List of Bharat Ratna Awardees
List of Bharat Ratna Awardees
S.No |
Bharat Ratna Awardees | Year | Description |
1 | C. Rajagopalachari | 1954 |
Indian politician, independence activist, lawyer, writer, historian and statesman. Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India |
2 |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | 1954 | Indian philosopher and statesman. First Vice President of India. |
3 | C. V. Raman | 1954 |
Indian physicist who carried out ground-breaking work in the field of light scattering. Nobel Laureate(Physics) |
4 |
Bhagwan Das | 1955 | Indian Theosophist and a part of Central Legislative Assembly of British India |
5 | M. Visvesvaraya | 1955 |
Civil Engineer & Statesman |
6 |
Jawaharlal Nehru | 1955 | Indian independence activist, First Prime Minister of India |
7 | Govind Ballabh Pant | 1957 |
Indian freedom fighter. One of the architects of modern India |
8 |
Dhondo Keshav Karve | 1958 | A social reformer in India in the field of women’s welfare |
9 | Bidhan Chandra Roy | 1961 |
An eminent Indian physician, educationist, philanthropist, freedom fighter and politician. He served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1948. |
10 |
Purushottam Das Tandon | 1961 | A freedom fighter from Uttar Pradesh, India. He has put enormous efforts in achieving the Official Language of India status for Hindi. |
11 | Rajendra Prasad | 1962 |
First President of India |
12 | Zakir Husain | 1963 | Third President of India |
13 |
Pandurang Vaman Kane | 1963 | Indologist and Sanskrit scholar |
14 | Lal Bahadur Shastri | 1966 |
Second President of India |
15 |
Indira Gandhi | 1971 | The only female Prime Minister of India |
16 | V. V. Giri | 1975 |
Fourth President of India |
17 |
K. Kamaraj | 1976 | A leader of the Indian National Congress |
18 | Mother Teresa | 1980 |
An Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary |
19 |
Vinoba Bhave | 1983 | An Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights |
20 | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | 1987 |
A Pashtun independence activist |
21 |
M. G. Ramachandran | 1988 | An Indian actor, filmmaker and politician who served as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. |
22 | B. R. Ambedkar | 1990 |
An Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer who was a part of the Dalit Buddhist movement |
23 |
Nelson Mandela | 1990 | A South African revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa |
24 | Rajiv Gandhi | 1991 |
An Indian politician who served as the 6th Prime Minister of India |
25 |
Vallabhbhai Patel | 1991 | The first Deputy Prime Minister of India |
26 | Morarji Desai | 1991 |
An Indian independence activist. 4th Prime Minister of India. |
27 |
Abul Kalam Azad | 1992 | An Indian scholar, independence activist, and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress |
28 | J. R. D. Tata | 1992 |
Chairman of Tata Group |
29 |
Satyajit Ray | 1992 | Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, music composer, graphic artist, lyricist and author |
30 | Aruna Asaf Ali | 1997 |
An Indian independence activist. First Mayor of Delhi |
31 |
Gulzarilal Nanda | 1997 | Indian politician and economist who specialized in labour issues |
32 | Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam | 1997 |
Missile Man of India |
33 |
M. S. Subbulakshmi | 1998 | Indian Carnatic singer from Madurai, Tamil Nadu |
34 | Chidambaram Subramaniam | 1998 |
An Indian politician and Independence activist |
35 |
Jayaprakash Narayan | 1999 | Indian independence activist, theorist, socialist and political leader |
36 | Amartya Sen | 1999 |
Indian economist and philosopher |
37 |
Gopinath Bordoloi | 1999 | First Chief Minister of Assam |
38 | Ravi Shankar | 1999 |
An Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music |
39 |
Lata Mangeshkar | 2001 | Indian playback singer and music director |
40 | Bismillah Khan | 2001 |
Indian musician credited with popularizing the shehnai |
41 |
Bhimsen Joshi | 2009 | Indian vocalist from Karnataka |
42 | C. N. R. Rao | 2014 |
The Head of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India |
43 |
Sachin Tendulkar | 2014 | Former captain of the Indian national team and one of the greatest batsman in the history of Cricket. |
44 | Madan Mohan Malaviya | 2015 |
An Indian educationist and politician |
45 |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 2015 | Indian politician, statesman and a poet. He served three terms as the Prime Minister of India |
46 | Pranab Mukherjee | 2019 |
13th President of India |
47 |
Nanaji Deshmukh | 2019 | Social Activist |
48 | Bhupen Hazarika | 2019 |
An Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, singer, poet and film-maker from Assam |
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