The Master is the head of Pembroke College, Cambridge. The following persons have served as Masters. [1]
| Name | Image | Master between | Notes | Ref(s). | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert de Thorpe |  | 1347? (fl. 1354) | c. 1364 | [2] | |
| Thomas de Bingham | | c. 1364 | c. 1374 | [3] | |
| John Tynmouth or Tinmew | | 1374? (fl. 1380) | 1385† | ||
| Richard Morys | | 1385? (fl. 1389) | 1406? | [4] | |
| 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) | Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford | |
| 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) | Bishop of London and Westminster, one of the Oxford Martyrs burned at the stake during the Marian Persecutions | |
| 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) | Archbishop of Canterbury (1583–1604) | |
| 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 | [5] | |
| The Lord Adrian | | 1981 | 1992 | ||
| Sir Roger Tomkys | | 1992 | 2004 | British diplomat, was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire in 1996 | |
| Sir Richard Dearlove |  | 2004 | 31 July 2015 | British intelligence officer who was head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) | |
| The Lord Smith of Finsbury |  | 2015 | 31 July 2025 (retired) | Served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 1997 to 2001, former Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington South and Finsbury, was elected Chancellor of the university in 2025 | |
| Rosalind Polly Blakesley | | 2025 | 1st October 2025 (incumbent) | Professor of Russian and European Art at the University of Cambridge | |