List of Governors of the Reserve Bank of India

Sr.No	Name	Term
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 February 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	C. Rangarajan	22 December 1992 – 21 November 1997
20	Bimal Jalan	22 November 1997 – 6 September 2003
21	Y. V. Reddy	6 September 2003 – 5 September 2008
22	D. Subbarao	6 September 2008 – present
Sr.No	Name	Term