Year

Name

Field

State

Country

2000

Radha Reddy

Art

Delhi

India

2000

Raja Reddy

Art

Delhi

India

2000

Rajini Kanth

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

2000

Sharan Rani Backliwal

Art

Delhi

India

2000

Holenarasipur Yoganarasiham Prasad Sharada

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

2000

Harbans Singh Wasir

Medicine

Haryana

India

2000

Anil Kumar Agarwal

Others

Delhi

India

2000

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Public Affairs

Delhi

India

2000

Braj Basi Lal

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

2000

Pakkiriswamy Chandra Sekharan

Science & Engineering

Karnataka

India

2000

Pavagada Venkata Indiresan

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

2000

Raghunath Anant Mashelkar

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

2000

Ram Narain Agarwal

Science & Engineering

Andhra Pradesh

India

2000

S. Srinivasan

Science & Engineering

Kerala

India

2000

Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

2000

Begam Kudsia Aizaz Rasul

Social Work

Uttar Pradesh

India

2000

Dharmasthala Veerendra Heggade

Social Work

Karnataka

India

2000

Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya

Social Work

Maharashtra

India

2000

Swami Kalyan Dev

Social Work

Uttar Pradesh

India

2000

Ratan Tata

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India

2001

Amitabh Bachchan

Art

Maharashtra

India

2001

Baldev Raj Chopra

Art

Maharashtra

India

2001

Bhupen Hazarika

Art

Maharashtra

India

2001

Dev Anand

Art

Maharashtra

India

2001

Lakshminarayana Subramaniam

Art

Karnataka

India

2001

Lalgudi Gopalaiyer Jayaraman

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

2001

Paluvai Bhanumathi Ramakrishna

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

2001

Pran Sikand

Art

Maharashtra

India

2001

Raghunath Mohapatra

Art

Orissa

India

2001

Uma Sharma

Art

Delhi

India

2001

Yamini Krishnamurti

Art - Online art courses

Delhi

India

2001

Aroon Purie

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

2001

Boyi Bhimanna

Literature & Education

Andhra Pradesh

India

2001

Karimpumannil Mathai GeorgeOnline art courses

Literature & Education

Kerala

India

2001

Shiv Kumar

Literature & Education

Andhra Pradesh

India

2001

Chitranjan Singh Ranawat

Medicine

-

USA

2001

Naresh Kumar Trehan

Medicine

Delhi

India

2001

Rajendra Kumar Pachauri

Others

Delhi

India

2001

Ashok Desai

Public Affairs

Delhi

India

2001

Swadesh Chatterjee

Public Affairs

-

USA

2001

Arun Netravali

Science & Engineering

-

USA

2001

Palle Rama Rao

Science & Engineering

Andhra Pradesh

India

2001

Raj Reddy

Science & Engineering

-

USA

2001

Maulana Abdul Karim Parekh

Social Work

Maharashtra

India

2001

Sundaram Ramakrishnan

Social Work

Maharashtra

India

2001

Trimbak alias Balasaheb Shivram Bharade

Social Work

Maharashtra

India

2001

Viswanathan Anand

Sports

Tamil Nadu

India

2001

Amrita Patel

Trade & Industry

Gujarat

India

2001

Badrinarayan Ramulal Barwale

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India

2001

Bhupathiraju Vissam Raju

Trade & Industry

Andhra Pradesh

India

2001

Mohan Singh Oberoi

Trade & Industry

Delhi

India

2001

Rahul Bajaj

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India

2002

Habib Tanvir

Art

Madhya Pradesh

India

2002

Ismail Merchant

Art

Maharashtra

India

2002

Kattassery Joseph Yesudas

Art

Kerala

India

2002

Prabha Atre

Art

Maharashtra

India

2002

Shobha Gurtu

Art

Maharashtra

India

2002

Zakir Hussain

Art

Maharashtra

India

2002

Jagat Singh Mehta

Civil Service

Rajasthan

India

2002

Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra

Civil Service

Delhi

India

2002

Bellur Krishnamachar Sundara Raja Iyengar

Literature & Education

Maharashtra

India

2002

Mario De Miranda

Literature & Education

Goa

India

2002

Nirmal Verma

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

2002

Yevgeni Petrovich Chelyshev

Literature & Education

-

Russia

2002

Natesan Rangabashyam

Medicine

Tamil Nadu

India

2002

Kottayan Katankot Venugopal

Public Affairs

Delhi

India

2002

Shri Frank Pallone

Public Affairs

-

USA

2002

Shri Gary Ackerman

Public Affairs

-

USA

2002

Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharyya

Public Affairs

-

UK

2002

Faquir Chand Kohli

Science & Engineering

Maharashtra

India

2002

Guri Ivanovich Marchuk

Science & Engineering

-

Russia

2002

Ramanujam Varatharaja Perumal

Science & Engineering

Kerala

India

2002

Vangalampalayam Chellappagounder Kulandaiswamy

Science & Engineering

Tamil Nadu

India

2002

Hari Pal Singh Ahluwalia

Social Work

Delhi

India

2002

Chandu Borde

Sports

Maharashtra

India

2002

Henning Holck Larsen

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India

2002

Pravinchandra Varjivan Gandhi

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India

2003

Ammannur Madhava Chakyar

Art

Kerala

India

2003

Balasubramania Rajam Iyer

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

2003

Jagjit Singh

Art

Maharashtra

India

2003

Madurai Narayanan Krishnan

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

2003

Naseeruddin Shah

Art

Maharashtra

India

2003

Padma Subrahmanyam

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

2003

Puliyur Subramaniam Narayanaswam

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

2003

Swapnasundari

Art

Delhi

India

2003

Teejan Bai

Art

Chhattisgarh

India

2003

Tiruvalangadu Vembu Iyer Sankaranarayanan

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

2003

Trichur Vaidyanatha Ramachandran

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

2003

Umayalpuram Kasiviswanatha Sivaraman

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

2003

Ottupulakkal Velukkuty Vijayan

Literature & Education

Kerala

India

2003

Sitakant Mahapatra

Literature & Education

Orissa

India

2003

Subhash Mukhopadhyay (poet)

