| Year |
The recipient |
| 1954 |
Chakraborty Rajagopalachari |
| 1954 |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| 1954 |
Sir CV Raman |
| 1955 |
Bhagwan Das |
| 1955 |
M. Visvesvaraya |
| 1955 |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 1957 |
Govind Vallabh Pant |
| 1958 |
Dhondo Keshav Karve |
| 1961 |
Bidhan Chandra Roy |
| 1961 |
Purushottam Das Tandon |
| 1962 |
Dr Rajendra Prasad |
| 1963 |
Dr Zakir Hussain |
| 1963 |
Pandurang Vaman Kane |
| 1966 |
Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| 1971 |
Indira Gandhi |
| 1975 |
VV Giri |
| 1976 |
K Kamaraj |
| 1980 |
mother Teresa |
| 1983 |
Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| 1987 |
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan |
| 1988 |
M G Ramachandran |
| 1990 |
Bhimrao Ambedkar |
| 1990 |
Nelson Mandela |
| 1991 |
Rajiv Gandhi |
| 1991 |
Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| 1991 |
Morarji Desai |
| 1992 |
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
| 1992 |
J R D Tata |
| 1992 |
Satyajit Ray |
| 1997 |
Gulzarilal Nanda |
| 1997 |
Aruna Asif Ali |
| 1997 |
A P J Abdul Kalam |
| nineteen ninety eight |
MS Subbulakshmi |
| nineteen ninety eight |
chidambaram subramaniam |
| 1999 |
Jai Prakash Narayan |
| 1999 |
Amartya Sen |
| 1999 |
Gopinath Bordoloi |
| 1999 |
Pandit Ravi Shankar |
| 2001 |
Lata Mangeshkar |
| 2001 |
Bismillah Khan |
| 2009 |
Bhimsen Joshi |
| 2014 |
CNR Rao |
| 2014 |
Sachin Tendulkar |
| 2015 |
Madan Mohan Malviya |
| 2015 |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| 2019 |
Pranab Mukherjee |
| 2019 |
Nana ji Deshmukh |
| 2019 |
Bhupen Hazarika |
| 2024 |
Karpuri Thakur |
| 2024 |
Lal Krishna Advani |
| 2024 |
Chaudhary Charan Singh |
| 2024 |
PV Narasimha Rao |
| 2024 |
Dr MS Swaminathan |
