2. C. V. Raman 1954 Nobel-prize winning Physicist
3. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 1954 Second President, First Vice President, Philosopher
4. Bhagwan Das 1955 Literature, independence activist
5. Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya 1955 Civil Engineer, Dam Architect, Diwan of Princely state of Mysore
6. Jawaharlal Nehru 1955 First Prime Minister, independence activist, Author
7. Govind Ballabh Pant 1957 independence activist, Home Minister
8. Dhondo Keshav Karve 1958 Educationist, Social Reformer, Awarded in his birth centenary year
9. Bidhan Chandra Roy 1961 Physician, Politician, Former Chief Minister of West Bengal
10. Purushottam Das Tandon 1961 independence activist, Educationist
11. Rajendra Prasad 1962 First President, independence activist, Jurist
12. Zakir Hussain 1963 Former President, Scholar
13. Pandurang Vaman Kane 1963 Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
14. Lal Bahadur Shastri 1966 Posthumous, Second Prime Minister, independence activist
15. Indira Gandhi 1971 Former Prime Minister
16. V. V. Giri 1975 Former President, Trade Unionist
17. K. Kamaraj 1976 Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu
18. Mother Teresa 1980 Nobel Laureate (Peace, 1979)
19. Vinoba Bhave 1983 Posthumous, Social Reformer, independence activist
20. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 1987 First non-citizen, independence activist
21. M. G. Ramachandran 1988 Posthumous, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu, Actor
22. B. R. Ambedkar 1990 Posthumous, Architect-Indian Constitution,Social Reformer,
Economist and Scholar
23. Nelson Mandela 1990 Second non-citizen and first non-Indian, Leader of Anti-Apartheid movement
24. Rajiv Gandhi 1991 Posthumous, Former Prime Minister
25. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 1991 Posthumous, independence activist, First Home Minister of India
26. Morarji Desai 1991 Former Prime Minister, independence activist
27. Abul Kalam Azad 1992 Posthumous, independence activist, First Education Minister of India
28. J. R. D. Tata 1992 Industrialist and philanthropist
29. Satyajit Ray 1992 Film director
30. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 1997 Former President, scientist
31. Gulzarilal Nanda 1997 independence activist, former Prime Minister
32. Aruna Asaf Ali 1997 Posthumous, independence activist
33. M. S. Subbulakshmi 1998 Carnatic music vocalist
34. Chidambaram Subramaniam 1998 independence activist, Minister of Agriculture
35. Jayaprakash Narayan 1999 Posthumous, independence activist, Social Reformer
36. Ravi Shankar 1999 Sitar player
37. Amartya Sen 1999 Nobel-prize winning Economist
38. Gopinath Bordoloi 1999 Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister Assam
39. Lata Mangeshkar 2001 Singer
40. Bismillah Khan 2001 Classical musician, shehnai maestro
41. Bhimsen Joshi 2008 Hindustani Classical vocalist
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