| Acharya Award Honorees |
| Name |
Year |
| Purnima Banerji |
1995 |
| Raj Chopra |
1995 |
| Bhagwan Swarup Gupta |
1995 |
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| Chakra Award Honorees |
| Poonam Alaigh, M.D. |
2010 |
| Sanjeev Gupta, M.D. |
2010 |
| Mani Menon, M.D. |
2010 |
| Samin Sharma, M.D. |
2010 |
| Jayout Radha Krishnan, M.D. |
2002 |
| Navin C. Nanda, M.D. |
2002 |
| K. Rajender Reddy, M.D. |
2002 |
| Pravin C. Singhal, M.D. |
2002 |
| Abdul K. Abbas, M.D. |
1995 |
| Charles J. Pandola |
1995 |
| Inder Mohan Verma, M.D. |
1995 |
| Dharmapuri Vidyasagar, M.D. |
1995 |
| Kanu Chatterjee, M.D. |
1994 |
| Kanti R. Rai, M.D. |
1994 |
| Chitranjan S. Ranawat, M.D. |
1994 |
| Naresh Trehan, M.D. |
1994 |
| Kul D. Chadda, M.D. |
1993 |
| Raj K. Goyal, M.D. |
1993 |
| Uma Mysorekar, M.D. |
1993 |
| Jatin P. Shah, M.D. |
1993 |
| V.A. Subramanian, M.D. |
1993 |
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| Kautilya Award Honorees |
| Malcolm Burnett |
1999 |
| Kanwal Rekhi |
1999 |
| Ashok Trivedi |
1999 |
| Sunil Wadwani |
1999 |
| Rakesh K. Kaul |
1996 |
| Victor J. Menezes |
1996 |
| Suhas S. Patil |
1996 |
| Chand B. Vyas |
1996 |
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| AIA Award Honorees |
| Congressman Danny K. Davis |
2013 |
| Tirlok Malik |
2013 |
| Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny |
2006 |
| Padma Bhushan Ustad Zakir Hussain |
2006 |
| Professor Ralph W. Nicholas |
2003 |
| Dr. Satyan Pitroda |
2003 |
| Mansukh C. Wani |
2003 |
| Prof. George Cardona |
2001 |
| Amjad Ali Kha |
2001 |
| Prof. Robert A. F. Thurman |
2001 |
| * Amartya Sen |
1994 |
| Donald E. Smith |
1994 |
| Richard A. Gephardt |
1994 |
| Bishnu S. Atal |
1993 |
| Mario M. Cuomo |
1993 |
| Orville Freeman |
1993 |
| Braj B. Kachru |
1992 |
| Pratapaditya Pal |
1992 |
| David Dinkins |
1992 |
| Arun Chatterjie |
1991 |
| Stanley Insler |
1991 |
| *Peace Corps of America |
1991 |
| Harold A. Gould |
1990 |
| John N. Kapoor |
1990 |
| Bill Bradley |
1989 |
| Ward Morehouse |
1989 |
| Ramanathan Gnanadesikan |
1989 |
| T. N. Srinivasan |
1989 |
| Norman D. Palmer |
1988 |
| P. Somasundaram |
1988 |
| Jagdish Bhagwati |
1987 |
| Stephen J. Solarz |
1987 |
| Stanley A. Wolpert |
1987 |
| Festival of India |
1986 |
| Jitendra N. Mohanty |
1986 |
| Fred Harvey Harrington |
1986 |
| S. Dillon Ripley, Jr |
1986 |
| Anil K. Chopra |
1985 |
| Manoranjan Dutta |
1985 |
| Indrani Rahman |
1985 |
| James R. Thompson |
1985 |
| James C. Wright, Jr. |
1985 |
| Tony Coelho |
1984 |
| Joseph W. Elder |
1984 |
| A.K. Ramanujan |
1984 |
| Mohan Murjani |
1984 |
| Robert I. Crane |
1983 |
| Coretta Scott King |
1983 |
| Ramesh C. Tripathi |
1983 |
| Sirjang Lal (Jugi) Tandon |
1983 |
| Mervyn M. Dymally |
1982 |
| Ainslie T. Embree |
1982 |
| Charles S. Percy |
1982 |
| Ustad Alla Rakha |
1982 |
| * Lawrence R. Klein |
1981 |
| Wasim A. Siddiqui |
1981 |
| Kundan S. Singwi |
1981 |
| Welthy H. Fisher |
1980 |
| Franklin A. Long |
1980 |
| Satyabrata Nandi |
1980 |
| C.R. Rao |
1980 |
| S. Subramanian |
1980 |
| Norman Cousins |
1979 |
| Edward C. Dimock, Jr. |
1979 |
| Zubin Mehta |
1979 |
| Raja Rao |
1979 |
| Ved Mehta |
1978 |
| Rustum Roy |
1978 |
| Milton B. Singer |
1978 |
| Phillips Talbot |
1978 |
| Emanuel Celler |
1977 |
| Gobind Behari Lal |
1977 |
| Yehudi Menuhin |
1977 |
| Shanta Rama Rau |
1977 |
| * Norman E. Borlaug |
1976 |
| Robert F. Goheen |
1976 |
| Donald S. Harrington |
1976 |
| Ali Akbar Khan |
1976 |
| Arthur Lall |
1976 |
| Margaret Mead |
1976 |
| Prfaulla C. Mukerji |
1976 |
| E. C. George Sundarsha |
1976 |
| Amiya Chakravarty |
1974 |
| John Sherman Cooper |
1974 |
| Harish Chandra |
1974 |
| Stella Kramrisch |
1974 |
| C.K.N. Patel |
1974 |
| A. M. Rosenthal |
1974 |
| R.C. Bose |
1973 |
| Chester Bowles |
1973 |
| W. Norman Brown |
1973 |
| * S. Chandrasekhar |
1973 |
| C. V. Narasimhan Ravi Shankar |
1973 |
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