*BHARAT RATNA AWARDEES

SNo	Name	Birth-Death	Awarded		Remarks
1	Chakravarti Rajgopalachari	1878–1972	1954	Last Governor-General and Independence activist
2	C. V. Raman	1888–1970	1954	Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner
3	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1888–1975	1954	First Vice President and Philosopher
4	Bhagwan Das	1869–1958	1955	Indian Theosophist and Public figure
5	Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya	1861–1962	1955	Engineer, scholar and the Diwan of Mysore
6	Jawaharlal Nehru	1889–1964	1955	First Prime Minister, Independence activist and Author
7	Govind Ballabh Pant	1887–1961	1957	Indian politician and independence activist
8	Dhondo Keshav Karve	1858–1962	1958	Social reformer
9	Bidhan Chandra Roy	1882–1962	1961	Physician, Chief Minister of West Bengal
10	Purushottam Das Tandon	1882–1962	1961	Freedom fighter
11	Rajendra Prasad	1884–1963	1962	First President and Independence activist
12	Zakir Hussain	1897–1969	1963	Independence activist and Scholar
13	Pandurang Vaman Kane	1880–1972	1963	Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
14	Lal Bahadur Shastri	1904–1966	1966	Second Prime Minister, First Posthumously Given
15	Indira Gandhi	1917–1984	1971	Third Prime Minister
16	V. V. Giri	1894–1980	1975	Fourth President
17	K. Kamaraj	1903–1975	1976	Independence activist and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State
18	Mother Teresa	1910–1997	1980	Humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize Winner
19	Vinoba Bhave	1895–1982	1983	Advocate of nonviolence and human rights
20	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan	1890–1988	1987	Independence activist and First non-citizen to received award
21	M. G. Ramachandran	1917–1987	1988	Actor, director, producer, and politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
22	B. R. Ambedkar	1891–1956	1990	First law minister and Principal architect of the Constitution of India
23	Nelson Mandela	1918	1990	South African politician and President of South Africa
24	Rajiv Gandhi	1944–1991	1991	Sixth Prime Minister
25	Vallabhbhai Patel	1875–1950	1991	First Home Minister and Independence activist
26	Morarji Desai	1896–1995	1991	Fourth Prime Minister
27	Abul Kalam Azad	1888–1958	1992	First Minister of Education
28	J. R. D. Tata	1904–1993	1992	Business magnate
29	Satyajit Ray	1922–1992	1992	Filmmaker and Oscar Winner
30	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	1931	1997	Indian scientist
31	Gulzarilal Nanda	1898–1998	1997	Independence activist
32	Aruna Asaf Ali	1908–1996	1997	Independence activist
33	M. S. Subbulakshmi	1916–2004	1998	Carnatic vocalist
34	Chidambaram Subramaniam	1910–2000	1998	Minister of Agriculture
35	Jayaprakash Narayan	1902–1979	1999	independence activist and political leader
36	Ravi Shankar	1920–2012	1999	Musician,composer and Sitar player
37	Amartya Sen	1933	1999	Economist and Nobel Prize Winner
38	Gopinath Bordoloi	1890–1950	1999	Independence activist, Chief Minister of Assam
39	Lata Mangeshkar	1929	2001	Playback singer
40	Bismillah Khan	1916–2006	2001	Hindustani classical shehnai player
41	Bhimsen Joshi	1922–2011	2008	Hindustani classical vocalist
42	C. N. R. Rao	1934	2014	Scientist
43	Sachin Tendulkar	1973	2014	Cricketer