Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award awarded by government of India. The rank of this award is compared as Padma Vibhushan. Bharat Ratna is given to a person of any field for the highest performance in arts and literature, science, public services and other field. The award is given in form of gold medal.
| List of recipients of Bharat Ratna Award | |
|---|---|
| Name | Year |
| 1954 | Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman(C.V. Raman) |
| 1955 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhagwan Das, M. Visvesvaraya |
| 1957 | Govind Ballabh Pant |
| 1958 | Dhondo Keshav Karve |
| 1961 | Bidhan Chandra Roy, Purushottam Das Tandon |
| 1962 | Rajendra Prasad |
| 1963 | Zakir Hussain, Pandurang Vaman Kane |
| 1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| 1971 | Indira Gandhi |
| 1975 | V. V. Giri |
| 1976 | K. Kamaraj |
| 1980 | Mother Teresa |
| 1983 | Vinoba Bhave |
| 1987 | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
| 1988 | M. G. Ramachandran |
| 1990 | B. R. Ambedkar, Nelson Mandela |
| 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi, Vallabhbhai Patel, Morarji Desai |
| 1992 | J. R. D. Tata, Satyajit Ray |
| 1997 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Aruna Asaf Ali |
| 1998 | M. S. Subbulakshmi, Chidambaram Subramaniam |
| 1999 | Amartya Sen, Ravi Shankar, Gopinath Bordoloi |
| 2001 | Lata Mangeshkar, Bismillah Khan |
| 2008 | Bhimsen Joshi |
| 2014 | C. N. R. Rao (Chemist), Sachin Tendulkar (Cricketer) |
| 2015 | Madan Mohan Malaviya, Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| 2019 | Pranab Mukherjee, Bhupen Hazarika, Nanaji Deshmukh |
