This is a list of people who have served as Vice-Admiral of Suffolk . Prior to 1594 the office holder was also Vice-Admiral of Norfolk.
Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowestoft, Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket and Felixstowe, one of the largest container ports in Europe.
- Sir William Gonson 1536–1544
- Sir William Woodhouse 1554–1564 jointly with
- Sir Thomas Woodhouse 1554–1572 and
- Henry Woodhouse 1563–1579
- William Heydon 1579–? jointly with
- Christopher Heydon 1579–?
- Sir Robert Southwell 1585–1594
- Sir Michael Stanhope 1595 – 1621/22 jointly with
- Sir Lionel Tollemache, 2nd Baronet bef. 1619 – 1640
- Sir William Playters, 2nd Baronet 1640–1649
- Sir Henry Mildmay 1644–1650 (Parliamentary)
- William Heveningham 1650–1656
- English Interregnum
- Sir Henry Felton, 2nd Baronet 1660–1683
- Sir Thomas Allin, 2nd Baronet 1683–1692
- Sir Robert Rich, 2nd Baronet 1692–1699
- Sir Charles Rich, 3rd Baronet 1699–1702
- Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart 1702–1705
- Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton 1705–1757
- vacant
- Francis Ingram-Seymour-Conway, 2nd Marquess of Hertford 1822
- Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford 1822–1842
- vacant
- John Rous, 2nd Earl of Stradbroke 1844–1886
- vacant
- George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke 1890–1947
Vice-Admiral Sir William Gonson (1482–1544), was a Naval Judge and Naval Administrator of the English Royal Navy who served under King Henry VIII.
Lieutenant Admiral Sir William Woodhouse was an English naval commander and administrator who rose to the rank of Lieutenant of the Admiralty and was head of the Council of the Marine later called the Navy Board. He also served as a Member of Parliament of the Parliament of England from 1545 to 1564. He was prominent during an important time of the Navy Royal's development in the later half of Tudor period.
Sir Robert Southwell (1563–1598), of Wood Rising, Norfolk, was an English politician.
