List of the Bharat Ratna Recipients

List of the Bharat Ratna Recipients

Year	Name of Recipient	Any Note
1954	C. Rajagopalachari	The only Indian and last Governor-General of independent India
	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	India's first Vice-President (1952–62) and second President (1962–67). His birthday on 5 September is observed as "Teachers' Day" in India.
	C. V. Raman	Known for the discovery of "Raman scattering". Second Indian to be awarded the Nobel Prize (1930)
1955	Bhagwan Das	Co-founder of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith and worked with Madan Mohan Malaviya for the foundation of Banaras Hindu University.
	M. Visvesvaraya	He was a Civil engineer. His birthday, 15 September, is observed as "Engineer's Day".
	Jawaharlal Nehru	The first and the longest-serving Prime Minister of India (1947–64)
1957	Govind Ballabh Pant	First Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
1958	Dhondo Keshav Karve	He established the Widow Marriage Association (1883), Hindu Widows Home (1896), and started Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University in 1916
1961	Bidhan Chandra Roy	Second Chief Minister of West Bengal. His birthday on 1 July is observed as National Doctors' Day.
	Purushottam Das Tandon	-
1962	Rajendra Prasad	The first President of India (1950–62)
1963	Zakir Husain	Second Vice-President (1962–67) and the third President of India (1967–69)
	Pandurang Vaman Kane	-
1966	Lal Bahadur Shastri	Known for his slogan "Jai Jawan Jai Kisan" ("Hail the Soldier, Hail the Farmer"). Second Prime Minister of India (1964–66) and led the country during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.The first person to be awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously.
1971	Indira Gandhi	Known as the Iron Lady of India. First woman PM of India. She was the Prime Minister of India during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
1975	V. V. Giri	First acting President and Fourth President of India (1969–74)
1976	K. Kamaraj	-
1980	Mother Teresa	A catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
1983	Vinoba Bhave	He is known for Bhoodan movement, "Land-Gift Movement. He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1958.
1987	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan	Known as "Frontier Gandhi”. He joined Khilafat Movement in 1920 and founded Khudai Khidmatgar ("Red Shirt movement") in 1929.The first non-Indian to be awarded the Bharat Ratna.
1988	M. G. Ramachandran	-
1990	Dr. B. R. Ambedkar	The Chief architect of the Indian Constitution and the first Law Minister of India. He was associated with the Dalit Buddhist movement.
	Nelson Mandela	The second non-Indian person to be awarded the Bharat Ratna.The President of South Africa (1994–99). Called as the Gandhi of South Africa. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
1991	Rajiv Gandhi	The sixth Prime Minister of India
	Vallabhbhai Patel	Known as the "Iron Man of India". First Deputy Prime Minister of India.
	Morarji Desai	The fourth Prime Minister of India (1977–79). He is the only Indian to be awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan, highest civilian of Pakistan.
1992	Abul Kalam Azad	India's first Minister of Education and worked towards free primary education. Known as "Maulana Azad" and his birthday on 11 November is observed as National Education Day.
	J. R. D. Tata	Tata founded India's first airline Air India. The first and only Industrialist to be awarded the Bharat Ratna
	Satyajit Ray	A film maker. He was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1984
1997	Gulzarilal Nanda	He was two times interim Prime Minister of India (1964, 1966)
	Aruna Asaf Ali	-
	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	Known as "Missile Man of India". He was involved in the development of India's first satellite launch vehicle SLV III and was the architect of Integrated Guided Missile Development Program. He served as the 11th President of India from (2002-2007)
1998	M. S. Subbulakshmi	Carnatic classical vocalist. The first Indian musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award.
	Chidambaram Subramaniam	He is known for his contribution towards Green Revolution in India.
1999	Jayaprakash Narayan	Famous as "Lok Nayak" ("People's Hero"). Narayan is known for "Total Revolution Movement" or "JP Movement".
	Amartya Sen	Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic (1998)
	Gopinath Bordoloi	The first Chief Minister of Assam
	Ravi Shankar	Sitar player
2001	Lata Mangeshkar	Known as “Nightingale of India”. Lata Mangeshkar was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1989.
	Bismillah Khan	Hindustani classical Shehnai Player
2009	Bhimsen Joshi	Hindustani classical vocalist
2014	C. N. R. Rao	Scientist
	Sachin Tendulkar	Sportsperson
2015	Madan Mohan Malaviya	Founder of Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha (1906) and Banaras Hindu University
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	The Prime Minister of India for three terms; 1996, 1998, 1999–2004.
2019	Pranab Mukherjee	The 13th President of India (2012 – 2017)
	Bhupen Hazarika	Indian musician, poet and film-maker from Assam
	Nanaji Deshmukh	Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh also known as Nanaji Deshmukh was a social activist from India

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