List of Indian

Presidents
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Sr.no Name of the President Tenure Related Information

1 Dr. Babu Rajendra Prasad 1950-1962 He was the First and Longest serving
President of India

2 Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishanan 1962-1967 Radhakrishanan was the First president

to be elected from south India and he was
the First Vice president of India

3 Zakir Husain 1967-1969 First President to die in Office. He was

also First Muslim and Least serving
President of India

4 Varahagiri Venkata Giri 1969-1969 He was first Acting President. He was

called as the Rubber Stamp President and
1969-174 also shortest serving Vice President of
India

5 Mohammed Hidayutullah 1969-1969 He was First Chief Justice of India to be

become Acting President of India

6 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed 1974-1977 Ali was the second President to die in
office and he was the president at the
time of Emergency

7 Basappa Danappa Jatti 1977-1977 Before become Presedent of India

B.D.Jatti was served as Chief Minister of
Mysore State

8 Nelam Sanjeeva Reddy 1977-1982 Neelam Sanjeev Reddy was the first Chief
Minister of the Andhrapradesh. He was
the Youngest and Unopposed President of
India

9 Zail Singh 1982-1987 He was the President when Indira Gandhi

was assassinated

10 Ramaswamy Venkataraman 1987-1992 R.Vennkataraman was famous lawyer and

Activist of Indian Independence
Movement

11 Shankar Dayal Sarma 1992-1997 Shankar Dalyal Sharma was served as the
Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh before
elected as President of India.He also
served as Governor of Andhra Pradesh,

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Sr.No Name Tenure Related Information

12 K.R. Narayanan 1997-2002 He was the first Dalit President of India

K.R.Naryanan was famous Indian

Diplomat and served as Ambassador to
Turkey, Japan, UK, China and USA.

13 A.P.J Abdul Kalam 2002-2007 Kalam was DRDO scientist and worked for
Famous missiles like Agni, Ballistic and
for Nuclear weapons .

He was called as the Peoples President

and also Missile Man of India

14 Pratibha Patil 2007-2012 Prabitha Patil was created history to

become the first Woman President of
India. She was also become a first
president to travel in fighter jet Sukhoi.

She is also the first woman governor of

the Rajasthan

15 Pranab Mukharjee 2012-2017 Before becoming a President of India

Pranab Mukherjee served as the Finance
Mininster, Defence Minister, External
affairs Minister

16 Ram Nath Kovind 25th- July 2017- He served as the Governor of Bihar from
2015-2017.

He is second Dalit President after K.R

Narayanan

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