- Jawaharlal Nehru - 1947 to 1964
- Lal Bahadur Shasthri - 1964 to 1966
- Indira Gandhi - 1966 to 1977 and 1980 to 1984
- Morarji Desai - 1977 to 1979
- Charan Singh - 1979
- Rajiv Gandhi - 1984 to 1989
- V.P. Singh - 1989 to 1990
- Chandrashekar - 1990 to 1991
- P.V. Narasimha Rao - 1991 to 1996
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee - 1996, 1998 to 2004
- Manmohan Singh - 2004 to 2014
- Narendra Modi - 2014 to
Note :- Gulzari lal Nanda was the two time acting Prime Minister