List of governors of Odisha

Governor of Odisha
ଓଡ଼ିଶାର ରାଜ୍ୟପାଳ
Emblem of Odisha
since 3 January 2025 (2025-01-03)
StyleHis Excellency
ମାନ୍ୟବର ରାଜ୍ୟପାଳ ମହୋଦୟ / ମହୋଦୟା
ResidenceRaj Bhavan, Bhubaneswar
Raj Bhavan, Puri
AppointerPresident of India
Term lengthAt the pleasure of the president
Inaugural holderSir John Austen Hubback
Formation1 April 1936; 89 years ago (1936-04-01)
Salary
  • ₹350,000 (US$4,100)/monthly
  • ₹4,200,000 (US$50,000)/annually
Websiterajbhavanodisha.gov.in

The governor of Odisha is the head of the Indian state of Odisha. The governors have similar powers and functions at the state level as those of the president of India at central level. They exist in the state appointed by the president of India and they are not local to the state that they are appointed to govern. The factors based on which the president evaluates the candidates is not mentioned in the constitution. The governor acts as the nominal head whereas the real power lies with the chief minister of the state and their council of ministers whereas they act as the nominal head. The incumbent is Kambhampati Hari Babu since 3 January 2025. There are 36 governors if counted with 8 acting governors and 1 additional charge.

List

Legend
  • † Died in office
  • § Transferred
  • ‡ Resigned/removed
Color key
  •    indicates acting/additional charge
# Portrait Name
(lifespan)
Previous Office 		Home state Tenure in office Appointer
(President)
From To Time in office
Orissa Province, British India (1936 - 1947)
1 Sir John Austen Hubback
(1878–1968) 		United Kingdom 1 April 1936 11 August 1938 2 years, 132 days Freeman Thomas
(Viceroy)
- George Townsend Boag
CSI ICS
(1884–1969)
(Acting) 		11 August 1938 7 December 1938 118 days Victor Hope
(Viceroy)
2 Sir John Austen Hubback
(1878–1968) 		8 December 1938 31 March 1941 2 years, 113 days
(Total 4 years, 245 days)
3 Sir Hawthorne Lewis
KCIE ICS
(1888–1970) 		1 April 1941 31 March 1946 4 years, 364 days
4 Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
CIE OBE ICS
(1893–1980)
Secretary in the War Department 		Gujarat 1 April 1946 14 August 1947 1 year, 135 days Archibald Wavell
(Viceroy)
Orissa Province, Dominion of India (1947 - 1950)
5 Kailash Nath Katju
(1887–1968)
Minister in United Provinces Provisional Government 		Central Provinces and Berar 15 August 1947 20 June 1948[§][α] 310 days Lord Mountbatten
(Governor-General)
6 Asaf Ali
(1888–1953)
Ambassador of India to the United States 		United Provinces 21 June 1948 25 January 1950 1 year, 218 days
Orissa State, Republic of India (After 1950)
7 Asaf Ali
(1888–1953)
Ambassador of India to the United States 		United Provinces 26 January 1950 5 May 1951 1 year, 99 days Lord Mountbatten
(Governor-General)
- V. P. Menon
CSI CIE
(1893–1965)
Secretary in the Ministry of the States
(Acting) 		Madras State 6 May 1951 17 July 1951 72 days Rajendra Prasad
(Acting)
8 Asaf Ali
(1888–1953)
Ambassador of India to the United States 		United Provinces 18 July 1951 6 June 1952 324 days

(Total 3 years, 276 days)

