Sr.No Year Winner Role of Winner1 2011 Soumitra Chatterjee Actor
2 2010 K. Balachander Director
3 2009 D. Ramanaidu Producer, Director
4 2008 V. K. Murthy Cinematographer
5 2007 Manna Dey Playback singer
6 2006 Tapan Sinha Director
7 2005 Shyam Benegal Director
8 2004 Adoor Gopalakrishnan Director
9 2003 Mrinal Sen Director
10 2002 Dev Anand Actor, Director, Producer
11 2001 Yash Chopra Director, Producer
12 2000 Asha Bhosle Playback singer
13 1999 Hrishikesh Mukherjee Director
14 1998 B. R. Chopra Director, Producer
15 1997 Pradeep Lyricist
16 1996 Sivaji Ganesan Actor
17 1995 Rajkumar Actor, Singer
18 1994 Dilip Kumar Actor
19 1993 Majrooh Sultanpuri Lyricist
20 1992 Bhupen Hazarika Musician, singer, poet, filmmaker, lyricist
21 1991 Bhalji Pendharkar Director, Producer, Screenwriter
22 1990 Akkineni Nageswara Rao Actor
23 1989 Lata Mangeshkar Playback singer
24 1988 Ashok Kumar Actor
25 1987 Raj Kapoor Actor, Director, Producer
26 1986 Bommireddy Nagi Reddy Producer
27 1985 V. Shantaram Actor, Director, Producer
28 1984 Satyajit Ray Director
29 1983 Durga Khote Actress
30 1982 L. V. Prasad Actor, Director, Producer
31 1981 Naushad Music Director
32 1980 Paidi Jairaj Actor, Director
33 1979 Sohrab Modi Actor, Director, Producer
34 1978 Raichand Boral Music Director, Director
35 1977 Nitin Bose Cinematographer, Director,Screenwriter
36 1976 Kanan Devi Actress
37 1975 Dhirendranath Ganguly Actor, Director
38 1974 Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy Director
39 1973 Ruby Myers (Sulochana) Actress
40 1972 Pankaj Mullick Music Director
41 1971 Prithviraj Kapoor Actor
42 1970 B. N. Sircar Producer
43 1969 Devika Rani Chaudhuri Roerich Actress
Dadasaheb Phalke Awards
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Sr.No Year Winner Sport
1 2012 Deepika Kumari Archery
2 2012 Laishram Bombayla Devi Archery
3 2012 Sudha Singh Athletics
4 2012 Kavita Ramdas Raut Athletics
5 2012 Ashwani Ponnappa Badminton
6 2012 Parupalli Kashyap Badminton
7 2012 Aditya S Mehta Billiards and Snooker
8 2012 Vikas Krishan Boxing
9 2012 Yuvraj Singh Cricket
10 2012 Sardar Singh Hockey
11 2012 Yashpal Solanki Judo
12 2012 Anup Kumar Kabaddi
13 2012 Samir Suhag Polo
14 2012 Annu Raj Singh Shooting
15 2012 Omkar Singh Shooting
16 2012 Joydeep Karmakar Shooting
17 2012 Deepika Pallikal Squash
18 2012 Sandeep Sejwal Swimming
19 2012 Ng. Sonia Chanu Weightlifting
20 2012 Narsingh Yadav Wrestling
21 2012 Rajinder Kumar Wrestling
22 2012 Geeta Phogat Wrestling
23 2012 M. Bimoljit Singh Wushu
24 2012 Deepa Malik Athletics – Paralympics
25 2012 Ramkaran Singh Athletics – Paralympics
26 2011 Rahul Banerjee Archery
27 2011 Preeja Sreedharan Athletics
28 2011 Jwala Gutta Badminton
29 2011 Suranjoy Singh Boxing
30 2011 Zaheer Khan Cricket
31 2011 Sunil Chettri Football
32 2011 Ashish Kumar Gymnastics
33 2011 Rajpal Singh Hockey
34 2011 Tejaswini bai Kabaddi
35 2011 Rakesh Kumar Kabaddi
36 2011 Anup Kumar Kabaddi
37 2011 Somdev Devvarman Lawn Tennis
38 2011 Tejaswini Sawant Shooting
39 2011 Virdhawal Khade Swimming
40 2011 Sanjay kumar Volley Ball
41 2011 Katulu Ravi Kumar Weightlifting
42 2011 Ravinder singh Wrestling
43 2010 Joseph Abraham Athletics
Arjuna Awards
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Sr.No Year Winner Sport44 2010 Krishna Punia Athletics
45 2010 Jagseer Singh Athletics – Paralympics
46 2010 Dinesh Kumar Boxing
47 2010 Parimarjan Negi Chess
48 2010 Jhulan Goswami Cricket
49 2010 Deepak Kumar Mondal Football
50 2010 Jasjeet Kaur Handa Hockey
51 2010 Dinesh Kabaddi
52 2010 Sanjeev Rajput Shooting
53 2010 Rehan Poncha Swimming
54 2010 K. J. Kapil Dev Volley Ball
55 2010 Rajiv Tomar Wrestling
