- Lal Bahadur Shastri – 1966 – Public Affairs – Uttar Pradesh
- Kumaraswamy Kamraj – 1976 – Public Affairs – Tamil Nadu
- Acharya Vinoba Bhave – 1983 – Social Work – Maharashtra
- MG Ramachandran – 1988 – Public Affairs – Tamil Nadu
- BR Ambedkar – 1990 – Public Affairs – Maharashtra
- Rajiv Gandhi – 1991 – Public Affairs – Delhi
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel – 1991 – Public Affairs – Gujarat
- Satyajit Ray – 1992 – Art – West Bengal
- Maulana Abul Kalam Azad – 1992 – Public Affairs – West Bengal
- Aruna Asaf Ali – 1997 – Public Affairs – Delhi
- Gulzari Lal Nanda – 1997 – Public Affairs – Gujarat
- Gopinath Bordoloi – 1998 – Public Affairs – Assam
- Jayaprakash Narayan – 1999 – Public Affairs – Bihar
- Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya – 2015 – Public Affairs – Uttar Pradesh
- Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika – 2019 – Art – Assam
- Nanaji Deshmukh – 2019 – Social Work – Maharashtra
- Karpoori Thakur – 2024 – Public Affairs – Bihar
- PV Narasimha Rao – Announced – Feb 2024 – Public Affairs – Telangana
- Chaudhary Charan Singh – Announced – Feb 2024 – Public Affairs – Uttar Pradesh
- MS Swaminathan – Announced – Feb 2024 – Science – Tamil Nadu
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