Surveyor General, 1842–1891

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
1		Alexander T. Gordon 歌頓	1842	1845	Sir Henry Pottinger (1841–1843) Administrator
					Sir Henry Pottinger (1843–1844)
					Sir John Francis Davis (1844–1848)
2		Charles St George Cleverly 急庇利	1845	1865
					Sir George Bonham (1848–1854)
					Sir John Bowring (1854–1859)
					Sir Hercules Robinson (1859–1865)
3		Wilberforce Wilson 衛信	1865	1869
					Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell (1866–1872)
4		Lewis Henry Moorsom 睦誠	1869	1873
					Sir Arthur Kennedy (1872–1877)
5		John MacNeile Price 裴樂士	1873	1889
					Sir John Pope Hennessy (1877–1882)
					Sir George Bowen (1883–1885)
					Sir William Des Voeux (1887–1891)
6		Samuel Brown 布朗	1889	1891
					Sir William Robinson (1891–1898)

Directors of Public Works, 1891–1941

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
1		Francis Alfred Cooper 谷柏	10 October 1891	1897	Sir William Robinson (1891–1898)
2		Robert Daly Ormsby 安庶庇	21 October 1897	1901
					Sir Henry Arthur Blake (1898–1903)
3		William Chatham 漆咸	12 October 1901	1921
					Sir Matthew Nathan (1904–1907)
					Sir Frederick Lugard (1907–1912)
					Sir Francis Henry May (1912–1918)
					Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs (1919–1925)
4		Thomas Luff Perkins 白健時	1 July 1921	1923
5		Harold Thomas Creasy 祈禮士	30 August 1923	1932
					Sir Cecil Clementi (1925–1930)
					Sir William Peel (1930–1935)
6		Richard McNeil Henderson 軒德蓀	12 December 1932	1939
					Sir Andrew Caldecott (1935–1937)
					Sir Geoffry Northcote (1937–1941)
7		Alexander Bruce Purves 包華士	28 September 1939	25 December 1941
					Mark Aitchison Young (1941)

Directors of Public Works, 1946–1981

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
-		Harold Stuart Rouse	7 September 1945	1946	Military administration
8		Victor Kenneth Kenniff	15 May 1946	1949	Sir Mark Aitchison Young (1946–1947)
					Sir Alexander Grantham (1947–1957)
9		Edward Audley Boyce	26 August 1949	1950
10		Theodore Louis Bowring 包寧	5 December 1950	1957
11		Allan Inglis 英格理	22 May 1957	28 February 1963		[2]
					Sir Robert Brown Black (1958–1964)
12		Alec Michael John Wright 鄔勵德	7 March 1963	27 March 1969		[3][4]
					Sir David Trench (1964–1971)
13		James Jeavons Robson 盧秉信	28 March 1969	August 1973		[4]
					Sir Murray MacLehose (1971–1982)
14		David Wylie McDonald 麥德霖	February 1974	1981

Development issues were handled by Secretary for Lands and Works between 1981 and 1989.

Secretaries for Works, 1989–1997

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
1		Kenneth Kwok 郭偉階	1 September 1989	31 March 1992	Sir David Wilson (1987–1992)
2		Ronald James Blake 詹伯樂	1 April 1992	May 1995
					Chris Patten (1992–1997)
3		Kwong Hon-sang 鄺漢生	15 May 1995	30 June 1997

Secretaries for Works, 1997–2002

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term	Ref
1		Kwong Hon-sang 鄺漢生	1 July 1997	6 August 1999	1 year, 37 days	Tung Chee-hwa (1997–2005)	1
2		Lee Shing-see 李承仕	7 August 1999	30 June 2002	2 years, 328 days

Development issues were handled by Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works between 2002 and 2007.

Secretaries for Development, 2007–present

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term	Ref
1		Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor 林鄭月娥	1 July 2007	30 June 2012	5 years, 0 days	Donald Tsang (2005–2012)	3
2		Mak Chai-kwong 麥齊光	1 July 2012	12 July 2012	11 days	Leung Chun-ying (2012–2017)	4
3		Paul Chan Mo-po 陳茂波	30 July 2012	16 January 2017	4 years, 170 days
4		Eric Ma Siu-cheung 馬紹祥	13 February 2017	30 June 2017	138 days
5		Michael Wong Wai-lun 黃偉綸	1 July 2017	30 June 2022	5 years, 0 days	Carrie Lam (2017–2022)	5
6		Bernadette Linn Hon-ho 甯漢豪	1 July 2022	Incumbent	1 year, 196 days	John Lee (2022–present)	6