This is a list of knights grand commander (knights, 1861-1866) of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India from 1861 until 1947, when the order ceased to be awarded. The viceroy of India served as ex-officio Grand Master of the Order, and was automatically appointed as a knight grand commander upon taking office.
1860s
- 1861-1866: See list of knights companion of the Order of the Star of India
1867
- His Highness Maharajadhiraja Shri Sir Jawansinhji Gambhirsinhji Sahib Bahadur, Maharaja of Idar [1]
1869
- His Highness Bhagwant Singh, Maharaj Rana of Dholpur [2]
1870s
1870
- His Highness Mahendra Singh, Maharaja of Patiala [3]
- The Nawab Salar Jung Bahadoor, KCSI Minister of the Hyderabad State [4]
1871
- His Highness Dheraj Sumbho Sing, Maharana of Oodeypore [5]
- His Highness Pragmuljee, Rao of Cutch [6]
1872
- Her Highness the Nawab Shah Jehan, Begum of Bhopal [7] [8]
1873
- His Excellency Maharajah Jung Bahadoor Kunwar Ranajee [9]
- General Sir John Low [10]
- Lieutenant-General Sir Neville Bowles Chamberlain [11]
1877
- Field-Marshal His Royal Highness George William Frederick Charles, Duke of Cambridge [12]
1880s
1881
- His Highness Sujjun Singh, Maharana of Udaipur [13]
1882
- His Highness Visakham Thirunal, Maharajah of Travancore [14]
- His Highness Nawab Ikbal-ud-dowlah of Oudh (Baghdad) [15]
1884
- His Highness Chama Rajendra Wadeir, Maharajah of Mysore [16]
1888
- His Highness Moolam Thirunal, Maharajah of Travancore. [17]
1890s
1892
- Colonel His Highness Pratap Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir. [18]
1893
1895
- His Highness Madho Rao, Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior [20]
- The Right Honourable George Robert Canning, Baron Harris [21]
- His Highness Rajarshi Shahu, Maharaj of Kolhapur [22]
- The Right Honourable Henry Hartley Fowler [23]
1896
- (Extra) The Right Honourable Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock [24]
1897
- His Highness Vyankatesh Raman Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Rewa. [25]
- Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker [26]
- Maharaja Sir Bir Bhamsber Jang Rana Bahadur [27]
- Sir Antony Patrick MacDonnell [28]
- His Highness Lieutenant Colonel Sir Partab Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Idar [29]
- Lieutenant-General Richard Strachey [30]
1898
- His Highness Rajinder Singh, Maharaja of Patiala. [31]
1900s
1900
- His Highness Maharao Umed Singh Bahadur, of Kotah. [32]
1903
- The Right Honourable George Francis Hamilton [33]
- His Highness Sir Shri Rama Varma, Rajarshi of Cochin [34]
- Colonel His Highness Priyadarsi Devanampriya Maharaj-Adhiraj Maharaja Rudra Pratap Singh, Maharaja of Singrauli [35]
1905
- His Excellency Maharaja Chandra Shamsher Jang, Rana Bahadur, Prime Minister of Nepal. [36]
1906
- His Highness Pratap Singh Bahadur, Maharaja Ju Deo of Orchha [37]
1907
- His Highness Sri Krishnaraja Wadiar Bahadur, Maharaja of Mysore. [38]
1909
- His Highness Sir Rasul Khanji Mahabbat Khanji, Nawab of Junagarh. [39]
- His Excellency General The Right Honourable Horatio Herbert, Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum [40]
1910s
1910
- Her Highness Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam, Begum of Bhopal [41]
- His Highness Sir Sardar Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Jodhpur [42]
1911
- Sir Steuart Colvin Bayley [43]
- Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick [44]
- Sir William Lee-Warner [45]
- General Sir Dighton MacNaghten Probyn [46]
- His Excellency Sir George Sydenham Clarke [47]
- The Right Honourable Sir Arthur Lawley [48]
- Sir John Prescott Hewett [49]
- Colonel His Highness Sri Sir Gunga Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Bikaner [50]
- His Highness Major Sir Umed Singh Bahadur, Maharao of Kotah [51]
- His Excellency General Sir Garrett O'Moore Creagh [52]
- His Highness Farzand-i-Dilband Raish-ul-Itikad Daulat-i-Inglisbia Raja-i-Rajagan Raja Sir Jagatjit Singh, Bahadur Ahluwalia of Kapurthala. [53]
- His Highness Asafjah Muzaffer-ul-Mulk-Maamalik Nizam-ul-Mulk Nizam-ud-Daula Nawab Mir Usman Ali Khan, Bahadur Fateh Jang, the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad.
