1954: C. Rajagopalachari, C. V. Raman, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
1955: Bhagwan Das, Sir M. Visvesvaraya, Jawaharlal Nehru
1957: Govind Ballabh Pant
1958: D, Keshav Karve, Bidhan Chandra Roy
1961: Purushottam Das Tandon
1962: Rajendra Prasad,
1963: Zakir Hussain, Pandurang Vaman Kane
1966: Lal Bahadur Shastri
1971: Indira Gandhi
1975: V. V. Giri
1976: K. Kamaraj
1980: Mother Teresa
1983: Vinoba Bhave
1987: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
1988: M.G. Ramachandran
1990: B.R. Ambedkar, Nelson Mandela, Rajiv Gandhi
1991: Vallabhbhai Patel, Morarji Desai, Abul Kalam Azad
1992: J.R.D. Tata, Satyajit Ray, Gulzarilal Nanda, Aruna Asaf Ali
1997: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
1998: M.S. Subbulakshmi, Chidambaram Subramaniam
1999: Jayaprakash Narayan, Ravi Shankar, Amartya Sen, Gopinath Bordoloi
2001: Lata Mangeshkar, Bismillah Khan
2008: Bhimsen Joshi
2013: C.N.R. Rao, Sachin Tendulkar
