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)