| Name | Field | State | Country |
| Shri Thilakan | Art | Kerala | India |
| Shri A. Vivekh | Art | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Smt. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan | Art | Maharashtra | India |
| Shri Akshay Kumar | Art | Maharashtra | India |
| Dr. (Ms.) Ameena Ahmed Ahuja | Art | Delhi | India |
| Smt. Aruna Sairam | Art | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Smt. Devayani Chaymotty | Art | - | France |
| Ms. Geeta Kapur | Art | Delhi | India |
| Shri Govind Ram Nirmalkar | Art | Chhattisgarh | India |
| Shri Gurumayum Gourakishor Sharma | Art | Manipur | India |
| Hashmat Ullah Khan | Art | Jammu and Kashmir | India |
| Smt. Helen Khan | Art | Maharashtra | India |
| Smt. Hemi Bawa | Art | Delhi | India |
| Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar | Art | Maharashtra | India |
| Shri Iravatham Mahadevan | Art | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Shri K.P. Udayabhanu | Art | Kerala | India |
| Dr. Kanneganti Brahmanandam | Art | Andhra Pradesh | India |
| Prof. Kiran Seth | Art | Delhi | India |
| Shri Kumar Sanu Bhattacharjee | Art | Maharashtra | India |
| Prof. Dr. (Smt.) Leela Omchery | Art | Delhi | India |
| Shri Mattannoor Sankarankutty Marar | Art | Kerala | India |
| Shri Niranjan Goswami | Art | West Bengal | India |
| Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa | Art | Punjab | India |
| Ms. Penaz Masani | Art | Maharashtra | India |
| Shri Prakash N. Dubey | Art | Maharashtra | India |
| Dr. Pratapaditya Pal | Art | - | United States |
| Shri Ram Kishore Chhipa | Art | Rajasthan | India |
| Smt. Saoli Mitra | Art | West Bengal | India |
| Late Shri Skendrowell Syiemlieh | Art | Meghalaya | India |
| Dr. Subrahmanyam Krishnaswamy | Art | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Shri Suresh Dutta | Art | West Bengal | India |
| Late Shri Tafazzul Ali | Art | Assam | India |
| Shri Udit Narayan | Art | Maharashtra | India |
| Shri Kalamandalam Gopi | Art | Kerala | India |
| Shri S. B. Ghosh Dastidar | Civil Service | Haryana | India |
| Shri Ameen Sayani | Commentary and Broadcasting | Maharashtra | India |
| Shri Abhay Chhajlani | Journalism | Madhya Pradesh | India |
| Dr. A. Sankara Reddy | Literature and Education | Delhi | India |
| Shri Alok Mehta | Literature and Education | Delhi | India |
| Dr. Bannanje Govindacharya | Literature and Education | Karnataka | India |
| Dr. Birendranath Datta | Literature and Education | Assam | India |
| Prof. Geshe Ngawang Samten | Literature and Education | - | Tibet |
| Jalees Ahmed Khan Tareen | Literature and Education | Puducherry | India |
| Shri Jayanta Mahapatra | Literature and Education | Orissa | India |
| Dr. John Ralston Marr | Literature and Education | - | United Kingdom |
| Shri Lalthangfala Sailo | Literature and Education | Mizoram | India |
| Shri Laxman Bapu Mane | Literature and Education | Maharashtra | India |
| Dr. Mathoor Krishnamurty | Literature and Education | Karnataka | India |
| Shri Norden Tshering | Literature and Education | Sikkim | India |
| Dr. Panchapakesa Jayaraman | Literature and Education | - | United States |
| Prof. Ram Shankar Tripathi | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh | India |
| Prof. (Dr.) Ranbir Chander Sobti | Literature and Education | Chandigarh | India |
| Dr. Ravindra Nath Shrivastava | Literature and Education | Bihar | India |
| Shri Shamsur Rahman Faruqi | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh | India |
| Shri Shashi Deshpande | Literature & Education | Karnataka | India |
| Shri Sunny Varkey | Literature and Education | - | United Arab Emirates |
| Shri Suresh Gundu Amonkar | Literature & Education | Goa | India |
| Dr. Utpal K. Banerjee | Literature and Education | Delhi | India |
| Dr. A. K. Gupta | Medicine | Maharashtra | India |
| Dr. Alampur Saibaba Goud | Medicine | Andhra Pradesh | India |
| Dr. Arvind Lal | Medicine | Delhi | India |
| Dr. Ashok K. Vaid | Medicine | Delhi | India |
| Dr. Ashok Kumar Grover | Medicine | Delhi | India |
| Dr. Balswarup Choubey | Medicine | Maharashtra | India |
| Dr. D. S. Rana | Medicine | Himachal Pradesh | India |
| Dr. Govindan Vijayaraghavan | Medicine | Kerala | India |
| Dr. Kalyan Banerjee | Medicine | Delhi | India |
| Dr. P.R. Krishna Kumar | Medicine | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Dr. R. Sivaraaman | Medicine | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Dr. Shaik Khader Noordeen | Medicine | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Prof. (Dr.) Thanikachalam Sadagopan | Medicine | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Dr. Yash Gulati | Medicine | Delhi | India |
| Shri K. Asungba Sangtam | Public Affairs | Nagaland | India |
| Dr. (Ms.) Shyamlha Pappu | Public Affairs | Delhi | India |
| Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain | Research on Himalayan Glaciers | Delhi | India |
| Shri Goriparthi Narasimha Raju Yadav | Science and Engineering | Andhra Pradesh | India |
| Shri Pramod Tandon | Science and Engineering | Meghalaya | India |
| Shri Bansilal Rathi | Social Work | Madhya Pradesh | India |
| Begum Bilkees I. Latif | Social Work | Andhra Pradesh | India |
| Shri Cheril Krishna Menon | Social Work | - | Qatar |
| Rev. Fr. Joseph H. Pereira | Social Work | Maharashtra | India |
| Shri K. Viswanathan | Social Work | Kerala | India |
| Ms Keepu Tshering Lepcha | Social Work | Sikkim | India |
| Prof. Shyam Sunder Maheshwari | Social Work | Rajasthan | India |
| Shri Sunil Kanti Roy | Social Work | West Bengal | India |
| Shri Balbir Singh Khullar | Sports | Punjab | India |
| Shri Harbhajan Singh | Sports | Punjab | India |
| Shri Mahendra Singh Dhoni | Sports | Jharkhand | India |
| Shri Pankaj Advani | Sports | Karnataka | India |
| Shri Surinder Mehta | Technology Solutions | Delhi | India |
| Shri Arunmugam Sakthivel | Trade and Industry | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Dr. Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty | Trade and Industry | - | United Arab Emirates |
| Shri R.K. Krishna Kumar | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra | India |
