List of Bharat Ratna Award Winners from 1954 to 2023
The Bharat Ratna is highest civilian award of the Republic of India. On 2nd January 1954, the former President of India, Dr Rajendra Prashad introduced this award. In past, this award was limited to only the field of Arts, Literature, Science and public services but later in December 2011 the criteria expanded to “any field of human endeavour”. The award came into motion with along with three Padma awards named as “Padma Vibhusan”, “Padma Bhushan”, “Padma Shree”. The first recipient of this award was scientist C.V. Raman, philosopher Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and politician C.Rajagopalachari, who was honoured in 1954. A maximum three nominee may be awarded this award every year with the recommendation of Prime Minister to President of India.
List of Bharat Ratna Award Winners
Here, we are providing the List of Bharat Ratna Award Winners from the year 1954 to till today.
Sno. | NAME | YEAR | INTRODUCTION |
1. | sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | 1954 | Philosper, Teacher, 1st Vice President of India & 2nd president of India. |
2. | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari | 1954 | He was last governor of British India and also an Indian Freedom fighter |
3. | Sir C.V. Raman | 1954 | For his great work in the field of Physics. |
4. | Bhagwan Das | 1955 | Literature and also he was an Indian freedom fighter from Uttar Pradesh. |
5. | Sir Moksdhagundam Visvesvarayya | 1955 | He was an Architect and Engineer and also Diwan of princely state of Mysore. |
6. | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru | 1955 | First Prime minister of India, an Indian freedom fighter and writer. |
7. | Govind Ballabh Pant | 1957 | An Indian freedom fighter, Home Minister of Indian Union from Uttarakhand. |
8. | Dhondo Keshav Karve | 1958 | An Educationist and Social reformer from Maharashtra. |
9. | B.C. Roy | 1961 | Physician, Politician and former Chief Minister of West Bengal |
10. | Purushottam Das Tandon | 1961 | An Indian freedom fighter, An Educationist from Uttar Pradesh. |
11. | Babu Rajendra Prashad | 1962 | First President of India, an Indian freedom fighter. |
12. | Zakir Hussain | 1962 | Former President of India and a Scholar. |
13. | Pandurang Vaman Kane | 1962 | Ideologist and Sanskrit scholar. |
14. | Lal BAhadur Shastri | 1966 | Second Prime minister of India. |
15. | Indira Gandhi | 1971 | She was former and first lady prime minister of India. Belongs from Uttar Pradesh. |
16. | V.V. Giri | 1975 | Former President of India. |
17. | K.Kamaraj | 1976 | Freedom fighter and former Chief Minister of Tamilnadu. |
18. | Mother Teresa | A noble laureate, a foreigner from the Republic of Macedonia, for her for humanity. | |
19. | Acharya Vinoda Bhave | 1983 | A Social reformer and Freedom fighter. |
20. | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | 1987 | A freedom fighter that belongs to Pakistan. The first non-citizen awarded Bharat Ratna. |
21. | M.G.Ramachandran | 1988 | Former Chief Minister of Tamilnadu, a popular Cinema actor. |
22. | B.R.Ambedkar | 1990 | An Architect, Social reformer, Economist. Played the key role in the formation of Indian constitution. |
23. | Nelson Mandela | 1990 | A leader from South Africa and first president of South Africa. |
24. | Rajiv Gandhi | 1991 | Former Prime minister of India. |
25. | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel | 1991 | An Indian freedom fighter and first Home minister of India. |
26. | Morarji Desai | 1991 | Former Prime minister of India and Indian freedom fighter. |
27. | J.R.D.Tata | 1992 | An Industrialist and a Philanthropist. |
28. | Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad | 1992 | An Indian freedom fighter and first Education minister of India. |
29. | Satyajit Ray | 1992 | Bengali film director and Oscar winner. |
30. | A.P.J.Abdul Kalam | 1997 | Former President of India, Scientist. |
31. | Guljarilal Nanda | 1997 | An Indian freedom fighter, former prime minister of India. |
32. | Aruna Ali | 1997 | An Indian freedom fighter. |
33. | M.S.Subbulakshmi | 1998 | Carnatic Music Vocalist. |
34. | Chidambaram | 1998 | An India freedom fighter and former Indian Union Minister of Agriculture. |
35. | Jayaprakash Narayan | 1998 | Freedom fighter and Social reformer. |
36. | Pandit Ravi Shankar | 1999 | Classical Sitarist. |
37. | Amartya Sen | 1999 | Indian Economist and Noble laureate. |
38. | Gopinath Bordoloi | 1999 | Indian Freedom fighter from Assam. |
39. | Lata Mangeshkar | 2001 | Hindi cinema playback singer. |
40. | Ustad Bismillah khan | 2001 | A classical Shahnai –Master. |
41. | Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi | 2008 | Hindustani Classical vocalist. |
42. | Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar | 2014 | Indian Cricket player. |
43. | C.N. Rao | 2014 | Indian Chemist, Man behind India’s Mars- Mission. |
44. | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 2015 | Former Prime minister of India. |
45. | Madan Mohan Malviya | 2015 | Indian Politician and founder of Banaras Hindu University. |
46. | Bhupen Hazarika | 2019 | He was a playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet and film-maker from Assam |
47. | Nanaji Deshmukh | 2019 | social activist, was known for his immense contributions in the field of education, health, and rural self-reliance |
48. | Pranab Mukherjee | 2019 | 13th president of India from 2012 to 2017 |
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List of bharatratna awardees declared on 25th Jan 2019 not given-but heading gives “up to 2019”
Pl do not given mis headings
central govt should have to give the Great former president award ” BHARTH RATHNA ” for the Social service works to The Shree Shree Shree Shivakumar Swamiji of Karnatak state… They have did an Tremendous work, and Key role in The Development for the poor Indian students for their Education…in the state of Karnatak.. And they are Role Model to our Indian Country… And Really… they are Role Model to our Indian Citizen…
Dr. Shivakumar swamiji should be given BHARAT RATNA due to more social work fine to the poor family who are not able to send their children to school or Pay fees today nearly 10,000 children getting educated even the government would try to loot the public money every body wants to make money but siddaganga swamyiji want to give education and food who come to see if our honble prime minister has humanitarian he should immediately announce the award so all the people would cast the votes to bjp party for 2019 it’s our first request by all the Indian citizen