List of Deans of Canterbury
The Dean of Canterbury, the head of the Cathedral Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral . The following people were Dean of Canterbury:
Until 1797
- 1541–1567 Nicholas Wotton
- 1567–1584 Thomas Godwin
- 1584–1597 Richard Rogers
- 1597-1615 Thomas Nevile
- 1615-1619 Charles Fotherby
- 1619-1625 John Boys
- 1625-1643 Isaac Bargrave
- 1643 George Aglionby
- 1643–1672 Thomas Turner
- 1672-1689 John Tillotson
- 1689-1691 John Sharp
- 1691–1704 George Hooper
- 1704-1728 George Stanhope
- 1728–1733 Elias Sydall
- 1734-1760 John Lynch
- 1760–1766 William Freind
- 1766-1770 John Potter
- 1770-1771 Brownlow North
- 1771-1775 John Moore
- 1775–1781 The Hon James Cornwallis
- 1781–1790 George Horne
- 1790-1792 William Buller
- 1793-1797 Folliott Cornewall
Since 1797
- 1797-1809 Thomas Powys
- 1809-1825 Gerrard Andrewes
- 1825-1827 Hugh Percy
- 1827–1845 Richard Bagot
- 1845-1857 William Lyall
- 1857–1871 Henry Alford
- 1871-1895 Robert Payne Smith
- 1895–1903 Frederic Farrar
- 1903-1924 Henry Wace
- 1924-1929 George Bell
- 1929-1931 Dick Sheppard
- 1931-1963 Hewlett Johnson
- 1963-1976 Ian White-Thomson
- 1976–1986 Victor de Waal
- 1986-2000 John Simpson
- 2000 – today Robert Willis