Governors of Orissa

Governors of Orissa

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

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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