- His Highness Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan [54]
1912
- His Highness Amin-ud-Daula Wazir-ul-Mulk Nawab Sir Muhammad Ibrahim Ali Khan, Bahadur, Saulat Jang of Tonk [55]
1916
- His Excellency General Sir Beauchamp Duff [56]
1917
- His Highness Maharao Raja Sawai Sir Khengarji Bahadur Rao of Cutch. [57]
1918
- His Excellency The Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Baron Pentland [58]
- His Excellency Sir Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Baron Willingdon [59]
1919
- His Excellency General Sir Sir Charles Monro, 1st Baronet [60]
- His Highness Sir Raghubir Singh Bahadur, Maharao of Bundi [61]
- George Carmichael [62]
- Michael Ernest Sadler [63]
1920s
1921
- Colonel His Highness Alhijah Farzand-i-Dilpazir-i-Daulat-i-Inglisihia, Mukhlis-ud-Daula Nasir-ul-Mulk Amir-ul-Umra Nawab Sir Hamid Ali Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Rampur [64]
- Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Sir Prabhu Narayan Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Benares. [65]
- Major-General His Highness Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulet-i-Inglishia Mansur-i-Zaman Amar-ul-Umra Maharajadhiraja Rajeshwar Sri Maharaja-i-Rajagan Sir Bhupindar Singh Mahindar Bahadur, Maharaja of Patiala. [66]
1923
- His Highness Lieutenant-Colonel Shri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib [67]
1924
- Colonel His Highness Sewai Maharaj Shri Jey Singh, Maharaja of Alwar [68]
- James Lyle, Viscount Inchcape [69]
- General Henry Seymour, Baron Rawlinson of Trent [70]
1925
- The Right Honourable Victor Alexander George Robert, Earl of Lytton [71]
- The Right Honourable Arthur Hamilton, Viscount Lee of Fareham [72]
1928
1929
- Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel, George Joachim, Viscount Goschen of Hawkhurst [74]
- Lieutenant-Colonel The Right Honourable Sir Leslie Orme Wilson [75]
1930s
1930
- The Right Honourable Sir John Allsebrook Simon [76]
- Field-Marshal Sir Claud William Jacob [77]
- Field Marshal Sir William Riddell Birdwood [78]
1931
- His Highness Sir Bhupal Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Udaipur [79]
- Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Shri Sir Rajaram Chhatrapati, Maharaja of Kolhapur [80]
- Major-General His Highness Projjwal-Nepal Tara-Dhish Sri Sri Sri Maharaja Sir Bhim Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana. [81]
1932
- Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Iftikhar-ul-Mulk Sikandar Saulat Haji Sir Muhammad Hamidullah Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Bhopal. [82]
- Sir William Malcolm Hailey [83]
- The Right Honourable William Robert Wellesley, Earl Peel [84]
1933
- Colonel His Highness Sir Hari Singh Indar Mahindar Bahadur, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir.
1934
- Lieutenant-Colonel the Right Honourable Sir George Frederick Stanley [85]
- Field-Marshal Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode [86]
- Lieutenant-Colonel the Right Honourable Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare [87]
1935
- Lieutenant-General His Highness Ojaswi Rajanya Projjwala Nepala Tara Ati Pravala Gorkha Dakshina Bahu Prithuladheesha Sri Sri Sri Maharaja Sir Juddha Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana [88]
1936
- Lieutenant-Colonel Raj Rajeshwar Maharajadhiraja Sir Umaid Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Jodhpur [89]
1937
- His Highness Maharaja Shri Sir Bhagwatsinhji Sagramji, Maharaja of Gondal [90]
- Ranbir Singh, the Maharaja of Jind [91]
1940s
1940
- General Sir Robert Archibald Cassels [92]
1941
- Major His Highness Rukn-ud-Daula Nusrat-i-Jang, Saif-ud-Daula Hafiz-ul-Mulk Mukhlis-ud-Daula wa Muin-ud-Daula Nawab al Haj Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan, Nawab of Bahawalpur.
1946
- Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Maharaja Mukhtar-ul-Mulk, Asim-ul-Iqtidar, Rafi-ush-Shan, Wala Shikoh Mohta-Sham-i-Dauran, Umdat-ul-Umra, Maharajadhi-Raja Alijah Hisam-us-Sultanat, Sir George Jivaji Rao, Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior. [93]
- Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Maharaja Sri Padmanabha Dasa Vanchi Pala Sir Bala Rama Varma, Maharaja of Travancore [94]
1947
- Colonel His Highness Shri Sir Digvijaysinhji, Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar. [95]
1948
- His Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Edward Nye [96]
- His Excellency Sir Frederick John Burrows [97]
- Major His Highness Maharaja Sir Shahaji Chhatrapati, Maharaja of Kolhapur. [98]
- Lieutenant-General His Highness Saramad-i-Rajaha-i-Hindustan Raj Rajindra Sri Maharajadhiraja Sawar Sir Man Singhji, Maharaja of Jaipur. [99]
- Lieutenant-General His Highness Maharajadhiraja Raj Rajeshwar Shiromani Shri Sir Sadul Singhji Bahadur, Maharajah of Bikaner [100]
Honorary Knights Grand Commander
- 1868: Isma'il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt [101]
- 1870: Ferdinand de Lesseps [102]
- 1873: Mirza Hosein Khan Moshir od-Dowleh, Grand Vizier of Persia [103]
- 1875: Tewfik Pasha of Egypt [104]
- 1878: Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, [105] Saffet Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire [106]
- 1879: Khudadad Khan, Khan of Kalat [107]
- 1885: Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan [108]
- 1887: Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan, Governor-General of Isfahan, Arabistan, Kurdistan, Yazd, etc. [109]
- 1890: Ali bin Said of Zanzibar, Sultan of Zanzibar [110]
- 1894: Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar, Sultan of Zanzibar [111]
- 1896: Nubar Pasha [112]
- 1909: Prince Auguste Louis Alberic d'Arenberg, President of the Suez Canal Company [113]
- 1935: Maharaja Juddha Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, Prime Minister of Nepal [114]
- 1945: Padma Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, Commander-in-Chief, Nepalese Army [115]
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