1954 – Dr. Radhakrishnan, Rajaji, Dr.C.V. Raman
1955 – Dr. Bhagwan Das, Dr. Visvesvaraiya, Jawaharlal Nehru
1957 – Govind Ballabh Pant
1958 – Dr. Dhondo Keshve Karve
1961 – Dr. B.C Roy
1962 – Dr. Rajendra prasad
1963 – Dr. Zakir Hussain
1966 – Lal bahadur shastri
1972 – Mrs. Indira Gandhi
1975 – VV Giri
1988 – MGR
1990 – Dr. Ambedkar
1991 – Patel, Moraji Desai, Rajiv Gandhi
1992 – Maulana Abul kalam Azad
1997 – Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
1998 – M.S Subbulakshmi
1999 – Prof. Amartya Sen
2015 – Vajpayee
2019 – Pranab Mukharjee
2024 – M.S. Swaminathan, L.K. Advani, Charan Singh, Karpoori Thakur, P.V. Narasimha Rao
