2006
Shirley Strum Kenny, * Padma Bhushan Ustad Zakir Hussain
2003
Prof Ralph W. Nicholas, * Dr. Satyan Pitroda, * Mansukh C. Wani, Congressional Caucus on Indian Americans
2001
Prof. George Cardona, Amjad Ali Khan, Prof. Robert, A. F. Thurman
1994
* Amartya Sen, Donald E. Smith, Richard A. Gephardt
1993
Bishnu S. Atal, Mario M. Cuomo, Orville Freeman
1992
Braj B. Kachru, Pratapaditya Pal, David Dinkins
1991
Arun Chatterjie, Stanley Insler Peace Corps of America
1990
Harold A. Gould, John N. Kapoor
1989
Bill Bradley, Ward Morehouse, Ramanathan Gnanadesikan, T. N. Srinivasan
1988
Norman D. Palmer, P. Somasundaram
1987
Jagdish Bhagwati, Stephen J. Solarz, Stanley A. Wolpert
1986
Festival of India, Jitendra N. Mohanty, Fred Harvey Harrington, Dillon Ripley, Jr.
1985
Anil K. Chopra, Manoranjan Dutta, Indrani Rahman, James R. Thompson, James C. Wright, Jr.
1984
Tony Coelho, Joseph W. Elder, A.K. Ramanujan, Mohan Murjani
1983
Robert I. Crane, Coretta Scott King, Ramesh C. Tripathi, Sirjang Lal ( Jugi ) Tandon
1982
Mervyn M. Dymally, Ainslie T. Embree, Charles S. Percy, Ustad Alla Rakha
1981
* Lawrence R. Klein, Wasim A. Siddiqui, Kundan S. Singwi
1980
Welthy H. Fisher, Franklin A. Long, Satyabrata Nandi, C.R. Rao, S. Subramanian
1979
Norman Cousins, Edward C. Dimock Jr., Zubin Mehta, Raja Rao
1978
Ved Mehta, Rustum Roy, Milton B. Singer, Phillips Talbot
1977
Emanuel Celler, Gobind Behari Lal, Yehudi Menuhin, Shanta Rama Rau
1976
* Norman E. Borlaug, Robert F. Goheen, Donald S. Harrington, Ali Akbar Khan
Arthur Lall, Margaret Mead, Prfaulla C. Mukerji, E. C. George Sundarshan
1974
Amiya Chakraarty, John Sherman Cooper, Harish-Chandra, Stella Kramrisch
C.K.N. Patel, A. M. Rosenthal
1973
R.C. Bose, Chester Bowles, W. Norman Brown, * S. Chandrasekhar
C. V. Narasimhan, Ravi Shankar