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 List of Bharat Ratna Awardees

S.No
Name
Birth / death
Awarded
Notes
Indian state or country of origin
1.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
1888-1975
1954
Second President, First Vice President, Philosopher. Tamil Nadu
2
C. Rajagopalachari
1878-1972
1954
Last Governor-General, Freedom Fighter. Tamil Nadu
3
C. V. Raman
1888-1970
1954
Nobel-prize winning Physicist Tamil Nadu
4
Bhagwan Das
1869-1958
1955
Literature, Freedom Fighter Uttar Pradesh
5
Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya
1861-1962
1955
Civil Engineer, Dam Architect, Diwan of Princely state of Mysore Karnataka
6
Jawaharlal Nehru
1889-1964
1955
First Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter, Author. Uttar Pradesh
7
Govind Ballabh Pant
1887-1961
1957
Freedom Fighter, Home Minister Uttar Pradesh (nowUttarakhand)
8
Dhondo Keshav Karve
1858-1962
1958
Educationist, Social Reformer, Awarded in his birth centenary year. Maharashtra
9
Bidhan Chandra Roy
1882-1962
1961
Physician, Politician, Former Chief Minister of West Bengal West Bengal
10
Purushottam Das Tandon
1882-1962
1961
Freedom Fighter, Educationist Uttar Pradesh
11
Rajendra Prasad
1884-1963
1962
First President, Freedom Fighter, Jurist Bihar
12
Zakir Hussain
1897-1969
1963
Former President, Scholar. Andhra Pradesh
13
Pandurang Vaman Kane
1880-1972
1963
Indologist and Sanskrit scholar Maharashtra
14
Lal Bahadur Shastri
1904-1966
1966
Posthumous, Second Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter Uttar Pradesh
15
Indira Gandhi
1917-1984
1971
Former Prime Minister Uttar Pradesh
16
V. V. Giri
1894-1980
1975
Former President, Trade Unionist. Orissa
17
K. Kamaraj
1903-1975
1976
Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu
18
Mother Teresa
1910-1997
1980
Nobel Laureate (Peace, 1979). West Bengal
19
Vinoba Bhave
1895-1982
1983
Posthumous, Social Reformer, Freedom Fighter. Maharashtra
20
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
1890-1988
1987
First non-citizen, Freedom Fighter. Pakistan
21
M. G. Ramachandran
1917-1987
1988
Posthumous, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu, Actor. Tamil Nadu
22
B. R. Ambedkar
1891-1956
1990
Posthumous, Architect-Indian Constitution,Social Reformer, Economist and Scholar Maharashtra
23
Nelson Mandela
B. 1918
1990
Second non-citizen and first non-Indian, Leader of Anti-Apartheid movement. South Africa
24
Rajiv Gandhi
1944-1991
1991
Posthumous, Former Prime Minister New Delhi
25
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
1875-1950
1991
Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, First Home Minister of India. Gujarat
26
Morarji Desai
1896-1995
1991
Former Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter. Gujarat
27
Abul Kalam Azad
1888-1958
1992
Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, First Education Minister of India West Bengal
28
J. R. D. Tata
1904-1993
1992
Industrialist and philanthropist Maharashtra
29
Satyajit Ray
1922-1992
1992
Film director West Bengal
30
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
B. 1931
1997
Former President, scientist. Tamil Nadu
31
Gulzarilal Nanda
1898-1998
1997
Freedom Fighter, former Prime Minister. Punjab
32
Aruna Asaf Ali
1908-1996
1997
Posthumous, Freedom Fighter. West Bengal
33
M. S. Subbulakshmi
1916-2004
1998
Karnatic music vocalist. Tamil Nadu
34
Chidambaram Subramaniam
1910-2000
1998
Freedom Fighter, Minister of Agriculture. Tamil Nadu
35
Jayaprakash Narayan
1902-1979
1998
Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Social Reformer. Bihar
36
Ravi Shankar
B. 1920
1999
Sitar player United States
37
Amartya Sen
B. 1933
1999
Nobel-prize winning Economist West Bengal
38
Gopinath Bordoloi
1890-1950
1999
Posthumous, Freedom fighter, Chief Minister Assam
39
Lata Mangeshkar
B. 1929
2001
Singer Maharashtra
40
Bismillah Khan
1916-2006
2001
Classical musician, shehnai maestro Bihar
41
Bhimsen Joshi
B. 1922
2008
Hindustani Classical vocalist Maharashtra

 

 

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