भारत रत्न से सम्मानित व्यक्ति List of Bharat Ratna recipients

List of Bharat Ratna recipients
Year		Laureates	State / Country
1954	3	C. Rajagopalachari	Tamil Nadu
		Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	Tamil Nadu
		C. V. Raman	Tamil Nadu
1955	3	Bhagwan Das	Uttar Pradesh
		M. Visvesvaraya	Karnataka
		Jawaharlal Nehru	Uttar Pradesh
1957	1	Govind Ballabh Pant	Uttarakhand
1958	1	Dhondo Keshav Karve	Maharashtra
1961	2	Bidhan Chandra Roy	West Bengal
1961	2	Purushottam Das Tandon	Uttar Pradesh
1962	1	Rajendra Prasad	Bihar
1963	2	Zakir Husain	Andhra Pradesh
1963	2	Pandurang Vaman Kane	Maharashtra
1966	1	Lal Bahadur Shastri	Uttar Pradesh	(Posthumous)
1971	1	Indira Gandhi	Uttar Pradesh
1975	1	V. V. Giri	Odisha
1976	1	K. Kamaraj	Tamil Nadu	(Posthumous)
1980	1	Mother Teresa Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu	West Bengal (Born in Skopje, now North Macedonia)
1983	1	Vinoba Bhave	Maharashtra	(Posthumous)
1987	1	Abdul Ghaffar Khan*	Pakistan
1988	1	M. G. Ramachandran	Tamil Nadu	(Posthumous)
1990	2	B. R. Ambedkar	Maharashtra	(Posthumous)
1990	2	Nelson Mandela*	South Africa
1991	3	Rajiv Gandhi	Uttar Pradesh	(Posthumous)
		Vallabhbhai Patel	Gujarat	(Posthumous)
		Morarji Desai	Gujarat
1992	3	Abul Kalam Azad	West Bengal	(Posthumous)
		J. R. D. Tata	Maharashtra
		Satyajit Ray	West Bengal
1997	3	Gulzarilal Nanda	Punjab
		Aruna Asaf Ali	West Bengal	(Posthumous)
		A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	Tamil Nadu
1998	2	M. S. Subbulakshmi	Tamil Nadu
1998	2	Chidambaram Subramaniam	Tamil Nadu
1999	4	Jayaprakash Narayan	Bihar	(Posthumous)
		Amartya Sen	West Bengal
		Gopinath Bordolo	Assam	(Posthumous)
		Ravi Shankar	Uttar Pradesh
2001	2	Lata Mangeshkar	Maharashtra
2001	2	Bismillah Khan	Uttar Pradesh
2009	1	Bhimsen Joshi	Karnataka
2014	2	C. N. R. Rao	Karnataka
2014	2	Sachin Tendulkar	Maharashtra
2015	2	Madan Mohan Malaviya	Uttar Pradesh	(Posthumous)
2015	2	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Madhya Pradesh
2019	3	Pranab Mukherjee	West Bengal	(Posthumous)
		Bhupen Hazarika	Assam	(Posthumous)
		Nanaji Deshmukh	Maharashtra	(Posthumous)
Total	48

List of Bharat Ratna recipients भारत रत्न से सम्मानित व्यक्ति
Year	Laureates	Notes
1954	C. Rajagopalachari	Known as the “Mootharignar” (“Scholar Emeritus”) Rajagopalachari was the Governor-General of India (1948–50). He was the home minister in Nehru’s first cabinet. Rajaji was the first Governor of West Bengal. chief minister of Tamil Nadu between 1952 and 1954. founder of Swatantra Party
	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	India’s first Vice-President (1952–62) second President (1962–67). 5 September: “Teachers’ Day”
	C. V. Raman	“Raman scattering”, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.
1955	Bhagwan Das	co-founder of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith worked with Madan Mohan Malaviya for the foundation of Banaras Hindu University
	M. Visvesvaraya	Civil engineer Diwan of Mysore (1912–18) 15 September : Engineer’s Day in India.
	Jawaharlal Nehru	first and the longest-serving Prime Minister of India (1947–64). Nehru himself was Prime Minister of India at the time of the receiving award.
1957	Govind Ballabh Pant	first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (1950–54). He served as Union Home Minister from 1955 to 1961
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	“Maker of Modern West Bengal” second Chief Minister of West Bengal (1948–62) his birthday on 1 July is observed as National Doctors’ Day in India.
1961	Purushottam Das Tandon	“Rajarshi”, Tandon
1962	Rajendra Prasad	first President of India (1950–62).
1963	Zakir Husain	Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University (1948–56) Governor of Bihar (1957–62) second Vice-President of India (1962–67) third President of India (1967–69).