Literature & Education

West Bengal

India

2003

Coluthur Gopalan

Medicine

Delhi

India

2003

Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

2003

Purshotam Lal

Medicine

Uttar Pradesh

India

2003

Ramesh Kumar

Medicine

Delhi

India

2003

Prabhu Chawla

Others

Delhi

India

2003

Thaliyadiparambil Vittappa Ramachandra Shenoy

Others

Delhi

India

2003

Herbert Fischer

Public Affairs

-

Germany

2003

Parasaran Kesava Iyengar

Public Affairs

Delhi

India

2003

Arcot Ramachandran

Science & Engineering

Karnataka

India

2003

Bagicha Singh Minhas

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

2003

Herbert Alexandrovich Yefremov

Science & Engineering

-

Russia

2003

Krishna Joshi

Science & Engineering

Haryana

India

2003

Narayanan Srinivasan

Science & Engineering

Tamil Nadu

India

2003

Rajinder Kumar

Science & Engineering

Karnataka

India

2003

Ram Badan Singh

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

2003

Hari Shankar Singhania

Trade & Industry

Delhi

India

2003

Jamshyd Naoroji Godrej

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India

2004

Alarmel Valli

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

2004

Gulzar

Art

Maharashtra

India

2004

Komal Kothari

Art

Rajasthan

India

2004

Madurai Thirumalai Nambi Seshagopalan

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

2004

N. Rajam

Art

Uttar Pradesh

India

2004

Soumitra Chatterjee

Art

West Bengal

India

2004

Thoppil Varghese Antony

Civil Service

Tamil Nadu

India

2004

Tiruvengadam Lakshman Sankar

Civil Service

Andhra Pradesh

India

2004

Sardara Singh Johl

Economics

Punjab

India

2004

Chennamaneni Hanumantha Rao

Literature & Education

Andhra Pradesh

India

2004

Gopi Chand Narang

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

2004

Krishna Srinivas

Literature & Education

Tamil Nadu

India

2004

Madhav Vittal Kamath

Literature & Education

Maharashtra

India

2004

Vishnu Prabhakar

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

2004

Bijoy Nandan Shahi

Medicine

Delhi

India

2004

Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari

Public Affairs

Maharashtra

India

2004

Yoshiro Mori

Public Affairs

-

Japan

2004

Govindarajan Padmanaban

Science & Engineering

Karnataka

India

2004

Poornima Arvind Pakvasa

Social Work

Gujarat

India

2005

A. Ramachandran

Art

Delhi

India

2005

Probodh Chandra Manna Dey

Art

Karnataka

India

2005

Yash Raj Chopra

Art

Maharashtra

India

2005

Girish Chandra Saxena

Civil Service

Delhi

India

2005

Gopichettipalayam Venkataramana Iyer Ramakrishna

Civil Service

Tamil Nadu

India

2005

S.R. Sankaran

Civil Service

Hyderabad

India

2005

Tumkur Ramaiya Satish Chandran

Civil Service

Karnataka

India

2005

Andre Beteille

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

2005

Balraj Puri

Literature & Education

Jammu and Kashmir

India

2005

Irfan Habib

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

2005

Madath Thekepat Vasudevan Nair

Literature & Education

Kerala

India

2005

Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

2005

Mrinal Miri

Literature & Education

Meghalaya

India

2005

Qurratulain Hyder

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

2005

Sardar Anjum

Literature & Education

Haryana

India

2005

William Mark Tully

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

2005

Anil Kohli

Medicine

Delhi

India

2005

Hari Mohan

Medicine

Delhi

India

2005

Kolli Srinath Reddy

Medicine

Delhi

India

2005

Tarlochan Singh Kler

Medicine

Delhi

India

2005

Yusuf Khwaja Hamied

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

2005

Chandi Prasad Bhatt

Others

Uttarakhand

India

2005

Syed Mir Qasim

Public Affairs

Delhi

India

2005

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

Science & Engineering

Karnataka

India

2005

Koduru Iswara Varaprasad Reddy

Science & Engineering

Andhra Pradesh

India

2005

Narasimhiah Seshagiri

Science & Engineering

Karnataka

India

2005

