This is a list of the governors of colonies, protectorates, or other dependencies in 1897. Where applicable, native rulers are also listed.
Belgium edit
- Congo Free State
- Théophile Wahis, Governor-General of the Congo Free State (1892–1908)
- Émile Wangermée, acting Governor-General of the Congo Free State (1896–1900)
France edit
- French Somaliland – Léonce Lagarde, Governor of French Somaliland (1888–1899)
- Guinea – Noël-Eugène Ballay, Lieutenant-Governor of Guinea (1896–1898)
Japan edit
- Taiwan – Nogi Maresuke, Governor-General of Taiwan (14 October 1896 – January 1898)
Portugal edit
- Angola –
- Gilherme Auguste de Brito Capelo, Governor-General of Angola (1896–1897)
- António Duarte Ramada Curto, Governor-General of Angola (1897–1900)
United Kingdom edit
- Malta Colony – Arthur Fremantle, Governor of Malta (1893–1899)
- Colony of Natal – Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson (1893–1901)
- Royal Niger Company – Sir George Taubman Goldie, Governor of the Royal Niger Company (1895–1900)
- New South Wales – Viscount Hampden, Governor of New South Wales (1895–1899)
- North-Eastern Rhodesia
- Patrick William Forbes, Administrator of North-Eastern Rhodesia (1895–1897)
- Henry Lawrence Daly, acting Administrator of North-Eastern Rhodesia (1897–1898)
*#Territory was not a UK protectorate at the time.
- North-Western Rhodesia
- British South Africa Company establishes colony of North-Western Rhodesia, 9 April
- Robert Thorne Coryndon, Administrator of North-Western Rhodesia (1897–1899)
*#Territory was not a UK protectorate at the time.
- Queensland – Charles Cochrane-Baillie, Governor of Queensland (1896 – 31 December 1900 then State Governor on Australia's Federation to 1901)
- Tasmania – Jenico Preston, Lord Gormanston, Governor of Tasmania (1893–1900)
- South Australia – Sir Thomas Buxton, Governor of South Australia (1895–1899)
- Victoria – Thomas, Earl Brassey, Governor of Victoria (1895–1900)
- Western Australia – Lieutenant-Colonel Gerard Smith, Governor of Western Australia (1895–1900)