1960
Rabindra Nath Chaudhuri
Nilakantha Das
Raj Rajeshwardatt Shastri Dravid
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Hafiz Ali Khan
Bal Krishna Sharma Naveen
Ayyadevara Kaleswara Rao
Acharya Shivpujan Sahay
Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar
Haridas Siddhanta Vagish
1961
Tridib Nath Banerjee
Rustomji Bomanji Billimoria
Seth Govind Das
Verrier Elwin
Niranjan Das Gulhati
L. Aiyar Venkatakrishna Iyer
Rai Krishnadas
Sumitranandan Pant
Svetoslav Roerich
Bhagwan Sahay
Bindeshwari Prasad Verma
Krishnaswami Venkataraman
Ardeshir Ruttonji Wadia
1962
Ramaswamy Duraiswamy Ayyar
Gyanesh Chandra Chatterjee
Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar
Prem Chandra Dhanda
Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
Jafar Ali Khan
Daulat Singh Kothari
Mithan Jamshed Lam
Sudhansu Sobhan Maitra
Sisir Kumar Mitra
Tarabai Modak
Radhakamal Mukerjee
Sudhindra Nath Mukerjee
Niaz Fatehpuri
Jal R. Patel
Narayan Sitaram Phadke
V. Raghavan
Dukhan Ram
T. S. Soundram
Mahankali Seetharama Rao
Raghunath Saran
Moturi Satyanarayana
Sitaram Seksaria
Santosh Kumar Sen
Tarlok Singh
Radhika Raman Sinha
1963
Narendra Nath Bery
Makhanlal Chaturvedi
Omeo Kumar Das
Nitish Chandra Laharry
Badri Nath Prasad
Kanuri Lakshmana Rao
Rahul Sankrityayan
Ramanlal Gokaldas Saraiya
T. R. Seshadri
Sardar Harnarain Singh
M. L. Soni
Ramkumar Verma
1964
Sheikh Abdullah
Nuruddin Ahmed
Rafiuddin Ahmed
Jacob Chandy
Kunji Lal Dubey
Tushar Kanti Ghosh
Anil Bandhu Guha
Mohd. Abdul Hai
Dara Nusserwanji Khurody
Anukul Chandra Mukherjee
Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee
Bhole Nath Mullik
R. K. Narayan
Chintaman Govind Pandit
Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel
Bal Gandharva
T. Narayanayajwa Ramachandran
Khushwant Lal Wig
1965
Krishnaswami Balasubramanai Iyer
Jogesh Chandra Banerjee
Joginder Singh Dhillon
Appasaheb Patwardhan
Bhalchandra Babaji Dikshit
P. O. Dunn
Narasinh Narayan Godbole
Nawang Gombu
Sonam Gyatso
Kashmir Singh Katoch
Akbar Ali Khan
S. L. Kirloskar
Mohan Singh Kohli
Pratap Chandra Lal
Mohammad Mujeeb
Jayant Narlikar
Ramaswamy Rajaram
K. R. Ramanathan
Satyajit Ray
Triguna Sen
Santu Jouharmal Shahaney
Shiv Sharma
Harbaksh Singh
Vrindavan Lal Verma
Manikya Lal Verma
1966 1967
Mulk Raj Anand
Tara Cherian
Mulk Ra Chopra
Tulsi Das
Krishna Kanta Handique
Akshay Kumar Jain
Pupul Jayakar
Ali Akbar Khan
D. P. Kohli
Ramanathan Krishnan
C. K. Lakshmanan
T. M. Ponnambalam Mahadevan
Kalyanji Vithalbhai Mehta
S. I. Padmavati
Vasantrao Bandoji Patil
D. C. Pavate
Datto Vaman Potdar
B. Shiva Rao
Khwaja Ghulam Saiyidain
Asoke Kumar Sarkar
Mihir Sen
Ravi Shankar
Kaikhushru Ruttonji Shroff
M. L. Vasanthakumari
1968 1969
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
Krishna Chandar
Rahim-ud-in Khan Dagar
Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala
Keshavrao Krishnarao Datey
Keshav Prasad Goenka
Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
Vithalbhai Jhaveri
Prithviraj Kapoor
Kesarbai Kerkar
Krishna Kripalani
Adinath Lahiri
Gobind Behari Lal
Kasturbhai Lalbhai
Lata Mangeshkar
V. K. Narayana Menon
Raman Madhavan Nair
Saghar Nizami
Nanasaheb Parulekar
Yashwant Dinkar Pendharkar
Vitthal Laxman Phadke
Raja Rao
Niharranjan Ray
Prafulla Kumar Sen
Vallabhadas Vithaldas Shah
Haroon Khan Sherwani
Kasturiswami Sreenivasan
Naval Tata
S. S. Vasan