# List of chief guests at Delhi Republic Day parade

Since 1950, India has been hosting head of state or government of another country as the state guest of honor for Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi. During 1950–1954, Republic Day celebrations were organized at different venues (like Irwin Amphitheatre, Kingsway, Red Fort and Ramlila Maidan). It was only starting 1955 when the parade in its present form was organized at Rajpath. The guest country is chosen after a deliberation of strategic, economic and political interests. During 1950s–1970s, a number of Non-Aligned Movement and Eastern Bloc countries were hosted by India. In 1968 and 1974, India played host to two countries on the same Republic Day.
By continent and geographic region, the invitations break up as follows:
| Continent | Region | Invitations | Countries |
| Asia (37) | South Asia | 12 | Afghanistan, Bhutan (4 times), Maldives, Nepal (twice), Pakistan (twice), Sri Lanka (twice) |
| Asia (37) | Central Asia | 1 | Kazakhstan |
| Asia (37) | East Asia | 4 | China, Japan (twice), South Korea |
| Asia (37) | Southeast Asia | 17 | Brunei, Cambodia (twice), Indonesia (4 times), Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore (twice), Thailand (twice), Vietnam (twice) |
| Asia (37) | West Asia | 3 | Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates |
| Africa (12) | North Africa | 2 | Algeria, Egypt |
| Africa (12) | West Africa | 2 | Nigeria (twice) |
| Africa (12) | Central Africa | 1 | Zaire |
| Africa (12) | Southern Africa | 6 | South Africa (twice), Mauritius (thrice), Zambia |
| Africa (12) | East Africa | 1 | Tanzania |
| Europe (25) | Eastern Europe | 8 | Bulgaria, Poland, Yugoslavia (twice), Soviet Union/Russia (4 times) |
| Europe (25) | Western Europe | 17 | Belgium, Denmark, France (6 times), Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom (5 times) |
| America (8) | Northern America | 2 | United States, Mexico |
| America (8) | Caribbean | 1 | Trinidad and Tobago |
| America (8) | South America | 5 | Argentina, Brazil (thrice), Peru |
| Oceania (1) | Australia | 1 | Australia |

## List of chief guests

| Year | Portrait | Chief Guest | Country | Designation | Note | Note | Host |
| 1950 | | Sukarno | Indonesia | President of Indonesia | | | Rajendra Prasad |
| 1951 | | Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah | Nepal | King of Nepal | | | | Rajendra Prasad |
| 1952 | No information available | No information available | No information available | No information available | No information available | No information available | No information available |
| 1953 | No information available | No information available | No information available | No information available | No information available | No information available | No information available |
| 1954 | | Jigme Dorji Wangchuck | Bhutan | King of Bhutan | | | Rajendra Prasad |
| 1955 | | Malik Ghulam Muhammad | Pakistan | Governor-General of Pakistan | First guest for parade at Rajpath | First guest for parade at Rajpath | | Rajendra Prasad |
| 1956 | | Rab Butler | United Kingdom | Chancellor of the Exchequer | Two guests | Two guests | | Rajendra Prasad |
| 1956 | | Kōtarō Tanaka | Japan | Chief Justice of Japan | Two guests | Two guests | Rajendra Prasad |
| 1957 | | Georgy Zhukov | Soviet Union | Minister of Defence | | | | Rajendra Prasad |
| 1958 | | Ye Jianying | China | Marshal of the People's Liberation Army | | | | Rajendra Prasad |
| 1959 | | Philip | United Kingdom | Consort of Queen Elizabeth II | 2nd invitation | 2nd invitation | | Rajendra Prasad |
| 1960 | | Kliment Voroshilov | Soviet Union | Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | 2nd invitation | 2nd invitation | | Rajendra Prasad |
| 1961 | | Elizabeth II | United Kingdom | Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms | 3rd invitation | 3rd invitation | | Rajendra Prasad |
| 1962 | | Viggo Kampmann | Denmark | Prime Minister of Denmark | | | | Rajendra Prasad |
| 1963 | | Norodom Sihanouk | Cambodia | King of Cambodia | | | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| 1964 | | Louis Mountbatten | United Kingdom | Chief of the Defence Staff | 4th invitation | 4th invitation | | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| 1965 | | Rana Abdul Hamid | Pakistan | Minister of Food and Agriculture | 2nd invitation | 2nd invitation | | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| 1966 | No information available | No information available | No information available | No information available | No information available | No information available | No information available |
