Governors of Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

1          Sir Osborne Smith                          1 April 1935 – 30 June 1937

2          Sir James Braid Taylor                      1 July 1937 – 17 February 1943

3          Sir C. D. Deshmukh                         11 August 1943 – 30 June 1949

4          Sir Benegal Rama Rau                       1 July 1949 – 14 January 1957

5          K. G. Ambegaonkar                         14 January 1957 – 28 February 1957

6          H. V. R. Iyengar                                1 March 1957 – 28 February 1962

7          P. C. Bhattacharya                              1 March 1962 – 30 June 1967

8          L. K. Jha                                            1 July 1967 – 3 May 1970

9          B. N. Adarkar                                     4 May 1970 – 15 June 1970

10        S. Jagannathan                                   16 June 1970 – 19 May 1975

11        N. C. Sen Gupta                                 19 May 1975 – 19 August 1975

12        K. R. Puri                                            20 August 1975 – 2 May 1977

13        M. Narasimham                                  2 May 1977 – 30 November 1977

14        Dr. I. G. Patel                                    1 December 1977 – 15 September 1982

15        Dr. Manmohan Singh                          16 September 1982 – 14 January 1985

16        A. Ghosh                                             15 January 1985 – 4 February 1985

17        R. N. Malhotra                                    4 February 1985 – 22 December 1990

18        S. Venkitaramanan                              22 December 1990 – 21 December 1992

19        Dr. C. Rangarajan                               22 December 1992 – 21 November 1997

20        Dr. Bimal Jalan                                   22 November 1997 – 6 September 2003

21        Dr. Y. Venugopal Reddy                      6 September 2003 – 5 September 2008

22        Dr. Duvvuri Subbarao                        5 September 2008 – 4 September 2013

23        Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan                      4 September 2013—