Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare (born 10 December 1928) is an Indian politician. He was a senior Indian National Congress leader from Maharashtra and a former Rajya Sabha member for three terms during 1980–1982, 1982–1988 and 1988–1994. He was appointed Governor of Odisha on 19 August 2007, he was sworn in on 21 August. He left office on 9 March 2013.