All the Presidents of India

1 Dr Rajendra Prasad (18841963) 26 January 1950 13 May 1962 Dr. S Radhakrishnan 1952 option varlet&1957 election page Prasad was the first President of independent India from Bihar. 78He was as well an independence activist of the Indian Independence Movement. 9Prasad was the only president to serve for two confiness in office. 4 2 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (18881975) 13 May 1962 13 May 1967 Zakir Hussain 1962 election page Radhakrishnan was a prominent philosopher, writer, aKnight of the Realmand also held the position ofvice chancellorof theAndhra UniversityandBanaras Hindu University. 10He was also made a Knight of theGolden Army of AngelsbyPope Paul VI. 11 3 Zakir Hussain (18971969) 13 May 1967 3 May 1969 Varahagiri Venkata Giri 1967 election page Hussain was vice chancellor of theAligarh Muslim Universityand a recipient ofPadma VibhushanandBharat Ratna. 12He died before his term of office was ended. Varahagiri Venkata Giri* (18941980) 3 May 1969 20 July 1969 Giri was ap pointed as performing president following the death of Hussain. 13He resigned in a few months to take part in the presidential elections. 5 Muhammad Hidayatullah* 19051992) 20 July 1969 24 August 1969 Hidayatullah served as theChief Justice of India, and was a recipient of theOrder of the British Empire. 14He served as acting president until the election of Giri as the President of India. 4 Varahagiri Venkata Giri (18941980) 24 August 1969 24 August 1974 Gopal Swarup Pathak 1969 election page Giri is the only person to have served as both an acting president and president of India. He was a recipient of the Bharat Ratna, and has functioned as Indian curate of Labour and High Commissioner toCeylon(Sri Lanka). 15 5 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed 19051977) 24 August 1974 11 February 1977 Basappa Danappa Jatti 1974 election page Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed served as a government minister before being pick out as president. He died in 1977 before his term of office ended, and was the second Indi an president to have died during a term of office. 16 Basappa Danappa Jatti* (19122002) 11 February 1977 25 July 1977 Jatti was the vice president of India during Ahmeds term of office, and was sworn in as acting president upon Ahmeds death. He earlier functioned as the Chief see for the State ofMysore. 1617 6 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy 19131996) 25 July 1977 25 July 1982 Muhammad Hidayatullah 1977 election page N. S. Reddy was the first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh State. Reddy was the only Member of Parliament from the Janata Party to get elected from Andhra Pradesh. 18He was unanimously elected Speaker of theLok Sabhaon 26 March 1977 and relinquished this office on 13 July 1977 to become the 6th President of India. 7 Giani Zail Singh (19161994) 25 July 1982 25 July 1987 Ramaswamy Venkataraman 1982 election page In March 1972, Singh assumed the position of chief Minister of Punjab, and in 1980, he became Union Home Minister. 19 8 Ramaswamy Venkataraman (19102009) 25 July 198 7 25 July 1992 Shankar Dayal Sharma 1987 election page In 1942, Venkataraman was jailed by the British for his involvement in theIndias independencemovement. 20After his release, he was elected to independent Indias Provisional Parliament as a member of the Congress Party in 1950 and eventually joined the central government, where he first served as Minister of Finance and Industry and later as Minister of Defence. 21 9 Shankar Dayal Sharma 19181999) 25 July 1992 25 July 1997 Kocheril Raman Narayanan 1992 election page Sharma was Chief Minister ofMadhya Pradesh, and the Indian Minister for Communications. He has also served as the governor ofAndhra Pradesh,PunjabandMaharashtra. 22 10 Kocheril Raman Narayanan (19202005) 25 July 1997 25 July 2002 Krishan Kant 1997 election page Narayanan served as Indias ambassador to Thailand, Turkey, China and United States of America. He received doctorates in Science and Law and was also a chancellor in several universities. 23He was also the vi ce-chancellor ofJawaharlal Nehru University. 24 11 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931) 25 July 2002 25 July 2007 Bhairon Singh Shekhawat 2002 election page Kalam, was a scientist who played a leading role in the development of Indias ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs. 25Kalam also received theBharat Ratna. 12 Pratibha Patil (1934) 25 July 2007 Incumbent Mohammad Hamid Ansari 2007 election page Patil is the first woman to become the President of India. She was also the first female Governor of Rajasthan. 2627 - editTimeline