1970
Ramkinkar Baij
Hirabai Barodekar
Buddhadeb Bosu
M. R. Brahmam
Amiya Chakravarty
T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar
Birendra Nath Ganguli
Lala Hansraj Gupta
Ratan Lal Joshi
Gurram Jashuva
Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar
Kumari Kamala
P. K. Kelkar
M. S. Krishnan
Syed Abdul Latif
Bhagwantrao Mandloi
Mahesh Prasad Mehray
Sombhu Mitra
Vivekananda Mukhopadhyaya
Krishnaswami Ramiah
Gainedi A. Narasimha Rao
Anant alias Annasaheb Sahasrabuddhe
Surrendar Saini
Viswanatha Satyanarayana
Ahmed Jan Thirakwa
N. M. Wagle
Prem Nath Wahi
Yashpal
1971
N. Ramaswami Ayyar
Suraj Bhan
Gokulbhai Bhatt
Jaishankar Bhojak
Monindra Nath Chakravarti
Kandathil Mammen Cherian
Jogesh Chandra De
Ramrao Deshmukh
Satish Dhawan
Abasaheb Garware
Gangubai Hangal
Musiri Subramania Iyer
Palghat Mani Iyer
Jainendra Kumar
Mangtu Ram Jaipuria
Veni Shankar Jha
Raj Kapoor
Dhananjay Keer
Amir Khan
Nissar Hussain Khan
Guru Kunchu Kurup
R. K. Laxman
Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta
Ved Rattan Mohan
Kedar Nath Mookerjee
Santosh Kumar Mukerji
Bishnupada Mukhopadhyaya
Kalindi Charan Panigrahi
Manibhai J. Patel
D. K. Pattammal
Krishnarao Phulambrikar
Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai
Vulimiri Ramalingaswami
Suresh Chandra Roy
Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme
Pichu Sambamoorthi
Devchand Chhaganlal Shah
Madan Mohan Singh
Bhagwati Charan Verma
Parmeshwari Lal Verma
Kasturi Lal Vij
1972
Jagjit Singh Aurora
Madhavrao Bagal
Surinder Singh Bedi
Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
Gulestan Rustom Billimoria
Kunhiraman Palat Candeth
Ram Narayan Chakravarti
Pran Nath Chhutani
Yashodhara Dasappa
Maheshwar Dayal
Hari Chand Dewan
Minoo Merwan Engineer
Benoy Bhushan Ghosh
Inderjit Singh Gill
Mohd. Hayath
Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani
L. A. Krishna Iyer
Sourendra Nath Kohli
Jai Krishna
Nilakanta Krishnan
Ashwini Kumar
Pran Nath Luthra
Amrut V. Mody
N.G. Krishna Murti
T. A. Pai
Vinayakrao Patwardhan
Dattatraya Yeshwant Phadke
Kayalath Pothen Philip
Bhalchandra Nilkanth Purandare
Tapishwar Narain Raina
Bharat Ram
Mohinder Singh Randhawa
Adya Rangacharya
M. B. Ramachandra Rao
A. S. Rao
Sujoy Bhushan Roy
Khusro Faramurz Rustamji
S. S. Sahi
Shantilal C. Sheth
Baldev Singh
Khem Karan Singh
Sartaj Singh
Sagat Singh
Birendranath Sircar
Papanasam Sivan
Chandrika Prasad Srivastava
M. S. Swaminathan
Krishnaswami Swaminathan
Bal Dattatreya Tilak
Syed Husain Zaheer
1973
Om P. Bahl
Chembai
Gosasp Maneckji Sorabji Captain
Harindranath Chattopadhyay
Banarsidas Chaturvedi
M. A. Muthiah Chettiar
M. F. Husain
Pothan Joseph
N. R. Malkani
Vinoo Mankad
Sudhir Krishna Mukherjee
Ramakant Maheshwar Muzumdar
Krishnarao Shankar Pandit
Pitambar Pant
Vennelakanti Raghavaiah
Raja Ramanna
K. Sukumaran
1974 1975
Begum Akhtar
Dilbagh Singh Athwal
Asima Chatterjee
Madhav Sadashiv Gore
Pratul Chandra Gupta
P. K. Iyengar
Darab Jehangir Jussawala
Raj Kumar Khanna
Pancheti Koteswaram
Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi
Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay
Kirpal Singh Narang
P. Ardeshir Narielwala
R. Carltonvivian Piadade Noronha
Ratan Shastri
1976 1977
Gopinath Aman
Prithvi Singh Azad
Harish-Chandra
Kumar Gandharva
Phulrenu Guha
Jagmohan
Kailas Nath Kaul
Yousuf Hussain Khan
Chackachanveedu Krishnan Nair
K. S. Narayanaswamy
Paramsukh J. Pandya
Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi
Perugu Siva Reddy
Annapurna Devi
Yudhvir Singh
M. N. Srinivas
Thenpattinam Ponnusamy Meenakshi Sundaran