List of governors of Odisha

This is a list of the governors of the Indian state of Odisha (formerly Orissa), since its foundation in 1936.

List

Legend
 Died in office
 Transferred
 Resigned/removed

Color key
 indicates acting/additional charge

 # Portrait Name(borndied) Home state Tenure in office Appointer(President) From To Time in office 1 70px Kailash Nath Katju Central Provinces and Berar 1947 1948  Lord Mountbatten 2 70px Asaf Ali United Provinces 1948 1951   70px V. P. Menon(Acting) Madras State 1951 1951  Rajendra Prasad (2) 70px Asaf Ali United Provinces 1951 1952  3 70px Saiyid Fazl Ali Bihar 1952 1954  4 70px P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja Madras State 1954 1956  5 70px Bhim Sen Sachar Punjab 1956 1957  6 70px Yashwant Narayan Sukthankar   Bombay State 1957 1962  7 70px Ajudhia Nath Khosla Punjab 1962 1966  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan  70px Khaleel Ahmed(Acting) Orissa 1966 1966  (7) 70px Ajudhia Nath Khosla Punjab 1966 1968  8 70px Shaukatullah Shah Ansari Uttar Pradesh 1968 1971  Zakir Husain  70px Jogendra Singh(Acting) Uttar Pradesh 1971 1972  V. V. Giri  70px Gati Krushna Misra(Acting) Orissa 1972 1972  9 70px Basappa Danappa Jatti Karnataka 1972 1974   70px Gati Krushna Misra(Acting) Orissa 1974 1974  10 70px Akbar Ali Khan Andhra Pradesh 1974 1976  Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed  70px Siba Narain Sankar(Acting) Orissa 1976 1977  11 70px Harcharan Singh Brar Punjab 1977 1977  12 70px Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Haryana 1977 1980  Neelam Sanjiva Reddy 13 70px C. M. Poonacha Karnataka 1980 1980   70px Sukanta Kishore Ray(Acting) Orissa 1980 1980  (13) 70px C. M. Poonacha Karnataka 1980 1982   70px Ranganath Misra(Acting) Orissa 1982 1982  (13) 70px C. M. Poonacha Karnataka 1982 1983  Zail Singh 14 70px Bishambhar Nath Pande Uttar Pradesh 1983 1988   70px Saiyid Nurul Hasan Uttar Pradesh 1988 1989  Ramaswamy Venkataraman 15 1989 1990 16 70px Yagya Dutt Sharma Punjab 1990 1993   70px Saiyid Nurul Hasan(Additional Charge) Uttar Pradesh 1993 1993  Shankar Dayal Sharma 17 70px B. Satya Narayan Reddy Andhra Pradesh 1993 1995  18 70px Gopala Ramanujam Tamil Nadu 1995 1997   70px K. V. Raghunatha Reddy(Acting) Andhra Pradesh 1997 1997  (18) 70px Gopala Ramanujam Tamil Nadu 1997 1997   70px K. V. Raghunatha Reddy(Additional Charge) Andhra Pradesh 1997 1998  K. R. Narayanan  70px C. Rangarajan(Additional Charge) Tamil Nadu 1998 1999  19 70px M. M. Rajendran Tamil Nadu 1999 2004  20 70px Rameshwar Thakur Jharkhand 2004 2007  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 21 70px Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare Maharashtra 2007 2013  Pratibha Patil 22 70px S. C. Jamir Nagaland 2013 2018  Pranab Mukherjee  70px Satya Pal Malik(Additional Charge) Uttar Pradesh 2018 2018  Ram Nath Kovind 23 70px Ganeshi Lal Haryana 2018 2023  24 70px Raghubar Das Jharkhand 2023 2025  Droupadi Murmu 25 70px Kambhampati Hari Babu Andhra Pradesh 2025 Incumbent 

References

Other websites
  (Governor's Official Residence)