Year

Name

Field

State

Country

1980

Shri Sunil Manohar Gavaskar

Sports  Cricket

Maharashtra

India

1981

Shri Mrinal Sen

Art

West Bengal

India

1981

Dr. Mohammand Khalilullah

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1981

Dr. Prabhat Kumar Mukherjee

Civil Service

West Bengal

India

1981

Shri Avul Pakir Jinalabdeen Abdul Kalam

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1981

Shri Amritlal Nagar

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

1981

Shri Gopi Nath Mohanty

Literature & Education

Odisha

India

1981

Dr. Prafulla Bhagubhai Desai

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

1981

Dr. Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu

Science & Engineering

Tamil Nadu

India

1981

Smt. Avabai Bomanji Wadia

Social Work

Maharashtra

India

1981

Smt. Mekhala Jha

Social Work

Bihar

India

1982

S. Balachander

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

1982

Ustad Khadim Hussain Khan

Art

Maharashtra

India

1982

Syed Zahoor Qasim

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1982

Acharya P.N. Pttabhirama Sastri

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

1982

Jhabar Mal Sharma

Literature & Education

Rajasthan

India

1982

Stella Kramrisch

Literature & Education

-

USA

1982

Arnee Sreenivasan Ramakrishnan

Medicine

Tamil Nadu

India

1982

Atam Prakash

Medicine

Delhi

India

1982

Dr Kamal Jaysing Ranadive

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

1982

Jal Minocher Mehta

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

1982

Jasbir Singh Bajaj

Medicine

Delhi

India

1982

Ajit Ram Verma

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

1982

Grace L.Mc. Cann Morely

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

1982

Gottipati Brahmaiah

Social Work

Andhra Pradesh

India

1982

Rani Gaidinliu

Social Work

Nagaland

India

1983

Prem Nazir

Art

Kerala

India

1983

Pt Vishnu Govind Jog

Art

West Bengal

India

1983

Singanallur Puttaswamaiah Muthuraj Rajkumar

Art

Karnataka

India

1983

Sir Richard Samuel Attenborough

Art

-

UK

1983

V. Doraswamy Iyengar

Art

Karnataka

India

1983

Adi M. Sethna

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1983

K. Sankaran Nair

Civil Service

Kerala

India

1983

Kershap Tehmurasp Satarawala

Civil Service

Goa

India

1983

Suraj Parkash Malhotra

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1983

Umrao Singh

Civil Service

Punjab

India

1983

Benudhar Sharma

Literature & Education

Assam

India

1983

K. Gopalaiyer Ramanathan

Literature & Education

Maharashtra

India

1983

Nagendra

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1983

Subodh Chandra Sengupta

Literature & Education

West Bengal

India

1983

Arun Kumar Sharma

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

1983

Swraj Paul

Social Work

-

UK

1983

Raja Bhalendra Singh

Sports

Delhi

India

1984

Bhavesh Chandra Sanyal

Art

Madhya Pradesh

India

1984

Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh

Art

West Bengal

India

1984

Sripada Pinakapani

Art

Andhra Pradesh

India

1984

Vijay Tendulkar

Art

Maharashtra

India

1984

Villupuram Chinniah Ganessan

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

1984

Kanwar Natwar Singh

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1984

Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

1984

Brig. Kotta Satchidananda Murty

Literature & Education

Andhra Pradesh

India

1984

Ganda Singh

Literature & Education

Punjab

India

1984

Hanumanthappa Narasimhaiah

Literature & Education

Karnataka

India

1984

Horace Alexander

Literature & Education

-

USA

1984

Ishwari Prasad

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

1984

Marie Seton

Literature & Education

-

UK

1984

Narayan Chaturvedi

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

1984

Archana Sharma

Medicine

West Bengal

India

1984

Obaid Siddiqui

Science & Engineering

Maharashtra

India

1984

Michael Ferreira

Sports

Maharashtra

India

1985

Bhimsen Joshi

Art

Maharashtra

India

1985

Kalanidhi Narayanan

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

1985

Santideb Ghosh

Art

West Bengal

India

1985

Amarjit Singh

Civil Service

Rajasthan

India

1985

Gurbaksh Singh

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1985

Srinivasan Varadarajan

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1985

Surinder Singh Gill

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1985

