List of the Past Governors of Reserve Bank of India

S.No.	Governor	Tenure of Service
1.	Sir Osborne A. Smith	1st April 1935 – 30th June 1937
2.	Sir James Braid Taylor	1st July 1937 – 17th February 1943
3.	Sir Chintaman D. Deshmukh	11th August 1943 – 30th June 1949
4.	Sir Benegal Rama Rau	1st July 1949 – 14th January 1957
5.	K.G. Ambegaonkar	14th 1957 – 28th February 1957
6.	H.V.R. Iengar	1st March 1957 – 28th February 1962
7.	P.C. Bhattacharyya	1st March 1962 – 30th June 1967
8.	L.K. Jha	1st  July 1967 – 3rd May 1970
9.	B.N. Adarkar	4th May 1970 – 15th June 1970
10.	S. Jagannathan	16th June 1970 – 19th May 1975
11.	N.C. Sen Gupta	19th May 1975 – 19th August 1975
12.	K.R. Puri	20th August 1975 – 2nd May 1977
13.	M. Narasimham	2nd May 1977 – 30th November 1977
14.	Dr. I.G.Patel	1st December 1977 – 15th September1982
15.	Dr. Manmohan Singh	16th September 1982 – 14th January 1985
16.	A. Ghosh	15th January 1985 – 4th February 1985
17.	R.N. Malhotra	4th February 1985 – 22nd December 1990
18.	S.Venkitaramanan	22nd December 1990 – 21st December 1992
19.	Dr. C.Rangarajan	22nd December 1992 – December 21st December 199522nd December 1995 – 22nd November 1997
20.	Dr. Bimal Jalan	22nd November 1997 – 5th September 2003
21.	Dr.Y.V.Reddy	6th September 2003 – 5th September 2008
22.	Dr. D. Subbarao	5th September 2008 – September 4th September 20115th September 2011 – 4th September 2013
23.	Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan	4th September 2013 – 4th September 2016
24.	Dr. Urjit Patel	4th September 2016 Onwards