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==Leadership==
{{Main|Director of the Government Communications Headquarters}}
The following is a list of the heads and operational heads of GCHQ and GC&CS:

*Sir [[Hugh Sinclair]] (1919–1939) (founder)
*Cmdr [[Alastair Denniston]] (1921–February 1942) (operational head)
*Sir [[Edward Travis]] (February 1942 – 1952)
*Sir [[Eric Malcolm Jones|Eric Jones]] (April 1952 – 1960)
*Sir [[Clive Loehnis]] (1960–1964)
*Sir [[Leonard Hooper]] (1965–1973)
*Sir [[Arthur Bonsall]] (1973–1978)
*Sir [[Brian Tovey|Brian John Maynard Tovey]] (1978–1983)
*Sir [[Peter Marychurch]] (1983–1989)
*Sir [[John Adye|John Anthony Adye]] (1989–1996)
*Sir [[David Omand]] (1996 –1997)
*Sir [[Kevin Tebbit]] (1998)
*Sir [[Francis Richards (diplomat)|Francis Richards]] (1998–2003)
*Sir [[David Pepper (intelligence official)|David Pepper]] (2003–2008)
*Sir [[Iain Lobban]] (2008–2014)
*[[Robert Hannigan]] (2014–2017)
*Sir [[Jeremy Fleming]] (2017–2023)
*[[Anne Keast-Butler]] (2023–Present)