| Name | Field | State | Country |
| Dr. Chandrika Prasad Srivastava | Civil Service | Maharashtra | India |
| Prof. D.P. Chattopadhyaya | Literature & Education | West Bengal | India |
| Prof. Jasbir Singh Bajaj | Medicine | Punjab | India |
| Dr. Purshotam Lal | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh | India |
| Shri Sunderlal Bahuguna | Others | Uttarakhand | India |
| Justice Dr. A. S. Anand | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh | India |
| Shri Govind Narain | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh | India |
| Shri P.N. Dhar | Public Affairs | Delhi | India |
| Shri Pranab Mukherjee | Public Affairs | Delhi | India |
| Dr. Anil Kakodkar | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra | India |
| Dr. E. Sreedharan | Science & Engineering | Delhi | India |
| Shri G. Madhavan Nair | Science & Engineering | Karnataka | India |
| Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri | Science & Engineering | Delhi | India |
| Mrs Sister Nirmala | Social Work | West Bengal | India |
| Late Mr. Edmund Hillary (Posthumous) | Sports | Delhi | India |
| Dr. A.S. Ganguly | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra | India |
| Shri Lakshmi Narayan Mittal | Trade & Industry | Punjab | India |
| Shri N.R. Narayana Murthy | Trade & Industry | Karnataka | India |
| Shri P.R.S. Oberoi | Trade & Industry | Delhi | India |
| Shri Ratan Naval Tata | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra | India |
