WThis is a list of Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller, including its continuation as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta after 1798. It also includes unrecognized "anti-Grand Masters" and lieutenants or stewards during vacancies.
WAndrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie was Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 1988 until his death in 2008.
WFra' Giovanni Battista Ceschi a Santa Croce was a leader of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, succeeding Alessandro Borgia as its lieutenant in 1871, and then being chosen as the 74th Prince and Grand Master in 1879, a decision approved by pope Leo XIII on 28 March that year. This made him the Order's first Grand Master after seventy years of lieutenants and a peripatetic existence - this had begun to end with its becoming permanently based in Rome from 1834 onwards. During his tenure, Ceschi initiated the creation of national lay associations of the order, made up of knights who would remain lay people and not take the Order's vows.
WFra' Ludovico Chigi della Rovere-Albani was Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 1931 to 1951.
WFra' Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto was the 80th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Born in Rome to a noble family with extensive ties to the Vatican, he completed his studies at the Sapienza University of Rome and taught at the Pontifical Urban University. He joined the Order in 1985 and took full vows in 1993 to become a Knight of Justice. Dalla Torre served two separate stints as interim leader of the Order, from February to March 2008 and again from 2017 until 2018. He was elected Prince and Grand Master of the Order on 2 May 2018. During his time in office, he endeavoured to repair the Order's relations with the Vatican. These had become strained when his predecessor was controversially forced out by the Pope. Dalla Torre's three-year-long incumbency came to an end when he died of throat cancer in 2020.
WRobert Matthew Festing served as Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 2008 until his resignation following a dispute with the Vatican on 28 January 2017.
WFra' Angelo de Mojana di Cologna was an Italian nobleman and Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 1962 to 1988.
WFra' Galeas von Thun und Hohenstein was the Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 1905 to 1931. His first name was also known as Galeazzo.
WFrà Giovanni Battista Tommasi was an Italian nobleman and 73rd Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta.