément de Laussat, Commandant  1823 to 1825  Pierre Bernard, baron de Milius, Commandant  1825 to 1826  Charles Emmanuel de Muyssard, interim Commandant  1826 to 1827  Joseph Burgues de Missiessy, interim Governor  1827 to 1829  Louis Henri de Saulses de Freycinet, Governor  1 June 1829 to 11 April 1836  Louis Jean-Guillaume Jubelin, Governor  1836 to 1837  François Dominique Laurens de Choisy, Governor  1837 to 1839  Paul de Nourquer du Camper, Governor  1839 to 1841  Jean Baptiste Marie Augustin Gourbeyre, Governor  1841 to 1843  Guillaume Basile Charmasson de Puylaval, Governor  1843 to 1845  Marie Jean-François Layrle, Governor  1845 to 1846  Jean Baptiste Armand Bertrand Cadéot, Governor  18 February 1846 to 16 May 1850  André Aimé Pariset, Governor
Second Republic and Empire TermIncumbentNotes 1850 to 6 January 1851  Louis Eugène Maissin, Governor  1851  Jean François Marie Félix Stanislas Vidal de Lingendes, acting Governor  May 1851 to May 1852  , Governor  1852 to 1853  Joseph Napoléon Sarda-Garriga, Governor  1853 to 1854  Martin Fourichon, Governor  1854 to 1855  Louis Adolphe Bonard, Governor  1855 to January 1856  Antoine Alphonse Masset, acting Governor  January 1856 to 1859  Auguste Laurent François Baudin, Governor  15 May 1859 to 1 May 1864  Louis-Marie-François Tardy de Montravel, Governor  1864 to 1865  Antoine Favre, acting Governor  1865 to 1870  Privat Antoine Agathon Hennique, Governor  1870  J. A. A. Noyer, acting Governor
Third Republic TermIncumbentNotes 30 April 1870 to 14 May 1871  Jean-Louis Loubère, acting Governor  14 May 1871 to 29 September 1877  Jean-Louis Loubère, Governor  1877  A.E. Bouet, acting Governor  1877 to 1880  Marie Alfred-Armand Huart, Governor  1880  P.A. Trève, acting Governor  1880 to 1883  Charles Alexandre Lacouture, Governor  1883 to 1884  Henri Isidore Chessé, Governor  1884 to 1885  Jean Baptiste Antoine Lougnon, acting Governor  1885 to 1887  Léonce Pierre Henri Le Cardinal, Governor  1888 to 1891  Anne Léodor Philotée Metellus Gerville-Réache, Governor  April 1891 to 1893  Louis Albert Grodet, Governor  1st time 1893  Paul Émile Joseph Casimir Fawtier, Governor  24 April 1893 to 4 August 1895  Camille Charvein, Governor  30 August 1895 to 13 June 1896  Henri Félix de Lamothe, Governor  1896 to 1898  Henri Eloi Danel, Governor  1898 to 1899  Henri Charles Victor Amédée Roberdeau, Governor  1899  Louis Mouttet, Governor  1899 to 1903  Émile Joseph Merwart, Governor  1903 to 1905  Louis Albert Grodet, Governor  2nd time 1905  Charles Emmanuel Joseph Marchal, Governor  1905 to 1906  Victor François Ferdinand Rey, Governor  1906  Louis Alphonse Bonhoure, Governor  20 January 1906 to 5 July 1907  Édouard Picanon, Governor  1907 to 1909  François Pierre Rodier, Governor  1909 to 1910  William Maurice Fawtier, Governor  1910  Fernand Ernest Thérond, Governor  1910 to 31 May 1911  Paul Samary, Governor  1911  Denis Joseph Goujon, Governor  1911 to 1914  Pierre Jean Henri Didelot, Governor  1st time 1914 to 1916  Fernand Ernest Lévecque, Governor  1916  Pierre Jean Henri Didelot, Governor  2nd time 1916 to 1917  Georges Lévy, Governor  1917  Jules Gérard Auguste Lauret, Governor  1917 to 1918  Antoine Joseph Xavier Barre, Governor  1918 to 1923  Henri Alphonse Joseph Lejeune, Governor  1923  