This list of governors of Katanga includes governors or equivalent officeholders of the Katanga Province established in the Belgian Congo in 1910, and of successor provinces up to 29 October 2015, when Katanga was split into the provinces of Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba and Tanganyika. Nord-Katanga, Lualaba and Katanga Oriental were merged back into the province of Katanga on 28 December 1966.The province was renamed Shaba on 2 January 1972, then returned to the name of Katanga in 1997.