List of heads of state of Cyprus

List

List of high commissioners (1878–1925)

Name
(Birth–Death)		 Portrait Term of office
Lord John Hay
(1827–1916)
(acting)		12 July 187822 July 1878
Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley
(1833–1913)		22 July 187823 June 1879
Sir Robert Biddulph
(1835–1918)		23 June 18799 March 1886
Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer
(1836–1914)		9 March 18865 April 1892
Sir Walter Joseph Sendall
(1832–1904)		5 April 189223 April 1898
Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith
(1839–1928)		23 April 189817 October 1904
Sir Charles Anthony King-Harman
(1851–1939)		17 October 190412 October 1911
Hamilton Goold-Adams
(1858–1920)		12 October 19118 January 1915
Sir John Eugene Clauson
(1866–1918)		8 January 191531 December 1918 †
Sir Malcolm Stevenson
(1878–1927)		31 December 1918
(acting to 31 July 1920)		10 March 1925

List of governors (1925–1960)

Name
(Birth–Death)		 Portrait Term of office
Sir Malcolm Stevenson
(1878–1927)		10 March 192530 November 1926
Sir Ronald Storrs
(1881–1955)		30 November 192629 October 1932
Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs
(1876–1947)		29 October 19328 November 1933
Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer
(1877–1958)		8 November 19334 July 1939
William Denis Battershill
(1896–1959)		4 July 19393 October 1941
Charles Campbell Woolley
(1893–1981)		3 October 194124 October 1946
Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster
(1885–1961)		24 October 19464 August 1949
Sir Andrew Barkworth Wright
(1895–1971)		4 August 1949February 1954
Sir Robert Perceval Armitage
(1906–1990)		February 195425 September 1955
Sir John Alan Francis Harding
(1896–1989)		3 October 195522 October 1957
Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot
(1907–1990)		3 December 195716 August 1960

Deputy governors

  • Sir George Evelyn Sinclair: 1955–1960

presidents

Key

§ Elected unopposed
† Died in office

No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)		 Term Political Party Elected
Took office Left office Time in office
1
Makarios III
Archbishop
Makarios III
(1913–1977)		16 August 196015 July 1974
(deposed)		13 years, 333 daysIndependent1959
1968
1973[§]
–
Nikos Sampson
Nikos Sampson
(1935–2001)
Acting
De facto		15 July 197423 July 19748 daysProgressive Front–
–
Glafcos Clerides
Glafcos Clerides
(1919–2013)
Acting		23 July 19747 December 1974137 daysEniaion–
(1)
Makarios III
Archbishop
Makarios III
(1913–1977)		7 December 1974
(restored)		3 August 1977 †2 years, 239 daysIndependent–
2
Spyros Kyprianou
Spyros Kyprianou
(1932–2002)
Acting until 28 February 1978		3 August 197728 February 198810 years, 209 daysDIKO1978[§]
1983
3
George Vassiliou
George Vassiliou
(born 1931)		28 February 198828 February 19935 yearsIndependent1988
4
Glafcos Clerides
Glafcos Clerides
(1919–2013)		28 February 199328 February 200310 yearsDISY1993
1998
5
Tassos Papadopoulos
Tassos Papadopoulos
(1934–2008)		28 February 200328 February 20085 yearsDIKO2003
6
Demetris Christofias
Demetris Christofias
(1946–2019)		28 February 200828 February 20135 yearsAKEL2008
7
Nicos Anastasiades
Nicos Anastasiades
(born 1946)		28 February 201328 February 202310 yearsDISY2013
2018
8
Nikos Christodoulides
Nikos Christodoulides
(born 1973)		28 February 2023Incumbent3 years, 121 daysIndependent2023

Timeline

Nikos ChristodoulidesNicos AnastasiadesDemetris ChristofiasTassos PapadopoulosGlafcos CleridesGeorge VasiliouSpyros KyprianouMakarios III

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