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Governors of Orissa
The Indian state of Odisha has had 43 governors till date.

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Sl.No. Name Took Office Left Office
1 Sir John Austen Hubback 4/1/1936 8/11/1938
2 George Townsend Boag (Acting) 8/11/1938 12/7/1938
3 Sir John Austen Hubback 12/8/1938 3/31/1941
4 Sir Howthorne Lewis 4/1/1941 3/31/1946
5 Sir Chandulal Trivedi 4/1/1946 8/14/1947
6 Dr. Kailash Nath Katju 8/15/1947 6/20/1948
7 M.Asaf Ali 6/21/1948 5/5/1951
8 V.P. Menon(Acting) 5/6/1951 7/17/1951
9 M.Asaf Ali 7/18/1951 6/6/1952
10 Saiyid Fazl Ali 6/7/1952 2/9/1954
11 P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja 2/10/1954 9/11/1956
12 Bhim Sen Sachar 9/12/1956 7/31/1957
13 Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar 7/31/1957 9/15/1962
14 Dr. Ajudhia Nath Khosla 9/16/1962 8/5/1966
15 Khaleell Ahommed (Acting) 8/5/1966 9/11/1966
16 Dr. Ajudhia Nath Khosla 9/12/1966 1/30/1968
17 Dr. Shaukatullah Shah Ansari 1/31/1968 9/20/1971
18 Sardar Jojendra Singh(Acting) 9/20/1971 6/30/1972
19 Justice Gatikrishna Mishra 7/1/1972 11/8/1972
20 Basappa Danappa Jatti 11/8/1972 8/20/1974
21 Justice Gatikrishna Mishra 8/21/1974 10/25/1974
22 A A Khan 10/25/1974 4/17/1976
23 Justice Shiva Narayin Sankar (Acting) 4/17/1976 2/7/1977
24 Harcharan Singh Brar 2/7/1977 9/22/1977
25 Bhagwat Dayal Sharma 9/23/1977 4/30/1980
26 Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha 4/30/1980 9/30/1980
27 Justice S.K. Ray (Acting) 10/1/1980 11/3/1980
28 Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha 11/4/1980 6/24/1982
29 Justice R.N. Mishra (Acting) 6/25/1982 8/31/1982
30 Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha 9/1/1982 8/17/1983
31 Bishambhar Nath Pande 8/17/1983 11/20/1988
32 Prof.SaiyidNurul Hasan 11/20/1988 2/6/1990
33 Yagya Datt Sharma 2/7/1990 2/1/1993
34 Prof. Saiyid Nurul Hasan 2/1/1993 5/31/1993
35 B. Satyanarayan Reddy 6/1/1993 6/17/1995
36 Gopala Ramanujam 6/18/1995 1/30/1997
37 K.V. Raghunatha Reddy 1/31/1997 2/12/1997
38 Gopala Ramanujam 2/13/1997 12/13/1997
39 K.V. Raghunatha Reddy 12/13/1997 4/27/1998
40 Dr. C. Rangarajan 4/27/1998 11/14/1999
41 M.M.Rajendran 11/15/1999 11/17/2004
42 Rameshwar Thakur 11/18/2004 8/21/2007
43 Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare 8/21/2007 Incumbent



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