# Naturalized citizen recipient
|  Non-citizen recipient |  Posthumous recipient |
| Year | Image | Laureates | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 |  | C. Rajagopalachari | Independence activist, last and only Indian Governor-General of India | ||
 | C. V. Raman | Nobel laureate physicist (1930) | |||
 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | Philosopher, India's first Vice-President (1952–62), and secondPresident (1962–67) | |||
| 1955 | – | Bhagwan Das | Independence activist, theosophist, and founder of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith | ||
 | Visvesvaraya | Civil engineer, statesman and Diwan of Mysore (1912–18) | |||
 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Independence activist, author, and first Prime Minister of India (1947–64) | |||
| 1957 |  | Govind Ballabh Pant | Independence activist, first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh(1950–54) | ||
| 1958 |  | Dhondo Keshav Karve | Social reformer | ||
| 1961 | – | Bidhan Chandra Roy | Physician-Surgeon and second Chief Minister of West Bengal(1948–62) | ||
| – | Purushottam Das Tandon | Independence activist, educator | |||
| 1962 |  | Rajendra Prasad | Independence activist, lawyer, first President of India (1950–62) | ||
| 1963 | – | Zakir Hussain | Independence activist, second Vice-President of India (1962–67), and third President of India (1967–69) | ||
| – | Pandurang Vaman Kane | Indologist and Sanskrit scholar | |||
| 1966 |  | Lal Bahadur Shastri | | Independence activist and third Prime Minister of India (1964–66) | |
| 1971 |  | Indira Gandhi | Former Prime Minister of India (1966–77, 1980–84) First Lady Prime Minister | ||
| 1975 | – | V. V. Giri | Trade unionist, first Acting President of India, and fourth President of India (1969–74) | ||
| 1976 | – | K. Kamaraj | | Independence activist and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu(1954–57, 1957–62, 1962–63) | |
| 1980 |  | Mother Teresa | # | Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and Nobel peace prize laureate (1979) | |
| 1983 |  | Vinoba Bhave | | Independence activist, social reformer, and Ramon Magsaysay Award laureate (1958) | |
| 1987 |  | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | | Independence activist | |
| 1988 |  | M. G. Ramachandran | | Film actor and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1977–80, 1980–84, 1985–87) | |
| 1990 |  | B. R. Ambedkar | | Chief architect of the Indian Constitution and social reformer | |
 | Nelson Mandela | | Leader of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1993) | ||
| 1991 |  | Rajiv Gandhi | | Ninth Prime Minister of India (1984–89) | |
 | Vallabhbhai Patel | | Independence activist and first Deputy Prime Minister of India(1947–50) | ||
 | Morarji Desai | Independence activist and sixth Prime Minister of India (1977–79) | |||
| 1992 |  | Abul Kalam Azad | | Independence activist | |
| – | J. R. D. Tata | Industrialist and philanthropist | |||
 | Satyajit Ray | Filmmaker | |||
| 1997 | – | Gulzarilal Nanda | Independence activist and two times interim Prime Minister of India | ||
| – | Aruna Asaf Ali | | Independence activist | ||
 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Aerospace and Defense Scientist, eleventh President of India (2002–07) | |||
| 1998 |  | M. S. Subbulakshmi | Carnatic classical vocalist | ||
| – | Chidambaram Subramaniam | Independence activist and former Minister of Agriculture of India (1964–66) | |||
| 1999 | – | Jayaprakash Narayan | | Independence activist and social reformer | |
 | Ravi Shankar | Hindustani classical Sitar player | |||
 | Amartya Sen | Nobel laureate economist (1998) | |||
 | Gopinath Bordoloi | | Independence activist, first Chief Minister of Assam (1946–50) | ||
| 2001 |  | Lata Mangeshkar | Playback singer | ||
 | Bismillah Khan | Hindustani classical Shehnai player | |||
| 2009 |  | Bhimsen Joshi | Hindustani classical vocalist | ||
| 2014 |  | C. N. R. Rao | Chemist | ||
 | Sachin Tendulkar | Cricketer | |||
| 2015 |  | Madan Mohan Malaviya | | Educationist and politician (President of Indian National Congress (INC) in 1909, 1918) | |
 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Former Prime Minister of India (1996), (1998), (1999-2004), poet | |||
Credits: wikipedia
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