| 1856–62 | Lord Canning (The last Governor General and the first Viceroy) |
| 1862–63 | Lord Elgin |
| 1864–69 | Lord Lawrence |
| 1869–72 | Lord Mayo (The only Viceroy to be murdered in office) |
| 1872–76 | Lord Northbrook |
| 1876–80 | Lord Lytton |
| 1880–84 | Lord Ripon |
| 1884–88 | Lord Dufferin |
| 1888–94 | Lord Lansdowne |
| 1894–99 | Lord Elgin II |
| 1899–1905 | Lord Curzon |
| 1905–10 | Lord Minto |
| 1910–16 | Lord Hardinge |
| 1916–21 | Lord Chelmsford |
| 1921–26 | Lord Reading |
| 1926–31 | Lord Irwin |
| 1931–36 | Lord Willington |
| 1936–44 | Lord Linlithgow |
| 1944–47 | Lord Wavell |
| Mar 1947–Aug 1947 | Lord Mountbatten (The last Viceroy of British India and the first Governor General of free India) |