| Sl. No. |
Name of Chief Justice |
Tenure |
| 1 |
H.J. Kania |
From 26 January 1950 to 06 November 1951 |
| 2 |
M. P. Shastri |
From 07 November 1951 to 03 January 1954 |
| 3 |
Mehrchand Mahajan |
From 04 January 1954 to 22 December 1954 |
| 4 |
B.K. Mukrija |
From 23 December 1954 to 31 January 1956 |
| 5 |
S.R. Das |
From 01 February 1956 until 30 September 1959 |
| 6 |
B. P. Sinha |
From 01 October 1959 to 31 January 1964 |
| 7 |
P.B. Gajendra Gadhkar |
From 01 February 1964 until 15 March 1966 |
| 8 |
A.K. Sarkar |
From 16 March 1966 to 29 June 1966 |
| 9 |
K.S. Rao |
From 30 June 1966 to 11 April 1967 |
| 10 |
K. N. Wanchu |
From 12 April 1967 to 24 February 1968 |
| 11 |
M. Hidayatullah |
From 25 February 1968 to 16 December 1970 |
| 12 |
J. C. Shah |
From 17 December 1970 until 21 January 1971 |
| 13 |
S. M. Sikri |
From 22 January 1971 to 25 April 1973 |
| 14 |
A. N. Ray |
From 26 April 1973 to 27 January 1977 |
| 15 |
Mirza Hamidullah Beg |
From 28 January 1977 to 21 February 1978 |
| 16 |
Y. V. Chandrachud |
From 22 February 1978 to 11 July 1985 |
| 17 |
P. N. Bhagwati |
From 12 July 1985 to 20 December 1986 |
| 18 |
R. S. Pathak |
From 21 December 1986 until 18 June 1989 |
| 19 |
E. S. Venkatramayya |
From 19 June 1989 until 17 December 1989 |
| 20 |
S. Mukherjee |
From 18 December 1989 until 25 September 1990 |
| 21 |
Ranganath Mishra |
From 26 September 1990 to 24 November 1991 |
| 22 |
K. N. Singh |
From 25 November 1991 to 12 December 1991 |
| 23 |
M.H. Kania |
From 13 December 1991 to 17 November 1992 |
| 24 |
L. M. Sharma |
From 18 November 1992 to 11 February 1993 |
| 25 |
M.N. Venkatachalayya |
From 12 February 1993 until 24 October 1994 |
| 26 |
A. M. Ahmadi |
From 25 October 1994 until 24 March 1997 |
| 27 |
J. S. Verma |
From 25 March 1997 until 17 January 1998 |
| 28 |
M. M. Punchhi |
From 18 January 1998 to 09 October 1998 |
| 29 |
A. S. Anand |
From 10 October 1998 until 11 January 2001 |
| 30 |
S. P. Bharucha |
From 11 January 2001 to 06 May 2002 |
| 31 |
B. N. Kripal |
From 06 May 2002 to 08 November 2002 |
| 32 |
G. B. Patnaik |
From 08 November 2002 to 19 December 2002 |
| 33 |
V. N. Khare |
From 19 December 2002 to 02 May 2004 |
| 34 |
Rajendra Babu |
From 02 May 2004 to 01 June 2004 |
| 35 |
R. C. Lahoti |
From 01 June 2004 to 01 November 2005 |
| 36 |
Y. K. Sabharwal |
From 01 November 2005 to 13 January 2007 |
| 37 |
K. G. Balakrishnan |
From 13 January 2007 to 11 May 2010 |
| 38 |
S. H. Kapadia |
From 12 May 2010 to 28 September 2012 |
| 39 |
Almatmas kabir |
From 29 September 2012 to 18 July 2013 |
| 40 |
P. Sathasivam |
From 19 July 2013 to 26 April 2014 |
| 41 |
Rajendra Mal Lodha |
From 26 April 2014 to 27 September 2014 |
| 42 |
H. L. Dattu |
From 28 September 2014 to 02 December 2015 |
| 43 |
Tirath Singh Thakur |
From 03 December 2015 to 03 January 2017 |
| 44 |
Jagdish Singh Khehar |
From 04 January 2017 to 27 August 2017 |
| 45 |
Deepak Mishra |
From 28 August 2017 to 02 October 2018 |
| 46 |
Ranjan Gogoi |
From 03 October 2018 to 17 November 2019 |
| 47 |
Sharad Arvind Bobde |
From 18 November 2019 to 23 April 2021 |
