- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan – 1954
- Chakravarti Rajagopalachari – 1954
- C. V. Raman – 1954
- Bhagwan Das – 1955
- Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya – 1955
- Jawaharlal Nehru – 1955
- Govind Ballabh Pant – 1957
- Dhondo Keshav Karve – 1958
- B. C. Roy – 1961
- Purushottam Das Tandon – 1961
- Rajendra Prasad – 1962
- Zakir Hussain – 1963
- Pandurang Vaman Kane – 1963
- Lal Bahadur Shastri – 1966
- Indira Gandhi – 1971
- V. V. Giri – 1975
- K. Kamaraj – 1976
- Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) – 1980
- Acharya Vinoba Bhave – 1983
- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan – 1987
- M. G. Ramachandran – 1988
- B. R. Ambedkar – 1990
- Nelson Mandela – 1990
- Rajiv Gandhi – 1991
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel – 1991
- Morarji Desai – 1991
- Maulana Abul Kalam Azad – 1992
- J. R. D. Tata – 1992
- Satyajit Ray – 1992
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam – 1997
- Gulzarilal Nanda – 1997
- Aruna Asaf Ali – 1997
- M. S. Subbulakshmi – 1998
- Chidambaram Subramaniam – 1998
- Jayaprakash Narayan – 1998
- Ravi Shankar – 1999
- Amartya Sen – 1999
- Gopinath Bordoloi -1999
- Lata Mangeshkar – 2001
- Ustad Bismillah Khan – 2001
- Pt. Bhimsen Joshi – 2008
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