| Lord Lieutenant | From | Until | 
|---|
| Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland  [1] | 1559 | 1563 | 
| Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon | ? | 14 December 1595 | 
| George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon | 2 October 1596 | 30 December 1604 | 
| Vacant | 
| John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Exton | 16 May 1607 | 23 August 1613 | 
| John Harington, 2nd Baron Harington of Exton | 8 October 1613 | 27 February 1614 | 
| Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon jointly with Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon
 | 1614 27 December 1638
 | 1642 1642
 | 
| David Cecil, 3rd Earl of Exeter | 5 March 1642 | 1643 | 
| Interregnum 1643–1660 | 
| Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden | 9 August 1660 | 29 October 1682 | 
| Edward Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough jointly with Wriothesley Noel, Viscount Campden
 | 17 November 1682 24 March 1685
 | 23 January 1688 23 January 1688
 | 
| Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough | 23 January 1688 | 28 August 1690 | 
| Bennet Sherard, 2nd Baron Sherard | 28 August 1690 | 15 January 1700 | 
| Bennet Sherard, 3rd Baron Sherard | 11 March 1700 | 14 November 1712 | 
| John Cecil, 6th Earl of Exeter | 14 November 1712 | 12 September 1715 | 
| Bennet Sherard, 1st Earl of Harborough | 12 September 1715 | 16 October 1732 | 
| Philip Sherard, 2nd Earl of Harborough | 17 July 1733 | 20 July 1750 | 
| Brownlow Cecil, 9th Earl of Exeter | 6 June 1751 | 12 April 1779 | 
| George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea | 12 April 1779 | 2 August 1826 | 
| Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter | 7 October 1826 | 16 January 1867 | 
| Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough | 22 February 1867 | 13 August 1881 | 
| William Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart | 3 November 1881 | 29 March 1906 | 
| John Brocklehurst, 1st Baron Ranksborough | 29 March 1906 | 28 February 1921 | 
| Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 2nd Earl of Ancaster | 6 January 1921 | 29 September 1951 | 
| William Melville Codrington | 5 February 1951 | 29 April 1963 | 
| Thomas Haywood (subsequently Lord-Lieutenant of Leicestershire) | 12 August 1963 | 31 March 1974 | 
| Lord-Lieutenancy abolished after Rutland merged with Leicestershire | 
| Sir Thomas Lawrie (Jock) Kennedy  [2] | 1 April 1997 | 14 July 2003 | 
| Sir Laurence Howard  [3] | 14 July 2003 | 29 March 2018 | 
| Dr Sarah Furness  [4]  [5] | 3 April 2018 | Present |