| Post: | Governor |
| Body: | Punjab |
| Insignia: | Seal of the Government Of Punjab (Black On White).svg |
| Insigniacaption: | Emblem of Punjab |
| Incumbent: | Gulab Chand Kataria |
| Incumbentsince: | 31 July 2024 |
| Style: | His Excellency |
| Residence: | Raj Bhavan, Chandigarh |
| Termlength: | Five years; no restriction on renewal |
| Inaugural: | Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi |
| Precursor: | Governor of Punjab |
| Website: | Punjabrajbhavan |
| Flag: | Flag of India.svg |
| Flagcaption: | Flag of India |
| Insigniasize: | 90px |
This is a list of the governors of Punjab state in India since its partition on 15 August 1947. Since 1985, the governor of Punjab has acted as the administrator of Chandigarh as well.
| S. No | Name | Portrait | Tenure [1] | Nominated by | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor of East Punjab (1947–1950) | |||||||
| 1 | Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi | 15 August 1947 | 26 January 1950 | L. Mountbatten | |||
| Governor of Punjab (1950–Present) | |||||||
| 1 | Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi | 26 January 1950 | 11 March 1953 | Rajendra Prasad | |||
| 2 | 11 March 1953 | 15 September 1958 | |||||
| 3 | Narahar Vishnu Gadgil | 15 September 1958 | 1 October 1962 | ||||
| 4 | Pattom A. Thanu Pillai | 1 October 1962 | 4 May 1964 | S. Radhakrishnan | |||
| 5 | Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim | 4 May 1964 | 1 September 1965 | ||||
| 6 | Ujjal Singh | 1 September 1965 | 26 June 1966 | ||||
| 7 | Dharma Vira | 27 June 1966 | 1 June 1967 | ||||
| bgcolor=#DDEEEF | - | 1 June 1967 | 16 October 1967 | Zakir Husain | |||
| 8 | Dadappa Chintappa Pavate | 16 October 1967 | 21 May 1973 | ||||
| 9 | Mahendra Mohan Choudhry | 21 May 1973 | 1 September 1977 | V. V. Giri | |||
| bgcolor=#DDEEFF | - | Ranjit Singh Narula | 1 September 1977 | 24 September 1977 | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | ||
| 10 | Jaisukh Lal Hathi | 24 September 1977 | 26 August 1981 | ||||
| 11 | Aminuddin Ahmad Khan | 26 August 1981 | 21 April 1982 | ||||
| 12 | Marri Chenna Reddy | 21 April 1982 | 7 February 1983 | ||||
| bgcolor=#DDEEFF | - | Surjit Singh Sandhawalia | 7 February 1983 | 21 February 1983 | Zail Singh | ||
| 13 | Anant Prasad Sharma | 21 February 1983 | 10 October 1983 | ||||
| 14 | Bhairab Dutt Pande | 10 October 1983 | 3 July 1984 | ||||
| 15 | Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala | 3 July 1984 | 14 March 1985 | ||||
| 16 | Arjun Singh | 14 March 1985 | 14 November 1985 | ||||
| bgcolor=#DDEEEF | - | Hokishe Sema | 14 November 1985 | 26 November 1985 | |||
| 17 | Shankar Dayal Sharma | 26 November 1985 | 2 April 1986 | ||||
| 18 | Siddhartha Shankar Ray | 2 April 1986 | 8 December 1989 | ||||
| 19 | Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee | 8 December 1989 | 14 June 1990 | R. Venkataraman | |||
| 20 | Virendra Verma | 14 June 1990 | 18 December 1990 | ||||
| 21 | Om Prakash Malhotra | 18 December 1990 | 7 August 1991 | ||||
| 22 | Surendra Nath | 7 August 1991 | 9 July 1994 | ||||
| - | 10 July 1994 | 18 September 1994 | Shankar Dayal Sharma | ||||
| 23 | Bakshi Krishan Nath Chhibber | 18 September 1994 | 27 November 1999 | ||||
| 24 | Jack Farj Rafael Jacob | 27 November 1999 | 8 May 2003 | K. R. Narayanan | |||
| 25 | Om Prakash Verma | 8 May 2003 | 3 November 2004 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | |||
| Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai | 3 November 2004 | 16 November 2004 | |||||
| 26 | Sunith Francis Rodrigues | 16 November 2004 | 22 January 2010 | ||||
| 27 | Shivraj Vishwanath Patil | 22 January 2010 | 22 January 2015 | Pratibha Patil | |||
| bgcolor=#DDEEEF | - | Kaptan Singh Solanki | 22 January 2015 | 22 August 2016 | Pranab Mukherjee | ||
| 28 | Vijayendra Pal Singh Badnore | 22 August 2016 | 30 August 2021 | ||||
| - | 31 August 2021 | 11 September 2021 | Ram Nath Kovind | ||||
| 29 | Banwarilal Purohit | 11 September 2021 | 30 July 2024 | ||||
| 30 | Gulab Chand Kataria | 31 July 2024 | Incumbent | Droupadi Murmu | |||
See also: Rajpramukh and Patiala and East Punjab States Union. Source:[2]