- Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1950-1962)
- Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (1962-1967)
- Dr. Zakir Hussain (1967-1969)
- Varahagiri Venkata Giri (1969-1974)
- Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1974-1977)
- Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1977-1982)
- Giani Zail Singh (1982-1987)
- R. Venkataraman (1987-1992)
- Shankar Dayal Sharma (1992-1997)
- Kocheril Raman Narayanan (1997-2002)
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (2002-2007)
- Pratibha Patil (2007-2012)
- Pranab Mukherjee (2012-2017)
- Ram Nath Kovind (2017-2022)
- Ram Nath Kovind (2022-2027)
The Prime Minister of India is the leader of the executive branch of the Government of India and the head of the Council of Ministers. The following is a list of Indian Prime Ministers, in order of their premiership:
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-1964)
- Gulzarilal Nanda (1964)
- Lal Bahadur Shastri (1964-1966)
- Gulzarilal Nanda (1966)
- Indira Gandhi (1966-1977)
- Morarji Desai (1977-1979)
- Charan Singh (1979-1980)
- Indira Gandhi (1980-1984)
- Rajiv Gandhi (1984-1989)
- V.P. Singh (1989-1990)
- Chandra Shekhar (1990-1991)
- P.V. Narasimha Rao (1991-1996)
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1996, 1998-2004)
- H.D. Deve Gowda (1996-1997)
- Inder Kumar Gujral (1997-1998)
- Manmohan Singh (2004-2014)
- Narendra Modi (2014-2019)
- Narendra Modi (2019-2024)