List of governors of Haryana

Governor of Haryana
Emblem of Haryana
Incumbent Ashim Kumar Ghosh since 21 July 2025
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Raj Bhavan; Chandigarh
Appointer	President of India
Term length	At the pleasure of the president
Inaugural holder	Dharma Vira
Formation	1 November 1966 (1966-11-01)
Website	http://haryanarajbhavan.gov.in

This is a list of governors of the Indian state of Haryana, which was carved out from Punjab on 1 November 1966.

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#	Portrait	Name (born – died)	Home state	Tenure in office			Appointer (President)
				From	To	Time in office
Governor of East Punjab
1		Sir Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (1893–1980)	Bombay Presidency	15 August 1947	26 January 1950	2 years, 164 days	Lord Mountbatten (Governor-General)
Governor of Punjab
(1)		Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (1893–1980)	Bombay Presidency	26 January 1950	11 March 1953	3 years, 44 days	Rajendra Prasad
2		Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (1901–1994)	Bihar	11 March 1953	15 September 1958	5 years, 188 days
3		Narhar Vishnu Gadgil (1896–1966)	Madhya Pradesh	15 September 1958	1 October 1962	4 years, 16 days
4		Pattom A. Thanu Pillai (1885–1970)	Kerala	1 October 1962	4 May 1964[§][α]	1 year, 216 days	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
5		Hafiz Mohamad Ibrahim (1889–1968)	Uttar Pradesh	4 May 1964	1 September 1965	1 year, 120 days
6		Ujjal Singh (1895–1983)	Punjab	1 September 1965	26 June 1966[§][β]	298 days
7		Dharma Vira ICS (Retd) (1906–2000)	Uttar Pradesh	27 June 1966	1 June 1967[§][γ]	339 days

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• ^† Died in office
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• ^‡ Resigned/removed

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#	Portrait	Name (born – died)	Home state	Tenure in office			Appointer (President)
				From	To	Time in office
1		Dharma Vira ICS (Retd) (1906–2000) Governor of Punjab	Uttar Pradesh	1 November 1966	14 September 1967[§][α]	317 days	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
2		Birendra Narayan Chakraborty ICS (Retd) (1904–1976)	West Bengal	15 September 1967	26 March 1976[†]	8 years, 193 days	Zakir Husain
–		Justice Ranjit Singh Narula (1908–2005) Chief Justice, Punjab and Haryana High Court	Punjab	27 March 1976	13 August 1976	139 days	Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
3		Jaisukh Lal Hathi (1909–1982)	Gujarat	14 August 1976	23 September 1977[§][β]	1 year, 40 days
4		Harcharan Singh Brar (1922–2009)	Punjab	24 September 1977	9 December 1979[‡]	2 years, 76 days	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
–		Justice Surjit Singh Sandhawalia (1925–2007) Chief Justice, Punjab and Haryana High Court	Punjab	10 December 1979	27 February 1980	79 days
5		Ganpatrao Devji Tapase (1909–1992)	Maharashtra	28 February 1980	13 June 1984	4 years, 106 days
6		S. M. H. Burney IAS (Retd) (1924–2014)	Uttar Pradesh	14 June 1984	21 February 1988	3 years, 252 days	Zail Singh
7		Hari Anand Barari IPS (Retd) (1924–2014)	West Bengal	22 February 1988	6 February 1990[‡]	1 year, 349 days	Ramaswamy Venkataraman
8		Dhanik Lal Mandal (1932–2022)	Bihar	7 February 1990	13 June 1995	5 years, 126 days
9		Mahabir Prasad (1939–2010)	Uttar Pradesh	14 June 1995	18 June 2000	5 years, 4 days	Shankar Dayal Sharma
10		Babu Parmanand (1932–2008)	Jammu and Kashmir	19 June 2000	1 July 2004[‡]	4 years, 12 days	K. R. Narayanan
11		Justice (Retd) Om Prakash Verma (1937–2015) Governor of Punjab	Uttar Pradesh	2 July 2004	7 July 2004	5 days	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
12		Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (1921–2016)	Delhi	7 July 2004	27 July 2009	5 years, 20 days
13		Jagannath Pahadia (1932–2021)	Rajasthan	27 July 2009	26 July 2014	4 years, 364 days	Pratibha Patil
14		Kaptan Singh Solanki (born 1939)	Madhya Pradesh	27 July 2014	25 August 2018[§][γ]	4 years, 29 days	Pranab Mukherjee
15		Satyadev Narayan Arya (born 1939)	Bihar	25 August 2018	6 July 2021[§][γ]	2 years, 315 days	Ram Nath Kovind
16		Bandaru Dattatreya (born 1947)	Telangana	7 July 2021	20 July 2025	4 years, 13 days
17		Ashim Kumar Ghosh (born 1944)	West Bengal	21 July 2025	Incumbent	209 days	Droupadi Murmu

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