RECIPIENTS OF BHARAT RATNA

 

NAME AWARDED IN

 

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1878-1972) ..................... 1954

Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) ...................... 1954

Dr Chandrasekhar Venkat Raman (1888-1970) ................ 1954

Dr Bhagwan Das (1869-1958) ..................................... 1955

Dr Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (1861-1962) ...................1955

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964).................................... 1955

Govind Ballabh Pant (1887-1961) ................................. 1957

Dr Dhondo Keshave Karve (1858-1962) .......................... 1958

Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882-1962) ............................. 1961

Purushottam Das Tandon (1882-1962) ........................... 1961

Dr Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) .................................. 1962

Dr Zakir Hussain (1897-1969) ..................................... 1963

Dr Pandurang Vaman Kane (1880-1972) ......................... 1963

Lal Bahadur Shastri (Posthumous) (1904-1966) ................ 1966

Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) ......................................... 1971

Varahagiri Venkatagiri (1884-1980) .............................. 1975

Kumaraswami Kamraj (Posthumous) (1903-1975) ............. 1976

Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) (1910-1997) ............1980

Acharya Vinobha Bhave (Posthumous) (1895-1982) ............ 1983

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988) ........................... 1987

Marudu Gopalan Ramachandran (Posthumous) (1917-1987) .. 1988

Dr Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar (Posthumous) (1891-1956) ..... 1990

Dr Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b-1918) ............................ 1990

Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) (1944-1991) .......................... 1991

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous) (1875-1950) ........... 1991

Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (1896-1995) ............................ 1991

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Posthumous) (1888-1958) .......... 1992

Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata (1904-1993) .................... 1992

Satyajit Ray (Posthumous) (1922-1992) ........................... 1992

Aruna Asaf Ali (Posthumous) (1909-1996) ........................ 1997

Gulzari Lal Nanda (Posthumous) (1898-1997) .................... 1997

Dr Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (b-1931) ............... 1997

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbalakshmi (1916-2004) ......... 1998

Chidambaram Subramaniam (1910-2000) ......................... 1998

Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous) (1902-1979) ... 1999

Professor Amartya Sen (b-1933) ..................................... 1999

Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (Posthumous) (1890-1950) ........ 1999

Pandit Ravi Shankar (b -1920) ........................................ 1999

Sushri Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar (b-1929) ........................ 2001

Ustad Bismillah Khan (1916-2006) .................................. 2001

Bhimsen Joshi (b-1922).................................................2008