List of governors of Odisha for opsc exam

Governor of Odisha
ରାଜ ଭବନ, ଓଡ଼ିଶା Raj Bhavan, Odisha
Incumbent Prof. Ganeshi Lal His Excellency the Governor of Odisha since 29 May 2018
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Raj Bhavan, Odisha, Bhubaneswar
Appointer	President of India
Term length	Five Years
Inaugural holder	Sir John Austen Hubback
Formation	1 April 1936; 82 years ago
Website	www.rajbhavanodisha.gov.in

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This is a list of the governors of the Indian state of Odisha (formerly Orissa), since its foundation in 1936.

Governors of Odisha

#	Name		Left Office
1	Sir John Austen Hubback	1 April 1936	11 August 1938
2	George Townsend Boag (Acting)	11 August 1938	7 December 1938
3	Sir John Austen Hubback	8 December 1938	31 March 1941
4	Howthorne Lewis	1 April 1941	31 March 1946
5	Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi	1 April 1946	14 August 1947
6	Kailash Nath Katju	15 August 1947	20 June 1948
7	Asaf Ali	21 June 1948	5 May 1951
8	V. P. Menon (Acting)	6 May 1951	17 July 1951
9	Asaf Ali	18 July 1951	6 June 1952
10	Fazal Ali	7 June 1952	9 February 1954
11	P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja	10 February 1954	11 September 1956
12	Bhim Sen Sachar	12 September 1956	31 July 1957
13	Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar	31 July 1957	15 September 1962
14	Ajudhia Nath Khosla	16 September 1962	5 August 1966
15	Khaleell Ahommed (Acting)	5 August 1966	11 September 1966
16	Ajudhia Nath Khosla	12 September 1966	30 January 1968
17	Shaukatullah Shah Ansari	31 January 1968	20 September 1971
18	Sardar Jojendra Singh (Acting)	20 September 1971	30 June 1972
19	Gati Krushna Misra	1 July 1972	8 November 1972
20	Basappa Danappa Jatti	8 November 1972	20 August 1974
21	Gati Krushna Misra	21 August 1974	25 October 1974
22	Akbar Ali Khan	25 October 1974	17 April 1976
23	Shiva Narayin Sankar (Acting)	17 April 1976	7 February 1977
24	Harcharan Singh Brar	7 February 1977	22 September 1977
25	Bhagwat Dayal Sharma	23 September 1977	30 April 1980
26	Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha	30 April 1980	30 September 1980
27	S. K. Ray (Acting)	1 October 1980	3 November 1980
28	Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha	4 November 1980	24 June 1982
29	Ranganath Misra (Acting)	25 June 1982	31 August 1982
30	Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha	1 September 1982	17 August 1983
31	Bishambhar Nath Pande	17 August 1983	20 November 1988
32	Saiyid Nurul Hasan	20 November 1988	6 February 1990
33	Yagya Dutt Sharma	7 February 1990	1 February 1993
34	Saiyid Nurul Hasan	1 February 1993	31 May 1993
35	B. Satya Narayan Reddy	1 June 1993	17 June 1995
36	Gopala Ramanujam	18 June 1995	30 January 1997
37	K. V. Raghunatha Reddy	31 January 1997	12 February 1997
38	Gopala Ramanujam	13 February 1997	13 December 1997
39	K. V. Raghunatha Reddy	13 December 1997	27 April 1998
40	C. Rangarajan	27 April 1998	14 November 1999
41	M. M. Rajendran	15 November 1999	17 November 2004
42	Rameshwar Thakur	18 November 2004	21 August 2007
43	Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare	21 August 2007	9 March 2013
44	S.C. Jamir	21 March 2013	20 March 2018
45	Satya Pal Malik (Additional Charge)	21 March 2018	28 May 2018
46	Prof. Ganeshi Lal	29 May 2018	Till now