List of Bharat Ratna Award Winners from 1954 to 2023

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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