List of Bharat Ratna Award Winners From the Year 1954 till Date
The “Bharat Ratna” Award is the highest Civilian Award in India established on 2ndJanuary 1954 by the former President of India Sh. Rajendra Prasad. This award along with the following three Padma Awards, “Padma Vibhusan”, “Padma Bhushan”, “Padma Shri”.
The Bharat Ratna award is given to the person without any discrimination of sex, race, and age recognising the extraordinary performance in the field of literature, science, public services and arts only.
Maximum three nominees can be given Bharat Ratna per year on the recommendations of PM to the President. A certificate signed by the president and a medal in the shape of a peepal-leaf is given to the awardees.
List of Bharat Ratna Award Winners From the Year 1954 till Date
| Name | About them | Year |
| Sir Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan | Philosopher from Tamil Nadu.
First Vice President of India. Second President of India. His birthday 5th September is commemorated as “Teachers Day”. |
1954 |
| C. Rajagopalachari | He was also known by the name “Rajaji”.
He was an Indian freedom fighter from Tamil Nadu. Rajaji was the last Governor General of British India. |
1954 |
| Sir C.V. Raman | He was a physicist from Tamil Nadu. | 1954 |
| Bhagwan Das | He was an Indian Freedom fighter & a man of Literature. | 1955 |
| Sir Mokshagundam Vishweshvaraya | He was an Indian Civil Engineer; Dam Architect & Diwan of the Princely State of Mysore.
Engineer’s Day in India is celebrated in his memory. |
1955 |
| Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru | He was an Indian Freedom Fighter & the First Prime Minister of India. | 1955 |
| Govind Ballabh Pant | He was an Indian Freedom Fighter. | 1957 |
| Dhondo Keshav Karve | He was an Educationist and a Social Reformer belonging to Maharashtra | 1958 |
| B.C. Roy | He was a Physician, Politician and Former Chief Minister of West Bengal | 1961 |
| Purushottam Das Tandon | He was an Indian Freedom Fighter and an Educationist. | 1961 |
| Rajendra Prasad | He was an Indian freedom fighter & the First President of India. | 1962 |
| Zakir Hussain | He was a former president of India. | 1962 |
| Pandurang Vaman Kane | He was an Ideologist and Sanskrit scholar. | 1962 |
| Lal Bahadur Shastri | He was the second Prime Minister of India & Bharat Ratna award was given to him Posthumously. | 1966 |
| Indira Gandhi | She was a former and the first and the only lady Prime Minister of India. | 1971 |
| V.V. Giri | He was a former president of India. | 1975 |
| K. Kamaraj | He was an Indian Freedom Fighter and Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. | 1976 |
| Mother Teresa | She was a Nobel Laureate who dedicated her life serving the sick people of India. | 1980 |
| Acharya Vinoba Bhave | He was a Social Reformer and a Freedom Fighter and awarded Posthumously. | 1983 |
| Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | He was a freedom fighter who belongs to Pakistan.
First non-citizen given Bharat Ratna award. He was also known as Frontier Gandhi. |
1987 |
| M.G. Ramachandran / MGR | He was a Popular Cinema Actor & a Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. | 1988 |
| B.R. Ambedkar | He was a Social Reformer, Economist, and scholar who played a key role in the formation of the Indian Constitution. | 1990 |
| Nelson Mandela | He is the second non-citizen and the first non-Indian to whom Bharat Ratna Award was given.
He was a leader of the Anti-Apartheid movement. |
1990 |
| Rajiv Gandhi | He was the Former Prime Minister of India. | 1991 |
| Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel | He was an Indian Freedom Fighter and the First Home Minister of India. | 1991 |
| Morarji Desai | He was an Indian freedom fighter & the first ever Non-Congress Prime Minister of India. | 1991 |
| Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad | He was an Indian freedom fighter and the first Education Minister of India. | 1992 |
| J.R. D. Tata | He was an Industrialist and a Philanthropist | 1992 |
| Satyajit Ray | He was a popular Bengali-Film Director and an Oscar Award winner. | 1992 |
| A.P.J. Abdul Kalam | He was an atomic scientist & a former President of India. | 1997 |
| Gulzarilal Nanda | He was an Indian Freedom Fighter and a former Prime Minister of India. | 1997 |
| Aruna Ali | He was an Indian Freedom Fighter who belonged from West Bengal. | 1997 |
| M.S. Subbulakshmi | She was a Carnatic Music vocalist. | 1998 |
| Chidambaram Subramaniam | He was an Indian Freedom fighter and former Union Minister of Agriculture. | 1998 |
| Jayaprakash Narayan | He was an Indian Freedom Fighter and a Social Reformer. | 1999 |
| Pandit Ravi Shankar | He was a Classical Sitarist. | 1999 |
| Amartya Sen | He is an Indian Economist and a Nobel Laureate who belonged from West Bengal. | 1999 |
| Gopinath Bordoloi | He was an Indian Freedom Fighter from Assam. | 1999 |
| Lata Mangeshkar | She is a Hindi-cinema-play back singer from Maharashtra. | 2001 |
| Ustad Bismillah Khan | He was a classical Shehnai-Maestro born in Bihar. | 2001 |
| Pandit Bhimshen Gururaj Joshi | He was a Hindustani Classical Vocalist from Karnataka. | 2008 |
| Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar | He is an Indian Sports Person (Cricketer). | 2013 |
| C.N. Rao | He is an Indian Chemist. | 2013 |
| Atal Bihari Vajpayee | He was a former Prime Minister of India. | 2014 |
| Madan Mohan Malviya | He was an Indian Politician and the founder of Banaras Hindu University (BHU). | 2014 |
List of Bharat Ratna Award Winners
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