| Year | Constructive Work | Science & Technology | Women & Child Welfare | International |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Jugatram Dave | Satish Chandra Das Gupta | ||
| 1979 | Sarla Devi & Murlidhar Devidas Amte (Baba Amte) | Jayant Shamrao Patil | ||
| 1980 | Gandhi Niketan Ashram | Anil Sadgopal | Jayashri Raiji & Kamalabai Hospet | |
| 1981 | Amalprava Das | A. M. M. Murugappa Chettiar | Ramadevi Choudhury | |
| 1982 | Gokulbhai Daulatram Bhatt | Prembhai | Taraben Mashruwala | |
| 1983 | Tagaduru Ramachandra Rao | Manibhai Desai | Pushpaben Mehta | |
| 1984 | Popatlal Ramchandra Shah | Mohan Narhari Parikh | Gaura Devi | |
| 1985 | T.S. Avinashilingam | Sanjit Roy | Anutai Wagh | |
| 1986 | Sunderlal Bahuguna | Vilas B. Salunke | Vasanti S. Roy | |
| 1987 | Natwar Thakkar | Sunit Dhanaji Bonde | Annapragada C. Krishna Rao | |
| 1988 | S. Jagannathan and Krishnammal Jagannathan | Ishwarbhai Patel | Malati Devi Choudhuri | Pierre Parodi |
| 1989 | K. Janardanan Pillai | T. G. K. Menon | Indirabai Halbe | Danilo Dolci |
| 1990 | Tirath Ram | S. A. Dabholkar | Ratan Shastri | A. T. Ariyaratne |
| 1991 | Dwarko Sundarani | S. Krishnamurthy Mirmira | Radha Bhatt | Charles Walker |
| 1992 | Thakurdas Bang | K. Vishwanathan | Shalini Moghe | Homer A. Jack |
| 1993 | Vichitra Narain Sharma | Dinkarrao G. Pawar | Kantaben and Harivilasben Shah | Johan Galtung |
| 1994 | L. N. Gopalaswami | V. S. Aggarwal | Shanti Devi | Gedong Bagus Oka |
| 1995 | Kashinath Trivedi | G. Muniratnam | Vimla Bahuguna | Kamala |
| 1996 | Manubhai Pancholi | S. S. Kalbag | Indumati Parikh | Adolfo De Obieta |
| 1997 | R. K. Patil | S. S. Katagihallimath | Vinoba Niketan | Young Seek Choue |
| 1998 | Acharya Ramamurti | Devendra Kumar | Rajammal P. Devadas | Kumari Jharna Dhara Chowdhury |
| 1999 | Narayan Desai | Ajoy Kumar Basu | Saraswathi Gora | Joseph Rotblat |
| 2000 | Somdutt Vedalankar | Bhaskar Save | Vidya Devi | Desmond Tutu |
| 2001 | Sisir Sanyal | Anil K. Rajvanshi | Rehmat Sultan Fazelbhoy | Satish Kumar |
| 2002 | Siddharaj Dhadda | Arunkumar Dave | Chitra Naik | George W. Willoughby |
| 2003 | Rabindra Nath Upadhyay | Vinayak Patil | Alice Garg | Dr. Mary E. King |
| 2004 | Radhakrishna Bajaj | Prabhakar Shankar Thakur | Sarojini Varadappan | Marie Thoeger |
| 2005 | P. Gopinathan Nair | Rajendra Singh | Arunaben Shankarprasad Desai | Daisaku Ikeda |
| 2006 | S.N. Subbarao | Anil Prakash Joshi | Rani Abhay Bang | Ismail Serageldin |
| 2007 | Yashpal M. Mittal | Anand Dinkar Karve | Ashoka Gupta | Michael Nagler |
| 2008 | Biswanath Pattnaik | Tushar Kanjilal | Phoolbasan Yadav | Louis Campana |
| 2009 | Lavanam | Ayyappa Masagi | Jaya Arunachalam | Charles Peter Dougherty |
| 2010 | Chunibhai Vaidya | Chewang Norphel | Shakuntaladevi Choudhary | Lia Diskin |
| 2011 | Ramesh Bhaiya and Vimla Bahan | Anupam Mishra | Shobhana Ranade | Agus Indra Udayana |
| 2012 | Jayant Mathkar | Kalyan Paul | Glenn D. Paige | Nighat Shafi |
| 2013 | G. V. Subba Rao | Snehlata Nath | Vidhya Das | Jean-Marie Muller |
| 2014 | Surendra Koulagi | Ram Kumar Singh | Chennupati Vidaya | Sulak Sivaraksa |
| 2015 | Man Singh Rawat | Perumal Vivekanandan | Anne Ferrer | Minoru Kasai |
| 2016 | Mohan Hirabai Hiralal | B. V. Nimbkar | Dr. N. Manga Devi | Rached Ghannouchi |
Jamnalal Bajaj Awards
