United Kingdom
| Cratwell | to 1538 (when he was himself hanged for robbery) |
| "Stump-leg" | to 1556 (when he was himself hanged for theft) |
| ? Bull | before 1593–1601 |
| Thomas Derrick | 1601- before 1616 |
| Gregory Brandon | before 1616- before 1640 |
| Richard Brandon | before 1640–1649 |
| William Lowen | 1649 |
| Edward Dun | 1649–1663 (the subject of Groanes from Newgate, or an Elegy upon Edward Dun. Esq., the Citie's Common Hangman, who dyed Naturally in his bed the 11th of September, 1663 Written by a person of Quality) |
| Jack Ketch | 1663–1686 |
| Paskah Rose | 1686 (Bleackley (1929) graphs his name as Pasha Rose) |
| John Price | 1714–1715 |
| William Marvell | 1715–1717 |
| James Aird | 1715–1723 |
| ? Banks (known as Banks the Bailiff) | 1717- after 1718 |
| Richard Arnet | before 1726–1728 (hanged Jonathan Wild in 1725) |
| John Hooper | 1728–1735 (known as "the laughing hangman") |
| John Thrift | 1735–1752 (convicted of murder in 1750, but pardoned and continued in office; executed Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat on 9 April 1747, the last man to be beheaded in England.) |
| Thomas Turlis | 1752–1771 (hanged Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers with a silken rope, the last nobleman to be hanged in England) |
| Edward Dennis | 1771–1786 (the last hangman at Tyburn and the first at Newgate; died 21 November 1786 at his home in the Old Bailey) |
| Edward Barlow | 1781–1812 |
| William Brunskill | 1786–1814 (started as assistant to Edward Dennis; executed Catherine Murphy in 1789, the last woman to be burned at the stake in England) |
| William Taylor | −1810 |
| James Botting | 1813/17-1819 |
| John Langley | 1814–1817 |
| James Botting | 1817–1820 |
| Thomas Cheshire | 1820 (known as "Old Cheese"; assistant from 1808 to 1820 and from 1820 to 1840) |
| James Foxen | 1820–1829 |
| William Lee | −1827 |
| William Calcraft | 1829–1874 |
| John Scott | 1835–1847 (last executioner of Edinburgh) |
| George Smith | 1849–1872 |
| Thomas Askern | 1853–1877 |
| Robert Anderson Evans | 1873–1875 |
| William Marwood | 1874–1883 |
| George Meker, or George Incher | 1875–1881 |
| Bartholomew Binns | 1883–1884 |
| James Berry | 1884–1891 |
| James Billington | 1884–1901 |
| Thomas Henry Scott | 1892–1895 |
| Thomas Billington | 1897–1901 |
| William Billington | 1902–1905 |
| John Billington | 1901–1905 |
| John Ellis | 1901–1923/24 |
| Henry Pierrepoint | 1901–1910 |
| William Willis | 1906–1926 (assistant to John Ellis from 1906; assisted him in the execution of Hawley Harvey Crippen |
| Thomas Pierrepoint | 1909–1946 |
| Robert Baxter | 1915–1935 |
| Thomas Phillips | 1918–1941 |
| Robert Wilson | 1920–1936 |
| Alfred Allen | 1928–1937 |
| Stanley Cross | 1932–1941 |
| Albert Pierrepoint | 1932–1956 |
| Henry Kirk, or Harry Kirk | 1941–1950 |
| Stephen Wade, or Steve Wade | 1941–1955 |
| Harry Bernard Allen | 1941–1964 |
| Syd Dernley | 1949–1954 |
| Robert Leslie Stewart | 1950–1964 |
| Royston Lawrence Rickard | 1953–1964 |
| Harry Frank Robinson | 1958–1964 |
| Samuel Barrass Plant | 1961–1964 |
| John Underhill | 1963–1964 |
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