Republic Day Chief Guest Full List (1950-2015)

Year – Guest Name (Country)

2015 – Barack Obama (President, United States of America) 

2014 – Shinzo Abe (Prime Minister, Japan) 

2013 – King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (King of Bhutan, Bhutan)

2012 – Yingluck Shinawatra (Prime Minister, Thailand)

2011 – Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (President, Indonesia)

2010 – Lee Myung Bak (President, Republic of Korea)

2009 – Nursultan Nazarbayev (President, Kazakhstan)

2008 – Nicolas Sarkozy (President, France)

2007 – Vladimir Putin (President, Russia)

2006 – King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (King, Saudi Arabia)

2005 – King Jigme Singye Wangchuck (King, Bhutan)

2004 – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (President, Brazil)

2003 – Mohammed Khatami (President, Iran)

2002 – Cassam Uteem (President, Mauritius)

2001 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika (President, Algeria)

2000 – Olusegun Obasanjo (President, Nigeria)

1999 – King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (King, Nepal)

1998 – Jacques Chirac (President, France)

1997 – Basdeo Panday (Prime Minister, Trinidad and Tobago)

1996 – Dr. Fernando Henrique Cardoso (President, Brazil)

1995 – Nelson Mandela (President, South Africa)

1994 – Goh Chok Tong (Prime Minister, Singapore)

1993 – John Major (Prime Minister, United Kingdom)

1992 – Mário Soares (President, Portugal)

1991 – Maumoon Abdul Gayoom (President, Maldives)

1990 – Anerood Jugnauth (Prime Minister, Mauritius)

1989 – Nguyen Van Linh (General Secretary, Vietnam)

1988 – Junius Jayewardene (President, Sri Lanka)

1987 – Alan García (President, Peru)

1986 – Andreas Papandreou (Prime Minister, Greece)

1985 – Raúl Alfonsín (President, Argentina)

1984 – King Jigme Singye Wangchuck (King, Bhutan)

1983 – Shehu Shagari (President, Nigeria)

1982 – King Juan Carlos I (King, Spain)

1981 – José López Portillo (President, Mexico)

1980 – Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (President, France)

1979 – Malcolm Fraser (Prime Minister, Australia)

1978 – Patrick Hillery (President, Ireland)

1977 – Edward Gierek (First Secretary, Poland)

1976 – Jacques Chirac (Prime Minister,France)

1975 – Kenneth Kaunda (President, Zambia)

1974 – Josip Broz Tito (President, SFR Yugoslavia); Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike (Prime Minister, Sri Lanka)

1973 – Mobutu Sese Seko (President, Zaire)

1972 – Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (Prime Minister, Mauritius)

1971 – Julius Nyerere (President, Tanzania)

1970 – 

1969 – Todor Zhivkov (Prime Minister, Bulgaria)

1968 – Alexei Kosygin (Prime Minister, USSR); Josip Broz Tito (President, SFR Yugoslavia)

1966, 1967 – 

1965 – Rana Abdul Hamid (Food and Agriculture Minister, Pakistan)

1964 – 

1963 – King Norodom Sihanouk (King, Cambodia)

1962 – 

1961 – Queen Elizabeth II (Queen, United Kingdom)

1960 – Kliment Voroshilov (President, USSR)

1956, 1957, 1958, 1959 – 

1955 – Malik Ghulam Muhammad (Governor General, Pakistan)

1954 – King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (King, Bhutan)

1951, 1952, 1953 –

1950 – Sukarno (President, Indonesia)