| 1967 | | Mohammed Zahir Shah | Afghanistan | King of Afghanistan | | | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| 1968 | | Alexei Kosygin | Soviet Union | Chairman of the Council of Ministers | 3rd invitation | Two guests | Zakir Husain |
| 1968 | | Josip Broz Tito | Yugoslavia | President of Yugoslavia | | Two guests | Zakir Husain |
| 1969 | | Todor Zhivkov | Bulgaria | Prime Minister of Bulgaria | | | | Zakir Husain |
| 1970 | | Baudouin | Belgium | King of Belgium | | | V. V. Giri |
| 1971 | | Julius Nyerere | Tanzania | President of Tanzania | | | | V. V. Giri |
| 1972 | | Seewoosagur Ramgoolam | Mauritius | Prime Minister of Mauritius | | | | V. V. Giri |
| 1973 | | Mobutu Sese Seko | Zaire | President of Zaire | | | | V. V. Giri |
| 1974 | | Josip Broz Tito | Yugoslavia | President of Yugoslavia | 2nd invitation | Two guests | V. V. Giri |
| 1974 | | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | Sri Lanka | Prime Minister of Sri Lanka | | Two guests | V. V. Giri |
| 1975 | | Kenneth Kaunda | Zambia | President of Zambia | | | Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed |
| 1976 | | Jacques Chirac | France | Prime Minister of France | | | | Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed |
| 1977 | | Edward Gierek | Poland | First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party | | | | Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed |
| 1978 | | Patrick Hillery | Ireland | President of Ireland | | | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy |
| 1979 | | Malcolm Fraser | Australia | Prime Minister of Australia | | | | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy |
| 1980 | | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | France | President of France | 2nd invitation | 2nd invitation | | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy |
| 1981 | | Jose Lopez Portillo | Mexico | President of Mexico | | | | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy |
| 1982 | | Juan Carlos I | Spain | King of Spain | | | | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy |
| 1983 | | Shehu Shagari | Nigeria | President of Nigeria | | | Zail Singh |
| 1984 | | Jigme Singye Wangchuck | Bhutan | King of Bhutan | 2nd invitation | 2nd invitation | | Zail Singh |
| 1985 | | Raúl Alfonsín | Argentina | President of Argentina | | | | Zail Singh |
| 1986 | | Andreas Papandreou | Greece | Prime Minister of Greece | | | | Zail Singh |
| 1987 | | Alan Garcia | Peru | President of Peru | | | | Zail Singh |
| 1988 | | J. R. Jayewardene | Sri Lanka | President of Sri Lanka | 2nd invitation | 2nd invitation | Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
| 1989 | | Nguyễn Văn Linh | Vietnam | General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam | | | | Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
| 1990 | | Anerood Jugnauth | Mauritius | Prime Minister of Mauritius | 2nd invitation | 2nd invitation | | Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
| 1991 | | Maumoon Abdul Gayoom | Maldives | President of the Maldives | | | | Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
| 1992 | | Mário Soares | Portugal | President of Portugal | | | | Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
| 1993 | | John Major | United Kingdom | Prime Minister of United Kingdom | 5th invitation | 5th invitation | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 1994 | | Goh Chok Tong | Singapore | Prime Minister of Singapore | | | | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 1995 | | Nelson Mandela | South Africa | President of South Africa | | | | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 1996 | | Fernando Henrique Cardoso | Brazil | President of Brazil | | | | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 1997 | | Basdeo Panday | Trinidad and Tobago | Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago | | | | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 1998 | | Jacques Chirac | France | President of France | 3rd invitation | 3rd invitation | K. R. Narayanan |
| 1999 | | Birendra Bir Bikram Shah | Nepal | King of Nepal | 2nd invitation | 2nd invitation | | K. R. Narayanan |
| 2000 | | Olusegun Obasanjo | Nigeria | President of Nigeria | 2nd invitation | 2nd invitation | | K. R. Narayanan |
| 2001 | | Abdelaziz Bouteflika | Algeria | President of Algeria | | | | K. R. Narayanan |
| 2002 | | Cassam Uteem | Mauritius | President of Mauritius | 3rd invitation | 3rd invitation | | K. R. Narayanan |
