Reserve Bank of India Governors

 

Sir Osborne Arkell Smith 26 December 1876 – 30 August 1952	1st Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 1 April 1935 to 30 June 1937
Sir James Braid Taylor 21 April 1891 – 17 February 1943	2nd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 1 July 1937– 17 February 1943
Sir Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh 14 January 1896 – 2 October 1982	3rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 11 August 1943 – 30 June 1949
Sir  Benegal Rama Rau 1 July 1889 – 13 December 1969	4th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 1 July 1949 – 14 January 1957
K. G. Ambegaokar	5th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 14 January 1957 - 28 February  1957
Haravu Venkatanarasimha Varadaraja  H. V. R.  Iyengar  23 August 1902 -	6th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 1 March 1957 – 28 February 1962
Paresh Chandra Bhattacharya 1 March 1903 -	7th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 01 March 1962 – 30 June 1967
Lakshmi Kant Jha 22 November 1913 – 16 January 1988	8th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 1 July 1967 – 3 May 1970
Bhaskar Namdeo Adarkar 18 May 1910 –20 March 1998	9th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 4 May 1970 to 15 June 1970
Sarukkai Jagannathan 18 May 1914 – 1996	10th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 16 June 1970 to 19 May 1975
N. C. Sen Gupta	11th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 19 May 1975 to 19 August 1975
K. R. Puri	12th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 20 August 1975 to 2 May 1977
Maidavolu Narasimham	13th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 2 May 1977 to 30 November 1977
Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel 11 November 1924 – 17 July 2005	14th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 1 December 1977 to 15 September 1982
Manmohan Singh 26 September 1932	15th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 15 September 1982 – 15 January 1985
Amitav Ghosh	16th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 15 January – 4 February 1985
Ram Narain Malhotra 1926 – 29 April 1997	17th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 04 February 1985 – 22 December 1990
S Venkitaramanan 28 January 1931	18th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 22 December 1990 – 21 December 1992
Chakravarthi Rangarajan	19th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 22 December 1992 – 21 November 1997
Bimal Jalan  17 August 1941	20th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 22 November 1997 – 4 September 2003
Yaga Venugopal Reddy 17 August 1941	21th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 6 September 2003 – 5 September 2008
Duvvuri Subbarao 11 August 1949	22th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 5 September 2008 – 4 September 2013
Raghuram Govind Rajan  3 February 1963	23th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 4 September 2013 – 4 September 2016
Urjit Patel  28 October 1963	24th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 4 September 2016 – 10 December 2018
Shaktikanta Das  26 February 1957	25th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 12 December 2018 Onwards