United States Ambassador to Kuwait

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This is a list of United States ambassadors, or lower-ranking diplomatic heads, to Kuwait.

  • Dayton S. Mak (1961 - 1962) - ChargĂ© d'Affaires
  • Parker T. Hart (1962 - 1963) - First ambassador
  • Howard Rex Cottam (1963 - 1969)
  • John Patrick Walsh (1969 - 1971)
  • William A. Stoltzfus Jr. (1972 - 1976)
  • Frank E. Maestrone (1976 - 1979)
  • Francois M. Dickman (1979 - 1983)
  • Philip J. Griffin (1983 - 1984) - ChargĂ© d'Affaires
  • Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton (1984 - 1987)
  • W. Nathaniel Howell (1987 - 1991) - left occupied Kuwait in December during DESERT SHIELD before the start of the First Gulf War
  • Edward William Gnehm, Jr. (1991 - 1994) - reopened the embassy with following the liberation of Kuwait, February 1991
  • Ryan Clark Crocker (1994 - 1997)
  • James A. Larocco (1997 - 2001)
  • Richard Jones (2001 - 2004)
  • Richard LeBaron (2004 - present)