56 2009 Mangal Singh Champia Archery
57 2009 Sinimol Paulose Athletics
58 2009 Saina Nehwal Badminton
59 2009 L. Sarita Devi Boxing
60 2009 Tania Sachdev Chess
61 2009 Gautam Gambhir Cricket
62 2009 Surinder Kaur Hockey
63 2009 Ignace Tirkey Hockey
64 2009 Satish Joshi Rowing
65 2009 Ronjan Sodhi Shooting
66 2009 Poulomi Ghatak Table Tennis
67 2009 Yogeshwar Dutt Wrestling
68 2009 Girdhari Lal Yadav Yachting
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Sr.No Year Winner Profession1 2009 Bhimsen Joshi Hindustani classical singer
2 2001 Bismillah Khan Hindustani classical shehnai player
3 2001 Lata Mangeshkar Playback singer
4 1999 Gopinath Bordoloi Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Assam
5 1999 Amartya Sen Economist
6 1999 Ravi Shankar Sitar player
7 1999 Jayaprakash Narayan Posthumous, independence activist and politician
8 1998 Chidambaram Subramaniam Independence activist, Minister of Agriculture
9 1998 M. S. Subbulakshmi Carnatic classical singer
10 1997 Aruna Asaf Ali Posthumous, independence activist
11 1997 Gulzarilal Nanda Independence activist, interim Prime Minister
12 1997 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Aeronautical Engineer,11th President of India
13 1992 Satyajit Ray Bengali filmmaker
14 1992 J. R. D. Tata Industrialist and philanthropist
15 1992 Abul Kalam Azad Posthumous, independence activist, first Minister of Education
16 1991 Morarji Desai Independence activist, fourth Prime Minister
17 1991 Vallabhbhai Patel Posthumous, independence activist, first Home Minister
18 1991 Rajiv Gandhi Posthumous, Sixth Prime Minister
19 1990 Nelson MandelaSecond non-citizen and first non-Indian recipient, Leader of
the Anti-Apartheid movement
20 1990 B. R. AmbedkarPosthumous, chief architect of the Indian Constitution,
politician, economist, and scholar
21 1988 M. G. Ramachandran Posthumous, film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
22 1987 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan First non-citizen, independence activist
23 1983 Vinoba Bhave Posthumous, social reformer, independence activist
24 1980 Mother Teresa Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity
25 1976 K. KamarajPosthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Tamil
Nadu State
26 1975 V. V. Giri Trade unionist and fourth President
27 1971 Indira Gandhi Third Prime Minister
28 1966 Lal Bahadur Shastri Posthumous, independence activist, second Prime Minister
29 1963 Pandurang Vaman Kane Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
30 1963 Zakir Hussain Scholar, third President
31 1962 Rajendra Prasad Independence activist, jurist, first President
32 1961 Purushottam Das Tandon Independence activist, educator
33 1961 Bidhan Chandra Roy Physician, Chief Minister of West Bengal
34 1958 Dhondo Keshav Karve Educator, social reformer
35 1957 Govind Ballabh PantIndependence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home
Minister
Bharat Ratna Awards
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Sr.No Year Winner Profession
36 1955 Jawaharlal NehruIndependence activist, author, first Prime
Minister
37 1955 Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore
38 1955 Bhagwan Das Independence activist, author
39 1954 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Philosopher, second President
40 1954 C. V. Raman Physicist
41 1954 Chakravarti Rajagopalachari Independence activist, last Governor-General
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Sr.No Year Sportsperson Sport1 2012 Shri B.I. Fernadez Cuban Boxing Coach-Boxing
2 2012 Shri Bhavani Mukharjee Table Tennis
3 2012 Shri J.S. Bhatia Athletics
4 2012 Dr. Satyapal Singh Para Sports(Athletics)
