The game of Hockey has been amongst the greatest sports of India and the number of awardees is quite evident of this fact. In 1961, N. Lumsden and P. Singh became the winners of the award. However, there was a gap in the years 1962 and in 1963, Charanjit Singh won the award and started the run again. After S. Laxman received the award in the year of 1964, E. Britto and Udham Singh jointly won the award in 1965. The names of other winners are Gurbaksh Singh, Harbinder Singh, Mohinder Lal, Balbir Singh Kular, Ajit Pal Singh, P. Krishnamurthy, Michael Kindo, Rajbir Kaur, S. Maney, Prem Maya Sonir, M. M. Somaya, J.M. Carvalho, M. P. Singh, Pargat Singh, Jagbir Singh, Devesh Chauhan, Suraj Lata Devi, Deepak Thakur, Viren Rasquinha, Jyoti Sunita Kullu, Prabhjot Singh, Surinder Kaur, Ignace Tirkey and many more.
