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 |