LIST OF PRESIDENTS OF INDIA

1	Dr Rajendra Prasad		26 January 1950	13 May 1962	Dr.S Radhakrishnan	1952 election page & 1957 election page Prasad was the first President of independent India from Bihar.[7][8] He was also an independence activist of the Indian Independence Movement.[9] Prasad was the only president to serve for two terms in office.[4]
2	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan		13 May 1962	13 May 1967	Zakir Hussain	1962 election page Radhakrishnan was a prominent philosopher, writer, aKnight of the Realm and also held the position of vice chancellor of the Andhra University and Banaras Hindu University.[10] He was also made a Knight of the Golden Army of Angels by Pope Paul VI.[11]
3	Zakir Hussain		13 May 1967	3 May 1969	Varahagiri Venkata Giri	1967 election page Hussain was vice chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University and a recipient of Padma Vibhushan andBharat Ratna.[12] He died before his term of office was ended.
	Varahagiri Venkata Giri *		3 May 1969	20 July 1969		Giri was appointed as acting president following the death of Hussain.[13] He resigned in a few months to take part in the presidential elections.[5]
	Muhammad Hidayatullah *		20 July 1969	24 August 1969		Hidayatullah served as the Chief Justice of India, and was a recipient of the Order of the British Empire.[14] He served as acting president until the election of Giri as the President of India.
4	Varahagiri Venkata Giri		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 Minister of Labour and High Commissioner to Ceylon (Sri Lanka).[15]
5	Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed		24 August 1974	11 February 1977	Basappa Danappa Jatti	1974 election page Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed served as a Minister before being elected as president. He died in 1977 before his term of office ended, and was the second Indian president to have died during a term of office.[16]
	Basappa Danappa Jatti *		11 February 1977	25 July 1977		Jatti was the vice president of India during Ahmed's term of office, and was sworn in as acting president upon Ahmed's death. He earlier functioned as the Chief Minister for the State of Mysore.[16][17]
6	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy		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.[18] He was unanimously elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha on 26 March 1977 and relinquished this office on 13 July 1977 to become the 6th President of India.
7	Giani Zail Singh		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		25 July 1987	25 July 1992	Shankar Dayal Sharma	1987 election page In 1942, Venkataraman was jailed by the British for his involvement in the India's independence movement.[20]After his release, he was elected to independent India’s 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		25 July 1992	25 July 1997	Kocheril Raman Narayanan	1992 election page Sharma was Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, and the Indian Minister for Communications. He has also served as the governor of Andhra Pradesh, Punjab andMaharashtra.[22]
10	Kocheril Raman Narayanan		25 July 1997	25 July 2002	Krishan Kant	1997 election page Narayanan served as India's 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.[23] He was also the vice-chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University.[24]
11	Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam		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 India's ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs.[25] Kalam also received the Bharat Ratna.
12	Pratibha PATIL		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.[26][27]