This is a list of Egyptian and European colonial administrators (as well as leaders of the Mahdist Sudan) responsible for the territory of the Egyptian Sudan and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, an area equivalent to modern-day Sudan and South Sudan.
Tenure | Portrait | Incumbent | Notes |
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Egyptian Sudan |
November 1820 to 1821Isma`il Kamel Pasha, Commander | |
April 1821 to September 1824Muhammad Bey Defterdar, Commander | |
September 1824 to May 1825Osman Bey Jarkas, Commander | |
May 1825 to March 1826Mahu Bey Urfali, Commander | |
March 1826 to 1835 | Ali Khurshid Agha, Governor | |
1835 to June 1838Ali Khurshid Pasha, HakimdarGovernor-General | | |
June 1838 to 6 October 1843Ahmad Pasha abu Widan, HakimdarGovernor-General | | |
1843 to 1845Ahmad Pasha Manikli (Manliki), HakimdarGovernor-General | | |
1845 to 1850Khalid Khusraw Pasha, HakimdarGovernor-General | | |
1850 to January 1851'Abd al-Latif Pasha, HakimdarGovernor-General | | |
January 1851 to May 1852Rustum Pasha Jarkas, HakimdarGovernor-General | | |
May 1852 to 1853Isma'il Haqqi Pasha abu Jabal, HakimdarGovernor-General | | |
1853 to 1854Salim Pasha Sa'ib al-Jaza'irli, HakimdarGovernor-General | | |
July 1854 to November 1854Ali Pasha Sirri al-Arna'ut, HakimdarGovernor-General | | |
1854 to 1855Ali Pasha Jarkas, Governor | |
1856 to 1858Arakil Bey al-Armani, Governor | |
1859 to 1861Hasan Bey Salama Jarkas, Governor | |
1861 to 1862Muhammad Rasikh Bey, Governor | |
1862 to 1865Mūsā Pasha Ḥamdī, HakimdarGovernor-General | | |
1865 to November 1865'Umar Bey Fakhri, acting Hakimdaracting Governor-General | | |
November 1865 to 1866Ja'afar Pasha Sadiq, HakimdarGovernor-General | | |
1866 to 5 February 1871Ja'afar Pasha Mazhar, HakimdarGovernor-General | | |
5 February 1871 to October 1872Ahmad Mumtaz Pasha, HakimdarGovernor-General | | |
October 1872 to 1872Edhem Pasha al-Arifi at-Atqalawi, acting Hakimdaracting Governor-General | | |
1872 to 18 May 1877Isma'il Pasha al- Aiyub, HakimdarGovernor-General | | |
May 1877 to December 1879Charles George Gordon ("Gordon Pasha"), HakimdarGovernor-General, 1st time | | |
December 1879 to February 1882Muhammad Ra'uf Pasha, HakimdarGovernor-General | | |
February 1882 to May 1882Giegler Pasha, acting Hakimdaracting Governor-General | | |
May 1882 to March 1883'Abd al-Qadir Pasha Hilmi, HakimdarGovernor-General | | |
March 1883 to 5 November 1883'Ala al-Din Pasha Siddiq, HakimdarGovernor-General | | |
February 1884 to 18 February 1884Henry Watts Russell de Coetlogon, acting Hakimdaracting Governor-General | | |
18 February 1884 to 26 January 1885Charles George Gordon ("Gordon Pasha"), HakimdarGovernor-General, 2nd time; Killed at the end of the Siege of Khartoum | | |
26 January 1885 to 2 October 1898 | Territory of Egyptian Sudan under complete control of Mahdiyah (Mahdist State)' |
Mahdist Sudan |
29 June 1881 to 22 June 1885Muhammad Ahmad, MahdiSelf-proclaimed Mahdi, Islamic Messiah | | |
22 June 1885 to 2 September 1898Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, KhalifaSelf-proclaimed Caliph, successor to Muhammad Ahmad; Defeated in the Battle of Omdurman | | |
British Military Administration |
2 September 1898 to 19 January 1899Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Military GovernorSimultaneously served as Sirdar | | |
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (condominium) |
19 January 1899 to 22 December 1899Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Governor-General | |
22 December 1899 to 31 December 1916Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, Governor-General | |
1 January 1917 to 20 November 1924Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack, Governor-GeneralAssassinated in Cairo | | |
21 November 1924 to 5 January 1925Wasey Sterry, acting Governor-General | |
5 January 1925 to 6 July 1926Sir Geoffrey Francis Archer, Governor-General | |
31 October 1926 to 10 January 1934Sir John Loader Maffey, Governor-General | |
10 January 1934 to 19 October 1940Sir George Stewart Symes, Governor-General | |
19 October 1940 to 8 April 1947Sir Hubert Jervoise Huddleston, Governor-General | |
8 April 1947 to 29 March 1954Sir Robert George Howe, Governor-General | |
29 March 1954 to 12 December 1955Sir Alexander Knox Helm, Governor-General | |
12 December 1955 to 1 January 1956Muhammad Ahmad Abu Rannat, acting Governor-General | |
1 January 1956 | Independence as Republic of the Sudan |