This is a list of the governors of Punjab state in India since 15 August 1947. Since 1985, the governor of Punjab has acted as the administrator of Chandigarh. There are 37 governors in total.
List
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- Died in office
- Transferred
- Resigned/removed
;Color key
- indicates acting/additional charge
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! rowspan="2"| #
! rowspan="2" class="unsortable"| Portrait
! rowspan="2" style="width:14em" | Name<br><small>(borndied)</small>
! rowspan="2" style="width:7em" | Home state
! colspan="3"| Tenure in office
! rowspan="2" style="width:7em" | Appointer<br/>(President)
|-
! style="width:7em"| From
! style="width:7em"| To
! style="width:5em"| Time in office
|-
! colspan="8"| Governor of East Punjab
|-
! 1
| 70px
| Sir Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi<br/>
| Bombay Presidency
| <br/>1947
| <br/>1950
|
| Lord Mountbatten<br/>
|-
! colspan="8"| Governor of Punjab
|-
! 1
| 70px
| Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi<br/>
| Bombay Presidency
| <br/>1950
| <br/>1953
|
| rowspan="3"| Rajendra Prasad
|-
! 2
| 70px
| Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh<br/>
| Bihar
| <br/>1953
| <br/>1958
|
|-
! 3
| 70px
| Narhar Vishnu Gadgil<br/>
| Madhya Pradesh
| <br/>1958
| <br/>1962
|
|-
! 4
| 70px
| Pattom A. Thanu Pillai<br/>
| Kerala
| <br/>1962
| <br/>1964
|
| rowspan="4"| Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
|-
! 5
| 70px
| Hafiz Mohamad Ibrahim<br/>
| Uttar Pradesh
| <br/>1964
| <br/>1965
|
|-
! 6
| 70px
| Ujjal Singh<br/>
| Punjab
| <br/>1965
| <br/>1966
|
|-
! 7
| 70px
| Dharma Vira<br/>
| Uttar Pradesh
| <br/>1966
| <br/>1967
|
|-
! 8
| bgcolor="wheat"| 70px<!-- Do not use placeholder images per WP:IPH -->
| bgcolor="wheat"| <br/>Mehar Singh<br/><small>(Acting)</small>
| bgcolor="wheat"| Punjab
| bgcolor="wheat"| <br/>1967
| bgcolor="wheat"| <br/>1967
| bgcolor="wheat"|
| rowspan="2"| Zakir Husain
|-
! 9
| 70px<!-- Do not use placeholder images per WP:IPH -->
| Dadappa Chintappa Pavate<br/>
| Karnataka
| <br/>1967
| <br/>1973
|
|-
! 10
| 70px
| Mahendra Mohan Choudhry<br/>
| Assam
| <br/>1973
| <br/>1977
|
| V. V. Giri
|-
! 11
| bgcolor="wheat"| 70px<!-- Do not use placeholder images per WP:IPH -->
| bgcolor="wheat"| <br/>Ranjit Singh Narula<br/><br/><small>(Acting)</small>
| bgcolor="wheat"| Punjab
| bgcolor="wheat"| <br/>1977
| bgcolor="wheat"| <br/>1977
| bgcolor="wheat"|
| rowspan="4"| Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
|-
! 12
| 70px
| Jaisukh Lal Hathi<br/>
| Gujarat
| <br/>1977
| <br/>1981
|
|-
! 13
| 70px<!-- Do not use placeholder images per WP:IPH -->
| Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan<br/>
| Rajasthan
| <br/>1981
| <br/>1982
|
|-
! 14
| 70px
| Marri Chenna Reddy<br/>
| Andhra Pradesh
| <br/>1982
| <br/>1983
|
|-
! 15
| bgcolor="wheat"| 70px<!-- Do not use placeholder images per WP:IPH -->
| bgcolor="wheat"| <br/>Surjit Singh Sandhawalia<br/><br/><small>(Acting)</small>
| bgcolor="wheat"| Punjab
| bgcolor="wheat"| <br/>1983
| bgcolor="wheat"| <br/>1983
| bgcolor="wheat"|
| rowspan="8"| Zail Singh
|-
! 16
| 70px
| Anant Prasad Sharma<br/>
| Bihar
| <br/>1983
| <br/>1983
|
|-
! 17
| 70px<!-- Do not use placeholder images per WP:IPH -->
