List of Bharat Ratna Award Winners

Getting Bharat Ratna is perhaps the highest honor and moment of pride for any Indian citizen. From the year 1954 when it was first given, till now 41 individuals have the honor of getting Bharat Ratna award. Given below is the list of Bharat Ratna award winners –

1. Late Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi in the year 2008

2. Kumari Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar in the year 2001

3. Late Ustad Bismillah Khan in the year 2001

4. Prof. Amartya Sen in the year 1999

5. Lokpriya Gopinath (posth.) Bordoloi in the year 1999

6. Loknayak Jayprakash (Posth.) Narayan in the year 1999

7. Pandit Ravi Shankar in the year 1999

8. Shri Chidambaram Subramaniam in the year 1998

9. Smt. M.S. Subbulakshmi in the year 1998

10. Dr APJ Abdul Kalam in the year 1997

11. Smt. Aruna Asaf (Posth.) Ali in the year 1997

12. Shri Gulzari Lal Nanda in the year 1997

13. Shri JRD Tata in the year 1992

14. Shri Maulana Abul Kalam Azad in the year 1992

15. Shri Satyajit Ray in the year 1992

16. Shri Morarji Ranchhodji Desai in the year 1991

17. Shri Rajiv Gandhi in the year 1991

18. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in the year 1991

19. Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedakr in the year 1990

20. Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela in the year 1990

21. Shri Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran in the year 1988

22. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan in the year 1987

23. Shri Acharya Vinoba Bhave in the year 1983

24. Mother Teresa in the year 1980

25. Shri Kumaraswamy Kamraj in the year 1976

26. Shri V.V. Giri in the year 1975

27. Smt. Indira Gandhi in the year 1971

28. Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri in the year 1966

29. Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane in the year 1963

30. Dr. Zakir Hussain in the year 1963

31. Dr. Rajendra Prasad in the year 1962

32. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy in the year 1961

33. Shri Purushottam Tandon in the year 1961

34. Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve in the year 1958

35. Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant in the year 1957

36. Dr. Bhagwan Das in the year 1955
 

37. Shri Jawaharlal Nehru in the year 1955

38. Dr. M. Vishweshwariah in the year 1955

39. Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari in the year 1954

40. Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman in the year 1954

41. Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan in the year 1954