

This is alist ofBritish colonial administrators ofAden from the 1839Aden Expedition to the 1967withdrawal from Aden. They were appointed fromBritish India until 1937 when theChief Commissioner's Province of Aden became theColony of Aden under the responsibility of theColonial Office inLondon.
Aden merged into independentSouth Yemen on 30 November 1967. ForBritish representation since then, see:List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Yemen.
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political Agents | ||||
| Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines,Indian Navy | 1839 | 1854 | ||
| Major-GeneralJames Outram | 1854 | 1856 | ||
| Political Residents | ||||
| Colonel William Marcus Coghlan | 1854 | 1862 | ||
| Major-General R. W. Honner | 1862 | 1862 | ||
| Colonel William Marcus Coghlan | 1862 | 1863 | ||
| MajorWilliam Merewether | 1863 | 1867 | ||
| Major-General Sir Edward Russell | 1867 | 1870 | ||
| Major-General Charles William Tremenheere | 1870 | 1872 | ||
| Brigadier John Schneider | 1872 | 1877 | ||
| Brigadier Francis Adam Ellis Loch | 1877 | 1882 | ||
| BrigadierJames Blair | 1882 | 1885 | ||
| Brigadier Adam George Forbes Hogg | 1890 | 1890 | ||
| Brigadier John Jopp | 1890 | 1895 | ||
| Brigadier Charles Alexander Cunningham | 1895 | 1899 | ||
| BrigadierGarratt O'Moore Creagh | 1899 | 1901 | ||
| Brigadier Pelham James Maitland | 1901 | 1904 | ||
| Major-General Harry Macan Mason | 1904 | 1906 | ||
| Major-General Ernest de Brath | 1906 | 1910 | ||
| Brigadier James Alexander Bell | 1910 | 1914 | ||
| Brigadier Charles Henry Uvedale Price | 1915 | 1915 | ||
| Major-General James Marshall Stewart | 1916 | 1920 | ||
| Major-General Thomas Edwin Scott | 1920 | 1925 | ||
| Major-General John Henry Keith Stewart | 1925 | 1928 | ||
| Lieutenant ColonelGeorge Stewart Symes | 1928 | 1930 | ||
![]() | Lieutenant ColonelBernard Rawdon Reilly | 1930 | 1932 | |
| Chief Commissioner | ||||
![]() | Lieutenant ColonelBernard Rawdon Reilly | 1932 | 1937 | |
| Governors | ||||
![]() | SirBernard Reilly | 1937 | 1940 | |
| SirJohn Hathorn Hall | 1940 | 1944 | ||
| SirReginald Champion | 1944 | 1951 | ||
| Sir Tom Hickinbotham[3][4] | 1951 | 1956 | ||
| SirWilliam Henry Luce | 1956 | 1960 | ||
| SirCharles Johnston | 1960 | 1963 | ||
| High Commissioners | ||||
| SirKennedy Trevaskis | 1963 | 1965 | ||
| SirRichard Turnbull | 1965 | 1967 | ||
| SirHumphrey Trevelyan | 1967 | 1967 | ||