RBI Governor List 2021
| Name of the Governor | Tenure |
| 1. Sir Osborne Smith | 1st Jan 1935 to 30th June 1937 |
| 2. Sir James Taylor | 1st July 1937 to 17th Feb 1943 |
| 3. Sir C D Deshmukh | 11th Aug 1943 to 30th June 1949 |
| 4. Sir Benegal Rama Rau | 1st July 1949 to 14th Jan 1957 |
| 5. K G Ambegaonkar | 14th Jan 1957 to 28th Feb 1957 |
| 6. H V R Iengar | 1st March 1957 to 28th Feb 1962 |
| 7. P C Bhattacharya | 1st March 1962 to 30th Sept 1967 |
| 8. L K Jha | 1st July 1967 to 3rd May 1970 |
| 9. B N Adarkar | 4th May 1970 to 15th June 1970 |
| 10. S Jagannathan | 16th June 1970 to 19th May 1975 |
| 11. N C Sen Gupta | 19th May 1975 to 19th Aug 1975 |
| 12. K R Puri | 20th Aug 1975 to 2nd May 1977 |
| 13. M Narasimham | 2nd May 1977 to 30th Nov 1977 |
| 14. Dr. I G Patel | 1st Dec 1977 to 15th Sept 1982 |
| 15. Dr. Manmohan Singh | 16th Sept 1982 to 14th Jan 1985 |
| 16. A Ghosh | 15th Jan 1985 to 4th Feb 1985 |
| 17. R N Malhotra | 4th Feb 1985 to 22nd Dec 1990 |
| 18. Venkitaramanan | 22nd Dec 1990 to 21st Dec 1992 |
| 19. Dr. C Rangarajan | 22nd Dec 1992 to 21st Nov 1997 |
| 20. Dr. Bimal Jalan | 22nd Nov 1997 to 6th Sept 2003 |
| 21. Dr. Y V Reddy | 6th Sept 2003 to 5th Sept 2008 |
| 22. Dr. D. Subbarao | 5th Sept 2008 to 4th Sept 2013 |
| 23. Dr. Raghuram Rajan | 4th Sept 2013 to 4th Sept 2016 |
| 24. Dr. Urjit R. Patel | 4th Sept 2016 to 11th Dec 2018 |
| 25. Shaktikanta Das | 12 Dec 2018 to date |