| Bhairab Dutt Pande<br/>
| Uttar Pradesh
| <br/>1983
| <br/>1984
|
|-
! 18
| 70px<!-- Do not use placeholder images per WP:IPH -->
| Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala<br/>
| Maharashtra
| <br/>1984
| <br/>1985
|
|-
! 19
| 70px
| Arjun Singh<br/>
| Madhya Pradesh
| <br/>1985
| <br/>1985
|
|- bgcolor="wheat"
! 20
| 70px
| Hokishe Sema<br/><br/><small>(Additional Charge)</small>
| Nagaland
| <br/>1985
| <br/>1985
|
|-
! 21
| 70px
| Shankar Dayal Sharma<br/>
| Madhya Pradesh
| <br/>1985
| <br/>1986
|
|-
! 22
| 70px
| Siddhartha Shankar Ray<br/>
| West Bengal
| <br/>1986
| <br/>1989
|
|-
! 23
| 70px<!-- Do not use placeholder images per WP:IPH -->
| Nirmal Kumar Mukarji<br/>
| National Capital Territory of Delhi
| <br/>1989
| <br/>1990
|
| rowspan="4"| Ramaswamy Venkataraman
|-
! 24
| 70px
| Virendra Verma<br/>
| Uttar Pradesh
| <br/>1990
| <br/>1990
|
|-
! 25
| 70px
| <br/>Om Prakash Malhotra <br/><br/>
| Jammu and Kashmir
| <br/>1990
| <br/>1991
|
|-
! 26
| 70px<!-- Do not use placeholder images per WP:IPH -->
| Surendra Nath<br/>
| National Capital Territory of Delhi
| <br/>1991
| <br/>1994
|
|-
! 27
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| bgcolor="wheat"| <br/>Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar<br/><br/><small>(Acting)</small>
| bgcolor="wheat"| Maharashtra
| bgcolor="wheat"| <br/>1994
| bgcolor="wheat"| <br/>1994
| bgcolor="wheat"|
| rowspan="2"| Shankar Dayal Sharma
|-
! 28
| 70px
| <br/>B. K. N. Chhibber <br/><br/>
| Punjab
| <br/>1994
| <br/>1999
|
|-
! 29
| 70px
| <br/>J. F. R. Jacob <br/><br/>
| West Bengal
| <br/>1999
| <br/>2003
|
| K. R. Narayanan
|-
! 30
| 70px
| <br/>Om Prakash Verma<br/>
| Uttar Pradesh
| <br/>2003
| <br/>2004
|
| rowspan="3"| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
|- bgcolor="wheat"
! 31
| 70px
| Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai<br/><br/><small>(Additional Charge)</small>
| National Capital Territory of Delhi
| <br/>2004
| <br/>2004
|
|-
! 32
| 70px
| <br/>Sunith Francis Rodrigues <br/><br/>
| Maharashtra
| <br/>2004
| <br/>2010
|
|-
! 33
| 70px
| Shivraj Patil<br/>
| Maharashtra
| <br/>2010
| <br/>2015
|
| Pratibha Patil
|-
! 34
| bgcolor="wheat"| 94x94px
| bgcolor="wheat"| Kaptan Singh Solanki<br/><br/><small>(Additional Charge)</small>
| bgcolor="wheat"| Madhya Pradesh
| bgcolor="wheat"| <br/>2015
| bgcolor="wheat"| <br/>2016
| bgcolor="wheat"|
| rowspan="2"| Pranab Mukherjee
|-
! 35
| 70px
| V. P. Singh Badnore<br/>
| rowspan="2" |Rajasthan
| <br/>2016
| <br/>2021
|
|-
! 36
|70px
|Banwarilal Purohit<br/><small>(Additional charge till 11 September 2021)</small>
| <br />2021
| <br />2024
|
|Ram Nath Kovind
|-
! 37
| 87x87px
| Gulab Chand Kataria<br />
| Rajasthan
| <br />2024
| Incumbent
|
| Droupadi Murmu
|-
|}
Oath
Main, [Apna Naam], parmatma di sauh khanda han (ya sachche dil nal iqrar karda han) ke main sachche dil nal te poori imandari nal Punjab de Governor (Rajpal) de ohde de farz nibhavanga (ya ohde de kamma nu poora karanga) te apni poori kabliyat nal sanvidhan (Constitution) te kanoon di rakhya, hifazat te bachaav karanga, te main Punjab de lokan di seva te bhalaai vich hamesha laggya rahanga
See also
- Punjab, India
- Chief Minister of Punjab
- Governor (Indian states)