The following have served as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge:

Name Portrait Term of office
John Redman 1546 1551
William Bill 1551 1553
John Christopherson 1553 1558
William Bill 1558 1561
Robert Beaumont 1561 1567
John Whitgift 1567 1577
John Still 1577 1593
Thomas Nevile 1593 1615
John Richardson 1615 1625
Leonard Mawe 1625 1629
Samuel Brooke 1629 1631
Thomas Comber 1631 1645
Thomas Hill 1645 1653
John Arrowsmith 1653 1659
John Wilkins 1659 1660
Henry Ferne 1660 1662
John Pearson 1662 1672
Isaac Barrow 1672 1677
John North 1677 1683
John Montagu 1683 1699
Richard Bentley 1700 1742
Robert Smith 1742 1768
John Hinchliffe
(also Bishop of Peterborough from 1769) 		1768 1789
Thomas Postlethwaite 1789 1798
William Lort Mansel
(also Bishop of Bristol from 1808) 		1798 1820
Christopher Wordsworth 1820 1841
William Whewell 1841 1866
William Hepworth Thompson 1866 1886
Henry Montagu Butler 1886 1918
Sir Joseph John Thomson 1918 1940
George Macaulay Trevelyan 1940 1951
The Lord Adrian 1951 1965
The Lord Butler of Saffron Walden 1965 1978
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin 1978 1984
Sir Andrew Huxley 1984 1990
Sir Michael Atiyah 1990 1997
Amartya Sen 1998 2004
The Lord Rees of Ludlow 2004 June 2012
Sir Gregory Winter October 2012 July 2019
Professor Dame Sally Davies Dame Sally Davies FMedSci DBE FRS October 2019 Present Master
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