The following persons have served as Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge:
| Name | Portrait | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert de Thorpe |  | 1347? (fl. 1354) [1] | c. 1364 |
| Thomas de Bingham | | c. 1364 [2] | c. 1374 |
| John Tynmouth or Tinmew | | 1374? (fl. 1380) | 1385† |
| Richard Morys | | 1385? (fl. 1389) [3] | 1406? |
| John Sudbury | | 1406 | 1428 (resigned) |
| John Langton | | 1428 | 22 May 1447† |
| Hugh Damlet | | 1447 | 1449 (resigned) |
| Lawrence Booth | | 31 May 1450 | 19 May 1480† |
| Thomas Rotherham |  | 1480 | 1488 (resigned) |
| George Fitzhugh | | 14 September 1488 | November 1505† |
| Roger Leyburn | | 29 November 1505 | c. 1 August 1507† |
| Richard Foxe |  | 1507 | 19 October 1518 (resigned) |
| Robert Shorton |  | 1518 | 1534 (resigned) |
| Robert Swinburn | | before 4 October 1534 | October 1537 (resigned) |
| George Folberry | | 1537 | October 1540† |
| Nicholas Ridley |  | October 1540 | 1554 (deprived) |
| John Young (I) |  | 24 December 1554 | 20 July 1559 (deprived) |
| Edmund Grindal |  | 20 July 1559 | 16 August 1561 (resigned) |
| Matthew Hutton |  | 14 May 1562 | 1567 (resigned) |
| John Whitgift |  | 21 April 1567 | July 1567 (resigned) |
| John Young (II) | | 12 July 1567 | 16 March 1578 (resigned) |
| William Fulke |  | 10 May 1578 | 28 August 1589† |
| Lancelot Andrewes |  | 6 September 1589 | 1605 (resigned) |
| Samuel Harsnett |  | November 1605 | 18 February 1616 (resigned) |
| Nicholas Felton |  | 29 June 1616 | 18 February 1619 (resigned) |
| Jerome Beale | | 21 February 1619 | September 1630† |
| Benjamin Lany |  | 25 December 1630 | 13 March 1644 (ejected) |
| Richard Vines | | 13 March 1644 | 1 October 1650 (ejected) |
| Sidrach Simpson |  | 1650 | April 1655† |
| William Moses | | April 1655 | 1660 (ejected) |
| Benjamin Lany | | 1660 (restored) | 16 August 1662 (resigned) |
| Mark Frank |  | 23 August 1662 | January 1664† |
| Robert Mapletoft | | c. May 1664 | 20 August 1677† |
| Nathaniel Coga | | 20 August 1677 | 8 January 1694† |
| Thomas Browne | | 10 February 1694 | 9 March 1707† |
| Edward Lany | | 19 March 1707 | 9 August 1728† |
| John Hawkins | | 15 August 1728 | October 1733 (resigned) |
| Roger Long |  | 12 October 1733 | 16 December 1770† |
| James Brown | | 16 December 1770 | 30 September 1784† |
| Joseph Turner |  | 6 October 1784 | 3 August 1828† |
| Gilbert Ainslie |  | 15 August 1828 | 9 January 1870† |
| John Power |  | 14 January 1870 | 18 November 1880† |
| Charles Edward Searle |  | 24 November 1880 | 29 July 1902† |
| Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bt. |  | 26 August 1902 | 7 February 1903† |
| Arthur James Mason |  | 11 March 1903 | 15 June 1912 (resigned) |
| William Sheldon Hadley | | 19 June 1912 | 25 December 1927† |
| Arthur Hutchinson |  | 16 January 1928 | 30 September 1937 (retired) |
| Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler | 1 October 1937 | 31 July 1948 (retired) | |
| Sir Sydney Castle Roberts | | 1 August 1948 | 1958 |
| Sir William Vallance Douglas Hodge | | 1 August 1958 | 1970 |
| William Anthony Camps | | 1970 | 1981 [4] |
| The Lord Adrian | | 1981 | 1992 |
| Sir Roger Tomkys | | 1992 | 2004 |
| Sir Richard Dearlove |  | 2004 | 31 July 2015 |
| The Lord Smith of Finsbury |  | 2015 | 31 July 2025 (retired) |
| Professor Rosalind Polly Blakesley | 2025 | 1st October 2025 (incumbent) | |