List of RBI Governors of india from 1876 to till date

1. Osborne Smith
Osborne Smith was born on 26 December 1876. He was the first Governor of the Reserve Bank from 1 April 1935 to 30 June 1937. He served for over 20 years with the Bank of New South Wales and 10 years with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia before coming to India in 1926 as a Managing Governor of the Imperial Bank of India. He resigned before the completion of his term of office. He did not sign any Indian rupee notes during his tenure.
 2. James Braid Taylor
James Braid Taylor was born on 21 April 1891. He was the second Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1 July 1937 to 17 February 1943. Even though he was the second Governor, his signature was the first to appear on the currency notes of the Indian rupee.
He was a member of the Indian Civil Service, and served as a Deputy Controller in the Currency Department of the Government of India for over a decade. He died on 17 February 1943.
3. C. D. Deshmukh
C. D. Deshmukh was born on 14 January 1896. He was an Indian civil servant and the first Indian to be appointed as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in 1943 by the British Raj authorities. He served as the Finance Minister in the Union Cabinet from 1950 to 1956. In 1937, he was appointed a CIE (Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire). In 1974 he published his autobiography The Course of My Life. He died on 2 October 1982.
4.  Benegal Rama Rau
Sir Benegal Rama Rau was born on 1 July 1889. He was the fourth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1 July 1949 to 14 January 1957.He was educated at Presidency College, Madras, and at Kings College, Cambridge. Joining the Indian Civil Service in 1919.
5. K. G. Ambegaonkar
K. G. Ambegaokar was the fifth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 14 January 1957 to 28 February 1957. He was a member of the Indian Civil Service, and served as Finance Secretary before his appointment as Deputy Governor of the RBI.
6. H. V. R. Iyengar – From 1 March 1957 to 28 February 1962.
7. P. C. Bhattacharya – From 1 March 1962 to 30 June 1967.
8. L. K. Jha – From 1 July 1967 to 3 May 1970.    
9. B. N. Adarkar – from 4 May 1970 to 15 June 1970.
10. S. Jagannathan      - From 16 June 1970 to 19 May 1975.
11. N. C. Sen Gupta – From 19 May 1975 to 19 August 1975.
12. K. R. Puri – From 20 August 1975 to 2 May 1977.
13. M. Narasimham – From 3 May 1977 to 30 November 1977.
14. I.G. Patel – From 1 December 1977 to 15 September 1982.
15. Manmohan Singh – From 16 September 1982 to 14 January 1985.
16. Amitav Ghosh – From 15 January 1985 to 4 February 1985.
17. R. N. Malhotra – From 4 February 1985 to 22 December 1990.
18. S. Venkitaramanan – From 22 December 1990 to 21 December 1992.
19. C. Rangarajan – From 22 December 1992 to 21 November 1997.
20. Bimal Jalan – From 22 November 1997   6 September 2003.
21. Y. V. Reddy- From 6 September 2003 to 5 September 2008.
22. D. Subbarao – From 5 September 2008 to 4 September 2013.
23. Raghuram G. Rajan – From 4 September 2013to September 2016
24. Dr Urjit Patel- From September 2016 to present

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