No Name (birth -- death) Portrait Elected (% votes) Took office Left office Term (in years) Notes President (s) Candidate of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888 -- 1975) 1952 (Unopposed) 1957 (Unopposed) 13 May 1952 12 May 1962 10 Radhakrishnan was a prominent scholar. Besides being awarded the Bharat Ratna he also held the position of vice-chancellor in the Banaras Hindu University and the Andhra college. He served as the Vice-President for two terms. Rajendra Prasad Independent Zakir Husain (1897 -- 1969) -- 1962 (97.59) 13 May 1962 12 May 1967 5 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Independent Varahagiri Venkata Giri (1894 -- 1980) -- 1967 (71.45) 13 May 1967 3 May 1969 Zakir Husain Independent Gopal Swarup Pathak (1896 -- 1982) -- 1969 -- 31 August 1969 30 August 1974 5 Varahagiri Venkata Giri (1969 -- 1974) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1974) Independent 5 Basappa Danappa Jatti (1912 -- 2002) -- (78.70) 31 August 1974 30 August 1979 5 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1974 -- 1977) Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1977 -- 1979) Indian National Congress 6 Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905 -- 1992) -- 1979 (Unopposed) 31 August 1979 30 August 1984 5 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1979 -- 1982) Giani Zail Singh (1982 -- 1984) Independent 7 Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910 -- 2009) 1984 (71.05) 31 August 1984 24 July 1987 Giani Zail Singh Indian National Congress 8 Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918 -- 1999) (Unopposed) 3 September 1987 24 July 1992 5 Ramaswamy Venkataraman Indian National Congress 9 Kocheril Raman Narayanan (1920 -- 2005) 1992 (99.86) 21 August 1992 24 July 1997 5 Shankar Dayal Sharma Indian National Congress 10 Krishan Kant (1927 -- 2002) -- 1997 (61.76) 21 August 1997 27 July 2002 Kocheril Raman Narayanan (1997 -- 2002) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (2002) Janata Dal 11 Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (1923 -- 2010) 2002 (59.82) 19 August 2002 21 July 2007 5 A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Bharatiya Janata Party 12 Mohammad Hamid Ansari (1937 --) 2007 (60.51) 2012 (67.31) 11 August 2007 11 August 2017 10 Pratibha Patil (2007 -- 2012) Pranab Mukherjee (2012 -- 2017) Ram Nath Kovind (2017) Indian National Congress 13 Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu (1949 --) 2017 (67.89) 11 August 2017 Incumbent -- Ram Nath Kovind Bharatiya Janata Party
who held the office of the vice president of india for two consecutive terms
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan