All Governors of Reserve Bank of India Name list

 

No.

Name of governor's

Began

Ended

Duration

1.	Osborne Smith	1 April 1935	30 June 1937	2 years, 90 days
2.	James Braid Taylor, ICS	1 July 1937	17 February 1943	5 years, 231 days
3.	C. D. Deshmukh, ICS	11 August 1943	30 June 1949	5 years, 323 days
4.	Benegal Rama Rau, ICS	1 July 1949	14 January 1957	7 years, 197 days
5.	K. G. Ambegaonkar, ICS	14 January 1957	28 February 1957	45 days
6.	H. V. R. Iyengar, ICS	1 March 1957	28 February 1962	4 years, 364 days
7.	P. C. Bhattacharya	1 March 1962	30 June 1967	5 years, 121 days
8.	L. K. Jha	1 July 1967	3 May 1970	2 years, 306 days
9.	B. N. Adarkar	4 May 1970	15 June 1970	42 days
10.	S. Jagannathan	16 June 1970	19 May 1975	4 years, 337 days
11.	N. C. Sen Gupta	19 May 1975	19 August 1975	92 days
12.	K. R. Puri	20 August 1975	2 May 1977	1 year, 255 days
13.	M. Narasimham	3 May 1977	30 November 1977	211 days
14.	I. G. Patel	1 December 1977	15 September 1982	4 years, 288 days
15.	Manmohan Singh	16 September 1982	14 January 1985	2 years, 120 days
16.	Amitav Ghosh	15 January 1985	4 February 1985	20 days
17.	R. N. Malhotra, IAS	4 February 1985	22 December 1990	5 years, 321 days
18.	S. Venkitaramanan, IAS	22 December 1990	21 December 1992	1 year, 365 days
19.	C. Rangarajan	22 December 1992	21 November 1997	4 years, 334 days
20.	Bimal Jalan	22 November 1997	6 September 2003	5 years, 288 days
21.	Y. V. Reddy, IAS	6 September 2003	5 September 2008	4 years, 365 days
22.	D. Subbarao, IAS	5 September 2008	4 September 2013	4 years, 364 days
23.	Raghuram Rajan	4 September 2013	4 September 2016	3 years, 0 days
24.	Urjit Patel	4 September 2016	Incumbent	331 days