This is a list of Head Masters at Eton College since 1442.
- 1442–1447 William Westbury
- 1447–1453 Richard Hopton
- 1453 Thomas Forster
- 1453–1458 Clement Smith
- 1458–1467 John Peyntor
- 1467–1470 Clement Smyth
- 1470–c.1479 Walter Barber
- c.1479–1484 David Haubroke
- 1484–1485/6 Thomas Mache
- 1485/6–1494/5 William Horman
- 1494/5–1496 Edward Powell
- 1496–1501 Nicholas Bradbryg
- 1501–1502/3 Robert Yong
- 1502/3–1507 John Smyth
- 1507–1510 John Goldyve
- 1510–1511 Thomas Phylips
- 1511–1515 Thomas Erlysman
- 1515–1521 Robert Aldrich
- 1521–1524 Thomas White
- 1524–1528 John Goldwyn
- 1528–1534 Richard Cox
- 1534–1541/2 Nicholas Udall
- 1541/2–1544/5 Smyth
- 1544/5–1547 Robert Cater
- 1547–1555 William Barker
- 1555–c.1560 ?
- Hugh Blythe
- c.1560–c.1563 William Malim
- c.1563–c.1571 William Smyth
- 8c.1571–1579 Reuben Sherwood
- 1579–1583 Thomas Ridley
- 1583–1594 John Hammond
- 1594–1611 Richard Langley
- 1611 Richard Wright
- 1611–1630 Matthew Bust
- 1630–1636 John Harrison
- 1636–c.1646 William Norris
- c.1646–1648 Nicholas Gray
- 1648 George Goad
- 1648–1654 Thomas Horne
- 1654–1655 John Boncle
- 1655–1660 Thomas Singleton
- 1660–1671 Thomas Mountague
- 1671–1682 John Rosewell
- 1682–1690 Charles Roderick
- 1690–1711 John Newborough
- 1711–1720 Andrew Snape
- 1720–1728 Henry Bland
- 1728–1743 William George
- 1743–1745 William Cooke
- 1745–1754 John Sumner
- 1754–1765 Edward Barnard
- 1765–1773 John Foster
- 1773–1792 Jonathan Davies
- 1792–1802 George Heath
- 1802–1809 Joseph Goodall
- 1809–1834 John Keate
- 1834–1853 Edward Craven Hawtrey
- 1853–1862 Charles Old Goodford
- 1862–1868 Edward Balston
- 1868–1884 James John Hornby
- 1884–1905 Edmond Warre
- 1905–1916 Edward Lyttelton
- 1916–1933 Cyril Alington
- 1933–1949 Claude Aurelius Elliott
- 1949–1964 Robert Birley
- 1964–1970 Anthony Chenevix-Trench
- 1970–1980 Michael McCrum
- 1980–1994 Eric Anderson
- 1994–2002 John Lewis
- 2002– Tony Little
N.B. William Waynflete is claimed to have been the first Head Master of Eton College but there is no evidence to support this claim.
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