List of governors of Punjab (India)

Governor of Punjab
Governor of Punjab
	Emblem of Punjab
	Incumbent; Banwarilal Purohit; since 31 August 2021
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Raj Bhavan; Chandigarh
Term length	Five Years
Precursor	Governor of Punjab (British India)
Inaugural holder	Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
Formation	15 August 1947; 76 years ago
Website	Punjabrajbhavan

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This is a list of the governors of Punjab state in India since its independence on 15 August 1947. Since 1985, the Governor of Punjab has acted as the Administrator of Chandigarh as well.

Rajpramukh (Governor) of PEPSU (1948-1956)[edit]

Source:^[1]

Rajpramukh (Governor)	Portrait	Tenure ^[2]			Uparajpramukh (Lieutenant Governor)	Portrait	Appointed by
Yadavindra Singh		15 July 1948	1 November 1956	8 years, 109 days	Jagatjit Singh		C. Rajagopalachari

Governors of Punjab[edit]

Governor served in Acting capacity
Governor holds Additional Charge

S. No	Name	Tenure ^[3]			Nominated by (President)
Governor of Punjab (1947-1966) (Punjab, Haryana and Himachal)
1	Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi	15 August 1947	11 March 1953	5 years, 208 days	L. Mountbatten (GGI)
2	Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh	11 March 1953	15 September 1958	5 years, 188 days	Rajendra Prasad
3	Narahar Vishnu Gadgil	15 September 1958	1 October 1962	4 years, 16 days	Rajendra Prasad
4	Pattom A. Thanu Pillai	1 October 1962	4 May 1964	1 year, 216 days	S. Radhakrishnan
5	Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim	4 May 1964	1 September 1965	1 year, 120 days
6	Ujjal Singh	1 September 1965	26 June 1966	298 days
7	Dharma Vira	27 June 1966	continued (1 November 1966)	309 days
Governor of Punjab (Punjab) (1966-Present)
7	Dharma Vira	continued (1 November 1966)	1 June 1967
-	Mehar Singh	1 June 1967	16 October 1967	137 days	Zakir Husain
8	Dadappa Chintappa Pavate	16 October 1967	21 May 1973	5 years, 217 days	Zakir Husain
9	Mahendra Mohan Choudhry	21 May 1973	1 September 1977	4 years, 103 days	V. V. Giri
-	Ranjit Singh Narula	1 September 1977	24 September 1977	23 days	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
10	Jaisukh Lal Hathi	24 September 1977	26 August 1981	3 years, 336 days
11	Aminuddin Ahmad Khan	26 August 1981	21 April 1982	238 days
12	Marri Chenna Reddy	21 April 1982	7 February 1983	292 days
-	Surjit Singh Sandhawalia	7 February 1983	21 February 1983	14 days	Zail Singh
13	Anant Prasad Sharma	21 February 1983	10 October 1983	231 days
14	Bhairab Dutt Pande	10 October 1983	3 July 1984	267 days
15	Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala	3 July 1984	14 March 1985	254 days
16	Arjun Singh	14 March 1985	14 November 1985	245 days
-	Hokishe Sema	14 November 1985	26 November 1985	12 days
17	Shankar Dayal Sharma	26 November 1985	2 April 1986	127 days
18	Siddhartha Shankar Ray	2 April 1986	8 December 1989	3 years, 250 days
19	Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee	8 December 1989	14 June 1990	188 days	R. Venkataraman
20	Virendra Verma	14 June 1990	18 December 1990	187 days
21	Om Prakash Malhotra	18 December 1990	7 August 1991	232 days
22	Surendra Nath	7 August 1991	9 July 1994	2 years, 336 days
-	Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar	10 July 1994	18 September 1994	70 days	Shankar Dayal Sharma
23	Bakshi Krishan Nath Chhibber	18 September 1994	27 November 1999	5 years, 70 days	Shankar Dayal Sharma
24	Jack Farj Rafael Jacob	27 November 1999	8 May 2003	3 years, 162 days	K. R. Narayanan
25	Om Prakash Verma	8 May 2003	3 November 2004	1 year, 179 days	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
-	Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai	3 November 2004	16 November 2004	13 days
26	Sunith Francis Rodrigues	16 November 2004	22 January 2010	5 years, 67 days
27	Shivraj Vishwanath Patil	22 January 2010	22 January 2015	5 years, 0 days	Pratibha Patil
-	Kaptan Singh Solanki	22 January 2015	22 August 2016	1 year, 213 days	Pranab Mukherjee
28	Vijayendra Pal Singh Badnore	22 August 2016	30 August 2021	5 years, 8 days	Pranab Mukherjee
-	Banwarilal Purohit	31 August 2021	11 September 2021	11 days	Ram Nath Kovind
29	Banwarilal Purohit	11 September 2021	Incumbent	2 years, 157 days	Ram Nath Kovind