The governor of Odisha is the head of the Indian state of Odisha. The governors have similar powers and functions at the state level as those of the president of India at central level. They exist in the state appointed by the president of India and they are not local to the state that they are appointed to govern. The factors based on which the president evaluates the candidates is not mentioned in the constitution. The governor acts as the nominal head whereas the real power lies with the chief minister of the state and their council of ministers whereas they act as the nominal head. The incumbent is Kambhampati Hari Babu since 3 January 2025. There are 36 governors if counted with 8 acting governors and 1 additional charge.
List Legend Died in office Transferred Resigned/removed
Color key indicates acting/additional charge
# Portrait Name Home state Tenure in office Appointer(President) From To Time in officeOrissa Province, British India (1936 - 1947)1 Sir John Austen Hubback United Kingdom 1 April 1936 11 August 1938 Freeman Thomas- George Townsend Boag 11 August 1938 7 December 1938 Victor Hope2Sir John Austen Hubback 8 December 1938 31 March 1941 3 Sir Hawthorne Lewis 1 April 1941 31 March 1946 4 Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi Gujarat 1 April 1946 14 August 1947 Archibald WavellOrissa Province, Dominion of India (1947 - 1950) 1 Kailash Nath Katju Central Provinces and Berar 15 August 1947 20 June 1948 Lord Mountbatten 2 Asaf Ali United Provinces 21 June 1948 25 January 1950 Orissa State, Republic of India (After 1950)1 Asaf AliUnited Provinces26 January 19505 May 1951Lord Mountbatten 2 V. P. Menon Madras State 6 May 1951 17 July 1951 Rajendra Prasad 3 Asaf Ali United Provinces 18 July 1951 6 June 1952 4 Saiyid Fazl Ali Bihar 7 June 1952 9 February 1954 Rajendra Prasad 5 P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja Madras State 10 February 1954 11 September 1956 6 Bhim Sen Sachar Punjab 12 September 1956 31 July 1957 7 Yashwant Narayan Sukthankar Bombay State 31 July 1957 15 September 1962 8 Ajudhia Nath Khosla Punjab 16 September 1962 5 August 1966 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 9 Khaleel Ahmed Bihar 5 August 1966 11 September 1966 10 Ajudhia Nath Khosla Punjab 12 September 1966 30 January 1968 11 Shaukatullah Shah Ansari Uttar Pradesh 31 January 1968 20 September 1971 Zakir Husain 12 Sardar Jogendra Singh Uttar Pradesh 20 September 1971 30 June 1972 V. V. Giri 13 Gati Krushna Misra Orissa 1 July 1972 8 November 1972 14 Basappa Danappa Jatti Karnataka 8 November 1972 20 August 1974 (13) Gati Krushna Misra Orissa 21 August 1974 25 October 1974 15 Akbar Ali Khan Andhra Pradesh 25 October 1974 17 April 1976 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed 16 Siba Narain Sankar Delhi 17 April 1976 7 February 1977 17 Harcharan Singh Brar Punjab 7 February 1977 22 September 1977 18 Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Haryana 23 September 1977 30 April 1980 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy 19 C. M. Poonacha Karnataka 30 April 1980 30 September 1980 20 Sukanta Kishore Ray Orissa 1 October 1980 3 November 1980 (19) C. M. Poonacha Karnataka 4 November 1980 24 June 1982 21 Ranganath Misra Orissa 25 June 1982 31 August 1982 (19) C. M. Poonacha Karnataka 1 September 1982 17 August 1983 Zail Singh 22 Bishambhar Nath Pande Uttar Pradesh 17 August 1983 20 November 1988 23Saiyid Nurul Hasan(Acting until 20 March 1989)Uttar Pradesh 20 November 1988 6 February 1990Ramaswamy Venkataraman 24 Yagya Dutt Sharma Punjab 7 February 1990 1 February 1993 (23) Saiyid Nurul Hasan Uttar Pradesh 1 February 1993 31 May 1993 Shankar Dayal Sharma 25 B. Satya Narayan Reddy Andhra Pradesh 1 June 1993 17 June 1995 26 Gopala Ramanujam Tamil Nadu 18 June 1995 30 January 1997 27 K. V. Raghunatha Reddy Andhra Pradesh 31 January 1997 12 February 1997 (26) Gopala Ramanujam Tamil Nadu 13 February 1997 13 December 1997 (27) K. V. Raghunatha Reddy Andhra Pradesh 13 December 1997 27 April 1998 K. R. Narayanan 28 C. Rangarajan Tamil Nadu 27 April 1998 14 November 1999 29 M. M. Rajendran Tamil Nadu 15 November 1999 3 March 2003 30 Surjit Singh Barnala Punjab 4 March 2003 16 November 2003 (29) M. M. Rajendran Tamil Nadu 16 November 2003 17 November 2004 31 Rameshwar Thakur Jharkhand 18 November 2004 21 August 2007 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 32 Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare Maharashtra 21 August 2007 20 March 2013 Pratibha Patil 33 S. C. Jamir Nagaland 21 March 2013 20 March 2018 Pranab Mukherjee 34 Satya Pal Malik Uttar Pradesh 21 March 2018 28 May 2018 Ram Nath Kovind 35 Ganeshi Lal Haryana 29 May 2018 30 October 2023 36 Raghubar Das Jharkhand 31 October 2023 3 January 2025 Droupadi Murmu 37 Kambhampati Hari Babu Andhra Pradesh 3 January 2025 Incumbent
Timeline Timeline of Odisha governors
See also
Government of Odisha Chief Minister of Odisha Deputy Chief Ministers of Odisha Speaker of the Odisha Legislative Assembly Leader of the Opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly Odisha Legislative Assembly Elections in Odisha Politics of Odisha Governors of states of India List of governors of Bihar and Orissa Province List of current Indian governors
External links
(Governor's Official Residence)