*RECIPTENTS OF BHARAT RATNA

• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1954)
• C. Rajagopalachari (1954)
• C. V. Raman (1954)
• Bhagwan Das (1955)
• Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya (1955)
• Jawaharlal Nehru (1955)
• Govind Ballabh Pant (1957)
• Dhondo Keshav Karve (1958)
• Bidhan Chandra Roy (1961)
• Purushottam Das Tandon (1961)
• Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1962)
• Dr. Zakir Hussain (1963)
• Pandurang Vaman Kane (1963)
• Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966)
• Indira Gandhi (1971)
• V. V. Giri (1975)
• K. Kamaraj (1976)
• Mother Teresa (1980)
• Acharya Vinoba Bhave (1983)
• Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1987)
• M. G. Ramachandran (1988)
• B. R. Ambedkar (1990)
• Nelson Mandela (1990)
• Rajiv Gandhi (1991)
• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1991)
• Morarji Desai (1991)
• Abul Kalam Azad (1992)
• J. R. D. Tata (1992)
• Satyajit Ray (1992)
• A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1997)
• Gulzarilal Nanda (1997)
• Aruna Asaf Ali (1997)
• M. S. Subbulakshmi (1998)
• Chidambaram Subramaniam (1998)
• Jayaprakash Narayan (1998)
• Ravi Shankar (1999)
• Amartya Sen (1999)
• Gopinath Bordoloi (1999)
• Lata Mangeshkar (2001)
• Bismillah Khan (2001)
• Bhimsen Joshi (2008)
• C. N. R. Rao (2013)
• Sachin Tendulkar (2013)
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee (2014)
• Madan Mohan Malaviya (2014)