LIST OF THE RECIPIENTS OF THE JAWAHARLAL NEHRU AWARD

NUMBER NAME YEAR 1 U Thant 1965 2 Martin Luther King Jr. (Posthumous) 1966 3 Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan 1967 4 Yehudi Menuhin 1968 5 Mother Teresa 1969 6 Kenneth D. Kaunda 1970 7 Josip Broz Tito 1971 8 Andre Malraux 1972 9 Julius K. Nyerere 1973 10 Raul Prebisch 1974 11 Jonas Salk 1975 12 Giuseppe Tucci 1976 13 Tulsi Meherji Shrestha 1977 14 Nichidatsu Fujii 1978 15 Nelson Mandela 1979 16 Barbara Ward 1980 17 Alva and Gunnar Myrdal (Jointly) 1981 18 Leopold Sedar Senghor 1982 19 Bruno Kreisky 1983 20 Indira Gandhi (Posthumous) 1984 21 Olof Palme (Posthumous) 1985 22 Javier Perez de Cuellar 1987 23 Yasser Arafat 1988 24 Robert Gabriel Mugabe 1989 25 Helmut Kohl 1990 26 Aruna Asaf Ali 1991 27 Maurice F. Strong 1992 28 Aung San Suu Kyi 1993 29 Mahathir Bin Mohamad 1994 30 Hosni Mubarak 1995 31 Goh Chok Tong 2003 32 Sultan Qaboos Bin Said al Said 2004 33 Wangari Muta Maathai 2005 34 Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva 2006 35 Olafur Ragnar Grimsson 2007 36 Angela Dorothea Merkel 2009 Note: No awards were given in 1986 and during the years 1996-2002.