#
|
Year
|
Winner
|
States/Country
|
Notes
|
1
|
1954
|
C. Rajagopalachari
|
Tamil Nadu
|
|
2
|
Sir C V Raman
|
Tamil Nadu
|
Physicist
|
|
3
|
|
Tamil Nadu
|
Philosopher,
|
|
4
|
1955
|
Bhagwan Das
|
Uttar Pradesh
|
|
5
|
M Visvesvarayya
|
Karnataka
|
Civil Engineer
|
|
6
|
Jawaharlal Nehru
|
Uttar Pradesh
|
I Indian PM
|
|
7
|
1957
|
Govind Ballabh Pant
|
Uttar Pradesh
|
|
8
|
1958
|
D Karve
|
|
Educator, Social reformer
|
9
|
1961
|
B C
|
|
Physician, CM of
|
10
|
P D Tandon
|
Uttar Pradesh
|
|
|
11
|
1962
|
Rajendra Prasad
|
|
I President of
|
12
|
1963
|
Zakir Hussian
|
Andhra Pradesh
|
III President of
|
13
|
P V Kane
|
|
Indologist & Sanskrit scholar
|
|
14
|
1966
|
Lal Bahadur Shastri *
|
Uttar Pradesh
|
II PM
|
15
|
1971
|
Indira Gandhi
|
Uttar Pradesh
|
III PM
|
16
|
1975
|
V V Giri
|
Odisha
|
IV President
|
17
|
1976
|
K Kamaraj*
|
Tamil Nadu
|
CM of Tamil Nadu
|
18
|
1980
|
Mother Teresa
|
|
Catholic nun
|
19
|
1983
|
Vinobha Bhave*
|
|
Social Reformer
|
20
|
1987
|
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
|
|
|
21
|
1988
|
M G Ramachandran *
|
Tamil Nadu
|
CM of Tamil Nadu
|
22
|
1990
|
B R Ambedkar *
|
Madhya Pradesh
|
Chief Architect of Indian Constitution
|
23
|
1990
|
Nelson Mandela
|
|
|
24
|
1991
|
Rajiv Gandhi *
|
Uttar Pradesh
|
VI PM
|
25
|
Vallabhbhai Patel *
|
|
I Home Minister
|
|
26
|
Moraji Desai
|
|
IV PM
|
|
27
|
1992
|
Abul Kalam Azad*
|
|
|
28
|
J R D Tata
|
|
Industrialist
|
|
29
|
Satyajit Ray
|
|
Filmmaker
|
|
30
|
1997
|
APJ Abdul Kalam
|
Tamil Nadu
|
XI Pres of
|
31
|
Gulzarilal Nandha
|
Uttar Pradesh
|
Interim PM
|
|
32
|
Aruna Asaf Ali*
|
Haryana
|
|
|
33
|
1998
|
M
|
Tamil Nadu
|
Carnatic Classical Singer
|
34
|
C Subramaniam
|
Tamil Nadu
|
Union Agriculture Minister
|
|
35
|
1999
|
Jayaprakash Narayan*
|
|
|
36
|
|
Uttar Pradesh
|
Sitar player
|
|
37
|
Amartya Sen
|
|
Economist
|
|
38
|
Gopinath Bordoloi*
|
|
CM of
|
|
39
|
2001
|
Lata Mangeshkar
|
Madhya Pradesh
|
Playback Singer
|
40
|
Bismillah Khan
|
|
Shehnai Player
|
|
41
|
2008
|
Bhimsen Joshi
|
Karnataka
|
Hindustani classical singer
|
42
|
2013
|
CN Rao
|
Karnataka
|
Scientist
|
43
|
Sachin Tendulkar
|
|
Sport person
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Note: * à posthumous winners
Living recipients:-
Indian recipients
Ø P. J. Abdul Kalam (1997)
Ø Amartya Sen (1999)
Ø Lata Mangeshkar (2001)
Ø CN Rao (2013)
Ø Sachin Tendulkar (2013)
Foreign recipients
Ø Nelson Mandela (1990)