5 2012 Shri Harendra Singh Hockey
6 2012 Shri Yashvir Singh Wrestling
7 2012 Ms Sunil Dabas Kabaddi
8 2012 Shri Virendra Poonia Athletics
9 2011 Rajinder Singh Hockey
10 2011 Kuntal Roy Athletics
11 2011 Ramphal Athletics
12 2011 Devender Kumar Rathore Gymnastics
13 2011 Inukurthi Venkateshwara Rao Boxing
14 2010 L Ibomcha Singh Boxing
15 2010 Subhash B Aggarwal Billiards & Snooker
16 2010 Ajay Kumar Bansal Hockey
17 2010 Captain Chandrup Wrestling
18 2010 AK Kutty Athletics
19 2009 Jaidev Bisht Boxing
20 2009 Baldev Singh Hockey
21 2009 J. Uday Kumar Kabaddi
22 2009 Satpal Wrestling
23 2009 Pullela Gopichand Badminton
24 2007 Jagminder Singh Wrestling
25 2007 G.E. Sridharan Volley Ball
26 2007 Jagdish Singh Boxing
27 2007 Sanjeev Kumar Singh Archery
28 2006 Koneru Ashok Chess
29 2006 Damodaran Chandralal Boxing
30 2006 R.D. Singh Athletics
31 2005 Ismail Baig Rowing
32 2005 Maha Singh Rao Wrestling
33 2005 Balwan Singh Kabaddi
34 2005 Hony. Captain M Venu Boxing
35 2004 Gurcharan Singh Boxing
36 2004 Cyrus Poncha Squash
37 2004 Sunita Sharma Cricket
38 2004 Arvind Savur Billiards & Snooker
39 2003 Sukhchain Singh Cheema Wrestling
40 2003 Rajinder Singh Hockey
41 2003 Anup Kumar Boxing
42 2003 Robert Bobby George Athletics
43 2002 Cdr. H.D. Motivala Yachting
Dronacharya Awards
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Sr.No Year Sportsperson Sport44 2002 E. Prasad Rao Kabaddi
45 2002 M.K. Kaushik Hockey
46 2002 Jaswant Singh Athletics
47 2002 Renu Kohli Athletics
48 2001 Michael Joseph Ferreira Billiards & Snooker
49 2001 Prof. Sunny Thomas Shooting
50 2000 Hansa Sharma Weightlifting
51 2000 Bhupender Dhawan Powerlifting
52 2000 Phadke Gopal Pushottam Kho-Kho
53 2000 Gudial Singh Bhangu Hockey
54 2000 S.M. Arif Badminton
55 1999 Ajay Kumar Sirohi Weightlifting
56 1999 Capt. Hawa Singh Boxing
57 1999 Kenneth Owen Bosen Athletics
58 1998 G.S.Sandhu Boxing
59 1998 Hargobind Singh Sandhu Athletics
60 1998 Bahadur Singh Athletics
61 1997 Joginder Singh Saini Athletics
62 1996 Pal Singh Sandhu Weightlifting
63 1996 Wilson Jones Billiards & Snooker
64 1995 M. Shyam Sunder Rao Volleyball
65 1995 Karan Singh Athletics
66 1994 Ilyas Babar Athletics
67 1990 A. Ramana Rao Volleyball
68 1990 Syed Naeemuddin Football
69 1990 Ramakant Achrekar Cricket
70 1987 Guru Hanuman Wrestling
71 1987 Gurcharan Singh Cricket
72 1986 Desh Prem Azad Cricket
73 1986 Raghunandan Vasant Gokhle Chess
74 1985 Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat Wrestling
75 1985 Om Prakash Bhardwaj Boxing
76 1985 O.M. Nambiar Athletics
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Sr.No Year Name Work Language
1 2010 Chandrashekhara Kambara For his contributions to Kannada literature Kannada
2 2009 Sri Lal SuklaFor his contribution to Indian literature
and cultureHindi
3 2009 Amar Kant For his contributions to Hindi literature Hindi
4 2008Akhlaq Mohammed Khan
'Shahryar'For his contributions to Urdu poetry Urdu
5 2007 Dr. O. N. V. KurupFor his contributions to Malayalam
literatureMalayalam
6 2006 Satya Vrat Shastri For his contributions to Sanskrit language Sanskrit
7 2006 Ravindra Kelekar For his contributions to Konkani literature Konkani
8 2005 Kunwar Narayan For his contributions to Hindi literature Hindi
9 2004 Rehman RahiSubhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode
Jaren ManzKashmiri
10 2003 Vinda Karandikar For his contributions to Marathi literature Marathi
11 2002 D. Jayakanthan For his contributions to Tamil literature Tamil
12 2001 Rajendra Shah For his contributions to Gujarati literature Gujarati
13 2000 Indira GoswamiFor his contributions to Assamese
literatureAssamese