9 Justice (Retd)
Saiyid Fazl Ali
(1886–1959)
Judge of the Supreme Court of India 		Bihar 7 June 1952 9 February 1954 1 year, 247 days Rajendra Prasad
10 P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja
(1898–1957)
Chief Minister of Madras State 		Madras State 10 February 1954 11 September 1956 2 years, 214 days
11 Bhim Sen Sachar
(1894–1978)
Chief Minister of Punjab 		Punjab 12 September 1956 31 July 1957[§][β] 322 days
12 Yashwant Narayan Sukthankar
CIE ICS (Retd)
(1897–1973)
Cabinet Secretary of India 		Bombay State 31 July 1957 15 September 1962 5 years, 46 days
13 Ajudhia Nath Khosla
(1892–1984)
MP from Rajya Sabha 		Punjab 16 September 1962 5 August 1966 3 years, 323 days Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Justice
Khaleel Ahmed
(1907–his death)
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
(Acting) 		Bihar 5 August 1966 11 September 1966 37 days
14 Ajudhia Nath Khosla
(1892–1984)
MP from Rajya Sabha 		Punjab 12 September 1966 30 January 1968 1 year, 140 days
(Total 5 years, 98 days)
15 Shaukatullah Shah Ansari
(1908–1972)
MP from Bidar, Karnataka 		Uttar Pradesh 31 January 1968 20 September 1971 3 years, 232 days Zakir Husain
- Sardar Jogendra Singh
(1903–1979)
MP from Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh
(Acting) 		Uttar Pradesh 20 September 1971 30 June 1972[§][γ] 284 days V. V. Giri
- Justice
Gati Krushna Misra
(d. 2009)
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
(Acting) 		Orissa 1 July 1972 8 November 1972 130 days
16 Basappa Danappa Jatti
(1912–2002)
Chief Minister of Mysore State 		Karnataka 8 November 1972 20 August 1974[‡][δ] 1 year, 285 days
- Justice
Gati Krushna Misra
(d. 2009)
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
(Acting) 		Orissa 21 August 1974 25 October 1974 65 days
(Total 195 days)
17 Akbar Ali Khan
(1899–1994)
Governor of Uttar Pradesh 		Andhra Pradesh 25 October 1974 17 April 1976[‡] 1 year, 175 days Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
- Justice
Siba Narain Sankar
(1915–his death)
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
(Acting) 		Delhi 17 April 1976 7 February 1977 296 days
18 Harcharan Singh Brar
(1922–2009)
MLA from Punjab 		Punjab 7 February 1977 22 September 1977[§][ε] 227 days
19 Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
(1918–1993)
Chief Minister of Haryana 		Haryana 23 September 1977 30 April 1980[§][ζ] 2 years, 220 days Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
20 C. M. Poonacha
(1910–1990)
Governor of Madhya Pradesh 		Karnataka 30 April 1980 30 September 1980 153 days
- Justice
Sukanta Kishore Ray
(1918–2002)
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
(Acting) 		Orissa 1 October 1980 3 November 1980 33 days
21 C. M. Poonacha
(1910–1990)
Governor of Madhya Pradesh 		Karnataka 4 November 1980 24 June 1982 1 year, 232 days
- Justice
Ranganath Misra
(1926–2012)
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
(Acting) 		Orissa 25 June 1982 31 August 1982 67 days
22 C. M. Poonacha
(1910–1990)
Governor of Madhya Pradesh 		Karnataka 1 September 1982 17 August 1983 350 days
(Total 3 years, 5 days) 		Zail Singh
23 Bishambhar Nath Pande
(1906–1998)
MP from Rajya Sabha, Uttar Pradesh 		Uttar Pradesh 17 August 1983 20 November 1988[‡] 5 years, 95 days
- Saiyid Nurul Hasan
(1921–1993)
Governor of West Bengal
until 20 March 1989 		Uttar Pradesh 20 November 1988 20 March 1989 1 year, 78 days Ramaswamy Venkataraman
24 20 March 1989 6 February 1990[§][η]
25 Yagya Dutt Sharma
(1922–1996)
MP from Gurdaspur, Punjab 		Punjab 7 February 1990 1 February 1993[‡] 2 years, 360 days
- Saiyid Nurul Hasan
(1921–1993)
Governor of West Bengal
(Additional Charge) 		Uttar Pradesh 1 February 1993 31 May 1993 119 days
(Total 1 year, 197 days) 		Shankar Dayal Sharma
26 B. Satya Narayan Reddy
(1927–2012)
Governor of Uttar Pradesh 		Andhra Pradesh 1 June 1993 17 June 1995 2 years, 16 days
27 Gopala Ramanujam
(1915–2001)
Governor of Goa 		Tamil Nadu 18 June 1995 30 January 1997 1 year, 226 days
- K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
(1924–2002)
Governor of West Bengal
(Additional Charge) 		Andhra Pradesh 31 January 1997 12 February 1997 12 days
28 Gopala Ramanujam
(1915–2001)
Governor of Goa 		Tamil Nadu 13 February 1997 13 December 1997 303 days
(Total 2 years, 164 days)
- K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
(1924–2002)
Governor of West Bengal
(Additional Charge) 		Andhra Pradesh 13 December 1997 27 April 1998 135 days K. R. Narayanan
- C. Rangarajan
(born 1932)
Governor of Andhra Pradesh
(Additional Charge) 		Tamil Nadu 27 April 1998 14 November 1999 1 year, 201 days
29 M. M. Rajendran
IAS (Retd)
(1935–2023)
Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu 		Tamil Nadu 15 November 1999 17 November 2004 5 years, 2 days
30 Rameshwar Thakur
(1925–2015)
Union Minister of State in Finance 		Jharkhand 18 November 2004 21 August 2007[§][θ] 2 years, 276 days A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
31 Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare
(1928–2024)
MP From Rajya Sabha, Maharastra 		Maharashtra 21 August 2007 20 March 2013 5 years, 211 days Pratibha Patil
32 S. C. Jamir
(born 1931)
Chief Minister of Nagaland 		Nagaland 21 March 2013 20 March 2018 4 years, 364 days Pranab Mukherjee
- Satya Pal Malik
(1946–2025)
Governor of Bihar
(Additional Charge) 		Uttar Pradesh 21 March 2018 28 May 2018 68 days Ram Nath Kovind
33 Ganeshi Lal
(born 1941)
MLA from Haryana 		Haryana 29 May 2018 30 October 2023 5 years, 154 days
34 Raghubar Das
(born 1955)
Chief Minister of Jharkhand 		Jharkhand 31 October 2023 2 January 2025[‡] 1 year, 63 days Droupadi Murmu
35 Kambhampati Hari Babu
(born 1953)
Governor of Mizoram 		Andhra Pradesh 3 January 2025 Incumbent 1 year, 15 days
  1. ^ Transferred as the Governor of West Bengal
  2. ^ Transferred as the Governor of Andhra Pradesh
  3. ^ Transferred as the Governor of Rajasthan
  4. ^ Resigned to become the Vice President of India
  5. ^ Transferred as the Governor of Haryana
  6. ^ Transferred as the Governor of Madhya Pradesh
  7. ^ Transferred as the Governor of West Bengal
  8. ^ Transferred as the Governor of Karnataka

Timeline

See also

  • "Introduction". Raj Bhavan of Odisha. (Governor's Official Residence)
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