Ramesh Bais

**Ramesh Bais** (born 2 August 1947) is an Indian politician and was the governor of Maharashtra from 2023 to 2024. He also was the governor of Jharkhand from 2021 to 2023, and the governor of Tripura from 2019 to 2021. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Ramesh Bais
- **image**: Ramesh Bais in 2023 (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Ramesh Bais in 2024
- **birth place**: Raipur, Central Provinces and Berar, British India
<small>(now in Chhattisgarh, India)</small>
- **office**: 23rd Governor of Maharashtra
- **predecessor**: Bhagat Singh Koshyari
- **successor**: C. P. Radhakrishnan
- **1blankname**: List of chief ministers of Maharashtra, Chief Minister
- **1namedata**: Eknath Shinde
- **2blankname**: List of deputy chief ministers of Maharashtra, Deputy Chief Ministers
- **term start**: 18 February 2023
- **term end**: 31 July 2024
- **office1**: 9th List of governors of Jharkhand, Governor of Jharkhand
- **1blankname1**: List of chief ministers of Jharkhand, Chief Minister
- **1namedata1**: Hemant Soren
- **term start1**: 14 July 2021
- **term end1**: 12 February 2023
- **predecessor2**: Kaptan Singh Solanki
- **predecessor1**: Droupadi Murmu
- **successor1**: C. P. Radhakrishnan
- **office2**: 18th List of governors of Tripura, Governor of Tripura
- **term start2**: 29 July 2019
- **term end2**: 13 July 2021
- **1blankname2**: List of chief ministers of Tripura, Chief Minister
- **1namedata2**: Biplab Kumar Deb
- **2blankname2**: List of deputy chief ministers of Tripura, Deputy CM
- **2namedata2**: Jishnu Dev Varma
- **successor2**: Satyadev Narayan Arya
- **office3**: Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
- **term start3**: 1996
- **term end3**: 2019
- **predecessor3**: Vidya Charan Shukla
- **successor3**: Sunil Kumar Soni
- **constituency3**: Raipur Lok Sabha constituency, Raipur, Chhattisgarh
- **term start5**: 1989
- **term end5**: 1991
- **predecessor5**: Keyur Bhushan
- **successor5**: Vidya Charan Shukla
- **constituency5**: Raipur Lok Sabha constituency, Raipur, Madhya Pradesh
- **office6**: Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Union Minister of Environment & Forests
- **status6**: Independent Charge
- **primeminister6**: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- **term start6**: 9 January 2004
- **term end6**: 23 May 2004
- **predecessor6**: T. R. Baalu
- **successor6**: Andimuthu Raja
- **office7**: Ministry of Mines (India), Union Minister of Mines Government of India
- **status7**: Independent Charge
- **primeminister7**: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- **term start7**: 29 January 2003
- **term end7**: 8 January 2004
- **predecessor7**: Uma Bharti
- **successor7**: Mamata Banerjee
- **office8**: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Government of India
- **primeminister8**: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- **term start8**: 30 September 2000
- **term end8**: 28 January 2003
- **office9**: Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Union Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers Government of India
- **primeminister9**: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- **term start9**: 13 October 1999
- **term end9**: 30 September 2000
- **office10**: Union Minister of State for Ministry of Steel, Steel and Ministry of Mines (India), Mines Government of India
- **primeminister10**: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- **term start10**: March 1998
- **term end10**: October 1999
- **party**: Bharatiya Janata Party
- **spouse**: Rambai Bais
- **children**: 3
- **width**: 150