The Chief of the Indian Army Staff is the head and the highest-ranking military officer of the Indian Army. Popularly he is known as the General.
| Name of the Indian Chief of Army | Time Period |
| General Sir Robert Mcgregor Macdonald Lockhart | 15.08.1947 to 31.12.1947 |
| General Sir Francis Robert Roy Bucher | 01.01.1948 to 15.01.1949 |
| Field Marshal Kodandera Madappa Cariappa | 15.01.1949 to 14.01.1953 |
| Maharaj Shri Rajendrasinhji Jadeja | 14.01.1953 to 14.05.1955 |
| General Satyawant Mallana Srinagesh | 15.05.1955 to 07.05.1957 |
| General Kodandera Subayya Thimayya | 08.05.1957 to 07.05.1961 |
| General Pran Nath Thapar | 08.05.1961 to19.11.1962 |
| General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri | 20.11.1962 to 07.06.1966 |
| General Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam | 08.06.1966 to 07.061969 |
| Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw | 08.06.1969 to 15.01.1973 |
| General Gopal Gurunath Bewoor | 16.01.1973 to 31.05.1975 |
| General Gopal Gurunath Bewoor | 1.06.1975 to 31.05.1978 |
| General Om Prakash Malhotra | 1.06.1978 to 31.05.1981 |
| General Kotikalapudi Venkata Krishna Rao | 1.06.1981 to 31.07.1983 |
| General Arunkumar Shridhar Vaidya | 01.08.1983 to 31.01.1986 |
| General Krishnaswamy Sundarji | 01.02.1986 to 31.05.1988 |
| General Krishnaswamy Sundarji | 01.06.1988 to 30.06.1990 |
| General Sunith Francis Rodrigues | 01.07.1990 to 30.06.1993 |
| General Bipin Chandra Joshi | 01.07.1993 to 19.11.1994 |
| General Shankar Roy Chowdhary | 20.11.1994 to 30.09.1997 |
| General Shankar Roy Chowdhary | 01.10.1997 to 30.09.2000 |
| General Sundararajan Padmanabhan | 01.10.2000 to 31.12.2002 |
| General Nirmal Chander Vij | 01.01.2003 to 31.01.2005 |
| General J J Singh | 01.02.2005 to 30.09.2007 |
| General Deepak Kapoor | 30.09.2007 to 30.03.2010 |
| General V.K. Singh | 31.03.2010 to 31.05.2012 |
| General Bikram Singh | 01.06.2012 to 31.07.2014 |
| Bipin Rawat | 31.12.2016 to 31.12.2019 |
| Manoj Mukund Naravane | 1 January 2020 to incumbent |
