Governors of Reserve Bank of India on featured on Republic India Banknotes.
S.No. Governor Tenure
1 – Sir Osborne A. Smith – 1st April 1935 – 30th June 1937
2 – Sir James Braid Taylor – 1st July 1937 – 17th Feb 1943
3 – Sir Chintamani Dwarakanath Deshmukh – 11th Aug 1943 – 30th June 1949
4 – Sir Benegal Rama Rau – 1st July 1949 – 14th Jan 1957
5 – Keshav Govind Ambegaonkar – 14th Jan 1957 – 28th Feb 1957
6 – Hoorav Varada Raja Iyengar – 1st March 1957 – 28th Feb 1962
7 – Paresh Chandra Bhattacharya – 1st March 1962 – 30th 1967
8 – Lakshmi Kant Jha – 1st July 1967 – 15th June 1970
9 – Bhaskar Namdeo Adarkar – 4th May 1970 – 15th June 1970
10 – Sarukkai Jagannathan – 16th June 1970 – 19th May 1975
11 – Nirmal Chandra Sen Gupta – 19th May 1975 – 19th Aug 1975
12 – Khatri Ram Puri – 20th Aug 1975 – 2nd May 1977
13 – Maidavolu Narasimham – 2nd May 1977 – 30th Nov 1977
14 – Dr. Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel – 1st Dec 1977 – 15th Sep 1982
15 – Dr. Manmohan Singh – 16th Sep 1982 – 14th Jan 1985
16 – Amitav Ghosh – 15th Jan 1985 – 4th Feb 1985
17 – Ram Narayan Malhotra – 4th Feb 1985 – 22nd Dec 1990
18 – S. Venkitaramanan – 22nd Dec 1990 – 21st Dec 1992
19 – Dr. Chakravarthi Rangrajan – 22nd Dec 1992 – 22nt Nov 1997
20 – Dr. Bimal Jalan – 22nd Nov 1997 – 5th Sep 2003
21 – Dr. Yaga Venugopal Reddy – 6th Sep 2003 – 5th Sep 2008
22 – Dr. Duvvuri Subbarao – 5th Sep 2008 – 4th Sep 2013
23 – Dr. Raghuram Govind Rajan – 4th Sep 2013 – 9th Sep 2016
24 – Dr. Urjit R. Patel – 4th Sep 2016 – 10th Dec 2018
25 – Shaktikanta Das – 11th Dec 2018 – till Date