Editing Saitama Prefecture (section)

=== List of governors since 1947 ===
[[File:Nomura morihide.jpg|thumb|[[Nomura Morihide]], a samurai from [[Satsuma Domain]] which had won the [[Boshin War]] to take over government together with its allies in the [[Meiji Restoration]], briefly became the first governor (called ''kenrei'' in the first decades) of Saitama in 1871. The first Saitama native to take the office was the 43rd governor, Yūichi Ōsawa in 1949.]]
{|class="wikitable"
! Governor
! Term start
! Term end
|-
|Jitsuzo Nishimura (西村実造)
|align=center|12 April 1947
|align=center|28 March 1949
|-
|Yuichi Osawa (大沢雄一)
|align=center|17 May 1949
|align=center|28 May 1956
|-
|Hiroshi Kurihara (栗原浩)
|align=center|13 July 1956
|align=center|12 July 1972
|-
|[[Yawara Hata]] (畑和)
|align=center|13 July 1972
|align=center|12 July 1992
|-
|Yoshihiko Tsuchiya (土屋義彦)
|align=center|13 July 1992
|align=center|18 July 2003
|-
|[[Kiyoshi Ueda]] (上田清司)
|align=center|31 August 2003
|align=center|30 August 2019
|-
|[[Motohiro Ōno]](大野元裕)
|align=center|31 August 2019
|align=center|Incumbent
|}