Jawaharlal Nehru Award

Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding is an international award presented by the Government of India. It was founded in 1965 and is administered by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) to people "for their outstanding contribution to the promotion of international understanding, goodwill and friendship among people of the world". The money constituent of this award is  Rs.25 lakhs  rupees.

 Recipients :

1. U Thant - 1965
2. Martin Luther King, Jr. - 1966
3. Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan - 1967
4. Yehudi Menuhin - 1968
5. Mother Teresa - 1969
6. Kenneth Kaunda - 1970
7. Josip Broz Tito - 1971
8. André Malraux - 1972
9. Julius 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 - 1980
16. Barbara Ward - 1981
17. Alva and Gunnar Myrdal - 1982
18. Leopold Sedar Senghor - 1983
19. Bruno Kreisky - 1984
20. Indira Gandhi - 1985 (posthumous)
21. Olof Palme - 1986 (posthumous)
22. Javier Pérez de Cuéllar - 1987
23. Yasser Arafat - 1988
24. Robert Gabriel Mugabe - 1989
25. Helmut Kohl - 1990
26. Aruna Asaf Ali - 1991
27. Maurice 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 (yet to be presented)
33. Wangari Maathai - 2005
34. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - 2006
35. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson - 2007
36. Angela Merkel - 2009

• Prize not awarded in 1986 & from 1996 to 2002.