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 |