Valangiman Subramanian Ramamurthy

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

2005

Azim Premji

Trade & Industry

Karnataka

India

2005

Brijmohan Lall Munjal

Trade & Industry

Delhi

India

2006

Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan

Art

Maharashtra

India

2006

Ghulam Mustafa Khan

Art

Maharashtra

India

2006

K.G. Subramanyam

Art

West Bengal

India

2006

Konidala Chiranjeevi

Art

Andhra Pradesh

India

2006

Late P. Leela

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

2006

Sabri Khan

Art

Delhi

India

2006

Sai Paranjpye

Art

Maharashtra

India

2006

Shanno Khurana

Art

Delhi

India

2006

P. S. Appu

Civil Service

Karnataka

India

2006

Air Commod Jasjit Singh

Defence Services

Haryana

India

2006

Dinesh Nandini Dalmia

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

2006

Dusan Zbavitel

Literature & Education

-

Czech Republic

2006

Gregory Bongard-Levin

Literature & Education

-

Russia

2006

Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

2006

Lokesh Chandra

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

2006

M.V. Pylee

Literature & Education

Kerala

India

2006

Ramakanta Rath

Literature & Education

Orissa

India

2006

Vijay Shankar Vyas

Literature & Education

Rajasthan

India

2006

Jaiveer Agarwal

Medicine

Tamil Nadu

India

2006

Kewal Kishan Talwar

Medicine

Chandigarh

India

2006

V. Shanta

Medicine

Tamil Nadu

India

2006

Hira Lall Sibal

Public Affairs

Chandigarh

India

2006

P. P. Rao

Public Affairs

Uttar Pradesh

India

2006

Shashi Bhushan

Public Affairs

Delhi

India

2006

K. P. P. Nambiar

Science & Engineering

Karnataka

India

2006

Madhav Gadgil

Science & Engineering

Maharashtra

India

2006

Nandan Nilekani

Science & Engineering

Karnataka

India

2006

Devaki Jain

Social Work

Karnataka

India

2006

Ganga Prasad Birla

Social Work

West Bengal

India

2006

N.S. Ramaswamy

Social Work

Karnataka

India

2006

Vijaypat Singhania

Sports

Maharashtra

India

2006

Deepak Parekh

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India

2006

Late Gunter Kruger

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India

2006

S. Ramadorai

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India

2006

Tarun Das

Trade & Industry

Haryana

India

2007

Kavalam Narayan Panikkar

Art

Kerala

India

2007

Rajan Misra

Art

Delhi

India

2007

Ramankutty Nair

Art

Kerala

India

2007

Sajan Misra

Art

Delhi

India

2007

Somnath Hore

Art

West Bengal

India

2007

Syed Haider Raza

Art

-

France

2007

Tyeb Mehta

Art

Maharashtra

India

2007

Bhikhu Parekh

Literature & Education

-

UK

2007

Captain L.Z. Sailo

Literature & Education

Mizoram

India

2007

Chandra Prasad Saikia

Literature & Education

Assam

India

2007

Father Gabriel

Literature & Education

Kerala

India

2007

Gopaldas Neeraj

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

2007

Javed Jan Nisaar Akhtar

Literature & Education

Maharashtra

India

2007

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Literature & Education

-

USA

2007

T.N. Srinivasan

Literature & Education

-

USA

2007

Tapan Ray Chaudhuri

Literature & Education

-

UK

2007

(Vaidya) Shriram Sharma

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

2007

Hakim Syed Mohammad Sharfuddin Quadri

Medicine

West Bengal

India

2007

Prithipal Singh Maini

Medicine

Delhi

India

2007

Shiv Kumar Sarin

Medicine

Delhi

India

2007

Ela Gandhi

Public Affairs

-

South Africa

2007

Justice K. T. Thomas

Public Affairs

Kerala

India

2007

Gurcharan Singh Kalkat

Science & Engineering

Chandigarh

India

2007

Manju Sharma

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

2007

Saroj Ghose

Science & Engineering

West Bengal

India

2007

Vilayanur Ramachandran

Science & Engineering

-

USA

2007

V. Mohini Giri

Social Work

Delhi

India

2007

Indra Nooyi

Trade & Industry

-

USA

2007

Jamshed J. Irani

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India

2007

N. Mahalingam

Trade & Industry

Tamil Nadu

