|
Year |
Laureates |
Facts |
|
1954 |
C. Rajagopalachari |
Independence activist, last and only Indian Governor-General of India |
|
C. V. Raman |
Nobel laureatephysicist (1930) |
|
|
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
Philosopher, India's first Vice-President (1952–62), and second President (1962–67) |
|
|
1955 |
Bhagwan Das |
Independence activist, theosophist, and founder of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith |
|
Visvesvaraya |
Civil engineer, statesman and Diwan of Mysore (1912–18) |
|
|
Jawaharlal Nehru |
Independence activist, author, and first Prime Minister of India (1947–64) |
|
|
1957 |
Govind Ballabh Pant |
Independence activist, first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (1950–54) |
|
1958 |
Dhondo Keshav Karve |
Social reformer |
|
1961 |
Bidhan Chandra Roy |
Physician-Surgeon and second Chief Minister of West Bengal (1948–62) |
|
Purushottam Das Tandon |
Independence activist, educator |
|
|
1962 |
Rajendra Prasad |
Independence activist, lawyer, first President of India (1950–62) |
|
1963 |
Zakir Hussain |
Independence activist, second Vice-President of India (1962–67), and third President of India (1967–69) |
|
Pandurang Vaman Kane |
Indologist and Sanskrit scholar |
|
|
1966 |
Lal Bahadur Shastri |
Independence activist and third Prime Minister of India (1964–66) |
|
1971 |
Indira Gandhi |
Former Prime Minister of India (1966–77, 1980–84) |
|
1975 |
V. V. Giri |
Trade unionist, first Acting President of India, and fourth President of India (1969–74) |
|
1976 |
K. Kamaraj |
Independence activist and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1954–57, 1957–62, 1962–63) |
|
1980 |
Mother Teresa |
Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and Nobel peace prize laureate (1979) |
|
1983 |
Vinoba Bhave |
Independence activist, social reformer, and Ramon Magsaysay Award laureate (1958) |
|
1987 |
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
Independence activist |
|
1988 |
M. G. Ramachandran |
Film actor and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1977–80, 1980–84, 1985–87) |
|
1990 |
B. R. Ambedkar |
Chief architect of the Indian Constitution and social reformer |
|
Nelson Mandela |
Leader of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize laureate(1993) |
|
|
1991 |
Rajiv Gandhi |
Ninth Prime Minister of India (1984–89) |
|
Vallabhbhai Patel |
Independence activist and first Deputy Prime Minister of India (1947–50) |
|
|
Morarji Desai |
Independence activist and sixth Prime Minister of India (1977–79) |
|
|
1992 |
Abul Kalam Azad |
Independence activist |
|
J. R. D. Tata |
Industrialist and philanthropist |
|
|
Satyajit Ray |
Filmmaker |
|
|
1997 |
Gulzarilal Nanda |
Independence activist and two times interim Prime Minister of India |
|
Aruna Asaf Ali |
Independence activist |
|
|
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
Aerospace and Defense Scientist, eleventh President of India (2002–07) |
|
|
1998 |
M. S. Subbulakshmi |
Carnatic classical vocalist |
|
Chidambaram Subramaniam |
Independence activist and former Minister of Agriculture of India (1964–66) |
|
|
1999 |
Jayaprakash Narayan |
Independence activist and social reformer |
|
Ravi Shankar |
Hindustani classical Sitar player |
|
|
Amartya Sen |
Nobel laureateeconomist (1998) |
|
|
Gopinath Bordoloi |
Independence activist, first Chief Minister of Assam (1946–50) |
|
|
2001 |
Lata Mangeshkar |
Playback singer |
|
Bismillah Khan |
Hindustani classical Shehnai player |
|
|
2009 |
Bhimsen Joshi |
Hindustani classical vocalist |
|
2013 |
C. N. R. Rao |
Chemist |
|
Sachin Tendulkar |
Cricketer |
|
|
2014 |
Madan Mohan Malaviya |
Educationist and politician (President of Indian National Congress (INC) in 1909, 1918) |
|
Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Former Prime Minister of India (1996), (1998), (1999-2004), poet |