| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2014 |
|
Sachin Tendulkar |
|
| 2014 |
|
C. N. R. Rao |
|
| 2008 |
|
Bhimsen Joshi |
|
| 2001 |
|
Lata Mangeshkar |
|
| 2001 |
|
Ustad Bismillah Khan |
|
| 1999 |
|
Amartya Sen |
|
| 1999 |
|
Jayaprakash Narayan |
Posthmus |
| 1999 |
|
Ravi Shankar |
|
| 1999 |
|
Gopinath Bordoloi |
|
| 1998 |
|
M. S. Subbulakshmi |
|
| 1998 |
|
Chidambaram Subramaniam |
|
| 1997 |
|
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
Government of India |
| 1997 |
|
Gulzarilal Nanda |
|
| 1997 |
|
Aruna Asaf Ali |
|
| 1992 |
|
Abul Kalam Azad |
|
| 1992 |
|
J. R. D. Tata |
|
| 1992 |
|
Satyajit Ray |
|
| 1991 |
|
Rajiv Gandhi |
|
| 1991 |
|
Vallabhbhai Patel |
|
| 1991 |
|
Morarji Desai |
|
| 1990 |
|
B. R. Ambedkar |
|
| 1990 |
|
Nelson Mandela |
|
| 1988 |
|
M. G. Ramachandran |
Posthumous, film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu |
| 1987 |
|
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
First non-citizen, independence activist |
| 1983 |
|
Vinoba Bhave |
Posthumous, social reformer, independence activist |
| 1980 |
|
Mother Teresa |
Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity |
| 1976 |
|
K. Kamaraj |
Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State |
| 1975 |
|
V. V. Giri |
Trade unionist and fourth President |
| 1971 |
|
Indira Gandhi |
Third Prime Minister |
| 1966 |
|
Lal Bahadur Shastri |
Posthumous, independence activist, second Prime Minister |
| 1963 |
|
Zakir Husain |
Independence activist, Scholar, third President |
| 1963 |
|
Pandurang Vaman Kane |
Indologist and Sanskrit scholar |
| 1962 |
|
Rajendra Prasad |
Independence activist, jurist, first President |
| 1961 |
|
Bidhan Chandra Roy |
Physician, Chief Minister of West Bengal |
| 1961 |
|
Purushottam Das Tandon |
Independence activist, educator |
| 1958 |
|
Dhondo Keshav Karve |
Educator, social reformer |
| 1957 |
|
Govind Ballabh Pant |
Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home Minister |
| 1955 |
|
Bhagwan Das |
Independence activist, author |
| 1955 |
|
Mokshagundam Visvesvaray |
Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore |
| 1955 |
|
Jawaharlal Nehru |
Independence activist, author, first Prime Minister |
| 1954 |
|
C. V. Raman |
Physicist |
| 1954 |
|
C. Rajagopalachari |
Independence activist, last Governor-General |
| 1954 |
|
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
|
