| Sl. | Name | From | To |
|---|
| 1. | Sir Robert Niel Reid. | 4th March, 1937 | 24th June, 1938 |
| 2. | Sir Gilbert Pitchin Hogg | 25th June, 1938 | 24th October, 1938 |
| 3. | Sir Robert Niel Reid. | 25th October, 1938 | 24th February, 1939 |
| 4. | Sir Henry Joseph Twynam | 24th February, 1939 | 4th October, 1939 |
| 5. | Sir Robert Niel Reid. | 5th October, 1939 | 3rd May, 1942 |
| 6. | Sir Andrew Gourlay Clow | 4th May, 1942 | 24th April, 1946 |
| 7. | Sir Frederick Chalmers Bourne | 25th April, 1946 | 3rd September, 1946 |
| 8. | Sir Henry Foley Knight | 4th September, 1946 | 23rd December, 1946 |
| 9. | Sir Andrew Gourlay Clow | 24th December, 1946 | 3rd May, 1947 |
| 10. | Sir Akbar Hydari | 4th May, 1947 | 28th December, 1948 |
| 11. | Ronald Francis Lodge | 30th December, 1948 | 15th February, 1949 |
| 12. | Shri Sri Prakasa | 16th February, 1949 | 26th May, 1949 |
| 13. | Shri Jairam Das Daulatram | 27th May, 1949 | 14th May, 1956 |
| 14. | Shri Saiyid Fazal Ali | 15th May, 1956 | 22nd August 1959 |
| 15. | Shri Chandreswar Prasad Singha | 23rd August, 1959 | 13th October, 1959 |
| 16. | General Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh | 14th October, 1959 | 12th November, 1960 |
| 17. | Shri Vishnu Sahay | 12th November, 1960 | 12th February, 1961 |
| 18. | General Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh | 13th February, 1961 | 7th September, 1962 |
| 19. | Shri Vishnu Sahay | 7th September, 1962 | 16th April, 1968 |
| 20. | Shri B.K. Nehru | 17th April, 1968 | 7th December, 1970 |
| 21. | Shri Justice P.K. Goswami | 8th Deccember, 1970 | 4th January, 1971 |
| 22. | Shri B.K. Nehru | 5th January, 1971 | 18th September, 1973 |
| 23. | Shri L.P. Singh | 19th September, 1973 | 11th August, 1981 |
| 24. | Shri Prakash Mehrotra | 12th August,1981 | 28th March, 1984 |
| 25. | Shri Justice T.S. Misra | 29th March, 1984 | 15th April, 1984. |
| 26. | Shri Bhisma Narayan Singh | 16th April, 1984 | 11th May, 1989 |
| 27. | Shri Harideo Joshi | 12th May, 1989 | 26th July, 1989 |
| 28. | Shri Justice Anisetti Roghuvir | 27th July, 1989 | 1st May, 1990 |
| 29. | Shri Devi Das Thakur | 2nd May, 1990 | 16th March, 1991 |
| 30. | Shri Lok Nath Misra | 17th March, 1991 | 31st August, 1997 |
| 31. | Lt.Gen.(Retd.) S.K. Sinha | 1st September, 1997 | 4th June, 2003 |
| 32. | Lt. Gen.(Retd.) Ajai Singh | 5th June, 2003 | 3rd July, 2008 |
| 33. | Shri Shiv Charan Mathur | 4th July, 2008 | 25th June, 2009 |
| 34. | Shri K. Sankaranarayanan | 26th June, 2009 | 26th July, 2009 |
| 35. | Shri Syed Sibtey Razi | 27th July, 2009 | 10th December, 2009 |
| 36. | Shri Janaki Ballav Patnaik | 11th December, 2009 | 11th December, 2014 |
| 37. | Shri Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya | 12th December, 2014 | 22nd August, 2016 |
| 38. | Shri Banwarilal Purohit | 22nd August, 2016 | 10 October 2017 |
| 39. | Shri Jagdish Mukhi | 10 October 2017 | Present |