Name of the Recipient Year
- C. Rajagopalachari …..1954
- Rajiv Gandhi …..1991
- C.V. Raman ….. 1954
- Vallabhbhai Patel…. 1991
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ….. 1954
- Morarji Desai… 1991
- Bhagwan Das …..1955
- Abul Kalam Azad ….. 1992
- Visvesvaraya ….. 1955
- J.R.D. Tata …..1992
- Jawaharlal Nehru ….. 1955
- Satyajit Ray …..1992
- Govind Ballabh Pant …..1957
- Gulzarilal Nanda ….. 1997
- Dhondo Keshav Karve ….. 1958
- Aruna Asaf Ali ….. 1997
- Bidhan Chandra Roy ….. 1961
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam …..1997
- Purushottamdas Tandon ….. 1961
- M.S. Subbulakshmi ….. 1998
- Rajendra Prasad ….. 1962
- C. Subramaniam ….. 1998
- Zakir Husain ….. 1963
- Jayaprakash Narayan ….. 1999
- Pandurang Vaman Kane ….. 1963
- Ravi Shankar ….. 1999
- Lal Bahadur Shastri …..1966
- Amartya Sen ….. 1999
- Indira Gandhi …..1971
- Gopinath Bordoloi ….. 1999
- V.V. Giri …..1975
- Lata Mangeshkar …..2001
- K. Kamaraj …..1976
- Bismillah Khan …..2001
- Mother Teresa ….. 1980
- Bhimsen Joshi ….. 2009
- Vinoba Bhave …..1983
- C.N.R. Rao ….. 2014
- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan ….. 1987
- Sachin Tendulkar …..2014
- M.G. Ramachandran …..1988
- Madan Mohan Malaviya ….. 2015
- B.R. Ambedkar ….. 1990
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee …..2015
- Nelson Mandela ….. 1990