U.S. Ambassadors to Egypt
American Ambassadors to Egypt
| No. | Name | From | To |
| 1. | Mr. Daniel Smith McClaule, PA, Consul General |
March 17, 1849 | October 24, 1852 |
| 2. | Edwin De Leon, SC, Consul | December 14, 1853 | March 4, 1861 |
| 3. | Mr. Charles Hale, MASS, Consul General |
October 15, 1864 | May 23, 1870 |
| 4. | Corge H. Butler, CA, Consul General |
June 2, 1870 | July 16, 1872 |
| 5. | Albert Farman, NY, Consul General |
July 17, 1876 | May 17, 1881 |
| 6. | Mr. Simon Wolf, D.C., Consul General |
October 22, 1881 | March 27,1882 |
| 7. | John Cardwell, TX, Consul General |
April 19, 1886 | October 7, 1889 |
| 8. | Eugene Schuyler, NY, Consul General |
November 23, 1889 | July 2, 1890 |
| 9. | John a. Anderson, KS Consul General |
July 13, 1891 | April 21, 1892 |
| 10. | Frederick Courtland Pennfield, PA, Consul General | December 11, 1893 | June 17, 1897 |
| 11. | Thomas Skelton Harrison, PA Consul General |
December 23, 1897 | March 22, 1899 |
| 12. | John Wallace Riddle, MNN Consul General |
March 28, 1904 | June 9, 1905 |
| 13. | Lewis M. Iddings, NY, Consul General |
December 23, 1905 | April 14, 1910 |
| 14. | Peter Augustus Jay, RI, Consul General |
November 28, 1910 | October 8, 1913 |
| 15. | Hampson Gary, TX, Consul General |
February 7, 1918 | December 7, 1919 |
| 16. | Carrol Sprig, OH, Consul General |
August 2, 1920 | October 31, 1921 |
| 17. | Joseph Morton Howell, OH, Ambassador |
August 28, 1922 | July 6, 1927 |
| 18. | Franklin Mott Gunther, VA, Ambassador |
July 19, 1928 | July 30, 1930 |
| 19. | William Marion Jardine, KS, Ambassador |
October 13, 1930 | Septemeber 5, 1933 |
| 20. | Bert Fish, FL, Ambasador |
December 2, 1933 | February 28, 1941 |
| 21. | Alex C. Kirk, IL, Ambassador | March 9, 1941 | April 29, 1944 |
| 22. | S. Pinckney Tuck, NY, Ambassador | June 14, 1944 | May 30, 1948 |
| 23. | Stanton Griffs, CT, Ambassador | September 2, 1948 | March 18, 1949 |
| 24. | Jefferson Caffrey, LA, Ambassador | September 29, 1949 | January 11, 1955 |
| 25. | Henry A. Byroade, IN, Ambassador | March 7, 1955 | September 10, 1956 |
| 26. | Raymond A. Hare, WV, Ambassador | September 25, 1956 | March 1958 |
| 27. | G. Frederick Reinhardt, CA, Ambassador |
March 22, 1960 | May 6, 1961 |
| 28. | John S. Badeau, NY, Ambassador | July 19, 1961 | June 9, 1964 |
| 29. | Lucius D. Battle, FL, Ambassador | September 22, 1964 | March 5, 1967 |
| 30. | Richard H. Nolte, CT, Ambassador | Never Served | |
| 31. | Donald C. Bergus, PA, Principal Officer, US Interests Section |
September 1967 | February 1972 |
| 32. | Joseph N. Greene, Jr., D.C., Principal Officer US Interests Section |
February 1972 | July 1973 |
| 33. | Herman F. Eitts, D.C., Principal Officer US Interests Section |
November 1973 | March 1974 |
| 34. | Alfred Atherton, Jr., FL, Ambassador | July 2, 1979 | November 12, 1983 |
| 35. | Nichola A. Veliotes, CA, Ambassador | November 24, 1983 | April 1, 1986 |
| 36. | Frank G. Wisner, NY, Ambassador | September 21, 1986 | June 6, 1991 |
| 37. | Robert H. Pelletreau Jr., NY, Ambassador |
August 5, 1991 | November 21, 1993 |
| 38. | Edward S Walker, Jr., PA, Ambassador | July 20, 1994 | December 6, 1997 |
| 39. | Daniel Kurtzer, NJ, Ambassador | January 8, 1998 | June 21, 2001 |
| 40. | C. David Welch, Ambassador | September 21, 2001 | 18 March 2005 |
| 41. | Francis Joseph Ricciardone, Ambassador | July 29, 2005 | April 18, 2008 |
| 42. | Margaret Scobey, Ambassador | June 16, 2008 | June 30, 2011 |
| 43. | Anne W. Patterson, Ambassador | August 1, 2011 | To present |