List of governors of West Bengal

The Governor of West Bengal is a nominal head and representative of the President of India in the state of West Bengal. He is the Head of State of West Bengal. The governor is appointed by the president for a term of five years.

Governor of West Bengal
Raj Bhavan
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Incumbent C. V. Ananda Bose since 23 November 2022 (2022-11-23)
Style	His Excellency
Status	Head of state of West Bengal
Residence	Raj Bhavan, Kolkata (primary) Raj Bhavan, Darjeeling (summer)
Appointer	President of India
Term length	5 Years
Inaugural holder	Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari
Formation	15 August 1947; 77 years ago (1947-08-15)
Website	http://rajbhavankolkata.nic.in

List

Sl. No.	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari	15 August 1947	21 June 1948
2	Kailash Nath Katju	21 June 1948	1 November 1951
3	Harendra Coomar Mookerjee	1 November 1951	8 August 1956
4	Phani Bhusan Chakravartti	8 August 1956	3 November 1956
5	Padmaja Naidu	3 November 1956	1 June 1967
6	Dharma Vira	1 June 1967	1 April 1969
7	Deep Narayan Sinha (acting)	1 April 1969	19 September 1969
8	Shanti Swaroop Dhavan	19 September 1969	21 August 1971
9	Anthony Lancelot Dias	21 August 1971	6 November 1979
10	Tribhuvana Narayana Singh	6 November 1979	12 September 1981
11	Bhairab Dutt Pande	12 September 1981	10 October 1983
12	Anant Prasad Sharma	10 October 1983	16 August 1984
13	Satish Chandra (acting)	16 August 1984	1 October 1984
14	Uma Shankar Dikshit	1 October 1984	12 August 1986
15	Saiyid Nurul Hasan	12 August 1986	20 March 1989
16	T. V. Rajeswar	20 March 1989	7 February 1990
17	Saiyid Nurul Hasan	7 February 1990	12 July 1993
18	B. Satyanarayan Reddy (additional charge)	13 July 1993	14 August 1993
18	K. V. Raghunatha Reddy	14 August 1993	27 April 1998
20	Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai	27 April 1998	18 May 1999
21	Shyamal Kumar Sen	18 May 1999	4 December 1999
22	Viren J. Shah	4 December 1999	14 December 2004
23	Gopalkrishna Gandhi	14 December 2004	14 December 2009
24	Devanand Konwar (additional charge)	14 December 2009	23 January 2010
25	M.K. Narayanan	24 January 2010	30 June 2014
26	D. Y. Patil (acting charge)[1]	3 July 2014	17 July 2014
27	Keshari Nath Tripathi	24 July 2014	29 July 2019
28	Jagdeep Dhankhar[2]	30 July 2019	18 July 2022
29	La. Ganesan (additional charge)	18 July 2022	22 Nov 2022
30	Dr. C. V. Ananda Bose	23 Nov 2022	Present