List of all Bharat Ratna Award Recipients

Complete List of Bharat Ratna Award Holders. Updated on June 2014.

1. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari - 1954

2. Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan - 1954

3. Dr. Chandrasekhar Venkat Raman - 1954

4. Dr. Bhagavan Das - 1955

5. Dr. Mokshagunadam Visvesvaraya - 1955

6. Jawaharlal Nehru -1955

7. Govind Ballabh Pant -1957

8. Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve -1958

9. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy -1961

10. Purushottam Das Tandon -1961

11. Dr.Rajendra Prasad -1962

12. Dr.Zakir Hussain -1963

13. Dr.Pandurang Vaman Kane -1963

14. Lal Bahadur Shastri (Posthumous) -1966

15. Indira Gandhi -1971

16. Varahagiri Venkatagiri -1975

17. Kumaraswami Kamaraj (Posthumous) -1976

18. Mary Teresa, Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) -1980

19. Acharya Vinoba Bhave (Posthumous) -1983

20. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan -1987

21. Marudu Gopalan Ramachandran (Posthumous)-1988

22. Dr.Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar (Posthumous)-1990

23. Dr.Nelson Rolihahla Mandela -1990

24. Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) -1991

25. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous) -1991

26. Morarji Ranchhodji Desai -1991

27. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Posthumous)-1992

28. Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata -1992

29. Satyajit Ray -1992

30. Aruna Asaf Ali (Posthumous) -1997

31. Gulzarilal Nanda (Posthumous) -1997

32. Dr. Avul Pakir Jainalabdeen Abdul Kalam-1997

33. Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbalakshmi-1998

34. Chidambaram Subramaniam -1998

35. Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous)-1999

36. Amartya Sen -1999

37. Gopinath Bordoloi (Posthumous) -1999

38. Pandit Ravi Shankar -1999

39. Lata Mangeshkar -2001

40. Ustad Bismillah Khan -2001

41. Bhimsen Joshi - 2009

42. C. N. R. Rao - 2014

43. Sachin Tendulkar - 2014

44. Madan Mohan Malaviya - 2015

45. Atal Bihari Vajpayee - 2015

47. Pranab Mukherjee - 2019

48. Bhupen Hazarika - 2019

49. Nanaji Deshmukh - 2019