Bharat Ratna Award

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