| th width="25%" align=left>Term | Incumbent | Notes |
| a href="/encyclopedia/1843" title="1843">1843 | Foundation of the Sanusiya Order |
| olspan="3"|Awlad Sayyidi Abd Allah Dynasty, (al-Khattabi al-Mujahiri al-Hasani al-Idrisi lineage) |
| a href="/encyclopedia/1843" title="1843">1843 to 7 September 1859 | Sheikh Sayyid Muhammad ibn Ali as-Sanusi |
| a href="/encyclopedia/7-September" title="7 September">7 September 1859 to 2 June 1902 | Sheikh Sayyid Muhammad ibn Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi as-Sanusi |
| a href="/encyclopedia/2-June" title="2 June">2 June 1902 to 21 August 1918 | Sheikh Sayyid Ahmad ibn Sayyid Muhammad ash-Sharif as-Sanusi |
| a href="/encyclopedia/21-August" title="21 August">21 August 1918 to 25 October 1920 | Sheikh Sayyid Muhammad Idris as-Sanusi |
| a href="/encyclopedia/25-October" title="25 October">25 October 1920 to 1929 | Emir Sayyid Muhammad Idris as-Sanusi 1st Term |
| a href="/encyclopedia/1911" title="1911">1911 to 1913 | Ottavio Briccola, Governor |
| ctober 1913 to 1918 | Giovanni Battista Ameglio, Governor |
| a href="/encyclopedia/5-August" title="5 August">5 August 1918 to 1919 | Vincenzo Garioni, Governor |
| a href="/encyclopedia/1920" title="1920">1920 | Italy claims sovereignty |
| a href="/encyclopedia/5-August" title="5 August">5 August 1919 to 23 November 1921 | Giacomo De Martino, Governor |
| a href="/encyclopedia/23-November" title="23 November">23 November 1921 to October 1922 | Luigi Pintor, Governor |
| ctober 1922 to December 1922 | Eduardo Baccardi, Governor |
| a href="/encyclopedia/7-January" title="7 January">7 January 1923 to 1924 | Luigi Bongiovanni, Governor |
| a href="/encyclopedia/1924" title="1924">1924 to 2 December 1926 | Ernesto Mombelli, Governor |
| a href="/encyclopedia/2-December" title="2 December">2 December 1926 to 1928 | Attilio Teruzzi, Governor |
| anuary 1929 to March 1930 | Domenico Siciliani, Governor |
| arch 1930 to May 1934 | Rodolfo Graziani, marchese di Neghelli, Governor |
| a href="/encyclopedia/1-January" title="1 January">1 January 1934 | Incorporated into Libya |
| une 1934 to April 1935 | Guglielmo Nasi, Governor |
| a href="/encyclopedia/1941" title="1941">1941 | British Administration |
| ebruary 1941 to 1942 | Stephen Hemsley Longrigg, Governor |
| a href="/encyclopedia/1943" title="1943">1943 to 1945 | Duncan Cameron Cumming, Administrator |
| a href="/encyclopedia/30-October" title="30 October">30 October 1945 to 1946 | Peter Bevil Edward Acland, Administrator |
| ctober 1946 | colspan="2"|Sanusi emir recognized by U.K. administering the territory for the UN |
| a href="/encyclopedia/1946" title="1946">1946 to 1948 | James William Norris Haugh, Administrator |
| a href="/encyclopedia/1948" title="1948">1948 to 1 June 1949 | Eric Armar Vully de Candole, Administrator |
| a href="/encyclopedia/1-June" title="1 June">1 June 1949 | colspan="2"|Emirate of Cyrenaica recognized |
| i>1 June 1949 to 17 September 1949 | Eric Armar Vully de Candole, Administrator |
| i>17 September 1949 to 1951 | Eric Armar Vully de Candole, Resident |
| ctober 1946 to 24 December 1951 | Emir Sayyid Muhammad Idris as-Sanusi | 2nd Term |
| a href="/encyclopedia/24-December" title="24 December">24 December 1951 | Incorporated into Libya |