| Sl.No. | Photo | Name | Took Office | Left Office |
| 1. |
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Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
(Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam) |
25 July 2002 | 25 July 2007 |
| 2. |
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Pratibha Devisingh Patil (Pratibha Patil) Born 19 December 1934 |
25 July 2007 | 25 July 2012 |
| 3. |
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Pranab Kumar Mukherjee Born 11 December 1935 Died 31 August 2020 (aged 84) |
25 July 2012 | 25 July 2017 |
| 4. |
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Ram Nath Kovind Born 1 October 1945 |
25 July 2017 | 25 July 2022 |
| 5. |
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Draupadi Murmu Born 20 June 1958 |
25 July 2022 | Incumbent |
| Sl.No. | Photo | Name | Took Office | Left Office |
| 1. |
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Lallan Prasad Singh ICS Padma Vibhushan Born 1912 Died 17 October 1998 |
21 September 1973 | 11 August 1981 |
| 2. |
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Sayed Muzaffar Hussain Burney IAS Born 14 August 1924 Died 7 February 2014 |
18 August 1981 | 11 June 1984 |
| 3. |
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General Kotikalapudi Venkata Krishna Rao, Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM) Born 16 July 1923 Died 30 January 2016 |
2 June 1984 | 7 July 1989 |
| 4. |
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Chintamani Panigrahi Born 22 March 1922 Died 29 April 2000 |
10 July 1989 | 19 March 1993 |
| 5. |
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K. V. Raghunatha Reddy Born 4 September 1924 Died 4 March 2002 |
20 March 1993 | 30 August 1993 |
| 6. |
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Lt. Gen. V. K. Nayar Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM), Sena Medal Born 10 May 1951 Died 30 November 2015 |
31 August 1993 | 22 December 1994 |
| 7. |
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Oudh Narayan Shrivastava IPS Padma Shri(1992) Born 1935 |
23 December 1994 | 11 February 1999 |
| 8. |
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Ved Prakash Marwah, IPS Padma Shri(1989) Born 15 September 1934 Died 5 June 2020 |
2 December 1999 | 12 June 2003 |
| 9. |
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Arvind Dave Born 1 May 1940 |
13 June 2003 | 5 August 2004 |
| Sl.No. | Photo | Name | Took Office | Left Office |
| 1. |
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Shivinder Singh Sidhu IAS Born 13 October 1929 Died 25 October 2018 |
6 August 2004 | 22 July 2008 |
| Sl.No. | Photo | Name | Took Office | Left Office |
| 1. |
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Gurbachan Singh Jagat IPS Born 1 July 1942 |
23 July 2008 | 22 July 2013 |
| 2. |
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Ashwani Kumar IPS Born 15 November 1950 Died 7 October 2020 |
23 July 2013 | 31 December 2013 |
| 3. |
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Vinod Kumar Duggal IAS Born 26 November 1944 |
31 December 2013 | 28 August 2014 |
| 4. |
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Krishan Kant Paul IPS Born born 6 February 1948 |
16 September 2014 | 15 May 2015 |
| 5. |
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Syed Ahmed Born 6 March 1945 Died 27 September 2015 |
16 May 2015 | 27 September 2015 |
| 6. |
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V Shanmuganathan Born 21 November 1949 |
30 September 2015 | 17 August 2016 |
| 7. |
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Najma Akbar Ali Heptulla Born 13 April 1940 |
21 August 2016 | 10 August 2021 |
| 8. |
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La. Ganesan Born 16 February 1945 |
27 August 2021 | |
| 9. |
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Ms. Anusuiya Uikey Born 10 April 1957 |
12 February 2023 | 30 July 2024 |
| 10. |
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Lakshman Prasad Acharya Born 3 October 1954 |
31 July 2024 | 2 January 2025 |
| 11. |
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Ajay Kumar Bhalla (born 1960) |
3 January 2025 | Incumbent |
| Sl.No. | Photo | Name | Took Office | Left Office |
| 1. |
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Prof. P.N. Srivastava (An eminent Scientist and formaer Vice-Chancellor, JNU) |
21 April 2006 | 20 April 2011 |
| 2. |
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Prof. Dilip Nachane Professor Emeritus Formerly Director, IGIDR National Fellow, ICSSR |
24 November 2011 | |
| 3. |
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Prof. T. Tirupati Rao (Former Vice-Chancellor, Osmania University, Hyderabad.) |
Incumbent |
| Sl.No. | Photo | Name | Took Office | Left Office |
| 1. |
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Prof. H. Ranabir Singh (IAS Retd) |
20 June 1980 | 30 November 1980 |
| 2. |
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Prof. T. Ratho D.Phil (GRAZ) |
1 July 1982 | 21 January 1984 |
| 3. |
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Prof. K. J. Mahale Ph.D. (Paris) |
22 February 1984 | 18 January 1990 |
| 4. |
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Prof. Ahluwalia Professor of Chemistry University of Delhi |
19 January 1990 | 28 September 1992 |
| 5. |
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Prof. I.S. Khaidem MSc BHU Ph.D. Maine USA |
16 June 1993 | 15 June 1998 |
| 6. |
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Prof. H. Tombi Singh MSc (Gau) Ph.D. Aberdeen |
15 June 1998 | 18 January 2003 |
| Sl.No. | Photo | Name | Took Office | Left Office |
| 7. |
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Prof. N. Bijoy Singh Former Diretor RIMS Doctor and politician |
2 Fenruary 2003 | 12 January 2006 |
| Sl.No. | Photo | Name | Took Office | Left Office |
| 8. |
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Prof. C. Amuba Singh MSc BHU Ph.D. Bombay |
24 Jan 2006 | 23 Jan 2011 |
| 9. |
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Prof. N. Nandakumar Sarma MSc BHU PhD (London) |
24 January 2011 Acting VC 17 August 2011 |
16 August 2016 |
| 10. |
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Prof. Adya Prasad Pandey PhD Economist (BHU) |
26 October 2016 | 20 June 2020 |
| 11. |
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Prof. N Lokendra Singh B.A.History (DU)MA History (JNU) Ph.D. Modern Indian History(MU) |
23 July 2021 |
7 May 2026 (forenoon) |