Bharat Ratna Awardees: Bharat Ratna Award Winners List

Bharat Ratna: Bharat Ratna Award Winners List

Bharat Ratna is India's highest civilian award which is awarded for the highest degrees of national service. This service takes account of artistic, literary, and scientific achievements, and recognition of public service of the highest order.

The award was established by the first President of India, Rajendra Prasad, on 2 January 1954. The awarding of the Bharat Ratna was suspended from 13 July 1977 to 26 January 1980.

The photographs and short biography links associated with this page would certainly widen reader's knowledge about the history of "Bharat Ratna Award" besides finding facts about those great souls who have made our country proud by outshining in their respective fields.

sr. no.	Name of the recipient	Awarded in	Their individuality
1	Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari	1954	Indian political leader, the first and the only governor-general of independent India.
2	Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman	1954	Indian physicist, the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 (birth. Nov. 7, 1888, Trichinopoly [Tiruchirappalli], India; death. Nov. 21, 1970, Bengaluru),
3	Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1954	Philosopher, scholar and statesman, president of India from 1962 to 1967
4	Dr. Bhagwan Das	1955	Independence activist, author
5	Shri Jawaharlal Nehru	1955	Independence activist, author, first prime minister of independent India (1947-64)
6	Dr. Mokshagundam Vivesvaraya	1955	Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore
7	Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant	1957	Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home Minister
8	Dr. Dhonde Keshav Karve	1958	Also known as Maharishi Karve, Indian social reformer and educator
9	Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy	1961	Physician, Chief Minister of West Bengal
10	Shri Purushottam Das Tandon	1961	Independence activist, educator
11	Dr. Rajendra Prasad	1962	First president of the Republic of India (1950-62). A lawyer-turned-journalist, also president of the Indian National Congress
12	Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane	1963	Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
13	Dr. Zakir Hussain	1963	Scholar, third President
14	Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri	1966	Posthumous Award: independence activist, third Prime Minister
15	Smt. Indira Gandhi	1971	Fourth Prime Minister
16	Shri Varahagiri Venkata Giri	1975	Trade unionist and fourth President
17	Shri Kumaraswamy Kamraj	1976	Posthumous Award: independence activist, Chief Minister of Madras State
18	Mother Teresa, (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu)	1980	Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity
19	Shri Acharya Vinoba Bhave	1983	Posthumous Award: social reformer, independence activist
20	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan	1987	First non-citizen, independence activist
21	Shri Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran	1988	Posthumous Award: film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
22	Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedakr	1990	Posthumous Award: architect of the Indian Constitution, politician, economist, and scholar
23	Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela	1990	Second non-citizen and first non-Indian recipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid movement
24	Shri Morarji Ranchhodji Desai	1991	Independence activist, fifth Prime Minister
25	Shri Rajiv Gandhi	1991	Seventh Prime Minister
26	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel	1991	Posthumous Award: independence activist, first Home Minister
27	Shri Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata	1992	Industrialist and philanthropist
28	Shri Maulana Abul Kalam Azad	1992	Posthumous Award: independence activist, first Minister of Education
29	Shri Satyajit Ray	1992	Filmmaker
30	Shri (Dr.) Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam	1997	Aeronautical engineer, eminent defence scientist, Dr. Kalam was India's eleventh president from 2002 to 2007
31	Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali	1997	Posthumous Award: independence activist
32	Shri Gulzari Lal Nanda	1997	Independence activist, second Prime Minister
33	Shri Chidambaram Subramaniam	1998	Chidambaram Subramaniam (birth: January 30, 1910 – death: November 7, 2000) He was an Indian statesman, Freedom fighter, state minister, central minister and governor.
34	Smt. Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi	1998	Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004), Also known as M.S., she was a renowned Carnatic vocalist.
35	Prof. Amartya Sen	1999	Distinguished economist and philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998 for his seminal work in welfare economics
36	Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi	1999	Posthumous Award: independence activist, Chief Minister of Assam
37	Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan	1999	Posthumous Award: Indian political leader and theorist, leader of socio-political mass-movements in Gujarat and Bihar
38	Pandit Ravi Shankar	1999	Sitar player
39	Kumari Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar	2001	Legendary Indian playback singer; sang for more than 2,000 Indian films in a career spanning nearly six decades
40	Ustad Bismillah Khan	2001	(birth March 21, 1916, Bhirung Raut Ki Gali, in Dumraon, Bihar; death Aug. 21, 2006, Varanasi).
41	Pandit Bhimsen Joshi	2008	(birth. Feb. 14, 1922, Gadag, Dharwad, Karnataka), His full name is Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi.