The List Of Governors Of Reserve Bank Of India

Many economist have played significant role, being a Governor of RBI. They where the pillars of the economy and played a vital for India.
The list of people who have served as the Governor of RBI:-

Sr. No.	Name	Tenure	Notes
1.	Osborne Arkell Smith	1 April 1935 – 30 June 1937	2 years 3 months
2.	James Braid Taylor	1 July 1937 – 17 February 1943	5 years 7 months 17 days
3	Sir C. D. Deshmukh	11 August 1943 – 30 June 1949	5 years 10 months 20 days
4	Sir Benegal Rama Rau	1 July 1949 – 14 January 1957	7 years 6 months 14 days
5	K. G. Ambegaonkar	14 January 1957 – 28 February 1957	46 days
6	H. V. R. Iyengar	1 March 1957 – 28 February 1962	5 years
7	P. C. Bhattacharya	1 March 1962 - 30 June 1967	5 years 4 months
8	Laxmi Kant Jha	1 July 1967 – 3 May 1970	2 years 10 months 3 days
9	B. N. Adarkar	4 May 1970 – 15 June 1970	1 month 12 days
10	Sarukkai Jagannathan	16 June 1970 – 19 May 1975	4 years 11 months 4 days
11	N. C. Sen Gupta	19 May 1975 – 19 August 1975	3 months 1 day
12	K. R. Puri	20 August 1975 – 2 May 1977	1 year 8 months 13 days
13	M. Narasimham	3 May 1977 – 30 November 1977	6 months 28 days
14	Dr. I. G. Patel	1 December 1977 – 15 September 1982	4 years 9 months 15 days
15	Dr. Manmohan Singh^[1]	16 September 1982 – 14 January 1985	2 years 3 months 30 days
16	A. Ghosh	15 January 1985 – 4 February 1985	21 days
17	R N Malhotra	04-02-1985 to 22-12-1990
18	S. Venkitaramanan	22-12-1990 to 21-12-1992
19	C. Rangarajan	22-12-1992 to 21-11-1997
20	Dr. Bimal Jalan	22-11-1997 to 06-09-2003
21	Dr. Y V Reddy	06-09-2003 to 05-09-2008
22	D. Subbarao	05-09-2008 to 04-09-2013
23	Raghuram Rajan	05-09-2013 to 04-09-2016