S. No.

Awardee

Year

1.

Kumari Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar

2001

2.

Late. Ustad Bismillah Khan

2001

3.

Prof. Amartya Sen

1999

4.

Lokpriya Gopinath (posth.) Bordoloi

1999

5.

Loknayak Jayprakash (Posth.) Narayan

1999

6.

Pandit Ravi Shankar

1999

7.

Shri Chidambaram Subramaniam

1998

8.

Smt. M.S. Subbulakshmi

1998

9.

Shri (Dr.) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

1997

10.

Smt. Aruna Asaf (Posth.) Ali

1997

11.

Shri Gulzari Lal (Shri) Nanda

1997

12.

Shri Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata

1992

13.

Shri Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

1992

14.

Shri Satyajit Ray

1992

15.

Shri Morarji Ranchhodji Desai

1991

16.

Shri Rajiv Gandhi

1991

17.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

1991

18.

Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedakr

1990

19.

Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

1990

20.

Shri Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran

1988

21.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

1987

22.

Shri Acharya Vinoba Bhave

1983

23.

Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu Teresa

1980

24.

Shri Kumaraswamy Kamraj

1976

25.

Shri V.V. Giri

1975

26.

Smt. Indira Gandhi

1971

27.

Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri

1966

28.

Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane

1963

29.

Dr. Zakir Hussain

1963

30.

Dr. Rajendra Prasad

1962

31.

Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy

1961

32.

Shri Purushottam Das Tandon

1961

33.

Dr. Dhonde Keshav Karve

1958

34.

Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant

1957

35.

Dr. Bhagwan Das

1955

36.

Shri Jawaharlal Nehru

1955

37.

Dr. M. Vivesvaraya

1955

38.

Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari

1954

39.

Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

1954

40.

Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan

1954