Republic Day chief guests

Year	Name of the Guest	Country
2016	President, Francois Hollande	France
2015	President, Barack Obama (First U.S. President to be invited)	USA
2014	Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe	Japan
2013	King, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck	Bhutan
2012	Prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra	Thailand
2011	President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono	Indonesia
2010	President, Lee Myung Bak	Republic of Korea
2009	President, Nursultan Nazarbayev	Kazakhstan
2008	President, Nicolas Sarkozy	France
2007	President, Vladimir Putin	Russia
2006	King, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud	Saudi Arabia
2005	King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck	Bhutan
2004	President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva	Brazil
2003	President, Mohammed Khatami	Iran
2002	President, Cassam Uteem	Mauritius
2001	President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika	Algeria
2000	President, Olusegun Obasanjo	Nigeria
1999	King, Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev	Nepal
1998	President, Jacques Chirac	France
1997	Prime Minister, Basdeo Panday	Trinidad and Tobago
1996	President, Dr. Fernando Henrique Cardoso	Brazil
1995	President, Nelson Mandela	South Africa
1994	Prime Minister, Goh Chok Tong	Singapore
1993	Prime Minister, John Major	United Kingdom
1992	President, Mário Soares	Portugal
1991	President, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom	Maldives
1990	Prime Minister, Anerood Jugnauth	Mauritius
1989	General Secretary, Nguyen Van Linh	Vietnam
1988	President, Junius Jayewardene	Sri Lanka
1987	President, Alan Garcia	Peru
1986	Prime Minister, Andreas Papandreou	Greece
1985	President, Raúl Alfonsín	Argentina
1984	King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck	Bhutan
1983	President, Shehu Shagari	Nigeria
1982	King, Juan Carlos I	Spain
1981	President, Jose Lopez Portillo	Mexico
1980	President, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing	France
1979	Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser	Australia
1978	President, Patrick Hillery	Ireland
1977	First Secretary, Edward Gierek	Poland
1976	Prime Minister, Jacques Chirac	France
1975	President, Kenneth Kaunda	Zambia
1974	President, Josip Broz Tito	Yugoslavia
	Prime Minister, Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike	Sri Lanka
1973	President, Mobutu Sese Seko	Zaire
1972	Prime Minister, Seewoosagur Ramgoolam	Mauritius
1971	President, Julius Nyerere	Tanzania
1969	Prime Minister, Todor Zhivkov	Bulgaria
1968	Prime Minister, Alexei Kosygin	Soviet Union
	President, Josip Broz Tito	Yugoslavia
1965	Food and Agriculture Minister, Rana Abdul Hamid	Pakistan
1963	King, Norodom Sihanouk	Cambodia
1961	Queen, Elizabeth II	United Kingdom
1960	President, Kliment Voroshilov	Soviet Union
1958	Marshall Ye Jianying	People’s Republic of China
1955	Governor General, Malik Ghulam Muhammad (First guest for parade at Rajpath)	Pakistan
1954	King, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck	Bhutan
1950	President, Sukarno	Indonesia