Bharat
Ratna Awards
|
Sr.No
|
Year
|
Winner
|
Profession
|
|
1
|
2009
|
Bhimsen Joshi
|
Hindustani
classical singer
|
|
2
|
2001
|
Bismillah Khan
|
Hindustani
classical shehnai player
|
|
3
|
2001
|
Lata Mangeshkar
|
Playback singer
|
|
4
|
1999
|
Gopinath
Bordoloi
|
Posthumous,
independence activist, Chief Minister of Assam
|
|
5
|
1999
|
Amartya Sen
|
Economist
|
|
6
|
1999
|
Ravi Shankar
|
Sitar player
|
|
7
|
1999
|
Jayaprakash
Narayan
|
Posthumous,
independence activist and politician
|
|
8
|
1998
|
Chidambaram
Subramaniam
|
Independence
activist, Minister of Agriculture
|
|
9
|
1998
|
M. S.
Subbulakshmi
|
Carnatic
classical singer
|
|
10
|
1997
|
Aruna Asaf Ali
|
Posthumous,
independence activist
|
|
11
|
1997
|
Gulzarilal Nanda
|
Independence
activist, interim Prime Minister
|
|
12
|
1997
|
A. P. J. Abdul
Kalam
|
Aeronautical
Engineer,11th President of India
|
|
13
|
1992
|
Satyajit Ray
|
Bengali
filmmaker
|
|
14
|
1992
|
J. R. D. Tata
|
Industrialist
and philanthropist
|
|
15
|
1992
|
Abul Kalam Azad
|
Posthumous,
independence activist, first Minister of Education
|
|
16
|
1991
|
Morarji Desai
|
Independence
activist, fourth Prime Minister
|
|
17
|
1991
|
Vallabhbhai
Patel
|
Posthumous,
independence activist, first Home Minister
|
|
18
|
1991
|
Rajiv Gandhi
|
Posthumous,
Sixth Prime Minister
|
|
19
|
1990
|
Nelson Mandela
|
Second
non-citizen and first non-Indian recipient, Leader of
the
Anti-Apartheid movement
|
|
20
|
1990
|
B. R. Ambedkar
|
Posthumous,
chief architect of the Indian Constitution,
politician,
economist, and scholar
|
|
21
|
1988
|
M. G.
Ramachandran
|
Posthumous, film
actor, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
|
|
22
|
1987
|
Khan Abdul
Ghaffar Khan
|
First
non-citizen, independence activist
|
|
23
|
1983
|
Vinoba Bhave
|
Posthumous,
social reformer, independence activist
|
|
24
|
1980
|
Mother Teresa
|
Catholic nun,
founder of the Missionaries of Charity
|
|
25
|
1976
|
K. Kamaraj
|
Posthumous,
independence activist, Chief Minister of Tamil
Nadu State
|
|
26
|
1975
|
V. V. Giri
|
Trade unionist
and fourth President
|
|
27
|
1971
|
Indira Gandhi
|
Third Prime
Minister
|
|
28
|
1966
|
Lal Bahadur
Shastri
|
Posthumous,
independence activist, second Prime Minister
|
|
29
|
1963
|
Pandurang Vaman
Kane
|
Indologist and
Sanskrit scholar
|
|
30
|
1963
|
Zakir Hussain
|
Scholar, third
President
|
|
31
|
1962
|
Rajendra Prasad
|
Independence
activist, jurist, first President
|
|
32
|
1961
|
Purushottam Das
Tandon
|
Independence
activist, educator
|
|
33
|
1961
|
Bidhan Chandra
Roy
|
Physician, Chief
Minister of West Bengal
|
|
34
|
1958
|
Dhondo Keshav
Karve
|
Educator, social
reformer
|
|
35
|
1957
|
Govind Ballabh
Pant
|
Independence
activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home
Minister
|
|
36
|
1955
|
Jawaharlal Nehru
|
Independence
activist, author, first Prime
Minister
|
|
37
|
1955
|
Mokshagundam
Visvesvarayya
|
Civil engineer,
Diwan of Mysore
|
|
38
|
1955
|
Bhagwan Das
|
Independence
activist, author
|
|
39
|
1954
|
Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan
|
Philosopher,
second President
|
|
40
|
1954
|
C. V. Raman
|
Physicist
|
|
41
|
1954
|
Chakravarti
Rajagopalachari
|
Independence
activist, last Governor-General
|
