| No. |
Name |
Term of office |
| Began |
Ended |
| 1 |
Osborne Smith |
1 April 1935 |
30 June 1937 |
| 2 |
James Braid Taylor |
1 July 1937 |
17 February 1943 |
| 3 |
C. D. Deshmukh |
11 August 1943 |
30 June 1949 |
| 4 |
Benegal Rama Rau |
1 July 1949 |
14 January 1957 |
| 5 |
K. G. Ambegaonkar |
14 January 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 |
3 May 1977 |
30 November 1977 |
| 14 |
I. G. Patel |
1 December 1977 |
15 September 1982 |
| 15 |
Manmohan Singh |
16 September 1982 |
14 January 1985 |
| 16 |
Amitav 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 |
5 September 2008 |
4 September 2013 |
| 23 |
Raghuram Rajan |
4 September 2013 |
4 September 2016 |
| 24 |
Dr.Urjit R Patel |
4 September 2016 |
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