Name Year

1. Chakravarti Rajgopalachari 1954, Independence activist, last Governor-General

2. C. V. Raman 1954 , Physicist

3. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 1954, Philosopher, India's First Vice President (1952-1962), and India's Second President(1962-1967)

4. Bhagwan Das 1955, Independence activist, author, Founder of Kashi Vidya Peeth

5. Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya 1955, Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore

6. Jawaharlal Nehru 1955, Independence activist, author, first Prime Minister

7. Govind Ballabh Pant 1957, Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home Minister

8. Dhondo Keshav Karve 1958, Educator, social reformer

9. Bidhan Chandra Roy 1961, Physician, Chief Minister of West Bengal

10. Purushottam Das Tandon 1961, Independence activist, educator

11. Rajendra Prasad 1962, Independence activist, jurist, first President

12. Zakir Hussain 1963, Independence activist, Scholar, third President

13. Pandurang Vaman Kane 1963, Indologist and Sanskrit scholar

14. Lal Bahadur Shastri 1966, Posthumous, independence activist, second Prime Minister

15. Indira Gandhi 1971, Third Prime Minister

16. V. V. Giri 1975, Trade unionist and fourth President

17. K. Kamaraj 1976, Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State

18. Mother Teresa 1980, Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity

19. Vinoba Bhave 1983, Posthumous, social reformer, independence activist

20. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 1987, First non-citizen, independence activist

21. M. G. Ramachandran 1988, Posthumous, film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu

22. B. R. Ambedkar 1990, Posthumous, Chief architect of the Indian Constitution,Crusader against Untouchablity, Dalit Icon, Social Reformer,Historian, politician, economist, and scholar

23. Nelson Mandela 1990, Second non-citizen and non-Indian recipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid movement

24. Rajiv Gandhi 1991, Posthumous, Sixth Prime Minister

 

 

25. Vallabhbhai Patel 1991, Posthumous, independence activist, first Home Minister

26. Morarji Desai 1991, Independence activist, fourth Prime Minister

27. Abul Kalam Azad 1992, Posthumous, independence activist, first Minister of Education

28. J. R. D. Tata 1992, Industrialist and philanthropist

29. Satyajit Ray 1992, Filmmaker

30. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 1997, Aeronautical Engineer,11th President of India

31. Gulzarilal Nanda 1997, Independence activist, interim Prime Minister

32. Aruna Asaf Ali 1997, Posthumous, independence activist

33. M. S. Subbulakshmi 1998, Carnatic classical singer

34. Chidambaram Subramaniam 1998, Independence activist, Minister of Agriculture

35. Jayaprakash Narayan 1999, Posthumous, independence activist and politician

36. Ravi Shankar 1999, Sitar player

37. Amartya Sen 1999, Economist

38. Gopinath Bordoloi 1999, Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Assam

39. Lata Mangeshkar 2001, Playback singer

40. Bismillah Khan 2001, Hindustani classical shehnai player

41. Bhimsen Joshi 2008, Hindustani classical singer

42. C. N. R. Rao (2014), Scientist

43. Sachin Tendulkar (2014), Cricketer

44. Madan Mohan Malaviya (2015), Scholar and educational reformer

45. Atal Bihari Vajpayee (2015), Parliamentarian

46. Pranab Mukherjee (2019), Parliamentarian who served as the 13th President of India from 2012 until 2017

47. Bhupen Hazarika (2019), Playback singer, lyricist, musician, singer, poet and film-maker from Assam, widely known as Sudhakantha

48. Nanaji Deshmukh (2019), Social activist, also known as Nanaji Deshmukh (11 October 1916 – 27 February 2010)