The following is a list of former Judges of the Supreme Court of India since its inception on 26 January 1950. A total of 249 judges have served in the court (excluding sitting judges). The list has been arranged on the basis of date of appointment with Chief Justices mentioned first.
Former chief justices Sr.No.PortraitName of the Chief JusticeDate of appointment Date of appointment as CJIDate of retirementTenure LengthTenure Length as CJI 1H. J. Kania 2M. Patanjali Sastri 3Mehr Chand Mahajan 4Bijan Kumar Mukherjea 5Sudhi Ranjan Das 6Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha 7P. B. Gajendragadkar 8Amal Kumar Sarkar 9Koka Subba Rao‡ 10Kailas Nath Wanchoo 11Mohammad HidayatullahAlso served as Acting_President_of_India and Vice_President_of_India. 12Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah 13S. M. Sikri 14A. N. Ray 15Mirza Hameedullah Beg 16Y. V. Chandrachud 17P. N. Bhagwati 18Raghunandan Swarup Pathak 19Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah 20Sabyasachi Mukherjee 21Ranganath Misra 22Kamal Narain Singh 23Madhukar Hiralal Kania 24Lalit Mohan Sharma 25M. N. Venkatachaliah 26Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi 27J. S. Verma 28Madan Mohan Punchhi 29Adarsh Sein Anand 30Sam Piroj Bharucha 31Bhupinder Nath Kirpal 32Gopal Ballav Pattanaik 33Vishweshwar Nath Khare 34S. Rajendra Babu 35Ramesh Chandra Lahoti 36Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal 37K. G. Balakrishnan 38S. H. Kapadia 39Altamas Kabir 40P. Sathasivam 41Rajendra Mal Lodha 42H. L. Dattu 43T. S. Thakur 44Jagdish Singh Khehar 45Dipak Misra 46Ranjan Gogoi 47Sharad Arvind Bobde 48N. V. Ramana49Uday Umesh Lalit50Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud51Sanjiv Khanna52Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai
Former judges including CJIs
Key Resigned Died in office