British Prime Ministers
This list is comprised of British Prime Ministers. The Prime Minister is appointed by the British monarch, the nominal head of state, and governs in the monarch's name. In modern times the Prime Minister is regarded as the real leader of the country.
The position evolved slowly and was never created by any law. Robert Walpole (1676-1745) is generally viewed as the first Prime Minister after he became the First Lord of the Treasury in 1721.
| Name | Years | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alec Douglas-Home | 1963-1964 | (Alexander, Frederick) |  |
| Anthony Eden | 1955-1957 | (Robert) | |
| Archibald Primrose | 1894-1895 | (Philip) | |
| Arthur Balfour | 1902-1905 | (James) | |
| Arthur Wellesley | 1828-1830; 1834 | | |
| Augustus FitzRoy | 1768-1770 | (Henry) | |
| Benjamin Disraeli | 1868; 1874-1880 | | |
| Bonar Law | 1922-1923 | (Andrew) | |
| Boris Johnson | 2019-2022 | (Alexander, de Pfeffel) | |
| Charles Grey | 1830-1834 | | |
| Charles Watson-Wentworth | 1765-1766; 1782 | | |
| Clement Attlee | 1945-1951 | (Richard) | |
| David Cameron | 2010-2016 | (William, Donald) | |
| David Lloyd George | 1916-1922 | | |
| Edward Heath | 1970-1974 | (Ted, Richard, George) | |
| Edward Smith-Stanley | 1852; 1858-1859; 1866-1868 | (George, Geoffrey) | |
| Frederick North | 1770-1782 | | |
| F. J. Robinson | 1827-1828 | (Frederick, John) | |
| George Canning | 1827 | | |
| George Grenville | 1763-1765 | | |
| George Hamilton-Gordon | 1852-1855 | | |
| Gordon Brown | 2007-2010 | (James) | |
| Harold Macmillan | 1957-1963 | (Maurice) | |
| Harold Wilson | 1964-1970; 1974-1976 | (James) | |
| Henry Addington | 1801-1804 | | |
| Henry Campbell-Bannerman | 1905-1908 | | |
| Henry Pelham | 1743-1754 | | |
| Henry John Temple | 1855-1858; 1859-1865 | | |
| Herbert Henry Asquith | 1908-1916 | | |
| James Callaghan | 1976-1979 | (Leonard) | |
| John Russell | 1846-1852; 1865-1866 | | |
| John Major | 1990-1997 | | |
| John Stuart | 1762-1763 | | |
| Keir Starmer | 2024- | (Rodney) | |
| Liz Truss | 2022 | (Mary, Elizabeth) | |
| Margaret Thatcher | 1979-1990 | (Hilda) | |
| Neville Chamberlain | 1937-1940 | (Arthur) | |
| Ramsay MacDonald | 1924; 1929-1935 | (James) | |
| Rishi Sunak | 2022-2024 | | |
| Robert Gascoyne-Cecil | 1885-1886; 1886-1892; 1895-1902 | (Arthur, Talbot) | |
| Robert Jenkinson | 1812-1827 | (Banks) | |
| Robert Peel | 1834-1835; 1841-1846 | | |
| Robert Walpole | 1721-1742 | | |
| Spencer Compton | 1742-1743 | | |
| Spencer Perceval | 1809-1812 | | |
| Stanley Baldwin | 1923-1924; 1924-1929; 1935-1937 | | |
| Theresa May | 2016-2019 | (Mary) | |
| Thomas Pelham-Holles | 1754-1756; 1757-1762 | | |
| Tony Blair | 1997-2007 | (Anthony, Charles, Lynton) | |
| William Cavendish | 1756-1757 | | |
| William Cavendish-Bentinck | 1783; 1807-1809 | (Henry) | |
| William Ewart Gladstone | 1868-1874; 1880-1885; 1886; 1892-1894 | | |
| William Grenville | 1806-1807 | (Wyndham) | |
| William Lamb | 1834; 1835-1841 | | |
| William Petty | 1782-1783 | | |
| William Pitt the Elder | 1766-1768 | | |
| William Pitt the Younger | 1783-1801; 1804-1806 | | |
| Winston Churchill | 1940-1945; 1951-1955 | |