List of Governors of Kerala

List of Governors of Kerala

The Governor of Kerala is the nominative head of Indian state of Kerala. He is appointed by the President of India for a term of five years, and holds office at the President's pleasure.

Burgula Ramakrishna Rao is the first person to hold the office of Governor of Kerala. Jyothi Venkatachalam is the first female Governor of Kerala, and P Sathasivam is the current Governor of Kerala.

#	Name	From	To
1	Burgula Ramakrishna Rao	22 November 1956	1 July 1960
2	V. V. Giri	1 July 1960	2 April 1965
3	Ajith Prasad Jain	2 April 1965	6 February 1966
4	Bhagwan Sahay	6 February 1966	15 May 1967
5	V. Viswanathan	15 May 1967	1 April 1973
6	N. N. Wanchoo	1 April 1973	10 October 1977
7	Jothi Venkatachalam	14 October 1977	27 October 1982
8	P. Ramachandran	27 October 1982	23 February 1988
9	Ram Dulari Sinha	23 February 1988	12 February 1990
10	Swaroop Singh	12 February 1990	20 December 1990
11	B. Rachaiah	20 December 1990	9 November 1995
12	P. Shiv Shankar	12 November 1995	1 May 1996
13	Khurshid Alam Khan	5 May 1996	25 January 1997
14	Sukhdev Singh Kang	25 January 1997	18 April 2002
15	Sikander Bakht	18 April 2002	23 February 2004
16	T. N. Chaturvedi	25 February 2004	23 June 2004
17	R. L. Bhatia	23 June 2004	10 July 2008
18	R. S. Gavai	11 July 2008	7 September 2011
19	M. O. H. Farook	8 September 2011	26 January 2012
20	Hansraj Bhardwaj	26 January 2012	22 March 2013
21	Nikhil Kumar	23 March 2013	5 March 2014
22	Sheila Dikshit	5 March 2014	26 August 2014
23	P Sathasivam	5 September 2014	Incumbent