Gurbachan Singh Talib

Literature & Education

Punjab

India

1985

Rais Ahmed

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1985

Shiba Prasad Chatterjee

Literature & Education

West Bengal

India

1985

T. Purushottamdas Luhar Sudaram

Literature & Education

Puducherry

India

1985

Thakazi Shivasankara Pillai

Literature & Education

Kerala

India

1985

Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry

Literature & Education

Andhra Pradesh

India

1985

Durga Das Basu

Public Affairs

West Bengal

India

1985

Justice Sadat Abul Masud

Public Affairs

West Bengal

India

1985

Bernard Peters

Science & Engineering

-

Denmark

1985

Bhalchandra Udgaonkar

Science & Engineering

Maharashtra

India

1985

Eknath Vasant Chitnis

Science & Engineering

Gujarat

India

1985

Sivaraj Ramaseshan

Science & Engineering

Karnataka

India

1985

Virender Lal Chopra

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

1985

Gopala Ramanujam

Social Work

Tamil Nadu

India

1986

Ustad Nasir Aminuddin Daggar

Art

West Bengal

India

1986

Gulshan Lal Tandon

Civil Service

West Bengal

India

1986

Manohar Lal Chibbar

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1986

Rajeev Sethi

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1986

V.Srinivasa Raghavan Arunachalam

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1986

Venkataraman Krishnamurthy

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1986

Badri Nath Tandon

Medicine

Delhi

India

1986

Pushpa Mittra Bhargava

Medicine

Andhra Pradesh

India

1986

Jean Ribound

Public Affairs

-

France

1986

Martand Singh

Public Affairs

Delhi

India

1986

Ram Krishna Trivedi

Public Affairs

Uttar Pradesh

India

1986

C. Venkataraman Sundaram

Science & Engineering

Tamil Nadu

India

1986

S. Dillon Ripley

Science & Engineering

USA

1986

Ela Ramesh Bhatt

Social Work

Gujarat

India

1987

Kishori Ravindra Amonkar

Art

Maharashtra

India

1987

Nikhil Ranjan Banerjee

Art

West Bengal

India

1987

Julio Francis Rebeiro

Civil Service

Maharashtra

India

1987

Laxmi Prasad Sihare

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1987

Mohammed Yunus

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1987

Ramachandra Dattatray Pradhan

Civil Service

Maharashtra

India

1987

Srinivasa Anandaram

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1987

Ananda Sankar Ray

Literature & Education

West Bengal

India

1987

Nalapat Balmani Amma

Literature & Education

Kerala

India

1987

Farokh Drach Udwadia

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

1987

Man Mohan Sharma

Science & Engineering

Maharashtra

India

1987

Roddam Narasimha

Science & Engineering

Karnataka

India

1988

Akkineni Nageswar Rao

Art

Andhra Pradesh

India

1988

Kelu Charan Mohapatra

Art

Orissa

India

1988

Abid Hussain

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1988

Bal Ram Nanda

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1988

Kartar Singh Duggal

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1988

Pratury Trirumala Rao

Medicine

Andhra Pradesh

India

1988

Kushok Bakula

Public Affairs

Delhi

India

1988

Renuka Ray

Public Affairs

West Bengal

India

1988

Badanaval Venkata Sreekantan

Science & Engineering

Maharashtra

India

1988

Ram Prakash Bambah

Science & Engineering

Chandigarh

India

1988

Shrijans Prasad Jain

Social Work

Maharashtra

India

1988

Ashok Sekhar Ganguly

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India

1988

Col. Satya Pal Wahi

Trade & Industry

Uttar Pradesh

India

1989

Girija Devi

Art

Uttar Pradesh

India

1989

Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar

Art

Maharashtra

India

1989

Anna Rajam Malhotra

Civil Service

Maharashtra

India

1989

Girilal Jain

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1989

Banoo Jehangir Coyaji

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

1989

Prakash Narain Tandon

Medicine

Delhi

India

1989

Lakshman Singh

Public Affairs

Maharashtra

India

1989

Late Lord Fenner Brockway

Public Affairs

-

UK

1989

Yosho Sakurauchi

Public Affairs

-

Japan

1989

Ashes Prasad Mitra

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

1989

Mukut Vehari Mathur

Science & Engineering

Rajasthan

India

1989

Narinder Singh Randhawa

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

1989

Rustomji Homusji Modi

Trade & Industry

Jharkhand

India

1989

Suresh Shankar Nadkarni

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India