List of governors of West Bengal

The Governor of West Bengal is a nominal head and representative of the President of India in the state of West Bengal. He is the Head of State of West Bengal. The governor is appointed by the president for a term of five years. 

List
 Sl. No. Name Took office Left office 1 Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari  15 August 1947 21 June 1948	 2 Kailash Nath Katju 21 June 1948 1 November 1951	 3 Harendra Coomar Mookerjee 1 November 1951 8 August 1956		 4 Phani Bhusan Chakravartti 8 August 1956 3 November 1956 5 Padmaja Naidu 3 November 1956 1 June 1967	 6 Dharma Vira 1 June 1967 1 April 1969	 7 Deep Narayan Sinha (acting) 1 April 1969 19 September 1969	 8 Shanti Swaroop Dhavan 19 September 1969 21 August 1971	 9 Anthony Lancelot Dias 21 August 1971 6 November 1979 10 Tribhuvana Narayana Singh 6 November 1979 12 September 1981	 11 Bhairab Dutt Pande 12 September 1981 10 October 1983	 12 Anant Prasad Sharma 10 October 1983 16 August 1984	 13 Satish Chandra (acting) 16 August 1984 1 October 1984	 14 Uma Shankar Dikshit 1 October 1984 12 August 1986	 15 Saiyid Nurul Hasan 12 August 1986 20 March 1989	 16 T. V. Rajeswar 20 March 1989 7 February 1990	 17 Saiyid Nurul Hasan 7 February 1990 12 July 1993	 18 B. Satyanarayan Reddy (additional charge) 13 July 1993 14 August 1993	 18 K. V. Raghunatha Reddy 14 August 1993 27 April 1998	 20 Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai 27 April 1998 18 May 1999	 21 Shyamal Kumar Sen 18 May 1999 4 December 1999	 22 Viren J. Shah 4 December 1999 14 December 2004	 23 Gopalkrishna Gandhi 14 December 2004 14 December 2009 24 Devanand Konwar (additional charge) 14 December 2009 23 January 2010 25 M.K. Narayanan 24 January 2010 30 June 2014 26 D. Y. Patil (acting charge) 3 July 2014   17 July 2014 27 Keshari Nath Tripathi 24 July 2014  29 July 2019 28 Jagdeep Dhankhar 30 July 2019 18 July 2022 29 La. Ganesan (additional charge) 18 July 2022 22 Nov 202230Dr. C. V. Ananda Bose23 Nov 2022Present

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