Presidents

This list is numbered based on Presidents elected after winning an Indian Presidential election. The terms
of Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Muhammad Hidayatullah, and Basappa Danappa Jatti, who have functioned
as acting presidents, are therefore not numbered. The President of India does not represent any political
party, and the Political party column below indicates the party (if any) that the president was a member of
before being elected. The colours used in the table indicate the following:

# Took Left office Vice

Name Portrait Notes
office President
1952 election page & 1957 election
page
Prasad was the first President of
Dr.S independent India from Bihar.[7]
Dr Rajendra 26 January 13 May
1 Radhakrishna [8] He was also an independence
Prasad 1950 1962
n activist of the Indian Independence
Movement.[9]Prasad was the only
president to serve for two terms in
office.[4]
1962 election page
Radhakrishnan was a prominent
philosopher, writer, a Knight of the
Realm and also held the position
Sarvepalli 13 May 13 May
2 Zakir Hussain ofvice chancellor of the Andhra
Radhakrishnan 1962 1967
University and Banaras Hindu
University.[10] He was also made a
Knight of the Golden Army of
Angels by Pope Paul VI.[11]
1967 election page
Hussain was vice chancellor of
the Aligarh Muslim University and
13 May 3 May Varahagiri
3 Zakir Hussain a recipient of Padma
1967 1969 Venkata Giri
Vibhushan andBharat Ratna.[12] He
died before his term of office was
ended.

Giri was appointed as acting

president following the death of
Varahagiri 3 May 20 July
Hussain.[13] He resigned in a few
Venkata Giri * 1969 1969
months to take part in the
presidential elections.[5]

Hidayatullah served as the Chief

Justice of India, and was a recipient
Muhammad 20 July 24 August of the Order of the British Empire.
[14]
Hidayatullah * 1969 1969 He served as acting president
until the election of Giri as the
President of India.
 1969 election page
Giri is the only person to have
served as both an acting president
Varahagiri 24 August 24 August Gopal Swarup and president of India. He was a
4
Venkata Giri 1969 1974 Pathak recipient of the Bharat Ratna, and
has functioned as Indian Minister
of Labour and High Commissioner
toCeylon (Sri Lanka).[15]
1974 election page
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed served as a
11 Minister before being elected as
Fakhruddin Ali 24 August Basappa
5 February president. He died in 1977 before
Ahmed 1974 Danappa Jatti
1977 his term of office ended, and was
the second Indian president to have
died during a term of office.[16]
Jatti was the vice president of India
during Ahmed's term of office, and
11
Basappa 25 July was sworn in as acting president
February
Danappa Jatti * 1977 upon Ahmed's death. He earlier
1977
functioned as the Chief Minister
for the State of Mysore.[16][17]
1977 election page
N.S.Reddy was the first Chief
Minister of Andhra Pradesh State.
Reddy was the only Member of
Parliament from the Janata Party to
Neelam Sanjiva 25 July 25 July Muhammad
6 get elected from Andhra Pradesh.
Reddy 1977 1982 Hidayatullah [18]
 He was unanimously elected
Speaker of the Lok Sabha on 26
March 1977 and relinquished this
office on 13 July 1977 to become
the 6th President of India.
1982 election page
In March 1972, Singh assumed the
25 July 25 July Ramaswamy
7 Giani Zail Singh position of chief Minister of
1982 1987 Venkataraman
Punjab, and in 1980, he became
Union Home Minister.[19]
1987 election page
In 1942, Venkataraman was jailed
by the British for his involvement
in the India's
independencemovement.[20] After
his release, he was elected to
Ramaswamy 25 July 25 July Shankar Dayal
8 independent India’s Provisional
Venkataraman 1987 1992 Sharma
Parliament as a member of the
Congress Party in 1950 and
eventually joined the central
government, where he first served
as Minister of Finance and Industry
and later as Minister of Defence.[21]
9 Shankar Dayal 25 July 25 July Kocheril 1992 election page
Sharma 1992 1997 Raman Sharma was Chief Minister
 of Madhya Pradesh, and the Indian
Minister for Communications. He
has also served as the governor
Narayanan
of Andhra
Pradesh, Punjaband Maharashtra.
[22]

1997 election page

Narayanan served as India's
ambassador to Thailand, Turkey,
China and United States of
Kocheril Raman 25 July 25 July
10 Krishan Kant America. He received doctorates in
Narayanan 1997 2002
Science and Law and was also a
chancellor in several universities.
[23]
 He was also the vice-chancellor
ofJawaharlal Nehru University.[24]
2002 election page
Kalam, was a scientist who played
a leading role in the development
A. P. J. Abdul 25 July 25 July Bhairon Singh
11 of India's ballistic missile and
Kalam 2002 2007 Shekhawat
nuclear weapons programs.
[25]
 Kalam also received the Bharat
Ratna.

2007 election page

Patil is the first woman to become
25 July Mohammad
12 Pratibha Patil Incumbent the President of India. She was also
2007 Hamid Ansari
the first female Governor of
Rajasthan.[26][27]