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The following is a list of the Lieutenant Governors of Alberta. Though the present day office of lieutenant governor in Alberta came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1905, the post is a continuation from the first governorship of the Northwest Territories in 1869.

Lieutenant Governor under King Edward VII (1905 to 1910)

  • George Hedley Vicars Bulyea (1 September to →)

Lieutenant Governors under King George V (1910 to 1936)

  • cont... (← to 20 October 1915)
  • Dr. Robert George Brett (20 October 1915 to 29 October 1925)
  • Dr. William Egbert (29 October 1925 to 5 May 1931)
  • William Leigh Walsh (5 May 1931 to →)

Lieutenant Governors under King Edward VIII (1936)

  • cont... (← 1 October 1936)
  • Philip Carteret Hill Primrose (1 October 1936 to →)

Lieutenant Governors under King George VI (1936 to 1952)

  • cont... (← to 17 March 1937)
  • John Campbell Brown (23 March 1937 to 1 February 1950)
  • John James Bowlen (1 February 1950 to →)

Lieutenant Governors under Queen Elizabeth II (1952 to 2022)

  • cont... (← to 16 December 1959)
  • John Percy Page (19 December 1959 to 26 January 1966)
  • John Walter Grant MacEwen (26 January 1966 to 2 July 1974)
  • Ralph Garvin Steinhauer (2 July 1974 to 18 October 1979)
  • Francis Charles Lynch-Staunton (18 October 1979 to 22 January 1985)
  • Wilma Helen Hunley (22 January 1985 to 11 March 1991)
  • Thomas Gordon Towers (11 March 1991 to 17 April 1996)
  • Horace Andrew Olson (17 April 1996 to 10 February 2000)
  • Lois E. Hole (10 February 2000 to 6 January 2005)
  • Norman Lim Kwong (20 January 2005 to 11 May 2010)
  • Donald Stewart Ethell (11 May 2010 12 June 2015)
  • Lois Elizabeth Mitchell (12 June 2015 to 26 August 2020)
  • Salma Lakhani (26 August 2020 to →)

Lieutenant Governors under King Charles III (2022 to present)

  • cont... (← to present)