RECIPIENTS OF BHARAT RATNA

S. No.	Name	Year
1.	Chakravarti Rajagopalchari	1954
2.	Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1954
3.	Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman	1954
4.	Dr. Bhagwan Das	1955
5.	Dr. Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya	1955
6.	Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru	1955
7.	Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant	1957
8.	Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve	1958
9.	Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy	1961
10.	P.D. Tandon	1961
11.	Dr. Rajendra Prasad	1962
12.	Dr. Zakir Hussain	1963
13.	Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane	1963
14.	Lal Bahadur Shastri	1966
15.	Smt. Indira Gandhi	1971
16.	Varahagiri Venkata Giri	1975
17.	Kumaraswami Kamraj	1976
18.	Mother Teresa	1980
19.	Acharya Vinoba Bhave	1983
20.	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan	1987
21.	M.G. Ramachandran	1988
22.	Dr. B.R. Ambedkar	1990
23.	Dr. Nelson Mandela	1990
24.	Rajiv Gandhi	1991
25.	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel	1991
26.	Moraraji Desai	1991
27.	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad	1992
28.	Jehangir Rataj Ji Dadabhai Tata	1992
29.	Satyajit Ray	1992
30.	Gulzari Lal Nanda	1997
31.	Aruna Asaf Ali	1997
32.	A.P.J. Abdul Kalam	1997
33.	M.S. Subbulakshmi	1998
34.	Chidambaram Subramaniam	1998
35.	Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan	1999
36.	Amartya Sen	1999
37.	Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi	1999
38.	Pandit Ravi Shankar	1999
39.	Lata Mangeshkar	2001
40.	Ustad Bismillah Khan	2001
41.	Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi	2009
42.	C.N.R. Rao	2014
43.	Sachin Tendulkar	2014
44.	Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya	2015
45.	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	2015