Presidents of India , Prime Ministers of India , Bharat Ratna Awardees

Presidents of India

1. Rajendra Prasad (1950 - 1962)

2. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1962-1967) 

3. Zakir Hussain (1967-1969) He was First Muslim President.

- Varahagiri Venkata Giri (3 May 1969- 20 July 1969) First Acting President

- Mohammad Hidayatullah (20 July 1969 - 24 Aug 1969)

4. Varahgiriri Venkata Giri (1969- 1974) He was First person who became Acting President and President of India both.

5. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1974-1977)

- Basappa Danappa Jatti (11 Feb 1977 - 25 July 1977)

6. Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy (1977-1982)

7. Zail Singh (1982-1987)

8. Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1987-1992)

9. Shankar Dayal Sharma (1992-1997)

10. Kocheril Raman Narayan (1997-2002)

11. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Azad (2002-2007)

12. Pratibha Patil (2007-2012) She was First female President of India.

13. Pranab Mukherjee (2012-2017)

14. Ram Nath Kovind (2017- Present)

Prime Ministers of India 

1. Jawahar Lal Nehru (1947-1952, 1952-1957, 1957-1964) 

- Gujarilal Nanda (27 May 1964 - 9 June 1964) First Acting Prime Minister

2. Lal Bahadur Shashtri (1964-1966)

- Gujarilal Nanda (11 Jan 1966 - 24 Jan 1966)

3. Indira Gandhi (1966-1967, 1967- 1971, 1971-1977)  

4. Morarji Desai (1977-1979)

5. Charan Singh (1979-1980)

- Indira Gandhi (1980-1984) 3rd time president.

6. Rajiv Gandhi (1984-1989)

7. Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1989-1990)

8. Chandra Shekhar (1990 - 1991)

9. Narasimha Rao (1991-1996)

10. Atal Bihari Vajpayee (13 May 1996- 1 Jun 1996)

11. Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda (1996-1997)

12. Inder Kumar Gujral (1997-1998)   

- Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1998-1999, 1999-2004)

13. Manmohan Singh (2004-2009, 2009-2014)

14. Narendra Modi (2014- 2019, 2019- Present)

Bharat Ratna Awardees 

1954 - C. Rajagopalachari , Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan , C.V. Raman

1955- Bhagwan Das , M. Vishveswaraya , Jawahar Lal Nehru

1957- Govind Ballabh Pant

1958- Dhondo Keshav Karve

1961 - Bidhan Chandra Roy , Purushottam Das Tandon

1962 - Rajendra Prasad 

1963 - Zakir Hussain , Pandurang Vaman Kane

1966- Lal Bahadur Shashtri

1971 - Indira Gandhi

1975- V.V. Giri

1976- K. Kamraj 

1980 - Mother Teresa

1983- Vinoba Bhave

1987- Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan 

1988- M.G. Ramachandran

1990- B.R. Ambedkar , Nelson Mandela 

1991 - Rajiv Gandhi , Vallabhbhai Patel , Morarji Desai

1992- Abul Kalam Azad , J.R.D. Tata , Satyajit Ray

1997- Gujarilal Nanda , Aruna Asaf Ali , A.P.J Abdul Kalam 

1998- M.S. Subbhulakshmi, Chidambaram Subramaniam 

1999- Jayaprakash Narayan ,Amartya Sen , Gopinath Bordoloi , Ravi Shankar

2001- Lata Mangeshkar , Bismillah Khan 

2008- Bhimshen Joshi 

2014 - C.N.R Rao , Sachin Tendulkar

2015 - Madan Mohan Malviya , Atal Bihari Vajpayee

2019 - Pranab Mukherji, Bhupen Hazarika, Nanaji Deshmukh