Name of the Recipient Year

1. C. Rajagopalachari …..1954
2. Rajiv Gandhi …..1991
3. C.V. Raman ….. 1954
4. Vallabhbhai Patel…. 1991
5. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ….. 1954
6. Morarji Desai… 1991
7. Bhagwan Das …..1955
8. Abul Kalam Azad ….. 1992
9. Visvesvaraya ….. 1955
10. J.R.D. Tata …..1992
11. Jawaharlal Nehru ….. 1955
12. Satyajit Ray …..1992
13. Govind Ballabh Pant …..1957
14. Gulzarilal Nanda ….. 1997
15. Dhondo Keshav Karve ….. 1958
16. Aruna Asaf Ali ….. 1997
17. Bidhan Chandra Roy ….. 1961
18. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam …..1997
19. Purushottamdas Tandon ….. 1961
20. M.S. Subbulakshmi ….. 1998
21. Rajendra Prasad ….. 1962
22. C. Subramaniam ….. 1998
23. Zakir Husain ….. 1963
24. Jayaprakash Narayan ….. 1999
25. Pandurang Vaman Kane ….. 1963
26. Ravi Shankar ….. 1999
27. Lal Bahadur Shastri …..1966
28. Amartya Sen ….. 1999
29. Indira Gandhi …..1971
30. Gopinath Bordoloi ….. 1999
31. V.V. Giri …..1975
32. Lata Mangeshkar …..2001
33. K. Kamaraj …..1976
34. Bismillah Khan …..2001
35. Mother Teresa ….. 1980
36. Bhimsen Joshi ….. 2009
37. Vinoba Bhave …..1983
38. C.N.R. Rao ….. 2014
39. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan ….. 1987
40. Sachin Tendulkar …..2014
41. M.G. Ramachandran …..1988
42. Madan Mohan Malaviya ….. 2015
43. B.R. Ambedkar ….. 1990
44. Atal Bihari Vajpayee …..2015
45. Nelson Mandela ….. 1990