*1)Sir Osborne Smith* (1 April 1935 – 30 June 1937)
*2)Sir James Braid Taylor* (1 July 1937 – 17 February 1943)
*3)Sir C. D. Deshmukh* (11 August 1943 – 30 June 1949)
*4)Sir Benegal Rama Rau* (1 July 1949 – 14 January 1957)
*5)K. G. Ambegaonkar* (14 January 1957 – 28 February 1957)
*6)H. V. R. Iyengar* (1 March 1957 – 28 February 1962)
*7)P. C. Bhattacharya* (1 March 1962 – 30 June 1967)
*8)L. K. Jha* (1 July 1967 – 3 May 1970)
*9)B. N. Adarkar* (4 May 1970 – 15 June 1970)
*10)S. Jagannathan* (16 June 1970 – 19 May 1975)
*11)N. C. Sen Gupta* (19 May 1975 – 19 August 1975)
*12)K. R. Puri* (20 August 1975 – 2 May 1977)
*13)M. Narasimham* (3 May 1977 – 30 November 1977)
*14)Dr. I. G. Patel* (1 December 1977 – 15 September 1982)
*15)Dr. Manmohan Singh* (16 September 1982 – 14 January 1985)
*16)A. Ghosh* (15 January 1985 – 4 February 1985)
*17)R. N. Malhotra* (4 February 1985 – 22 December 1990)
*18)S. Venkitaramanan* (22 December 1990 – 21 December 1992)
*19)Dr. C. Rangarajan* (22 December 1992 – 21 November 1997)
*20)Dr. Bimal Jalan* (22 November 1997 – 6 September 2003)
*21)Dr. Y. V. Reddy* (6 September 2003 – 5 September 2008)
*22)Dr. D. Subbarao* (6 September 2008 – 3 September 2013)
*23)Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan* (4 September 2013- 3September 2016)
*24)Urjit Patel* (4 September 2016-...)