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{{Infobox monarchy
| border             = sultanate
| royal_title        = Sultan 
| realm              = Brunei Darussalam
| native_name        = {{lang|ms|Sultan dan Yang Di-Pertuan Negara Brunei Darussalam}}
| type               = other
| coatofarms         = Personal Emblem of the Sultan of Brunei.svg
| coatofarms_article = Emblem of Brunei
| image              = Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah 2019 (cropped).jpg
| caption            = 
| incumbent          = [[Hassanal Bolkiah]]
| incumbentsince     = 5 October 1967
| other              = (''Installed on 1 August 1968'')
| his/her            = His
| heir_apparent      = The Crown Prince [[Al-Muhtadee Billah]]
| first_monarch      = [[Muhammad Shah of Brunei|Sultan Muhammad Shah]]
| date               = {{start date and age|1363}} 
| residence          = [[Istana Nurul Iman]], [[Bandar Seri Begawan]]
| website            =
}}
This is a list of sultans of Brunei.
==Sultans==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Sultans of Brunei since 1368<ref name="list">{{cite web|title=Sultan-Sultan Brunei |language=ms |url=http://www.history-centre.gov.bn/sultanbrunei.htm |publisher=Government of Brunei |access-date=24 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415152209/http://www.history-centre.gov.bn/sultanbrunei.htm |archive-date=15 April 2015 }}</ref>
! {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
! Name
! Reign start
! Reign end
! Notes
|-
!1
|[[Muhammad Shah of Brunei|Muhammad Shah]] / Awang Alak Betatar
|1363<ref name="Elisseeff2000">{{cite book| last = Elisseeff| first = Vadime| title = The Silk Roads: Highways of Culture and Commerce| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zRPbecWnkoIC| access-date = 26 December 2013| date = January 2000| publisher = Berghahn Books| isbn = 978-1-57181-222-3| pages = 145–157| chapter = Chapter 8: A Brunei Sultan of the Early Fourteenth Century – A Study of an Arabic Gravestone }}</ref>
|1402
|Established the Sultanate.<ref name="Elisseeff2000"/>
|-
!2
|[[Sultan Ahmad of Brunei|Ahmad]] / Awang Pateh Berbai
|1408
|1425
|
|-
!3
|[[Sharif Ali]] / Sultan Barkat (Blessed Sultan)
|1425
|1432
|No direct genealogical relation to predecessor, but was selected as he was the son-in-law of the previous sultan (Ahmad) and was well versed in Islam.
|-
!4
|[[Sulaiman (Brunei)|Sulaiman]]
|1432
|1485
|Son of the previous sultan, Sharif Ali. Abdicated to allow his son Bolkiah to become sultan.
|-
!5
|[[Bolkiah]] / Nakhoda Ragam (The Singing Captain)
|1485
|1524
|Son of the previous sultan, Sulaiman.
|-
!6
|[[Abdul Kahar]]
|1524
|1530
|Son of the previous sultan, Bolkiah
|-
!7
|[[Saiful Rijal]]
|1533
|1581
|Nephew and adopted-son of the previous sultan, Abdul Kahar. [[Castile War]] broke out between Brunei and [[Spanish Empire|Spain]].
|-
!8
|[[Shah Berunai]]
|1581
|1582
|Eldest son of [[Saiful Rijal|Sultan Saiful Rijal]]
|-
!9
|[[Muhammad Hassan (Brunei)|Muhammad Hassan]]
|1582
|1598
|Younger brother of [[Shah Berunai]].
|-
!10
|[[Abdul Jalilul Akbar]]
|1598
|1659
|
|-
!11
|[[Abdul Jalilul Jabbar]]
|1659
|1660
|
|-
!12
|[[Muhammad Ali (Brunei)|Muhammad Ali]]
|1660
|1661
|Strangled by his successor [[Abdul Hakkul Mubin]], sparking the [[Brunei Civil War]].
|-
!13
|[[Abdul Hakkul Mubin]]
|1660
|1673
|Started the [[Brunei Civil War]] by killing his predecessor [[Muhammad Ali (Brunei)|Muhammad Ali]] and was in turn killed by [[Muhyiddin]] who succeeded him as Sultan.
|-
!14
|[[Muhyiddin]]
|1673
|1690
|Son of [[Abdul Jalilul Akbar]] who avenged the death of his father-in-law [[Muhammad Ali (Brunei)|Muhammad Ali]] by killing [[Abdul Hakkul Mubin]], thus ending the [[Brunei Civil War]].
|-
!15
|Nasruddin
|1690
|1710
|
|-
!16
|Hussin Kamaluddin
|1710
|1730
|He ruled for the second time between 1737 and 1740.
|-
!17
|Muhammad Alauddin
|1730
|1737
|Instructed Datu Imam Yaakub to write the ''Silsilah Raja-Raja Berunai'' or the Genealogy of the Sultans of Brunei.
|-
!18
|[[Omar Ali Saifuddin I]]
|1740
|1778
|
|-
!19
|Muhammad Tajuddin
|1778
|1807
|Ordered Khatib Abdul Latif to inscribe ''Batu Tarsilah'' or Stone Tablet.
|-
!20
|Muhammad Jamalul Alam I
|1804
|1804
|
|-
!21
|Muhammad Kanzul Alam
|1807
|1826
|
|-
!22
|Muhammad Alam
|1826
|1828
|
|-
!23
|[[Omar Ali Saifuddin II]]
|1828
|1852
|Brunei ceded some territories of [[Sarawak]] to [[James Brooke]]. Brunei ceded [[Labuan]] to the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]].
|-
!24
|[[Abdul Momin]]
|1852
|29 May 1885
|Brunei ceded northwestern part of [[Borneo]] to the British. The declaration of ''Amanat'' took place in 1884 that vowed not to cede more Brunei territories to foreign powers.
|-
!25
|[[Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin]]
|29 May 1885
|10 May 1906
|United Kingdom established protectorate over Brunei in 1888.
|-
!26
|[[Muhammad Jamalul Alam II]]
|10 May 1906
|11 September 1924
|The Sultan's reign was a short one. An outbreak of [[malaria]] claimed his life as well as three members of his family.
|-
!27
|[[Ahmad Tajuddin]]
|11 September 1924
|4 June 1950
|[[Japanese occupation of British Borneo|Japanese occupation of Brunei]] took place.
|-
!28
|[[Omar Ali Saifuddien III]]
|4 June 1950
|5 June 1966
|Signed the Brunei Constitution of 1959. Abdicated voluntarily in favor of his eldest son, [[Hassanal Bolkiah]]. Became Brunei's first Defence Minister after independence in 1984.
|-
!29
|[[Hassanal Bolkiah]]
|5 June 1966
|Incumbent
|Brunei regained independence from the United Kingdom in 1984.
|}

==References==
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