List of Bharat Ratna Awardees

List of Bharat Ratna Awardees

List of Bharat Ratna Awardees

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

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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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