| Name of the Awardee | Discipline |
| Shri L. K. Advani | Public Affairs |
| Shri Prakash Singh Badal | Public Affairs |
| Shri Kottayan K. Venugopal | Public Affairs |
| Shri Amitabh Bachchan | Art |
| Shri Mohammad Yusuf Khan alias Dilip Kumar | Art |
| Dr. D. Veerendra Heggade | Social Work |
| Prof. Malur Ramaswamy Srinivasan | Science and Engineering |
| Shri Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan (Foreigner) | Trade and Industry |
| Shri Jagadguru Ramanandacharya, Swami Rambhadracharya | Others |
| Name of the Awardee | Discipline |
| Dr. Subhash C. Kashyap | Public Affairs |
| Shri Harish Salve | Public Affairs |
| Shri Jahnu Barua | Art |
| Dr. (Pandit) Gokulotsavji Maharaj | Art |
| Smt. Sudha Ragunathan | Art |
| Shri Swapan Dasgupta | Literature and Education |
| Shri Rajat Sharma | Literature and Education |
| Dr. Vijay Bhatkar | Science and Engineering |
| Dr. Kharag Singh Valdiya | Science and Engineering |
| Prof. Manjul Bhargava (NRI/PIO) | Science and Engineering |
| Dr. Ambrish Mithal | Medicine |
| Dr. Ashok Seth | Medicine |
| Shri N. Gopalaswami | Civil Service |
| Shri Satpal | Sports |
| Shri Bill Gates | Social Work |
| Ms. Melinda Gates | Social Work |
| Shri Saichiro Misumi | Others |
| Shri David Frawley (Vamadeva) | Others |
| Shri Shivakumara Swami | Others |
| Swami Satyamitranand Giri | Others |
| Name of the Awardee | Discipline |
| Dr. Ashok Gulati | Public Affairs |
| Dr. Bettina Sharada Baumer | Literature and Education |
| Dr. Lakshmi Nandan Bora | Literature and Education |
| Dr. Gyan Chaturvedi | Literature and Education |
| Shri Bibek Debroy | Literature and Education |
| Dr. Sunil Jogi | Literature and Education |
| Smt. Ushakiran Khan | Literature and Education |
| Shri Narayana Purushothama Mallaya | Literature and Education |
| Shri Lambert Mascarenhas | Literature and Education |
| Shri Ram Bahadur Rai | Literature and Education |
| Prof. J. S. Rajput | Literature and Education |
| Prof. Bimal Roy | Literature and Education |
| Shri Gunvant Shah | Literature and Education |
| Shri Brahmdev Sharma (Bhai ji) | Literature and Education |
| Shri Manu Sharma | Literature and Education |
| Shri Jean-Claude Carriere | Literature and Education |
| Prof. Annette Schmiedchen | Literature and Education |
| Ms. Kanyakumari Avasarala | Art |
| Shri Naresh Bedi | Art |
| Shri Sanjay Leela Bhansali | Art |
| Shri Rahul Jain | Art |
| Shri Ravindra Jain | Art |
| Shri Prasoon Joshi | Art |
| Dr. Prafulla Kar | Art |
| Shri Tarak Mehta | Art |
| Shri Neil Herbert Nongkynrih | Art |
| Shri Kota Srinivasa Rao | Art |
| Shri Shekhar Sen | Art |
| Shri Mahesh Raj Soni | Art |
| Ms. Tripti Mukherjee | Art |
| Late Shri Pran Kumar Sharma alias Pran (Posthumous) | Art |
| Shri S. Arunan | Science and Engineering |
| Dr. N. Prabhakar | Science and Engineering |
| Dr. Prahalada | Science and Engineering |
| Shri Vasant Shastri | Science and Engineering |
| Shri S. K. Shivkumar | Science and Engineering |
| Prof. Jacques Blamont, Late Shri Syedna Mohammad | Science and Engineering |
| Dr. Saumitra Rawat | Medicine |
| Dr. Raghu Rama Pillarisetti | Medicine |
| Dr.Hargovind Laxmishanker Trivedi | Medicine |
| Dr.Nikhil Tandon | Medicine |
| Dr. Narendra Prasad | Medicine |
| Dr.Tejas Patel | Medicine |
| Prof. Alka Kriplani | Medicine |
| Dr. Rajesh Kotecha | Medicine |
| Dr. K. P. Haridas | Medicine |
| Dr. Randeep Guleria | Medicine |
| Dr. Sarungbam Bimola Kumari Devi | Medicine |
| Smt. Jayakumari Chikkala | Medicine |
| Prof. (Dr.) Yogesh Kumar Chawla | Medicine |
| Dr. Manjula Anagani | Medicine |
| Dr. Dattatreyudu Nori | Medicine |
| Prof. Yog Raj Sharma | Medicine |
| Late Shri Meetha Lal Mehta (Posthumous) | Social Work |
| Shri H. Thegtse Rinpoche | Social Work |
| Shri Veerendra Raj Mehta | Social Work |
| Dr. (Mrs.) Janak Palta McGilligan | Social Work |
| Shri Ashok Bhagat | Social Work |
| Ms. Saba Anjum | Sports |
| Ms. Mithali Raj | Sports |
| Ms. P. V. Sindhu | Sports |
| Shri Sardara Singh | Sports |
| Ms. Arunima Sinha | Sports |
| Shri T. V. Mohandas Pai | trade and Industry |
| Dr. Nandrajan “Raj” Chetty | trade and Industry |
| Late Shri R. Vasudevan (Posthumous) | Civil Service |
| Shri P. V. Rajaraman | Civil Service |
| Shri Chewang Norphel | Others |
| Shri Jadav Molai Peyang | Others |
| Smt. Bimla Poddar | Others |
| Shri Huang Baosheng | Others |
| Burhanuddin (Posthumous) | Others |
| Shri George L. Hart | Others |
| Jagat Guru Amrta Suryananda Maha Raja | Others |