List of governors of Bihar

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office
1	Sir James Sifton	1 April 1936	11 March 1937
2	Sir Maurice Garnier Hallett	11 March 1937	5 August 1939
3	Sir Thomas Alexander Stewart	5 August 1939	9 January 1943
4	Sir Thomas George Rutherford	9 January 1943	March 1943
5	Sir Francis Mudie (acting)	March 1943	1944
6	Sir Thomas George Rutherford	1944	13 May 1946
7	Sir Hugh Dow	13 May 1946	15 August 1947
8	Jairamdas Daulatram	15 August 1947	11 January 1948
9	Madhav Shrihari Aney	12 January 1948	14 June 1952
10	R R Diwakar	15 January 1952	5 July 1957
11	Zakir Hussain	6 July 1957	11 May 1962
12	M. A. S. Ayyangar	12 May 1962	6 December 1967
13	Nityanand Kanungo	7 December 1967	20 January 1971
14	Devkant Barooah	1 February 1971	4 February 1971
15	Ramchandra Dhondhiba Bhandare	4 February 1973	15 June 1976
16	Jagannath Kaushal	16 June 1976	31 January 1979
17	Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai	20 September 1979	15 March 1985
18	P. Venkatasubbaiah	15 March 1985	25 February 1988
19	Govind Narain Singh	26 February 1988	24 January 1989
20	R.D. Pradhan	29 January 1989	2 February 1989
21	Jagannath Pahadia	3 March 1989	2 February 1990
22	Mohammad Saleem	16 February 1990	13 February 1991
23	Mohammad Shafi Qureshi	19 March 1991	13 August 1993
24	A R Kidwai	14 August 1993	26 April 1998
25	S S Bhandari	27 April 1998	15 March 1999
26	V. C. Pande	23 November 1999	12 June 2003
27	M R Jois	12 June 2003	31 October 2004
28	Buta Singh	5 November 2004	29 January 2006
29	Gopalkrishna Gandhi	31 January 2006	21 June 2006
30	R. S. Gavai	22 June 2006	10 July 2008
31	R. L. Bhatia	10 July 2008	23 July 2009
32	Devanand Konwar	24 July 2009	present
#	Name	Took Office	Left Office