Bharat Ratna Award Winners

1. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan - 1954
2. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari - 1954
3. C. V. Raman - 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