Gurunath Venkatesh Bewoor

Sir Gurunath Venkatesh Bewoor KCIE (1888 – 1950) (Kannada:ಗುರುನಾಥ್ ವೆಂಕಟೇಶ್ ಬೇವೂರ್) was a senior Indian civil servant. He served on the Viceroy's Executive Council during World War II and was the first Indian director of the Post and Telegraph department of India. He later served as Managing Director of Air India.

The Indian Postal service issued a postage stamp in his honour on 20 November 1989.

The family name comes from Bevoor village then part of Bijapur district of the old Bombay Presidency and now in the Bagalkot district of northern Karnataka. Gurunath Bewoor was born there on 20 November 1888. He got his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Deccan College, Pune (then part of Bombay University, and won the Dakshina Fellowship. His further education was Cambridge University following which he passed the Indian Civil Service entrance examination.

Bewoor joined the ICS in 1921 in the Central Provinces cadre. After a year of district service he was transferred to the Posts and Telegraphs Department in 1922. He served as Post Master General at Patna, Nagpur and Bombay. He was appointed a CIE in the 1932 King's Birthday Honours List. In 1934, he was appointed as the Director General of the Post and Telegraph Department of India; he was knighted five years later, being officially invested as a Knight Bachelor on 20 June 1939 at Viceregal Lodge, Simla, by the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow.

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