Sl.No | Name | Awarded | Born State/Country | Fields/Activity |
1 | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari | 1954 | Tamil Nadu | Independenceactivist, last Governor-General |
2 | C. V. Raman | 1954 | Tamil Nadu | Physicist |
3 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | 1954 | Tamil Nadu | Philosopher, second President |
4 | Bhagwan Das | 1955 | Uttar Pradesh | Independenceactivist, author |
5 | Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya | 1955 | Karnataka | Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore |
6 | Jawaharlal Nehru | 1955 | Uttar Pradesh | Independenceactivist, author, first Prime Minister |
7 | GovindBallabh Pant | 1957 | Uttarakhand | Independenceactivist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home Minister |
8 | DhondoKeshav Karve | 1958 | Maharashtra | Educator, social reformer |
9 | Bidhan Chandra Roy | 1961 | Bihar | Physician, Chief Minister ofWest Bengal |
10 | Purushottam Das Tandon | 1961 | Uttar Pradesh | Independenceactivist, educator |
11 | Rajendra Prasad | 1962 | Bihar | Independenceactivist, jurist, first President |
12 | Zakir Hussain | 1963 | Andhra Pradesh | Scholar, third President |
13 | Pandurang Vaman Kane | 1963 | Maharashtra | Indologist and Sanskrit scholar |
14 | Lal Bahadur Shastri | 1966 | Uttar Pradesh | Posthumous, independence activist, second Prime Minister |
15 | Indira Gandhi | 1971 | Uttar Pradesh | Fourth Prime Minister |
16 | V. V. Giri | 1975 | Orissa | Trade unionist and fourth President |
17 | K. Kamaraj | 1976 | Tamil Nadu | Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister ofMadrasState |
18 | Mother Teresa | 1980 | Macedonia | Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity |
19 | VinobaBhave | 1983 | Maharashtra | Posthumous, social reformer, independence activist |
20 | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | 1987 | Pakistan | First non-citizen, independence activist |
21 | M. G. Ramachandran | 1988 | Sri Lanka | Posthumous, film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu |
22 | B. R. Ambedkar | 1990 | Madhya Pradesh | Posthumous, chief architect of the Indian Constitution, politician, economist, and scholar |
23 | Nelson Mandela | 1990 | South Africa | Second non-citizen and first non-Indian recipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid movement |
24 | Rajiv Gandhi | 1991 | Maharashtra | Posthumous, Seventh Prime Minister |
25 | Vallabhbhai Patel | 1991 | Gujarat | Posthumous, independence activist, first Home Minister |
26 | Morarji Desai | 1991 | Gujarat | Independenceactivist, fifth Prime Minister |
27 | AbulKalam Azad | 1992 | Saudi Arabia | Posthumous, independence activist, first Minister of Education |
28 | J. R. D. Tata | 1992 | France | Industrialist and philanthropist |
29 | Satyajit Ray | 1992 | West Bengal | Bengali filmmaker |
30 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | 1997 | Tamil Nadu | Aeronautical Engineer,11th President ofIndia |
31 | Gulzarilal Nanda | 1997 | Pakistan | Independenceactivist, interim Prime Minister |
32 | ArunaAsaf Ali | 1997 | Haryana | Posthumous, independence activist |
33 | M. S. Subbulakshmi | 1998 | Tamil Nadu | Classical Carnatic singer |
34 | Chidambaram Subramaniam | 1998 | Tamil Nadu | Independenceactivist, Minister of Agriculture |
35 | Jayaprakash Narayan | 1999 | Bihar | Posthumous, independence activist and politician |
36 | RaviShankar | 1999 | Uttar Pradesh | Sitar player |
37 | Amartya Sen | 1999 | West Bengal | Economist |
38 | Gopinath Bordoloi | 1999 | Assam | Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister ofAssam |
39 | Lata Mangeshkar | 2001 | Madhya Pradesh | Playback singer |
40 | Bismillah Khan | 2001 | Bihar | Hindustani classical shehnai player |
41 | Bhimsen Joshi | 2008 | Karnataka | Hindustani classical singer |
42 | Sachin Tendulkar | 2013 | Maharashtra | Cricketer /Sports person |
42 | C.N.R. Rao | 2013 | Karnataka | Chemist |
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