This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

• Sir Richard Lyster bef. 1544 – aft. 1547
• Sir Thomas Gargrave bef. 1558–1579
• Francis Wortley 1579–1583
• Sir Cotton Gargrave 1584–1588
• Sir John Savile bef. 1594–1616
• Sir Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baronet 1616–1626
• Sir John Savile 1626–1630
• Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford 1630–1641
• Thomas Savile, 1st Viscount Savile 1641–1646
• Interregnum
• Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron 1660–1671
• George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham 1671–1679
• Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington 1679–1685
• vacant
• Lord Thomas Howard 1688–1689
• George Saville, 1st Marquess of Halifax 1689–1695
• vacant
• Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington 1699–1704

For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire.