| YEAR | Name of Awardy | Events/ Games |
| 1985 | Bhalachandra Bhaskar Bhagwat | Wrestling |
| 1985 | Om Prakash Bhardwaj | Boxing |
| 1985 | O. M. Nambiar | Athletics |
| 1986 | Desh Prem Azad | Cricket |
| 1986 | Raghunandan Vasant Gokhle | Chess |
| 1987 | Guru Hanuman | Wrestling |
| 1987 | Gurcharan Singh | Cricket |
| 1988 | Award Not Given | |
| 1989 | Award Not Given | |
| 1990 | Ramakant Achrekar | Cricket |
| 1990 | Syed Naeemuddin | Football |
| 1990 | A. Ramana Rao | Volleyball |
| 1991 | Award Not Given | |
| 1992 | Award Not Given | |
| 1993 | Award Not Given | |
| 1994 | Ilyas Babar | Athletics |
| 1995 | Shyam Sunder Rao | Volleyball |
| 1995 | Karan Singh | Athletics |
| 1996 | Wilson Jones | Billiards & Snooker |
| 1996 | Pal Singh Sandhu | Weightlifting |
| 1997 | Joginder Singh Saini | Athletics |
| 1998 | G. S. Sandhu | Boxing |
| 1998 | Hargobind Singh Sandhu | Athletics |
| 1998 | Bahadur Singh Chouhan | Athletics |
| 1999 | Kenneth Owen Bosen | Athletics |
| 1999 | Hawa Singh | Boxing |
| 1999 | Ajay Kumar Sirohi | Weightlifting |
| 2000 | S. M. Arif | Badminton |
| 2000 | Gudial Singh Bhangu | Hockey |
| 2000 | Bhupender Dhawan | Powerlifting |
| 2000 | Gopal Purushottam Phadke | Kho kho |
| 2000 | Hansa Sharma | Weightlifting |
| 2001 | Michael Ferreira | Billiards & Snooker |
| 2001 | Sunny Thomas | Shooting |
| 2002 | Maharaj Krishan Kaushik | Hockey |
| 2002 | Renu Kohli | Athletics |
| 2002 | Homi Motivala | Yachting |
| 2002 | E. Prasad Rao | Kabaddi |
| 2002 | Jaswant Singh | Athletics |
| 2003 | Sukhchain Singh Cheema | Wrestling |
| 2003 | Robert Bobby George | Athletics |
| 2003 | Anoop Kumar | Boxing |
| 2003 | Rajinder Singh Jr. | Hockey |
| 2004 | Cyrus Poncha | Squash |
| 2004 | Arvind Savur | Billiards & Snooker |
| 2004 | Sunita Sharma | Cricket |
| 2005 | Ismail Baig | Rowing |
| 2005 | Maha Singh Rao | Wrestling |
| 2005 | Balwan Singh | Kabaddi |
| 2005 | M. Venu | Boxing |
| 2006 | Koneru Ashok | Chess |
| 2006 | Damodaran Chandralal | Boxing |
| 2006 | R. D. Singh | Athletics |
| 2007 | Jagdish Singh | Boxing |
| 2007 | Jagminder Singh | Wrestling |
| 2007 | Sanjeeva Kumar Singh | Archery |
| 2007 | G. E. Sridharan | Volleyball |
| 2008 | Award Not Given | |
| 2009 | Jaydev Bisht | Boxing |
| 2009 | Pullela Gopichand | Badminton |
| 2009 | S. Baldev Singh | Hockey |
| 2009 | Satpal Singh | Wrestling |
| 2010 | Subhash Agarwal | Billiards & Snooker |
| 2010 | Ajay Kumar Bansal | Hockey |
| 2010 | Captain Chandrup | Wrestling |
| 2010 | A. K. Kutty | Athletics |
| 2010 | L Ibomcha Singh | Boxing |
| 2011 | Devender Kumar Rathore | Gymnastics |
| 2011 | Ramphal | Wrestling |
| 2011 | Inukurthi Venkateshwara Roy | Boxing |
| 2012 | Sunil Dabas | Kabaddi |
| 2012 | B. I. Fernandez | Boxing |
| 2012 | Virender Poonia | Athletics |
| 2012 | Satyapal Singh | Athletics |
| 2012 | Harendra Singh | Hockey |
| 2012 | Yashvir Singh | Wrestling |
| 2013 | Purnima Mahato | Archery |
| 2013 | Narender Singh Saini | Hockey |
| 2013 | Mahavir Singh | Boxing |
| 2014 | Mahabir Prasad | Wrestling |
| 2015 | Anoop Singh Dahiya | Wrestling |
| 2015 | Naval Singh | Athletics |
| 2016 | Sagar Mal Dhayal | Boxing |
| 2016 | Bishweshwar Nandi | Gymnastics |
| 2016 | Nagapuri Ramesh | Athletics |
| 2016 | Rajkumar Sharma | Cricket |
| 2017 | R. Gandhi | Athletics |
| 2017 | Heera Nand Kataria | Kabaddi |
| 2018 | Subedar Chenanda Achaiah Kuttappa | Boxing |
| 2018 | Vijay Sharma | Weightlifting |
| 2018 | A. Srinivasa Rao | Table Tennis |
| 2018 | Sukhdev Singh Pannu | Athletics |
| 2019 | Mohinder Singh Dhillon | Athletics |
| 2019 | U. Vimal Kumar | Badminton |
| 2019 | Sandip Gupta | Table Tennis |
| 2020 | Jude Sebastian | Hockey |
| 2020 | Yogesh Malviya | Mallakhamb |
| 2020 | Jaspal Rana | Shooting |
| 2020 | Kuldeep Kumar Handoo | Wushu |
| 2020 | Gaurav Khanna | Badminton |
| 2021 | Radhakrishnan Nair | Athletics |
| 2021 | Sandhya Gurung | Boxing |
| 2021 | Pritam Siwach | Hockey |
| 2021 | Jai Prakash Nautiyal | Shooting |
| 2021 | Subramanian Raman | Table Tennis |
| 2022 | Jiwanjot Singh Teja | Archery |
| 2022 | Mohammed Ali Qamar | Boxing |
| 2022 | Suma Shirur | Shooting |
| 2022 | Sujeet Maan | Wrestling |
updated from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dronacharya_Award