RAMON MAGSAYSAY AWARD HISTORY AND FOUNDATION
- The RAMON MAGSAYSAY AWARD was established in April 1957 with the sponsorship of the Philippine government by the Trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund based in New York.
- The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award founded to continue the example of leadership honesty, courageous service for the people and pragmatic idealism in a democratic society by former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay.
- Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay was the third president of the Republic of the Philippines after World War II. His life had a great impact not only on his home country but on many people in many countries. He was one of his time’s great leaders.
- The award is globally recognized as Asia’s Nobel prize and this award is the highest honour offered to Asian people and organisations.
RAMON MAGSAYSAY AWARD CATEGORIES
The awards were given in six categories till 2008, in 2009 they have discontinued all the categories and make it as uncategorised.
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GS – Government Service
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PS – Public Service
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CL – Community Leadership
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JLCCA – Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts
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PIU – Peace and International Understanding
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EL – Emergent Leadership
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Uncategorised ( from 2009)
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LIST OF INDIAN RAMON MAGSAYSAY AWARD WINNERS
| NAME | YEAR | CATEGORY |
| Vinoba Bhave | 1958 | Community Leadership |
| Amitabha Chowdhury | 1961 | Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts |
| Mother Teresa | 1962 | Peace and International Understanding (PIU) |
| Verghese Kurien | 1963 | Community Leadership |
| Dara Nusserwanji Khurody | 1963 | Community Leadership |
| Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel | 1963 | Community Leadership |
| Jayaprakash Narayan | 1965 | Public Service |
| Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay | 1966 | Community Leadership |
| Satyajit Ray | 1967 | Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts |
| M.S. Swaminathan | 1971 | Community Leadership |
| M.S. Subbulakshmi | 1974 | Public Service |
| Boobli George Verghese | 1975 | Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts |
| Sombhu Mitra | 1976 | Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts |
| Ela Bhatt | 1977 | Community Leadership |
| Mabelle Arole | 1979 | Community Leadership |
| Rajanikant Arole | 1979 | Community Leadership |
| Pramod Karan Sethi | 1981 | Community Leadership |
| Gour Kishore Ghosh | 1981 | Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts |
| Manibhai Desai | 1982 | Public Service |
| Chandi Prasad Bhatt | 1982 | Community Leadership |
| Arun Shourie | 1982 | Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts |
| R. K. Laxman | 1984 | Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts |
| Baba Amte | 1985 | Public Service |
| Lakshmi Chand Jain | 1989 | Public Service |
| K. V. Subbanna | 1991 | Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts |
| Ravi Shankar | 1992 | Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts |
| Banoo Jehangir Coyaji | 1993 | Public Service |
| Kiran Bedi | 1994 | Government Service |
| Pandurang Shastri Athavale | 1996 | Emergent Leadership |
| T. N. Seshan | 1996 | Government Service |
| Pandurang Shastri Athavale | 1996 | Community Leadership |
| Mahasweta Devi | 1997 | Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts |
| Aruna Roy | 2000 | Community Leadership |
| Jockin Arputham | 2000 | Peace and International Understanding (PIU) |
| Rajendra Singh | 2001 | Community Leadership |
| Sandeep Pandey | 2002 | Emergent Leadership |
| James Michael Lyngdoh | 2003 | Government Service |
| Shantha Sinha | 2003 | Community Leadership |
| Laxminarayan Ramdas | 2004 | Peace and International Understanding (PIU) |
| V. Shanta | 2005 | Public Service |
| Arvind Kejriwal | 2006 | Emergent Leadership |
| Palagummi Sainath | 2007 | Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts |
| Prakash Amte | 2008 | Community Leadership |
| Mandakini Amte | 2008 | Community Leadership |
| Deep Joshi | 2009 | Uncategorized |
| Nileema Mishra | 2011 | Emergent Leadership |
| Harish Hande | 2011 | Uncategorized |
| Kulandei Francis | 2012 | Uncategorized |
| Sanjiv Chaturvedi | 2015 | Emergent Leadership |
| Anshu Gupta And Sanjiv Chaturvedi | 2015 | Uncategorized |
| Thodur Madabusi Krishna | 2016 | Emergent Leadership |
| Bezwada Wilson | 2016 | Community Leadership |
| Sonam Wangchuk | 2018 | Uncategorized |
| Bharat Vatwani | 2018 | Uncategorized |
| Ravish Kumar | 2019 | Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts |
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