Julien Edgard Cantau, Governor  20 November 1923 to 1926  Marc Émile Charles Jean Chanel, Governor  1926 to 1927  Gabriel Henri Joseph Thaly, Governor  1927  François Adrien Juvanon, Governor  1927 to 1928  Émile Buhot-Launay, Governor  1928 to 1929  Camille Théodore Raoul Maillet, Governor  1929 to ''6 July 1930''  Bernard Jacques Victorin Siadous, Governor ''French Guiana divided into two territories: French Guiana (Cayenne and the Atlantic coast) and Inini (inland area)'' ''6 July 1930'' to 1931  Bernard Jacques Victorin Siadous, Governor  27 May 1931 to 1933  Louis Joseph Bouge, acting Governor  1933 to 1935  Julien Georges Lamy, Governor  2 June 1935 to 1936  Max de Masson de Saint-Félix, Governor  1936  Pierre Tap, Governor  1936 to 1938  René Veber, Governor  1st time 1938 to 1942  Robert Paul Chot-Plassot, Governor  1942 to 18 March 1943  René Veber, Governor  2nd time 1943 to 1944  Jean Alexandre Léon Rapenne, Governor  1944 to 1946  Jules Eucher Surlemont, Governor  1946  Jean Pezet, Governor
Fourth and Fifth Republic TermIncumbentNotes 16 August 1947 to 1 June 1955  Robert Vignon, Prefect  1 June 1955 to 16 September 1957  Pierre Malvy, Prefect  1 October 1957 to 1 November 1958  Pierre Voitellier, Prefect  13 October 1958 to 1 December 1960  André Dubois-Chabert, Prefect  Acting for Voitellier to 1 November 1958 1 December 1960 to 1 December 1963  René Erignac, Prefect  1 December 1963 to 16 August 1967  René Letellier, Prefect  16 August 1967 to 16 July 1970  Paul Bouteiller, Prefect  16 July 1970 to 1 February 1972  Jean Monfraix, Prefect  1 February 1972 to 8 February 1974  Jacques Robert Delaunay, Prefect  5 March 1974 to 20 May 1977  Hervé Bourseillier, Prefect  20 May 1977 to 10 February 1980  Jean Julien Émile Le Direach, Prefect  10 February 1980 to 27 July 1981  Antoine Carli, Prefect  27 July 1981 to ''10 May 1982''  Maxime Gonzalvo, Prefect  ''10 May 1982'' to 22 July 1982  Maxime Gonzalvo, Commissioner of the Republic  July 1982 to 1984  Claude Silberzahn, Commissioner of the Republic  1984 to 1986  Bernard Courtois, Commissioner of the Republic  1986 to ''24 February 1988''  Jacques Dewatre, Commissioner of the Republic  ''24 February 1988'' to August 1988  Jacques Dewatre, Prefect  22 August 1988 to 16 May 1990  Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Prefect  19 June 1990 to May 1992  Jean-François Di Chiara, Prefect  27 May 1992 to 6 January 1995  Jean-François Cordet, Prefect  6 January 1995 to 3 February 1997  Pierre Dartout, Prefect  3 February 1997 to 2 August 1999  Dominique Vian, Prefect  2 August 1999 to 2 September 2002  , Prefect  2 September 2002 to ''28 March 2003''  Ange Mancini, Prefect ''French overseas region'' ''28 March 2003'' to August 2006  Ange Mancini, Prefect  28 August 2006 to February 2009  Jean-Pierre Laflaquière, Prefect  19 February 2009 to 1 May 2011  Daniel Ferey, Prefect  1 May 2011 to 10 June 2013  Denis Labbé, Prefect  10 June 2013 to 11 January 2016  Eric Spitz, Prefect  11 January 2016 to 5 August 2019  Martin Jaeger, Prefect  5 August 2019 to 25 November 2020  Marc Del Grande, Prefect  25 November 2020 to present  Thierry Queffelec, Prefect
See also * Politics of French Guiana* History of French Guiana
References
External links *  World Statesmen – French Guiana