BHARAT RATNA AWARDS

	Name	Birth / death	Awar- ded	Notes	State / Country
1.	Chakravarti Rajgopalachari	1878–1972	1954	Independence activist, last Governor-General	Tamil Nadu
2.	C. V. Raman	1888–1970	1954	Physicist	Tamil Nadu
3.	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1888–1975	1954	Philosopher, second President	Andhra Pradesh
4.	Bhagwan Das	1869–1958	1955	Independence activist, author	Uttar Pradesh
5.	Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya	1861–1962	1955	Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore	Karnataka
6.	Jawaharlal Nehru	1889–1964	1955	Independence activist, author, first Prime MinisterP	Uttar Pradesh
7.	Govind Ballabh Pant	1887–1961	1957	Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home Minister	Uttar Pradesh
8.	Dhondo Keshav Karve	1858–1962	1958	Educator, social reformer	Maha- rashtra
9.	Bidhan Chandra Roy	1882–1962	1961	Physician, Chief Minister of West Bengal	West Bengal
10.	Purushottam Das Tandon	1882–1962	1961	Independence activist, educator	Uttar Pradesh
11.	Rajendra Prasad	1884-1963	1962	Independence activist, jurist, first President	Bihar
12.	Zakir Hussain	1897–1969	1963	Scholar, third President	Andhra Pradesh
13.	Pandurang Vaman Kane	1880–1972	1963	Indologist and Sanskrit scholar	Maha- rashtra
14.	Lal Bahadur Shastri	1904–1966	1966	Posthumous, independence activist, second Prime Minister	Uttar Pradesh
15.	Indira Gandhi	1917–1984	1971	Third Prime Minister	Uttar Pradesh
16.	V. V. Giri	1894–1980	1975	Trade unionist and fourth President	orissa
17.	K. Kamaraj	1903–1975	1976	Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State	Tamil Nadu
18.	Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)	1910–1997	1980	Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity	West Bengal / Albania
19.	Vinoba Bhave	1895–1982	1983	Posthumous, social reformer, independence activist	Maha- rashtra
20.	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan	1890–1988	1987	First non-citizen, independence activist	Pakistan
21.	M. G. Ramachandran	1917–1987	1988	Posthumous, film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu	Tamil Nadu
22.	B. R. Ambedkar	1891–1956	1990	Posthumous, chief architect of the Indian Constitution, politician, economist, and scholar	Madhya Pradesh
23.	Nelson Mandela	b. 1918	1990	Second non-citizen and first non-Indian recipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid movement	south Africa
24.	Rajiv Gandhi	1944–1991	1991	Posthumous, Sixth Prime Minister	New Delhi
25.	Vallabhbhai Patel	1875–1950	1991	Posthumous, independence activist, first Home Minister	Maha- rashtra
26.	Morarji Desai	1896–1995	1991	Independence activist, fourth Prime Minister	New Delhi
27.	Abul Kalam Azad	1888–1958	1992	Posthumous, independence activist, first Minister of Education	Saudi Arabia
28.	J. R. D. Tata	1904–1993	1992	Industrialist and philanthropist	France
29.	Satyajit Ray	1922–1992	1992	Bengali filmmaker	west Bengal
30.	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	b. 1931	1997	Aeronautical Engineer,11th President of India	Tamil Nadu
31.	Gulzarilal Nanda	1898–1998	1997	Independence activist, interim Prime Minister	New Delhi
32.	Aruna Asaf Ali	1908–1996	1997	Posthumous, independence activist	Punjab
33.	M. S. Subbulakshmi	1916–2004	1998	Carnatic classical singer	Tamil Nadu
34.	Chidambaram Subramaniam	1910–2000	1998	Independence activist, Minister of Agriculture	Tamil Nadu
35.	Jayaprakash Narayan	1902–1979	1999	Posthumous, independence activist and politician	Bihar
36.	Pandit Ravi Shankar	1920-2012	1999	Sitar player	Uttar Pradesh
37.	Amartya Sen	b. 1933	1999	Economist, Nobel Laureate	West Bengal
38.	Gopinath Bordoloi	1890–1950	1999	Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Assam	Assam
39.	Lata Mangeshkar	b. 1929	2001	Playback singer	Madhya Pradesh
40.	Ustad Bismillah Khan	1916–2006	2001	Hindustani classical shehnai player	Uttar Pradesh
41.	Pandit Bhimsen Joshi	1922–2011	2008	Hindustani classical singer	Karnataka

  42.    Sachin Tendulkar              1973-                    2014         Indian cricketer, first sportsman    Mumbai
                                                                                                  and younge

43.   Prof. C.N.R Rao                 1934-                   2014          Indian Scientist

44.    Atal Bihari Vajpayee           1924-                   2015          Atal Bihari Vajpayee is an Indian statesman
                                                                                                  who was the Eleventh Prime Minister of
                                                                                                  India from BJP

45.Madan Mohan Malviya         1861 –1946          2015           The freedom icon and Educationist 
                                                                                                  popularly known as ‘Mahamana”.



Foreign Recipients
Nelson Mandela                   1990
Posthumously Awarded
Lal Bahadur Shastri              1966
K. Kamaraj                          1976
Vinoba Bhave                      1983
M. G. Ramachandran           1988
B. R. Ambedkar                   1990
Rajiv Gandhi                        1991     
Vallabhbhai Patel                1991
Abul Kalam Azad                1992
Aruna Asaf Ali                    1997
Jayaprakash Narayan         1999
Gopinath Bordoloi              1999