1963	Pandurang Vaman Kane	Sanskrit scholar
1966	Lal Bahadur Shastri	slogan “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan” second Prime Minister of India (1964–66) PM during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
1971	Indira Gandhi	“Iron Lady of India” Prime Minister of India during 1966–77 and 1980–84. Gandhi herself was Prime Minister of India at the time of receiving the award.
1975	V. V. Giri	Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Kerala and Mysore first acting president fourth President of India (1969–74).
1976	K. Kamaraj	Known as the “King Maker” He was the chief minister of Tamil Nadu between 1954 and 1963.
1980	Mother Teresa	“Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta” founder of the Missionaries of Charity She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ,1979
1983	Vinoba Bhave	Bhoodan movement, “Land-Gift Movement”. awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award (1958)
1987	Abdul Ghaffar Khan*	known as “Frontier Gandhi” He joined Khilafat Movement in 1920 founded Khudai Khidmatgar (“Red Shirt movement”) in 1929.
1988	M. G. Ramachandran	Known as the “Puratchi Thalaivar” (“Revolutionary Leader”), actor turned politician first actor to become the chief minister of the state in the history of India. He was the chief minister of Tamil Nadu for over ten years between 1977 and 1987. He is the founder of Indian political party All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
1990	B. R. Ambedkar	the first Law Minister of India. accepted Buddhism as a religion on 14 October 1956.
1990	Nelson Mandela*	President of South Africa (1994–99). “Gandhi of South Africa” In 1993, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1991	Rajiv Gandhi	Gandhi was the sixth Prime Minister of India serving from 1984 to 1989.
	Vallabhbhai Patel	known as the “Iron Man of India” first Deputy Prime Minister of India (1947–50) Patel worked with V. P. Menon towards dissolving 555 princely states into the Indian union.
	Morarji Desai	fourth Prime Minister of India (1977–79) only Indian national to be awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan, He was also the first Non Congress Prime Minister of India
1992	Abul Kalam Azad	I India’s first Minister of Education known as “Maulana Azad” 11 November birthday : National Education Day
	J. R. D. Tata	founded India’s first airline Air India.
	Satyajit Ray	director of Pather Panchali (1955) In 1984, Dadasaheb Phalke Award In 1991, he received Academy Honorary Award
1997	Gulzarilal Nanda	two times interim Prime Minister of India (1964, 1966) two times deputy chairman of the Planning Commission
	Aruna Asaf Ali	hoisting the Indian flag in Bombay during the Quit India Movement in 1942. Ali was elected as Delhi’s first mayor in 1958.
	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister, eleventh President of India from 2002 until 2007.
1998	M. S. Subbulakshmi	Carnatic classical vocalist Subbulakshmi was from Madurai, Tamil Nadu. “Queen of songs”, the first Indian musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award
1998	Chidambaram Subramaniam	Independence activist and former Minister of Agriculture of India (1964–66), Subramaniam is known for his contribution towards Green Revolution in India.
1999	Jayaprakash Narayan	referred as “Loknayak” (“People’s Leader”), Total Revolution Movement or “JP Movement” initiated during mid-1970s
	Amartya Sen	Winner of the Nobel Economic Prize(1998)
	Gopinath Bordolo	first Chief Minister of Assam (1946–50)
	Ravi Shankar	Winner of four Grammy Awards sitar player
2001	Lata Mangeshkar	“nightingale of India” In 1989, Mangeshkar was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award,
2001	Bismillah Khan	shehnai player
2009	Bhimsen Joshi	A Hindustani classical vocalist
2014	C. N. R. Rao	chemist and professor
2014	Sachin Tendulkar	debuted in 1989 Tendulkar played 664 international cricket matches only player to have scored one hundred international centuries the first batsman to score a double century in a One Day International
2015	Madan Mohan Malaviya	founder of Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha (1906) founder of Banaras Hindu University and served as the university’s vice-chancellor from 1919 until 1938. President of Congress for four terms Chairman of Hindustan Times from 1924 to 1946
2015	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	elected nine times to the Lok Sabha twice to the Rajya Sabha Prime Minister of India for three terms; 1996, 1998, 1999–2004 Minister of External Affairs during 1977–79
2019	Pranab Mukherjee	13th President of India from 2012 until 2017. leader in the Indian National Congress Union Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012.
	Bhupen Hazarika	Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet and film-maker from Assam, widely known as Sudhakantha.
	Nanaji Deshmukh	Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh also known as Nanaji Deshmukh was a social activist from India.