S.No.

Name

Year

About him/her

1

Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari

1954

Last Governor – General, Independence activist

2

Dr. Sarvapali Radhakrishnan

1954

India’s 1st Vice President (1952 – 1962), Philosopher and India’s 2nd President (1962 – 1967)

3

Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

1954

Physicist

4

Dr. Bhagwan Das

1955

Author, Independence activist, Kashi Vidya Peeth Founder

5

Dr. Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya

1955

Diwan of Mysore, Civil engineer

6

Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

1955

Author, Independence activist, 1st Prime Minister

7

Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant

1957

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Independence activist, Home Minister

8

Dr. Dhondo Keshave Karve

1958

Educator, social reformer

9

Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy

1961

Chief Minister of West Bengal and a Physician

10

Shri Purushottam Das Tandon

1961

Educator, Independence activist

11

Dr. Rajendra Prasad

1962

Jurist, Independence activist, 1st President of India

12

Dr. Zakir Hussain

1963

Scholar, Independence activist, 3rd President of India

13

Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane

1963

Sanskrit scholar and Indologist

14

Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri (Posthumous)

1966

2nd Prime Minister of India, Independence activist

15

Smt. Indira Gandhi

1971

3rd Prime Minister of India

16

Shri Varahagiri Venkata Giri

1975

4th President, Trade unionist

17

Shri Kumaraswami Kamraj (Posthumous)

1976

Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Independence activist

18

Mother Teresa

1980

Founder of Missionaries of Charity and a Catholic nun

19

Shri Acharya Vinobha Bhave (Posthumous)

1983

Independence activist and a Social reformer

20

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

1987

Independence activist, First non-citizen

21

Shri Marudu Gopalan Ramachandran (Posthumous)

1988

Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Film actor

22

Dr. Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar (Posthumous)

1990

Crusader against Untouchablity, Chief architect of Indian Constitution, Social Reformer, Dalit Icon, Historian, Economist, scholar, politician

23

Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

1990

2nd non – citizen and non – Indian recipient, Leader of Anti – Apartheid movement

24

Shri Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous)

1991

6th Prime Minister of India

25

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous)

1991

Independence activist, 1st Home Minister

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26

Shri Morarji Ranchhodji Desai

1991

4th Prime Minister and Independence activist

27

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Posthumous)

1992

1st Minister of Education and an Independence activist

28

Shri Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata

1992

Philanthropist and an Industrialist

29

Shri Satyajit Ray

1992

Filmmaker

30

Shri Gulzarilal Nanda

1997

Interim Prime Minister, Independence activist

31

Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali (Posthumous)

1997

Independence activist

32

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

1997

Aeronautical Engineer and 11th President of India

33

Smt. Madurai Sanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi

1998

Carnatic classical singer

34

Shri Chidambaram Subramniam

1998

Minister of Agriculture and an Independence activist

35

Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous)

1999

Politician, Independence activist

36

Professor Amartya Sen

1999

Economist

37

Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (Posthumous)

1999

Chief Minister of Assam, Independence activist

38

Pandit Ravi Shankar

1999

Sitar player

39

Sushri Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar

2001

Playback singer

40

Ustad Bismillah Khan

2001

Hindustani classical shehnai player

41

Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi

2008

Hindustani classical singer

42

Sachin Tendulkar

2014

Indian Cricketer, First Sportsman and Youngest Indian who got Bharat Ratna

43

Prof. C.N.R Rao

2014

Indian Scientist

44

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

2015

Atal Bihari Vajpayee is an Indian statesman who was the Eleventh Prime Minister of India from BJP

45

Madan Mohan Malviya

2015

The freedom icon and Educationist popularly known as ‘Mahamana”.

*First Bharat Ratna was awarded to Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Sir C.V. Raman, and Chakravarti Rajagopalachari in 1954. *Mother Teresa was the first naturalized Indian citizen of Bharat Ratna Award Winner in 1980. *Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1987) And Nelson Mandela (1990) are two non Indians of Bharat Ratna Award Winners. *Sachin Tendulkar is the first sportsperson and the youngest Bharat Ratna Award Winner

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