The Governor of Assam is a nominal head and representative of the President of India in the state of Assam. The Governor is appointed by the President for a term of 5 years. Banwarilal Purohit is the present Governor of Assam from 22nd August, 2016.
List of Governors of Assam
| Sr.No./td> | Name of Governors | From | To |
| 1 | Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari | Aug 15, 1947 | Dec 28, 1948 |
| 2 | Ronald Francis Lodge | Dec 30, 1948 | Feb 16, 1949 |
| 3 | Sri Prakasa | Feb 16, 1949 | May 27, 1950 |
| 4 | Jairam Das Daulatram | May 27, 1950 | May 15, 1956 |
| 5 | Saiyid Fazal Ali | May 15, 1956 | Aug 22, 1959 |
| 6 | Chandreswar Prasad Sinha | Aug 23, 1959 | Oct 14, 1959 |
| 7 | Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh | Oct 14, 1959 | Nov 12, 1960 |
| 8 | Vishnu Sahay | Nov 12, 1960 | Jan 13, 1961 |
| 9 | Mallannah Shrinagesh | Jan 13, 1961 | Sep 7, 1962 |
| 10 | Vishnu Sahay | Sep 7, 1962 | Apr 17, 1968 |
| 11 | Braj Kumar Nehru | Apr 17, 1968 | Dec 7, 1970 |
| 12 | Justice P. K. Goswami | Dec 8, 1970 | Jan 4, 1971 |
| 13 | Braj Kumar Nehru | Jan 5, 1971 | Sep 18, 1973 |
| 14 | Lallan Prasad Singh | Sep 19, 1973 | Aug 11, 1981 |
| 15 | Prakash Chandra Mehrotra | Aug 12, 1981 | Mar 28, 1984 |
| 16 | Justice T. S. Mishra | Mar 29, 1984 | Apr 15, 1984 |
| 17 | Bhishma Narain Singh | Apr 16, 1984 | May 11, 1989 |
| 18 | Harideo Joshi | May 12, 1989 | Jul 26, 1989 |
| 19 | Justice Anisetti Raghuvir | Jul 27, 1989 | May 1, 1990 |
| 20 | Justice Devi Das Thakur | May 2, 1990 | Mar 16, 1991 |
| 21 | Loknath Mishra | Mar 17, 1991 | Aug 31, 1997 |
| 22 | Srinivas Kumar Sinha | Sep 1, 1997 | Jun 4, 2003 |
| 23 | Ajai Singh | Jun 5, 2003 | Jul 3, 2008 |
| 24 | Shiv Charan Mathur | Jul 4, 2008 | Jun 25, 2009 |
| 25 | K Sankaranarayanan | Jun 26, 2009 | Jul 26, 2009 |
| 26 | Syed Sibtey Razi | Jul 27, 2009 | Dec 10, 2009 |
| 27 | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | Dec 11, 2009 | Dec 11, 2014 |
| 28 | Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya | Dec 12, 2014 | Aug 22, 2016 |
| 29 | Banwarilal Purohit | Aug 22, 2016 | Present |