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 | |
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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 |