List of original fifty nominees
Of 50 nominees, 15 have received the Bharat Ratna and 6 are women. The oldest living nominees at the time of the poll were Ravi Shankar (92), M. S. Swaminathan (87) and Atal Bihari Vajpayee (88), while Sachin Tendulkar (39) was the youngest.[41]
- Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956)
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015)
- Vallabhbhai Patel (1875–1950)
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964)
- Mother Teresa (1910–1997)
- J. R. D. Tata (1904–1993)
- Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)
- Sachin Tendulkar (b. 1973)
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018)
- Lata Mangeshkar (b. 1929)
- Jayaprakash Narayan (1902–1979) social reformer
- Kanshi Ram (1934–2006) politician and Founder of the BSP
- Ram Manohar Lohia (1910–1967) Socialist leader
- C. Rajagopalachari (1878–1972) First Indian Governor-General of India
- Sam Manekshaw (1914–2008) Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army
- Baba Amte (1914–2008) social worker
- Ela Bhatt (b. 1933) founder Self-Employed Women's Association of India
- Vinoba Bhave (1895–1982) advocate of nonviolence
- Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903–1988) freedom fighter
- Ravi Shankar (1920–2012) musician
- M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916–2004) Carnatic vocalist
- M. F. Husain (1915–2011) painter
- Bismillah Khan (1916–2006) musician
- R. K. Narayan (1906–2001) writer
- R. K. Laxman (1921–2015) cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist
- B. K. S. Iyengar (1918–2014) founder of Iyengar Yoga
- Amitabh Bachchan (b. 1942) film actor
- Raj Kapoor (1924–1988) director of Hindi cinema
- Kamal Hasan (b. 1954) actor, director
- Satyajit Ray (1921–1992) filmmaker
- A. R. Rahman (b. 1967) composer and philanthropist
- Kishore Kumar (1929–1987) film playback singer
- Dilip Kumar (b. 1922) actor, producer and activist
- Dev Anand (1923–2011) producer and actor
- Mohammad Rafi (1924–1980) singer
- Homi Bhabha (1909–1966) nuclear physicist
- Dhirubhai Ambani (1932–2002) business tycoon, founder of Reliance Industries
- Verghese Kurien (1921–2012) social entrepreneur
- Ghanshyam Das Birla (1894–1983) businessman
- N. R. Narayana Murthy (b. 1946) IT industrialist
- Vikram Sarabhai (1919–1971) scientist
- M. S. Swaminathan (b. 1925) geneticist
- Ramnath Goenka (1904–1991) newspaper publisher
- Amartya Sen (b. 1933) philosopher and economist
- E. Sreedharan (b. 1932) civil engineer
- Kapil Dev (b. 1959) cricketer
- Sunil Gavaskar (b. 1949) cricketer
- Dhyan Chand (1905–1979) hockey player
- Viswanathan Anand (b. 1969) chess Grandmaster
- Milkha Singh (b. 1935) field sprinter
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