List of governors of Punjab, India

This is a list of the governors of Punjab state in India since its independence on 15 August 1947. Since 1985 the governor of Punjab has acted as the administrator of Chandigarh as well.

Governor of Punjab
Emblem of Punjab
Flag of India
Incumbent Gulab Chand Kataria since 31 July 2024
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Raj Bhavan, Chandigarh
Term length	At the pleasure of the president
Precursor	Governor of Punjab
Inaugural holder	Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
Formation	15 August 1947; 78 years ago (1947-08-15) (as East Punjab) 26 January 1950; 75 years ago (1950-01-26) (as Punjab)
Website	Punjab Raj Bhavan

List

Legend

• ^† Died in office
• ^§ Transferred
• ^‡ Resigned/removed

Color key

•    indicates acting/additional charge

#	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[§][lower-greek 1]	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[§][lower-greek 2]	298 days
7		Dharma Vira ICS (Retd) (1906–2000)	Uttar Pradesh	27 June 1966	1 June 1967[§][lower-greek 3]	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[§][lower-greek 3]	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[§][lower-greek 4]	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[§][lower-greek 5]	187 days
21		General Om Prakash Malhotra (Retd) Lua error: expandTemplate: template "post-nominals/IND" does not exist. (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) Lua error: expandTemplate: template "post-nominals/IND" does not exist. (born 1936)	Punjab	18 September 1994	27 November 1999	5 years, 70 days
24		Lieutenant General J. F. R. Jacob (Retd) Lua error: expandTemplate: template "post-nominals/IND" does not exist. (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) Lua error: expandTemplate: template "post-nominals/IND" does not exist. (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, 19 days	Droupadi Murmu

1. Transferred as the Governor of Andhra Pradesh
2. Transferred as the Governor of Tamil Nadu
3. Transferred as the Governor of West Bengal
4. Transferred as the Governor of Maharashtra
5. Transferred as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh