C.

Rajagopalachari

C. V. Raman

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

1955

Bhagwan Das

Visvesvaraya

Jawaharlal Nehru
1957

1958

1961

Dhondo Keshav Karve

Bidhan Chandra Roy

Purushottam Das Tandon

1962

1963

Govind Ballabh Pant

Rajendra Prasad

Zakir Hussain

Pandurang Vaman Kane

1966

Lal Bahadur Shastri

1971

Indira Gandhi

1975

V. V. Giri

1976

K. Kamaraj

1980

1983

Mother Teresa

Vinoba Bhave

1987

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

1988

M. G. Ramachandran

B. R. Ambedkar

1990

Nelson Mandela

Rajiv Gandhi

Vallabhbhai Patel

1991

Morarji Desai

Abul Kalam Azad

1992

J. R. D. Tata

Satyajit Ray

Gulzarilal Nanda

Aruna Asaf Ali

1997
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

1998

M. S. Subbulakshmi

Chidambaram Subramaniam

Jayaprakash Narayan

Ravi Shankar

1999
Amartya Sen

Gopinath Bordoloi

Lata Mangeshkar
2001
Bismillah Khan

2009

Bhimsen Joshi

C. N. R. Rao

2013

Sachin Tendulkar