List of chancellors of the University of Cambridge
The following is a list of chancellors of the University of Cambridge from c.1215 to the present day. Chancellors were elected annually until 1514, and thereafter were elected for life.
| Tenure | Chancellor | Notes |
| c.1215–c.1232 | Richard of Wetheringsett | |
| c.1246 | Hugh de Hotton | |
| 1256 | Reginald Gerninghall | |
| 1257 | Stephen Hepworth | |
| 1259 | William de Ludham | |
| 1260 | Richard de Gedney | |
| 1261 | Richard Dryfield | |
| 1267 | John de Asgarby | |
| 1270-1275 | John Hooke | |
| 1276 | Roger de Fulbourn | |
| 1283 | Andrew de Gisleham | |
| 1286 | Thomas Sheringham | |
| 1287 | Stephen Hepworth | |
| 1289-1290 | Ralph de Leicester | |
| 1290-1292 | Geoffery de Pakenham | |
| 1293-1295 | Henry de Boyton | |
| 1295-1296 | John de Bradenham | |
| 1296-1299 | Thomas de Sheringham | |
| 1299 | Stephen Hepworth | |
| 1300-1303 | Stephen Haslingfield | |
| 1303-1307 | Stephen de Segrace | |
| 1307 | Stephen Haslingfield | |
| 1315 | Richard de Ashton | |
| 1321-1326 | Roger Northburgh has been incorrectly described as Chancellor since 1691. | |
| 1326-1329 | Richard de Badew | |
| 1329-1331 | Thomas de Foxton | |
| c.1215–c.1232 | Robert de Winwick | |
| c. 1330 | Robert de Winwick | |
| 1331-1334 | John de Langley | |
| 1334-1335 | Robert de Mildenhall | |
| 1335-1337 | Henry de Herwarden | |
| 1337-1339 | Richard Harling | |
| 1340 | Robert de Claydon | |
| 1341 | Thomas de Northwood | |
| 1344 | Thomas de Northwood | |
| 1346-1348 | John de Crakhall | Re-elected in 1348 on 9 June |
| 1348 | Thomas de Grantchester | |
| 1348 | William de Lymbergh | Elected 15 December |
| 1349-1351 | Richard Leicester | Elected 21 Jan. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says: "Wetheringsett , Richard of , churchman and theologian,... is not to be confused with the later chancellor Richard Leicester, who served in 1349–50." |
| 1351 | Richard Harling | |
| 1352 | Anthony of Grantchester | |
| 1352-1359 | William Tynkell | |
| 1359-1360 | Thomas Sutton | |
| 1360-1361 | Richard de Wetherset | |
| 1361-1362 | Michael de Haynton | |
| 1361-1366 | Michael de Causton | |
| 1366-1369 | William de Gotham | |
| 1369 | Thomas de Stewkley | |
| 1371 | John de Donwich | |
| 1373-1374 | Adam de Lakenheath | |
| 1374 | John de Donwich | |
| 1376 | William de Gotham | |
| 1378-1379 | Richard Scrope | |
| 1380 | Eudo Zouche | |
| 1380-1381 | John Cavendish | |
| 1382 | Guy Zouche | |
| 1382-1383 | John de Bromyard | |
| 1383 | John of Neketon | |
| 1384 | John de Burgh | |
| 1385 | Thomas Hetherset | |
| 1386 | John de Burgh | |
| 1388 | William Colvile | |
| 1390-1391 | Richard Dereham | |
| 1391 | William Colvile | |
| 1392 | John de Neketon | |
| 1394 | William Colvile | |
| 1396 | Guy Zouche | |
| 1400-1402 | Richard de Billingford | |
| 1404-1408 | Richard Dereham | |
| 1409-1413 | Richard de Billingford | |
| 1414 | Stephen le Scrope | |
| 1415-1422 | John de Rickingale | |
| 1422-1423 | Thomas of Cobham | |
| 1424-1426 | Robert Fitzhugh | |
| 1426 | William Wymbell | |
| 1427 | Marmaduke Lumley | |
| 1429-1430 | John Holeroke | |
| 1431-1432 | William Lascells | |
| 1432 | Richard de Billingford | |
| 1433-1435 | Richard Cawdray | |
| 1436-1445 | John Langton | |
| 1445-1446 | Nicholas Kenton | |
| 1447 | John Langton | |
| 1448 | Robert Ascogh | |
| 1450-1451 | Nicholas Close | |
| 1451-1456 | William Percy | |
| 1456-1458 | Lawrence Booth | |
| 1458 | William Wilflete | |
| 1459-1460 | Robert Woodlark | |
| 1461 | Richard Scroope | |
| 1462-1463 | Robert Woodlark | |
| 1463-1464 | John Booth | |
| 1464 | William Wilflete | |
| 1465-1468 | John Harrison | |
| 1466 | William Wilflete | |
| 1468-1469 | Edward Story | |
| 1469-1471 | Thomas Rotherham | |
| 1471-1472 | Edward Story | |
| 1473-1479 | Thomas Rotherham | |
| 1479-1483 | John Boynton | |
| 1483-1485 | Thomas Rotherham | |
| 1490 | Thomas Cosyn | |
| 1494-1496 | John Blythe | |
| 1496-1499 | George Fitzhugh | |
| 1499-1500 | Thomas Rotherham | |
| 1500 | Richard Fox | |
| 1502 | George Fitzhugh | |
| 1503 | Thomas Ruthall | |
| 1504-1535 | John Fisher | Appointed for life in 1514 |
| 1535-1540 | Thomas Cromwell | |
| 1540-1547 | Stephen Gardiner | |
| 1547-1552 | Edward Seymour | |
| 1552-1553 | The Duke of Northumberland | |
| 1553-1555 | Stephen Gardiner | |
| 1556-1558 | Reginald Pole | |
| 1559-1598 | The Lord Burghley | |
| 1598-1601 | The Earl of Essex | |
| 1601-1612 | The Earl of Salisbury | |
| 1612-1614 | The Earl of Northampton | |
| 1614-1626 | The Earl of Suffolk | |
| 1626-1628 | The Duke of Buckingham | see Election for the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge, 1626 |
| 1628-1649 | The Earl of Holland | A Royalist officer in the English Civil War from 1643, executed for treason in 1649 |
| 1649-1651 | The Earl of Manchester | |
| 1651-1660 | Oliver St John | |
| 1660-1671 | The Duke of Manchester | The Earl of Manchester, reinstated as Chancellor after the Restoration |
| 1671-1674 | The Duke of Buckingham | |
| 1674-1682 | The Duke of Monmouth | |
| 1682-1688 | The Duke of Albemarle | |
| 1689-1748 | The Duke of Somerset | |
| 1748-1768 | The Duke of Newcastle | see Election for the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge, 1748 |
| 1768-1811 | The Duke of Grafton | |
| 1811-1834 | The Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh | see Election for the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge, 1811 |
| 1834-1840 | The Marquess Camden | |
| 1840-1847 | The Duke of Northumberland | |
| 1847-1861 | The Prince Consort | see Election for the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge, 1847 |
| 1861-1891 | The Duke of Devonshire | |
| 1892-1908 | The Duke of Devonshire | |
| 1908-1919 | The Lord Rayleigh | |
| 1919-1930 | The Earl of Balfour | |
| 1930-1947 | The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley | |
| 1948-1950 | Jan Smuts | |
| 1950-1967 | The Lord Tedder | see Election for the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge, 1950 |
| 1967-1976 | The Lord Adrian | |
| 1976-2011 | The Duke of Edinburgh | |
| 2011- | Lord Sainsbury of Turville | see Election for the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge, 2011 |