14 1999 Gurdial Singh For his contributions to Punjabi literature Punjabi
15 1999 Nirmal Verma For his contributions to Hindi literature Hindi
16 1998 Girish Karnad
For his contributions to Kannada literature
and for contributions to Kannada theatre
(Yayati)
Kannada
17 1997 Ali Sardar Jafri For his contributions to Urdu literature Urdu
18 1996 Mahasweta Devi Hajar Churashir Maa Bengali
19 1995 Dr. M. T. Vasudevan NairFor his contributions to Malayalam
literatureMalayalam
20 1994 U. R. Ananthamurthy For his contributions to Kannada literature Kannada
21 1993 Sitakant MahapatraFor outstanding contribution to the
enrichment of Indian literature, 1973–92Oriya
22 1992 Naresh Mehta For his contributions to Hindi literature Hindi
23 1991 Subhas Mukhopadhyay Padatik (The Foot Soldier) Bengali
24 1990V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna
Gokak)Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi Kannada
25 1989 Qurratulain Hyder Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar Urdu
26 1988 Dr. C. Narayana Reddy Vishwambhara Telugu
27 1987Vishnu Vaman
Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj)For his contributions to Marathi literature Marathi
28 1986 Sachidananda Routray For his contributions to Oriya literature Oriya
29 1985 Pannalal Patel Maanavi Ni Bhavaai Gujarati
Jnanpith Awards
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Sr.No Year Name Work Language30 1984 Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Kayar {Coir} Malayalam
31 1983 Masti Venkatesha IyengarChikkaveera Rajendra (Life and struggle of
Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra)Kannada
32 1982 Mahadevi Varma Yama Hindi
33 1981 Amrita Pritam Kagaj te Canvas Punjabi
34 1980 S. K. Pottekkatt Oru Desathinte Katha (Story of a land) Malayalam
35 1979 Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya Mrityunjay (Immortal) Assamese
36 1978 Sachchidananda VatsyayanKitni Navon Men Kitni Bar (How many times
in how many boats?)Hindi
37 1977 K. Shivaram Karanth Mookajjiya Kanasugalu (Mookajjis dreams) Kannada
38 1976 Ashapurna Devi Pratham Pratisruti Bengali
39 1975 P. V. Akilan Chitttrappavai Tamil
40 1974 Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar Yayati Marathi
41 1973 Gopinath Mohanty Matimatal Oriya
42 1973Dattatreya Ramachandra
BendreNakutanti (Naku Thanthi) (Four Strings) Kannada
43 1972 Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Urvashi Hindi
44 1971 Bishnu Dey Smriti Satta Bhavishyat Bengali
45 1970 Viswanatha SatyanarayanaRamayana Kalpavrikshamu (A resourceful
tree:Ramayana)Telugu
46 1969 Firaq Gorakhpuri Gul-e-Naghma Urdu
47 1968 Sumitranandan Pant Chidambara Hindi
48 1967 Umashankar Joshi Nishitha Gujarati
49 1967Kuppali Venkatappagowda
Puttappa(Kuvempu)Sri Ramayana Darshanam Kannada
50 1966 Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay Ganadevta Bengali
51 1965 G. Sankara Kurup Odakkuzhal (Flute) Malayalam
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Sr.No Year Winner Role of Winner1 2012 D. R. Mehta Work through Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti, Jaipur
2 2011 Spic Macay Promotes Indian classical music and culture among the youth
3 2010 Wahiduddin Khan Islamic Scholar, Peace Activist
4 2009 Gautam Bhai Social Activist
5 2008 N Radhakrishnan Social Activist
6 2007 Hem Dutta Social Activist
7 2006 Nirmala Deshpande Social Activist
8 2004 Swami Agnivesh Social Activist
9 2003 S. N. Subba Rao Peace Activist
10 2000 Kapila Vatsyayan Scholar
11 1998 Sunil Dutt Peace Activist, Politician
12 1996 Lata Mangeshkar Singer
Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award
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