| List of Chief-Justice of India (1950 to 2024) | |||||
| Name | Date of Birth - Died | Tenure | Length of Term (In Days) | Bar | Appointed by |
| Shri Harilal Jekisundas Kania | |||||
| Shri Mandakolathur Patanjali Sastri | |||||
| Shri Mehr Chand Mahajan | |||||
| Shri Bijan Kumar Mukherjea | |||||
| Shri Sudhi Ranjan Das | |||||
| Shri Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha | |||||
| Shri Pralhad Balacharya Gajendragadkar | |||||
| Shri Amal Kumar Sarkar | |||||
| Shri Koka Subba Rao | |||||
| Shri Kailas Nath Wanchoo | |||||
| Mohammad Hidayatullah | |||||
| Shri Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah | |||||
| Shri Sarv Mittra Sikri | |||||
| Shri Ajit Nath Ray | |||||
| Mirza Hameedullah Beg | |||||
| Shri Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud | |||||
| Shri Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati | |||||
| Shri Raghunandan Swarup Pathak | |||||
| Shri Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah | |||||
| Shri Sabyasachi Mukharji | |||||
| Shri Ranganath Misra | |||||
| Shri Kamal Narain Singh | |||||
| Shri Madhukar Hiralal Kania | |||||
| Shri Lalit Mohan Sharma | |||||
| Shri Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah | |||||
| Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi | |||||
| Shri Jagdish Sharan Verma | |||||
| Shri Madan Mohan Punchhi | |||||
| Shri Adarsh Sein Anand | |||||
| Shri Sam Piroj Bharucha | |||||
| Shri Bhupinder Nath Kirpal | |||||
| Shri Gopal Ballav Pattanaik | |||||
| Shri V. N. Khare | |||||
| Shri S. Rajendra Babu | |||||
| Shri Ramesh Chandra Lahoti | |||||
| Shri Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal | |||||
| Shri K. G. Balakrishnan | |||||
| Shri S. H. Kapadia | |||||
| Shri Altamas Kabir | |||||
| Shri P. Sathasivam | |||||
| Shri Rajendra Mal Lodha | |||||
| Shri H.L.Dattu | |||||
| Shri T.S. Thakur | |||||
| Shri Jagdish Singh Khehar | |||||
| Shri Dipak Misra | |||||
| Shri Ranjan Gogoi | |||||
| Shri Sharad Arvind Bobde | |||||
| Shri Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana | |||||
| Shri Uday Umesh Lalit | |||||
| Shri Dhananjaya Yashwant Chandrachud | |||||
