# |
Portrait |
Name (born – died) |
Home state |
Tenure in office |
Appointer (President) |
From |
To |
Time in office |
Governor of East Punjab |
1 |
 |
Sir Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (1893–1980) |
Bombay Presidency |
15 August 1947 |
26 January 1950 |
2 years, 164 days |
Lord Mountbatten (Governor-General) |
Governor of Punjab |
(1) |
 |
Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (1893–1980) |
Bombay Presidency |
26 January 1950 |
11 March 1953 |
3 years, 44 days |
Rajendra Prasad |
2 |
 |
Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (1901–1994) |
Bihar |
11 March 1953 |
15 September 1958 |
5 years, 188 days |
3 |
 |
Narhar Vishnu Gadgil (1896–1966) |
Madhya Pradesh |
15 September 1958 |
1 October 1962 |
4 years, 16 days |
4 |
 |
Pattom A. Thanu Pillai (1885–1970) |
Kerala |
1 October 1962 |
4 May 1964[§][α] |
1 year, 216 days |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
5 |
 |
Hafiz Mohamad Ibrahim (1889–1968) |
Uttar Pradesh |
4 May 1964 |
1 September 1965 |
1 year, 120 days |
6 |
 |
Ujjal Singh (1895–1983) |
Punjab |
1 September 1965 |
26 June 1966[§][β] |
298 days |
7 |
 |
Dharma Vira ICS (Retd) (1906–2000) |
Uttar Pradesh |
27 June 1966 |
1 June 1967[§][γ] |
339 days |
– |
 |
Justice Mehar Singh Chief Justice, Punjab and Haryana High Court (Acting) |
Punjab |
1 June 1967 |
16 October 1967 |
137 days |
Zakir Husain |
8 |
 |
Dadappa Chintappa Pavate (1899–1978) |
Karnataka |
16 October 1967 |
21 May 1973 |
5 years, 217 days |
9 |
 |
Mahendra Mohan Choudhry (1908–1982) |
Assam |
21 May 1973 |
1 September 1977 |
4 years, 103 days |
V. V. Giri |
– |
 |
Justice Ranjit Singh Narula (1908–2005) Chief Justice, Punjab and Haryana High Court (Acting) |
Punjab |
1 September 1977 |
24 September 1977 |
23 days |
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy |
10 |
 |
Jaisukh Lal Hathi (1909–1982) |
Gujarat |
24 September 1977 |
26 August 1981 |
3 years, 336 days |
11 |
 |
Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan (1911–1983) |
Rajasthan |
26 August 1981 |
21 April 1982 |
238 days |
12 |
 |
Marri Chenna Reddy (1919–1996) |
Andhra Pradesh |
21 April 1982 |
7 February 1983 |
292 days |
– |
 |
Justice Surjit Singh Sandhawalia (1925–2007) Chief Justice, Punjab and Haryana High Court (Acting) |
Punjab |
7 February 1983 |
21 February 1983 |
14 days |
Zail Singh |
13 |
 |
Anant Prasad Sharma (1919–1988) |
Bihar |
21 February 1983 |
10 October 1983[§][γ] |
231 days |
14 |
 |
Bhairab Dutt Pande ICS (Retd) (1917–2009) |
Uttar Pradesh |
10 October 1983 |
3 July 1984 |
267 days |
15 |
 |
Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala (1916–2001) |
Maharashtra |
3 July 1984 |
14 March 1985[‡] |
254 days |
16 |
 |
Arjun Singh (1930–2011) |
Madhya Pradesh |
14 March 1985 |
14 November 1985[‡] |
245 days |
– |
 |
Hokishe Sema (1921–2007) Governor of Himachal Pradesh (Additional Charge) |
Nagaland |
14 November 1985 |
26 November 1985 |
12 days |
17 |
 |
Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999) |
Madhya Pradesh |
26 November 1985 |
2 April 1986[§][δ] |
127 days |
18 |
 |
Siddhartha Shankar Ray (1920–2010) |
West Bengal |
2 April 1986 |
8 December 1989[‡] |
3 years, 250 days |
19 |
 |
Nirmal Kumar Mukarji IAS (Retd) (1921–2002) |
Delhi |
8 December 1989 |
14 June 1990[‡] |
188 days |
Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
20 |
 |
Virendra Verma (1916–2009) |
Uttar Pradesh |
14 June 1990 |
18 December 1990[§][ε] |
187 days |
21 |
 |
General Om Prakash Malhotra (Retd) PVSM (1922–2015) |
Jammu and Kashmir |
18 December 1990 |
7 August 1991[‡] |
232 days |
22 |
 |
Surendra Nath IPS (Retd) (1926–1994) |
Delhi |
7 August 1991 |
9 July 1994[†] |
2 years, 336 days |
– |
 |
Justice Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar (born 1935) Chief Justice, Punjab and Haryana High Court (Acting) |
Maharashtra |
10 July 1994 |
18 September 1994 |
70 days |
Shankar Dayal Sharma |
23 |
 |
Lieutenant General B. K. N. Chhibber (Retd) PVSM AVSM VSM (born 1936) |
Punjab |
18 September 1994 |
27 November 1999 |
5 years, 70 days |
24 |
 |
Lieutenant General J. F. R. Jacob (Retd) PVSM (1921–2016) |
West Bengal |
27 November 1999 |
8 May 2003 |
3 years, 162 days |
K. R. Narayanan |
25 |
 |
Justice (Retd) Om Prakash Verma (1937–2015) |
Uttar Pradesh |
8 May 2003 |
3 November 2004[‡] |
1 year, 179 days |
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
– |
 |
Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (1921–2016) Governor of Haryana (Additional Charge) |
Delhi |
3 November 2004 |
16 November 2004 |
13 days |
26 |
 |
General Sunith Francis Rodrigues (Retd) PVSM VSM (1933–2022) |
Maharashtra |
16 November 2004 |
22 January 2010 |
5 years, 67 days |
27 |
 |
Shivraj Patil (born 1935) |
Maharashtra |
22 January 2010 |
22 January 2015 |
5 years, 0 days |
Pratibha Patil |
– |
 |
Kaptan Singh Solanki (born 1939) Governor of Haryana (Additional Charge) |
Madhya Pradesh |
22 January 2015 |
22 August 2016 |
1 year, 213 days |
Pranab Mukherjee |
28 |
 |
V. P. Singh Badnore (born 1948) |
Rajasthan |
22 August 2016 |
30 August 2021 |
5 years, 8 days |
– |
 |
Banwarilal Purohit (born 1940) Governor of Tamil Nadu, until 17 September 2021 |
Maharashtra |
31 August 2021 |
11 September 2021 |
2 years, 334 days |
Ram Nath Kovind |
29 |
11 September 2021 |
30 July 2024 |
30 |
 |
Gulab Chand Kataria (born 1944) |
Rajasthan |
31 July 2024 |
Incumbent |
1 year, 17 days |
Droupadi Murmu |