Governors of the Solomon Islands

Colonel Owen Cyril Noel (1898 – May 1970) was a British colonial administrator. He served as Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1943 to 1950. Prior to that, he had been a district commissioner in Uganda.

Sir Michael David Irving Gass KCMG (Chinese: 祈濟時; 24 April 1916 – 27 February 1983) was the penultimate High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1965 until 1969, and the acting Governor of Hong Kong during the Hong Kong 1967 Leftist riots.

Sir David Clive Crosbie Trench GCMG MC DL (Chinese: 戴麟趾) 2 June 1915 – 4 December 1988 was a British Army officer and colonial governor.

Charles Rufus Marshall Workman, CBE, JP (1874 – 28 June 1942) was a British colonial administrator. He was the first civilian administrator of Nauru after its conquest by Australian forces in 1914. He was acting Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands from 1917 to 1919 and Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands from 1919 to 1921. From 1921 until his retirement in 1931, he was Colonial Secretary of The Gambia.

Francis Noel Ashley CMG (1884–1976) was a British colonial administrator. He served as the Resident Commissioner of Southern Provinces of Nigeria from 1924 until 1928, and as Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands between 1929 and 1939.

Sir Robert Christopher Stafford Stanley, KBE, CMG, OBE (12 May 1899 – 15 November 1983) was a British colonial administrator.

Sir John Gutch, OBE was a British colonial administrator.

Sir Colin Hamilton Allan KCMG OBE (23 October 1921 – 5 March 1993) was a New Zealander who spent most of his professional life in the British administration of their overseas territories. He was the last Governor of the Solomon Islands from 1976 to 1978, prior to their independence.

Sir Donald Collin Cumyn Luddington, KBE, CMG, CVO (Chinese: 陸鼎堂爵士, 18 August 1920 – 26 January 2009) was a British colonial government official and civil servant who served firstly in the Hong Kong Government and became District Commissioner, New Territories and the Secretary for Home Affairs successively, during which he had also served as an official member of the Legislative Council. He was later promoted to Oceania and was High Commissioner for the Western Pacific and Governor of the Solomon Islands during the period from 1973 to 1976. He returned to Hong Kong in 1977 to replace Sir Ronald Holmes as chairman of the Public Service Commission. He was the second person, after Sir Jack Cater, to hold the post of Commissioner of ICAC from 1978 until his retirement in 1980.

Charles Morris Woodford CMG (30 October 1852 – 4 October 1927) was a British naturalist and government minister active in the Solomon Islands. He became the first Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate, serving from 1896 (three years after the establishment of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate) until 1915.