India

2007

O. Suzuki

Trade & Industry

-

Japan

2007

Sunil Bharti Mittal

Trade & Industry

Delhi

India

2008

Amarnath Sehgal

Art

Delhi

India

2008

Asad Ali Khan

Art

Delhi

India

2008

P. Susheela

Art

Andhra Pradesh

India

2008

Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar

Art

Delhi

India

2008

Sushil Kumar Saxena

Art

Delhi

India

2008

K. Padmanabhiah

Civil Service

Delhi

India

2008

V. Ramachandran

Civil Service

Kerala

India

2008

Brijinder Nath Goswamy

Literature & Education

Chandigarh

India

2008

Ji Xianlin

Literature & Education

-

China

2008

Kaushik Basu

Literature & Education

-

USA

2008

Padma Desai

Literature & Education

-

USA

2008

Ravindra Kelekar

Literature & Education

Goa

India

2008

Shayama Chona

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

2008

Srilal Shukla

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

2008

Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan

Literature & Education

-

USA

2008

T. K. Oommen

Literature & Education

Haryana

India

2008

Jagjit Singh Chopra

Medicine

Chandigarh

India

2008

Jasdev Singh

Others

Delhi

India

2008

Meghnad Desai

Public Affairs

-

UK

2008

Mian Bashir Ahmed

Public Affairs

Jammu and Kashmir

India

2008

Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov

Public Affairs

Moscow

Russia

2008

Asis Datta

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

2008

Sukh Dev

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

2008

Sunita Williams

Science & Engineering

-

USA

2008

Vasant Gowarikar

Science & Engineering

Maharashtra

India

2008

D. R. Mehta

Social Work

Rajasthan

India

2008

Dominique Lapierre

Social Work

-

France

2008

Inderjit Kaur

Social Work

Punjab

India

2008

Baba Neelkanth Kalyani

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India

2008

K. V. Kamath

Trade & Industry

Karnataka

India

2008

Shiv Nadar

Trade & Industry

Tamil Nadu

India

2008

Suresh Kumar Neotia

Trade & Industry

Delhi

India

2008

Vikram Pandit

Trade & Industry

-

USA

2009

G. Sivarama Krishna Murthy

Art

Andhra Pradesh

India

2009

Ramanlal C. Mehta

Art

Gujarat

India

2009

Shamshad Begum

Art

Maharashtra

India

2009

Shanta Dhananjayan

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

2009

V.P. Dhananjayan

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

2009

Vaidyanathan Ganapathi Sthapati

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

2009

S. K. Misra

Civil Service

Haryana

India

2009

Shekhar Gupta

Journalism

Delhi

India

2009

Alappat Sreedhara Menon

Literature & Education

Kerala

India

2009

C.K. Prahlad

Literature & Education

-

USA

2009

D. Jayakanthan

Literature & Education

Tamil Nadu

India

2009

Isher Judge Ahluwalia

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

2009

Kunwar Narain

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

2009

Minoru Hara

Literature & Education

-

Japan

2009

Ramachandra Guha

Literature & Education

Karnataka

India

2009

Brijendra Kumar Rao

Medicine

Delhi

India

2009

Khalid Hameed

Medicine

-

UK

2009

Vaidya Devendra Triguna

Medicine

Delhi

India

2009

Satish Nambiar

National Security Affairs

Delhi

India

2009

Inderjit Kaur Barthakur

Public Affairs

Meghalaya

India

2009

Kirit Shantilal Parikh

Public Affairs

Delhi

India

2009

Bhakta B. Rath

Science & Engineering

-

USA

2009

Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri

Science & Engineering

Tamil Nadu

India

2009

Gurdip Singh Randhawa

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

2009

Sam Pitroda

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

2009

Sarvagya Singh Katiyar

Science & Engineering

Uttar Pradesh

India

2009

Thomas Kailath

Science & Engineering

-

USA

2009

Naganath Nayakawadi

Social Work

Maharashtra

India

2009

Sarojini Varadappan

Social Work

Tamil Nadu

India

2009

Abhinav Bindra

Sports

Punjab

India

2009

Anil Manibhai Naik

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India