List of governors of Punjab, India

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#	Portrait	Name (born – died)	Home state	Tenure in office			Appointer (President)
				From	To	Time in office
Governor of East Punjab
1		Sir Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (1893–1980)	Bombay Presidency	15 August 1947	26 January 1950	2 years, 164 days	Lord Mountbatten (Governor-General)
Governor of Punjab
1		Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (1893–1980)	Bombay Presidency	26 January 1950	11 March 1953	3 years, 44 days	Rajendra Prasad
2		Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (1901–1994)	Bihar	11 March 1953	15 September 1958	5 years, 188 days
3		Narhar Vishnu Gadgil (1896–1966)	Madhya Pradesh	15 September 1958	1 October 1962	4 years, 16 days
4		Pattom A. Thanu Pillai (1885–1970)	Kerala	1 October 1962	4 May 1964[§][α]	1 year, 216 days	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
5		Hafiz Mohamad Ibrahim (1889–1968)	Uttar Pradesh	4 May 1964	1 September 1965	1 year, 120 days
6		Ujjal Singh (1895–1983)	Punjab	1 September 1965	26 June 1966[§][β]	298 days
7		Dharma Vira ICS (Retd) (1906–2000)	Uttar Pradesh	27 June 1966	1 June 1967[§][γ]	339 days
8		Justice Mehar Singh (Acting)	Punjab	1 June 1967	16 October 1967	137 days	Zakir Husain
9		Dadappa Chintappa Pavate (1899–1978)	Karnataka	16 October 1967	21 May 1973	5 years, 217 days
10		Mahendra Mohan Choudhry (1908–1982)	Assam	21 May 1973	1 September 1977	4 years, 103 days	V. V. Giri
11		Justice Ranjit Singh Narula (1908–2005) (Acting)	Punjab	1 September 1977	24 September 1977	23 days	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
12		Jaisukh Lal Hathi (1909–1982)	Gujarat	24 September 1977	26 August 1981	3 years, 336 days
13		Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan (1911–1983)	Rajasthan	26 August 1981	21 April 1982	238 days
14		Marri Chenna Reddy (1919–1996)	Andhra Pradesh	21 April 1982	7 February 1983	292 days
15		Justice Surjit Singh Sandhawalia (1925–2007) (Acting)	Punjab	7 February 1983	21 February 1983	14 days	Zail Singh
16		Anant Prasad Sharma (1919–1988)	Bihar	21 February 1983	10 October 1983[§][γ]	231 days
17		Bhairab Dutt Pande ICS (Retd) (1917–2009)	Uttar Pradesh	10 October 1983	3 July 1984	267 days
18		Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala (1916–2001)	Maharashtra	3 July 1984	14 March 1985[‡]	254 days
19		Arjun Singh (1930–2011)	Madhya Pradesh	14 March 1985	14 November 1985[‡]	245 days
20		Hokishe Sema (1921–2007) (Additional Charge)	Nagaland	14 November 1985	26 November 1985	12 days
21		Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999)	Madhya Pradesh	26 November 1985	2 April 1986[§][δ]	127 days
22		Siddhartha Shankar Ray (1920–2010)	West Bengal	2 April 1986	8 December 1989[‡]	3 years, 250 days
23		Nirmal Kumar Mukarji IAS (Retd) (1921–2002)	National Capital Territory of Delhi	8 December 1989	14 June 1990[‡]	188 days	Ramaswamy Venkataraman
24		Virendra Verma (1916–2009)	Uttar Pradesh	14 June 1990	18 December 1990[§][ε]	187 days
25		General Om Prakash Malhotra (Retd) PVSM (1922–2015)	Jammu and Kashmir	18 December 1990	7 August 1991[‡]	232 days
26		Surendra Nath IPS (Retd) (1926–1994)	National Capital Territory of Delhi	7 August 1991	9 July 1994[†]	2 years, 336 days
27		Justice Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar (born 1935) (Acting)	Maharashtra	10 July 1994	18 September 1994	70 days	Shankar Dayal Sharma
28		Lieutenant General B. K. N. Chhibber (Retd) PVSM AVSM VSM (born 1936)	Punjab	18 September 1994	27 November 1999	5 years, 70 days
29		Lieutenant General J. F. R. Jacob (Retd) PVSM (1921–2016)	West Bengal	27 November 1999	8 May 2003	3 years, 162 days	K. R. Narayanan
30		Justice (Retd) Om Prakash Verma (1937–2015)	Uttar Pradesh	8 May 2003	3 November 2004[‡]	1 year, 179 days	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
31		Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (1921–2016) (Additional Charge)	National Capital Territory of Delhi	3 November 2004	16 November 2004	13 days
32		General Sunith Francis Rodrigues (Retd) PVSM VSM (1933–2022)	Maharashtra	16 November 2004	22 January 2010	5 years, 67 days
33		Shivraj Patil (1935–2025)	Maharashtra	22 January 2010	22 January 2015	5 years, 0 days	Pratibha Patil
34		Kaptan Singh Solanki (born 1939) (Additional Charge)	Madhya Pradesh	22 January 2015	22 August 2016	1 year, 213 days	Pranab Mukherjee
35		V. P. Singh Badnore (born 1948)	Rajasthan	22 August 2016	30 August 2021	5 years, 8 days
36		Banwarilal Purohit (born 1940)(Additional charge till 11 September 2021)		31 August 2021	28 July 2024[‡]	2 years, 332 days	Ram Nath Kovind
37		Gulab Chand Kataria (born 1944)	Rajasthan	31 July 2024	Incumbent	1 year, 277 days	Droupadi Murmu

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