Bharat Ratna Awardees since 1954

1. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari 1954

2. C. V. Raman 1954

3. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 1954

4. Bhagwan Das 1955

5. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya 1955

6. Jawaharlal Nehru 1955

7. Govind Ballabh Pant 1957

8. Dhondo Keshav Karve 1958

9. B. C. Roy 1961

10. Purushottam Das Tandon 1961


11. Rajendra Prasad 1962

12. Zakir Hussain 1963

13. Pandurang Vaman Kane 1963

14. Lal Bahadur Shastri 1966

15. Indira Gandhi 1971

16. V. V. Giri 1975

17. K. Kamaraj 1976

18. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) 1980

19. Acharya Vinoba Bhave 1983

20. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 1987

21. M. G. Ramachandran 1988

22. B. R. Ambedkar 1990

23. Nelson Mandela 1990

24. Rajiv Gandhi 1991

25. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 1991

26. Morarji Desai 1991

27. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 1992

28. J. R. D. Tata 1992

29. Satyajit Ray 1992

30. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 1997

31. Gulzarilal Nanda 1997

32. Aruna Asaf Ali 1997

33. M. S. Subbulakshmi 1998

34. Chidambaram Subramaniam 1998

35. Jayaprakash Narayan 1998

36. Ravi Shankar 1999

37. Amartya Sen 1999

38. Gopinath Bordoloi 1999

39. Lata Mangeshkar 2001

40. Ustad Bismillah Khan 2001

41. Pt. Bhimsen Joshi 2008