The following persons have served as Provost of King's College, Cambridge since its foundation in 1441.
| Provost | Appointed | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | William Millington | 1441 |
| 2 | John Chedworth | 1447 |
| 3 | Robert Wodelark | 1452 |
| 4 | Walter Field | 1479 |
| 5 | John Dogget | 1499 |
| 6 | John Argentine | 1501 |
| 7 | Richard Hatton | 1508 |
| 8 | Robert Hacomblen | 1509 |
| 9 | Edward Fox | 1528 |
| 10 | George Day | 1538 |
| 11 | John Cheke | 1549 |
| 12 | Richard Atkinson | 1553 |
| 13 | Robert Brassie | 1556 |
| 14 | Philip Baker | 1558 |
| 15 | Roger Goad | 1570 |
| 16 | Fogge Newton | 1610 |
| 17 | William Smith | 1612 |
| 18 | Samuel Collins | 1615 |
| 19 | Benjamin Whichcote | 1645 |
| 20 | James Fleetwood | 1660 |
| 21 | Thomas Page | 1676 |
| 22 | John Coplestone | 1681 |
| 23 | Charles Roderick | 1689 |
| 24 | John Adams | 1712 |
| 25 | Andrew Snape | 1720 |
| 26 | William George | 1743 |
| 27 | John Sumner | 1756 |
| 28 | William Cooke | 1772 |
| 29 | Humphrey Sumner | 1797 |
| 30 | George Thackeray | 1814 |
| 31 | Richard Okes | 1850 |
| 32 | Augustus Austen Leigh | 1889 |
| 33 | Montague Rhodes James | 1905 |
| 34 | Walter Durnford | 1918 |
| 35 | Alan England Brooke | 1926 |
| 36 | John Tresidder Sheppard | 1933 |
| 37 | Stephen Glanville | 1954 |
| 38 | Noel Annan | 1956 |
| 39 | Edmund Leach | 1966 |
| 40 | Bernard Williams | 1979 |
| 41 | Patrick Bateson | 1988 |
| 42 | Judith Mayhew-Jonas | 2003 |
| Tess Atkins (acting) [1] | 2005 | |
| 43 | Ross Harrison | 2006 |
| 44 | Michael Proctor | 2013 |
| 45 | Gillian Tett | 2023 |