1897 colonial governors - Events of 1898 - 1899 colonial governors - Colonial governors by year

France

• French Somaliland - Léonce Lagarde, Governor of French Somaliland (1888-1899)
• Guinea -
  1. Noël-Eugène Ballay, Lieutenant-Governor of Guinea (1896-1898)
  2. Paul Jean François Cousturier, Lieutenant-Governor of Guinea (1898-1900)

Japan

• Taiwan -
  1. Nogi Maresuke, Governor-General of Taiwan (14 October 1896-January 1898)
  2. Kodama Gentarō, Governor-General of Taiwan (26 February 1898-April 1906)

Portugal

• Angola - António Duarte Ramada Curto, Governor-General of Angola (1897-1900)

United Kingdom

• North-Eastern Rhodesia
  1. Henry Lawrence Daly, acting Administrator of North-Eastern Rhodesia (1897-1898)
  2. Robert Edward Codrington, Administrator of North-Eastern Rhodesia (1898-1907)
• North-Western Rhodesia - Robert Thorne Coryndon, Administrator of North-Western Rhodesia (1897-1907)