- Previous U.S. Ambassadors to Afghanistan
- History of the U.S. and Afghanistan
- Chiefs of Mission in Afghanistan (1935 – present)
John R. Bass Ambassador (2017 – 2020)
Special Chargé d’Affaires Ambassador Hugo Llorens (2016 – 2017)
P. Michael McKinley (2014 – 2016)
James B. Cunningham (2012 – 2014)
Ryan Crocker (2011-2012)
Karl W. Eikenberry (2009-2011)
William Braucher Wood (2007-2009)
Ronald E. Neumann (2005-2007)
Zalmay Khalilzad (2003-2005)
Robert Patrick John Finn (2002-2003)
Ryan Crocker, appointed Charge d’Affaires ad interim (Jan 2, 2002)
Note: U.S. Embassy Kabul closed (January 30, 1989)
The U.S. Liaison Office in Kabul reopened (Dec 17, 2001)
Adolph Dubs (1978-1979)
Theodore Lyman Eliot (1973-1978)
Robert Gerhard Neumann (1966-1973)
John Milton Steeves (1962-1966)
Henry Alfred Byroade (1959-1962)
Sheldon Tibbetts Mills (1956-1959)
Angus Ivan Ward (1952-1956)
George Robert Merrell (1951-1952)
Louis Goethe Dreyfus (1949-1951)
Note: Elevation of Legation to Embassy Kabul (May 6, 1948)
Ely Eliot Palmer (1945-1948)
Cornelius Van Hemert Engert (1942-1945)
Note: Opening of Legation Kabul (June 6, 1942)
Louis Goethe Dreyfus (1940-1942)
William Harrison Hornibrook (1935-1936)
Note: Accredited also to Persia; resident at Tehran.