List of governors of Punjab, India

This is a list of the governors of Punjab state in India since its independence on 15 August 1947. Since 1985 the governor of Punjab has acted as the administrator of Chandigarh as well.
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 Died in office
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 indicates acting/additional charge

 # Portrait Name(borndied) Home state Tenure in office Appointer(President) From To Time in office Governor of East Punjab 1 70px Sir Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi Bombay Presidency 1947 1950  Lord Mountbatten Governor of Punjab (1) 70px Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi Bombay Presidency 1950 1953  Rajendra Prasad 2 70px Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh Bihar 1953 1958  3 70px Narhar Vishnu Gadgil Madhya Pradesh 1958 1962  4 70px Pattom A. Thanu Pillai Kerala 1962 1964  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 5 70px Hafiz Mohamad Ibrahim Uttar Pradesh 1964 1965  6 70px Ujjal Singh Punjab 1965 1966  7 70px Dharma Vira Uttar Pradesh 1966 1967   70px Mehar Singh(Acting) Punjab 1967 1967  Zakir Husain 8 70px Dadappa Chintappa Pavate Karnataka 1967 1973  9 70px Mahendra Mohan Choudhry Assam 1973 1977  V. V. Giri  70px Ranjit Singh Narula(Acting) Punjab 1977 1977  Neelam Sanjiva Reddy 10 70px Jaisukh Lal Hathi Gujarat 1977 1981  11 70px Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan Rajasthan 1981 1982  12 70px Marri Chenna Reddy Andhra Pradesh 1982 1983   70px Surjit Singh Sandhawalia(Acting) Punjab 1983 1983  Zail Singh 13 70px Anant Prasad Sharma Bihar 1983 1983  14 70px Bhairab Dutt Pande Uttar Pradesh 1983 1984  15 70px Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala Maharashtra 1984 1985  16 70px Arjun Singh Madhya Pradesh 1985 1985   70px Hokishe Sema(Additional Charge) Nagaland 1985 1985  17 70px Shankar Dayal Sharma Madhya Pradesh 1985 1986  18 70px Siddhartha Shankar Ray West Bengal 1986 1989  19 70px Nirmal Kumar Mukarji Delhi 1989 1990  Ramaswamy Venkataraman 20 70px Virendra Verma Uttar Pradesh 1990 1990  21 70px Om Prakash Malhotra  Jammu and Kashmir 1990 1991  22 70px Surendra Nath Delhi 1991 1994   70px Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar(Acting) Maharashtra 1994 1994  Shankar Dayal Sharma 23 70px B. K. N. Chhibber  Punjab 1994 1999  24 70px J. F. R. Jacob  West Bengal 1999 2003  K. R. Narayanan 25 70px Om Prakash Verma Uttar Pradesh 2003 2004  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam  70px Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai(Additional Charge) Delhi 2004 2004  26 70px Sunith Francis Rodrigues  Maharashtra 2004 2010  27 70px Shivraj Patil Maharashtra 2010 2015  Pratibha Patil  70px Kaptan Singh Solanki(Additional Charge) Madhya Pradesh 2015 2016  Pranab Mukherjee 28 70px V. P. Singh Badnore Rajasthan 2016 2021   70px Banwarilal Purohit Maharashtra 2021 2021  Ram Nath Kovind 29 2021 2024 30 70px Gulab Chand Kataria Rajasthan 2024 Incumbent  Droupadi Murmu

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