List of Governors of RBI (RESERVE BANK of INDIA )

Sl No,  Name of RBI Governor,  Date From,  Date To
1  Osborne Smith  April 1, 1935   June 30, 1937
2  James Braid Taylor  July 1, 1937  February 17, 1943
3  C. D. Deshmukh  August 11, 1943  June 30, 1949
4  Benegal Rama Rau  July 1, 1949       January 14, 1957
5       K. G. Ambegaonkar     January 14, 1957   February 28, 1957
6  H. V. R. Iyengar March 1, 1957    February 28, 1962
7       P. C. Bhattacharya        March 1, 1962        June 30, 1967
8  L. K. Jha     July 1, 1967    May 3, 1970
9  B. N. Adarkar  May 4, 1970        June 15, 1970
10  S. Jagannathan  June 16, 1970  May 19, 1975
11  N. C. Sen Gupta  May 19, 1975   August 19, 1975
12 K. R. Puri  August 20, 1975  May 2, 1977
13  M. Narasimham  May 3, 1977  November 30, 1977
14  I. G. Patel  December 1, 1977  September 15, 1982
15  Manmohan Singh  September 16, 1982  January 14, 1985
16  Amitav Ghosh  January 15, 1985  February 4, 1985
17  R. N. Malhotra  February 4, 1985  December 22, 1990
18  S. Venkitaramanan  December 22, 1990  December 21, 1992
19  C. Rangarajan  December 22, 1992  November 21, 1997
20   Bimal Jalan  November 22, 1997   September 6, 2003
21   Y. V. Reddy   September 6, 2003  September 5, 2008
22  D. Subbarao  September 5, 2008   September 4, 2013
23   Raghuram Rajan      September 4, 2013    September 4, 2016
24       Urjit Patel   September 4, 2016 Incumbent