The Sansad Bhavan or Parliament House is the house of the Parliament of India. This house is divided in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. To show honour to the great legend of the India; the portraits of 25 of different great legend of India are put in the Central Hall of Parliament House.
The list of different legends whose portrait is unveiled in the Central Hall of the Parliament is as follows;
| Portrait | Artist | Unveiled by |
| 1. Mahatma Gandhi | Oswald Birley | Dr. Rajendra Prasad, President of India |
| 2. Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Gopal D. Deuskar | Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India |
| 3. Smt. Sarojini Naidu | Smt. Chintamani Kar | Dr. Rajendra Prasad, President of India |
| 4. C. Rajagopalachari | N. S. Subhakrishna | N. Sanjeeva Reddy, President of India |
| 5. Chaudhary Charan Singh | Smt. Zeba Amrohawi | Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India |
| 6. Lala Lajpat Rai | Satish Gujral | Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India |
| 7. Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee | N. S. Subhakrishna | Shri R. Venkatraman, President of India |
| 8. Pandit Motilal Nehru | K. S. Kulkarni | Dr. Rajendra Prasad, President of India |
| 9. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | K. K. Hebbar | Dr. Rajendra Prasad, President of India |
| 10. Smt. Indira Gandhi | S. Roerich | Shri R. Venkatraman, President of India |
| 11. Dr. Rajendra Prasad | H. S. Trivedi | Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, President of India |
| 12. Rajiv Gandhi | B. Bhatacharyaji | Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India |
| 13. Dr. Rammanohar Lohia | G. R. Santosh | Shri Chandrashekhar, Prime Minister of India |
| 14. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel | N. S. Subhakrishna | Dr. Rajendra Prasad, President of India |
| 15. Lal Bahadur Shastri | Vidya Bhushan | Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India |
| 16. Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das | Atul Bose | Dr. Rajendra Prasad, President of India |
| 17. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru | S. Roerich | Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, President of India |
| 18. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar | Zeba Amrohawi | Shri V. P. Singh, Prime Minister of India |
| 19. Madan Mohan Malaviya | S. L. Haldankar | Dr. Rajendra Prasad, President of India |
| 20. Morarji Desai | R. D. Pareekh | Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India |
| 21. Rabindranath Tagore | Atul Bose | Dr. Rajendra Prasad, President of India |
| 22. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose | Chintamani Kar | N. Sanjeeva Reddy, President of India |
| 23. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar | Chandrakala Kumar Kadam | Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, President of India |
| 24. Dadabhai Naoroji | J. A. Lalkhaka | G. V. Mavalankar, Speaker |
| 25. Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Krishna Kanhai | Ram Nath Kovind |
There are many other portraits in the different parts of the Parliament. Like there are 40 portraits put in the Parliamentary Museum, 20 portraits in the outer lobby of Lok Sabha Chamber or Speaker's Gallery and 20 statues / bust of national leaders installed in waiting halls of Parliament house building.
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