# List of governors of Arunachal Pradesh

The governor of Arunachal Pradesh is the nominal head of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The governor is appointed by the president of India. The current governor is Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik.

## Powers and functions

The governor enjoys many different types of powers:
* Executive powers related to administration, appointments and removals,
* Legislative powers related to lawmaking and the state legislature, that is Vidhan Sabha or Vidhan Parishad, and
* Discretionary powers to be carried out according to the discretion of the Governor.

## List of Governors

| No. | Name | Portrait | Took office | Left office |
| 1 | George McMorine | | 1824 | 1824 |
| 2 | Arthur Richards | | 1824 | 1826 |

### governors

| No. | Name | Took office | Left office |
| 3 | David Scott | 1826 | 1831 |
| 4 | Thomas Campbell Robertson | 1831 | 1834 |
| 5 | Francis Jenkins | 1834 | 1861 |
| 6 | Henry Hopkinson | 1861 | 1874 |
| 7 | Richard Harte Keatinge | 1874 | 1878 |
| 8 | Steuart Colvin Bayley | 1878 | 1881 |
| 9 | Charles Alfred Elliott | 1881 | 1885 |
| 10 | William Erskine Ward | 1885 | 1887 |
| 11 | Dennis Fitzpatrick (colonial administrator) | 1887 | 1889 |
| 12 | James Westland | 1889 | 1889 |
| 13 | James Wallace Quinton | 1889 | 1891 |
| 14 | William Erskine Ward | 1891 | 1896 |
| 15 | Henry John Stedman Cotton | 1896 | 1902 |
| 16 | Joseph Bampfylde Fuller | 1902 | 1905 |

### Lieutenant governors

In 1905, Bengal was partitioned and East Bengal and Assam was formed, governed by a lieutenant governor.
| No. | Name | Took office | Left office | Appointer |
| 17 | Sir Bampfylde Fuller | 16 October 1905 | 20 August 1906 | The Lord Curzon of Kedleston |
| 18 | Lancelot Hare | 20 August 1906 | 1911 | The Earl of Minto |
| 19 | Sir Charles Stuart Bayley | 1911 | 21 March 1912 | The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst |

### Governors

| No. | Name | Took office | Left office |
| 20 | Archdale Earle | 1912 | 3 January 1918 |
| 21 | Sir Nicholas Dodd Beatson-Bell | 3 January 1918 | 3 April 1921 |
| 22 | Sir William Sinclair Marris | 3 April 1921 | 10 October 1922 |
| 23 | John Henry Kerr | 10 October 1922 | 28 June 1927 |
| 24 | Egbert Laurie Lucas Hammond | 28 June 1927 | 11 May 1932 |
| 25 | Michael Keane | 11 May 1932 | 4 March 1937 |
| 26 | Robert Niel Reid | 4 March 1937 | 24 February 1938 |
| 27 | Henry Joseph Twynam | 24 February 1938 | 4 October 1939 |
| 28 | Robert Niel Reid | 4 October 1939 | 4 May 1942 |
| 29 | Andrew Gourlay Clow | 4 May 1942 | 4 April 1946 |
| 30 | Frederick Chalmers Bourne | 4 April 1946 | 4 September 1946 |
| 31 | Henry Foley Knight | 4 September 1946 | 23 December 1946 |
| 32 | Andrew Gourlay Clow | 23 December 1946 | 4 May 1947 |
| 33 | Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari | 4 May 1947 | 15 Aug 1947 |
| (33) | Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari | 15 Aug 1947 | 29 Dec 1948 |
| 34 | Ronald Francis Lodge | 30 December 1948 | 15 February 1949 |
| 35 | Sri Prakasa | 16 Feb 1949 | 26 May 1950 |
| 36 | Jairamdas Daulatram | 27 May 1950 | 14 May 1956 |
| 37 | Saiyid Fazal Ali | 15 May 1956 | 22 August 1959 |
| 38 | Chandreswar Prasad Sinha | 23 August 1959 | 13 October 1959 |
| 39 | Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh | 14 October 1959 | 12 November 1960 |
| 40 | Vishnu Sahay | 13 November 1960 | 12 February 1961 |
| 41 | Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh | 13 February 1961 | 7 September 1962 |
| 42 | Vishnu Sahay | 8 September 1962 | 16 April 1968 |
| 43 | Braj Kumar Nehru | 17 April 1968 | 7 December 1970 |
| 44 | Parbati Kumar Goswami | 8 December 1970 | 4 January 1971 |
| 45 | Braj Kumar Nehru | 5 January 1971 | 20 January 1972 |

## List of chief commissioners of Arunachal Pradesh

| # | Name | Portrait | Took office | Left office |
| 46 | K. A. A. Raja | | 20 January 1972 | 1973 |
| 47 | Manohar L. Kampani | | 1974 | 1975 |

## List of lieutenant governors of Arunachal Pradesh

| # | Name | Took office | Left office |
| 48 | K. A. A. Raja | 15 August 1975 | 18 January 1979 |
| 49 | R. N. Haldipur | 18 January 1979 | 23 July 1981 |
| 50 | H. S. Dubey | 23 July 1981 | 10 August 1983 |
| 51 | Thanjavelu Rajeshwar | 10 August 1983 | 21 November 1985 |
| 52 | Shiva Swaroop | 21 November 1985 | 20 February 1987 |

## List of governors of Arunachal Pradesh

Data from Arunachal Pradesh Governor's Secretariat and Directorate of Information & Public Relations, Government of Arunachal Pradesh
| # | Name | Took office | Left office |
| 53 | Bhishma Narain Singh | 20 February 1987 | 18 March 1987 |
| 54 | R. D. Pradhan | 18 March 1987 | 16 March 1990 |
| 55 | Gopal Singh | 16 March 1990 | 8 May 1990 |
| 56 | Devi Das Thakur | 8 May 1990 | 16 March 1991 |
| 57 | Loknath Mishra | 16 March 1991 | 25 March 1991 |
| 58 | Surendranath Dwivedy | 25 March 1991 | 4 July 1993 |
| 59 | Madhukar Dighe | 4 July 1993 | 20 October 1993 |
| 60 | Mata Prasad | 20 October 1993 | 16 May 1999 |
| 61 | S. K. Sinha | 16 May 1999 | 1 August 1999 |
| 62 | Arvind Dave | 1 August 1999 | 12 June 2003 |
| 63 | V. C. Pande | 12 June 2003 | 15 December 2004 |
| 64 | Shilendra Kumar Singh | 16 December 2004 | 23 January 2007 |
| 65 | M. M. Jacob | 24 January 2007 | 6 April 2007 |
| 66 | K. Sankaranarayanan | 7 April 2007 | 14 April 2007 |
| 67 | Shilendra Kumar Singh | 15 April 2007 | 3 September 2007 |
| 68 | K. Sankaranarayanan | 3 September 2007 | 26 January 2008 |
| 69 | Joginder Jaswant Singh | 26 January 2008 | 28 May 2013 |
| 70 | Nirbhay Sharma | 28 May 2013 | 31 May 2015 |
| 71 | Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa | 1 June 2015 | 9 July 2016 |
| 72 | Tathagata Roy | 10 July 2016 | 12 August 2016 |
| 73 | Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa | 13 August 2016 | 13 September 2016 |
| 74 | V. Shanmuganathan | 14 September 2016 | 27 January 2017 (resigned) |
| 75 | Padmanabha Acharya | 28 January 2017 | 2 October 2017 |
| 76 | B. D. Mishra | 3 October 2017 | 15 February 2023 |
| 77 | Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik | 16 February 2023 | Incumbent |