(1954 - 1960)

* Alauddin Khan 1954

* Hafiz Ali Khan 1954

* Prithviraj Kapoor 1954

* Karaikudi Sambasiva Aiyer 1954

* Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar 1954

* Anjani Bai Malpekar 1958

*Gopeswar Bandopadhyay 1962

* Papanasam R. Sivan 1962

* D. Annaswami Bhagavathar 1962

* Uday Shankar 1962

* B. V. ‘Mama’ Warerkar 1963

* Swami Prajnanananda 1963

* S. N. Ratanjankar 1963

* P. Sambamoorthy 1963

* B. R. Deodhar 1964

* P. V. Rajamannar 1964

* T. L. Venkatarama Aiyar 1964

* V. Raghavan 1964

* Birendra Kishore Roy Choudhury 1964

* C. Saraswathi Bai 1964

* Thakur Jaidev Singh 1965

* D. G. Vyas 1965

*Dilip Kumar Roy 1965

* Ganesh Hari Ranade 1965

* Vinayak Narayan Patwardhan 1965

* Sombhu Mitra 1966

* Asutosh Bhattacharya 1966

* Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar 1966

* E. Krishna Iyer 1966

- Ebrahim Alkazi 1967

* Rukmini Devi Arundale 1967

- Vedantam Satyanarayana Sarma ‘Satyam’ 1967

* Bade Ghulam Ali Khan 1967

* P. K. Kunju Kurup 1967

* Musiri Subramania Iyer 1967

* Adya Rangacharya ‘Shriranga’ 1967

* Shambhu Maharaj 1967

* Kali Charan Patnaik 1968

* Dilip Chandra Vedi 1970

- Kapila Vatsyayan 1970

* K. C. D. Brahaspati 1970

* Ananth Krishna Sarma 1972

* Tarapada Chakravarty 1972

* Krishnarao Ganesh Phulambrikar 1972

* Kota Shivarama Karanth 1973

* Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay 1974

* Jnan Prakash Ghosh 1974

* M. S. Subbulakshmi 1974

* Embar S. Vijayaraghavachariar 1975

- Ravi Shankar 1975

- Zubin Mehta 1975

* T. Balasarswati 1975

* Rasiklal Chhotalal Parikh 1975

* Semmangudi R. Srinivasa Iyer 1976

* Santidev Ghosh 1976

* Hirjibhai Rustomji Doctor 1977

* B. Puttasamaya 1978

* Tinuvengadu Subramania Pillai 1978

* P. L. Deshpande 1979

* D. T. Joshi 1979

* Sumati Mutatkar 1979

* T. P. Kuppiah Pillai 1979

* V. K. Narayana Menon 1980

* Mani Madhava Chakiar 1982

* Mallikarjun Mansoor 1982

* Chandravadan C. Mehta 1984

* M. Kirupanandawari 1984

* Siya Ram Tewari 1984

* Satyajit Ray 1986

* Komal Kothari 1986

* S. Ramanathan 1986

* V. V. Swarna Venkatesa Deekshithar 1986

* Shivaputra Siddaramayya Komkali ‘Kumar Gandharva’ 1988

- Lata Mangeshkar 1989

* Ram Gopal 1990

* Utpal Dutt 1990

* Kelucharan Mohapatra 1991

* Alain Danielou 1991

* T. S. Parthasarathy 1991

* D. K. Pattammal 1992

* Ali Akbar Khan 1992

* Prem Lata Sharma 1992

- Mrinalini Vikram Sarabhai 1993

- Girish Karnad 1993

* Yehudi Menuhin 1994

* Bismillah Khan 1994

* Maheswar Neog 1994

* Vilayat Khan 1995

* Gangubai Hangal 1996

* Ammannur Madhava Chakyar 1996

* Habib Tanvir 1996

- Badal Sircar 1997

* K. P. Kittappa Pillai 1998

- Bhimsen Joshi 1998

- Birju Maharaj 1998

* Vijay Tendulkar 1998

* B. V. Karanth 2001

- M. Balamurali Krishna 2001

- Vempatti Chinna Satyam 2001

- Shanno Khurana 2002

- Kavalam Narayana Panikkar 2002

- Zohra Segal 2004

- Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair 2004

- Annapurna Devi 2004

* Tapas Sen 2004

* Chandralekha 2004

* Bindhyabasini Devi 2004

- Gursharan Singh 2006

* Kishan Maharaj 2006

* Rohini Bhate 2006

- T. N. Krishnan 2006

- N. Khelchandra Singh 2006

- S. K. Saxena 2007

- Sitara Devi 2008

- Khaled Choudhury 2008

- R. C. Mehta 2008

- Bhupen Hazarika 2008

- Lalgudi G. Jayaraman 2009

- Shreeram Lagoo 2009

- Yamini Krishnamurti 2009

- Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi 2009

- Pandit Jasraj 2009

- Kishori Amonkar 2009