List of governors of West Bengal

The state of West Bengal adjoins Bangladesh.

The Governor of West Bengal is the constitutional head of the West Bengal government.

Governors

#	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari	15 August 1947	21 June 1948
2	Kailash Nath Katju	21 June 1948	1 November 1951
3	Harendra Coomar Mookerjee	1 November 1951	8 August 1956
4	Padmaja Naidu	3 November 1956	1 June 1967
5	Dharma Vira	1 June 1967	1 April 1969
6	Deep Narayan Sinha (acting)	1 April 1969	19 September 1969
7	Shanti Swaroop Dhavan	19 September 1969	21 August 1971
8	Anthony Lancelot Dias	21 August 1971	6 November 1979]
9	Tribhuvana Narayana Singh	6 November 1979	12 September 1981
10	Bhairab Dutt Pande	12 September 1981	10 October 1983
11	Anant Prasad Sharma	10 October 1983	16 August 1984
12	Satish Chandra (acting)	16 August 1984	1 October 1984
13	Uma Shankar Dikshit	1 October 1984	12 August 1986
14	Saiyid Nurul Hasan	12 August 1986	20 March 1989
15	T. V. Rajeswar	20 March 1989	7 February 1990
16	Saiyid Nurul Hasan	7 February 1990	12 July 1993
17	B. Satyanarayan Reddy (additional charge)	13 July 1993	14 August 1993
18	K. V. Raghunatha Reddy	14 August 1993	27 April 1998
19	Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (additional charge)	27 April 1998	18 May 1999
20	Shyamal Kumar Sen (acting)	18 May 1999	4 December 1999
21	Viren J. Shah	4 December 1999	14 December 2004
22	Gopalkrishna Gandhi	14 December 2004	14 December 2009
23	Devanand Konwar (additional charge)	14 December 2009	19 December 2009
24	M.K. Narayanan	19 December 2009 (acting until January 2011)	30 June 2014
25	D. Y. Patil (Acting Charge)^[1]	3 July 2014	17 July 2014
26	Keshari Nath Tripathi	24 July 2014	Incumbent