List of governors of Maharashtra

The Governor of Maharashtra is the Ceremonial head of the state of Maharashtra.^[1]

Governor of Maharashtra
Incumbent Bhagat Singh Koshyari since 5 September 2019
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Raj Bhavan (Mumbai) Additional: Raj Bhavan (Nagpur); Raj Bhavan (Pune) & Raj Bhavan (Mahabaleshwar)
Appointer	President of India
Term length	Five years
Inaugural holder	John Colville, PC, GCIE
Formation	24 March 1943; 82 years ago (1943-03-24)
Website	Raj Bhavan Maharashtra

List

No.	Name (birth–death)	Portrait	Term			Appointed by (President of India)
Bombay State (Before Independence)
**	John Colville, PC, GCIE		24 March 1943	5 January 1948	4 years, 287 days	Viscount Wavell (Governor General)
Bombay State (After Independence)
1	Raja Sir Maharaj Singh, CIE		6 January 1948	30 May 1952	4 years, 145 days	L. Mountbatten (Governor General)
2	Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai, KCSI, KBE, CIE		30 May 1952	5 December 1954	2 years, 189 days	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
3	Dr Harekrushna Mahatab		2 March 1955	14 October 1956	1 year, 226 days
Maharashtra
4	Sri Prakasa		10 December 1956	16 April 1962	5 years, 127 days	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
5	Dr P. Subbarayan		17 April 1962	6 October 1962	172 days
6	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit		28 November 1962	18 October 1964	1 year, 325 days	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
7	Dr P V Cherian		14 November 1964	8 November 1969	4 years, 359 days
8	Ali Yavar Jung		26 February 1970	11 December 1976		V. V. Giri
9	Sri Sadiq Ali		30 April 1977	3 November 1980		B. D. Jatti (Acting President)
10	O P Mehra		3 November 1980	5 March 1982		Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
11	Idris Hasan Latif		6 March 1982	16 April 1985
12	Kona Prabhakara Rao		31 May 1985	2 April 1986		Zail Singh
13	Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma		3 April 1986	2 September 1987
14	Kasu Brahmananda Reddy		20 February 1988	18 January 1990		R. Venkataraman
15	Dr. C Subramaniam		15 February 1990	9 January 1993
16	Dr. P.C. Alexander		12 January 1993	13 July 2002	9 years, 182 days	Shankar Dayal Sharma
17	Mohammed Fazal		10 October 2002	5 December 2004	2 years, 56 days	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
18	S.M. Krishna		12 December 2004	5 March 2008	3 years, 84 days
19	S.C. Jamir		9 March 2008	22 January 2010	1 year, 319 days	Pratibha Patil
20	Kateekal Sankaranarayanan		22 January 2010	24 August 2014	4 years, 214 days
21	Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao		30 August 2014	4 September 2019	5 years, 5 days	Pranab Mukherjee
22	Bhagat Singh Koshyari 23 Ramesh Bais		5 September 2019	Incumbent	5 years, 258 days	Ramnath Kovind