List of Governors of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI):

1. Sir Osborne Smith (1935 – 1937)
2. Sir James Taylor (1937 – 1943)
3. Sir C D Deshmukh (1943 – 1949)
4. Sir Benegal Rama Rau (1949 – 1957)
5. K G Ambegaonkar (1957)
6. H V R Iengar (1957 – 1962)
7. P C Bhattacharya (1962 – 1967)
8. L K Jha (1967 – 1970)
9. B N Adarkar (1970)
10. S Jagannathan (1970 – 1975)
11. N C Sen Gupta (1975)
12. K R Puri (1975 – 1977)
13. M Narasimham (1977)
14. Dr. I G Patel (1977 – 1982)
15. Dr. Manmohan Singh (1982 – 1985)
16. A Ghosh (1985)
17. R N Malhotra (1985 – 1990)
18. S Venkitaraman (1990 – 1992)
19. Dr. C. Rangarajan (1992 – 1997)
20. Dr. Bimal Jalan (1997 – 2003)
21. Dr. Y. Venugopal Reddy (2003 – present)

External links

• Official RBI site's Governors Page