| 2003 | | Mohammed Khatami | Iran | President of Iran | | | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| 2004 | | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | Brazil | President of Brazil | 2nd invitation | 2nd invitation | | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| 2005 | | Jigme Singye Wangchuck | Bhutan | King of Bhutan | 3rd invitation | 3rd invitation | | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| 2006 | | Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud | Saudi Arabia | King of Saudi Arabia | | | | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| 2007 | | Vladimir Putin | Russia | President of Russia | 4th invitation | 4th invitation | | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| 2008 | | Nicolas Sarkozy | France | President of France | 4th invitation | 4th invitation | Pratibha Patil |
| 2009 | | Nursultan Nazarbayev | Kazakhstan | President of Kazakhstan | | | | Pratibha Patil |
| 2010 | | Lee Myung Bak | South Korea | President of South Korea | | | | Pratibha Patil |
| 2011 | | Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono | Indonesia | President of Indonesia | 2nd invitation | 2nd invitation | | Pratibha Patil |
| 2012 | | Yingluck Shinawatra | Thailand | Prime Minister of Thailand | | | | Pratibha Patil |
| 2013 | | Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck | Bhutan | King of Bhutan | 4th invitation | 4th invitation | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 2014 | | Shinzo Abe | Japan | Prime Minister of Japan | 2nd invitation | 2nd invitation | | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 2015 | | Barack Obama | United States | President of the United States | | | | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 2016 | | François Hollande | France | President of France | 5th invitation | 5th invitation | | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 2017 | | Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan | United Arab Emirates | Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi | | | | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 2018 | | Hassanal Bolkiah | Brunei | Sultan of Brunei | | Ten guests (heads of the ASEAN states) | Ram Nath Kovind |
| 2018 | | Hun Sen | Cambodia | Prime Minister of Cambodia | 2nd invitation | Ten guests (heads of the ASEAN states) | Ram Nath Kovind |
| 2018 | | Joko Widodo | Indonesia | President of Indonesia | 3rd invitation | Ten guests (heads of the ASEAN states) | Ram Nath Kovind |
| 2018 | | Thongloun Sisoulith | Laos | Prime Minister of Laos | | Ten guests (heads of the ASEAN states) | Ram Nath Kovind |
| 2018 | | Najib Razak | Malaysia | Prime Minister of Malaysia | | Ten guests (heads of the ASEAN states) | Ram Nath Kovind |
| 2018 | | Aung San Suu Kyi | Myanmar | State Counsellor of Myanmar | | Ten guests (heads of the ASEAN states) | Ram Nath Kovind |
| 2018 | | Rodrigo Duterte | Philippines | President of the Philippines | | Ten guests (heads of the ASEAN states) | Ram Nath Kovind |
| 2018 | | Lee Hsien Loong | Singapore | Prime Minister of Singapore | 2nd invitation | Ten guests (heads of the ASEAN states) | Ram Nath Kovind |
| 2018 | | Prayut Chan-o-cha | Thailand | Prime Minister of Thailand | 2nd invitation | Ten guests (heads of the ASEAN states) | Ram Nath Kovind |
| 2018 | | Nguyễn Xuân Phúc | Vietnam | Prime Minister of Vietnam | 2nd invitation | Ten guests (heads of the ASEAN states) | Ram Nath Kovind |
| 2019 | | Cyril Ramaphosa | South Africa | President of South Africa | 2nd invitation | 2nd invitation | | Ram Nath Kovind |
| 2020 | | Jair Bolsonaro | Brazil | President of Brazil | 3rd invitation | 3rd invitation | | Ram Nath Kovind |
| 2021 | No chief guest due to COVID-19 pandemic | No chief guest due to COVID-19 pandemic | No chief guest due to COVID-19 pandemic | No chief guest due to COVID-19 pandemic | No chief guest due to COVID-19 pandemic | No chief guest due to COVID-19 pandemic | No chief guest due to COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2022 | No chief guest due to COVID-19 pandemic | No chief guest due to COVID-19 pandemic | No chief guest due to COVID-19 pandemic | No chief guest due to COVID-19 pandemic | No chief guest due to COVID-19 pandemic | No chief guest due to COVID-19 pandemic | No chief guest due to COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2023 | | Abdel Fattah el-Sisi | Egypt | President of Egypt | | | Droupadi Murmu |
| 2024 | | Emmanuel Macron | France | President of France | 6th invitation | 6th invitation | | Droupadi Murmu |
| 2025 | | Prabowo Subianto | Indonesia | President of Indonesia | 4th invitation | 4th invitation | | Droupadi Murmu |