RBI Governors
| Name | Office Tenure | |
| 1 | Sir Osborne Arkell Smith | 01-04-1935 − 30-06-1937 |
| 2 | Sir James Braid Taylor | 01-07-1937 − 17-02-1943 |
| 3 | Sir C. D. Deshmukh | 11-08-1943 − 30-06-1949 |
| 4 | Sir Benegal Rama Rau | 01-07-1949 − 14-01-1957 |
| 5 | K. G. Ambegaonkar | 14-01-1957 − 28-02-1957 |
| 6 | H. V. R. Iyengar | 01-03-1957 − 28-02-1962 |
| 7 | P. C. Bhattacharya | 01-03-1962 − 30-06-1967 |
| 8 | L. K. Jha | 01-07-1967 − 03-05-1970 |
| 9 | B. N. Adarkar | 04-05-1970 − 15-07-1970 |
| 10 | S. Jagannathan | 16-07-1970 − 19-05-1975 |
| 11 | N. C. Sen Gupta | 19-05-1975 − 19-08-1975 |
| 12 | K. R. Puri | 20-08-1975 − 02-05-1977 |
| 13 | M. Narasimham | 03-05-1977 − 30-11-1977 |
| 14 | Dr. I. G. Patel | 01-12-1977 − 15-09-1982 |
| 15 | Dr. Manmohan Singh | 16-09-1982 − 14-01-1985 |
| 16 | A. Ghosh | 15-01-1985 − 04-02-1985 |
| 17 | R N Malhotra | 04-02-1985 − 22-12-1990 |
| 18 | S. Venkitaramanan | 22-12-1990 − 21-12-1992 |
| 19 | C. Rangarajan | 22-12-1992 − 21-11-1997 |
| 20 | Dr. Bimal Jalan | 22-11-1997 − 06-09-2003 |
| 21 | Dr. Y V Reddy | 06-09-2003 − 05-09-2008 |
| 22 | D. Subbarao | 05-09-2008 − 04-09-2013 |
| 23 | Raghuram Rajan | 05-09-2013 − 04-09-2016 |
| 24 | Urjit R. Patel | 05-09-2016 − 11 December 2018 |
25 Shaktikanta Das 12 December 2018 -Incumbent