NAME OF INDIAN REPUBLIC DAY CHIEF GUESTS SINCE YEAR 1950 TO 2017

Name of Indian Republic Day Chief Guests  (26th January Parades): Since 1950, India has been hosting head of state or government of another country as the state guest of honour for Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi. Since 1955 parade is being presenting at Rajpath. The guest country is chosen after a deliberation of strategic, economic and political interests. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, will be the chief guest at the 68th Republic Day 2017.

 Prince Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Following is the list of all Chief guest invited to USattend Republic Day Parade of India (26th January) since 1950 to 2017:

Year	Chief Guest Name	Country
2017	Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan	Abu Dhabi
2016	Francois Hollande	France
2015	Barack Obama (President)	United States of America
2014	Shinzo Abe (Prime Minister)	Japan
2013	Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck	Bhutan
2012	Yingluck Shinawatra First Female Prime Minister of Thailand	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 and Prime Minister Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike	Yugoslavia Sri Lanka
1973	President Mobutu Sese Seko	Zaire
1972	Prime Minister Seewoosagur Ramgoolam	Mauritius
1971	President Julius Nyerere	Tanzania
1970	–	–
1969	Prime Minister of Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov	Bulgaria
1968	Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin and President Josip Broz Tito	Soviet Union Yugoslavia
1967	–	–
1966	–	–
1965	Food and Agriculture Minister Rana Abdul Hamid	Pakistan
1964	–	–
1963	King Norodom Sihanouk	Cambodia
1962	–	–
1961	Queen Elizabeth II	United Kingdom
1960	President Kliment Voroshilov	Soviet Union
1959	–	–
1958	Marshall Ye Jianying	People’s Republic of China
1957	–	–
1956	–	–
1955	Governor General Malik Ghulam Muhammad (first guest for parade at Rajpath)	Pakistan
1954	King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck	Bhutan
1953	–	–
1952	–	–
1951	–	–
1950	President Sukarno	Indonesia