List of Bharat Ratna Awardees

List of Bharat Ratna Awardees

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The Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of the Republic of India. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conferred in recognition of "exceptional service/performance of the highest order", without distinction of race, occupation, position or gender.

List of Bharat Ratna Awardees


Winners
M. S. Swaminathan
2024

P. V. Narasimha Rao
2024

L. K. Advani
2024

Karpoori Thakur
2024
Charan Singh
2024

Bhupen Hazarika
2019

Pranab Mukherjee
2019

Nanaji Deshmukh
2019

Atal Bihari Vajpayee
2015

Sachin Tendulkar
2014

Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya
2014

C. N. R. Rao
2013

Bhimsen Joshi
2009

Lata Mangeshkar
2001

Bismillah Khan
2001

Jayaprakash Narayan
1999

Gopinath Bordoloi
1999

Ravi Shankar
1999

Amartya Sen
1999

C. Subramaniam
1998

M. S. Subbulakshmi
1998

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
1997

Gulzarilal Nanda
1997

Aruna Asaf Ali
1997

J. R. D. Tata
1992

Maulana Azad
1992

Satyajit Ray
1992

Morarji Desai
1991

Rajiv Gandhi
1991

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
1991

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
1990

Nelson Mandela
1990

M.G. Ramachandran
1988

Abdul Ghaffar Khan
1987

Vinoba Bhave
1983

Mother Teresa
1980

K. Kamaraj
1976

V. V. Giri
1975

Indira Gandhi
1971

Lal Bahadur Shastri
1966

Zakir Husain
1963

P.V. Kane
1963

Rajendra Prasad
1962

Purushottam Das Tandon
1961

Bidhan Chandra Roy
1961

Dhondo Keshav Karve
1958

Govind Ballabh Pant
1957

Jawaharlal Nehru
1955

Bhagwan Das
1955

Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya
1955

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
1954