List of Bharat Ratna Awardees

S.No	Name	Birth / death	Awarded	Notes	Indian state or country of origin
1.	Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1888–1975	1954	Second President, First Vice President, Philosopher.	Tamil Nadu
2.	Chakravarti Rajagopalachari	1878–1972	1954	Last Governor-General, Freedom Fighter.	Tamil Nadu
3.	Sir C. V. Raman	1888–1970	1954	Nobel-prize winning Physicist	Tamil Nadu
4.	Bhagwan Das	1869–1958	1955	Literature, Freedom Fighter	Uttar Pradesh
5.	Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya	1861–1962	1955	Civil Engineer, Dam Architect, Diwan of Princely state of Mysore	Karnataka
6.	Jawaharlal Nehru	1889–1964	1955	First Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter, Author.	Uttar Pradesh
7.	Govind Ballabh Pant	1887–1961	1957	Freedom Fighter, Home Minister	Uttar Pradesh (now Uttarakhand)
8.	Dhondo Keshav Karve	1858–1962	1958	Educationist, Social Reformer, Awarded in his birth centenary year.	Maharashtra
9.	Dr. B. C. Roy	1882–1962	1961	Physician, Politician, Former Chief Minister of West Bengal	West Bengal
10.	Purushottam Das Tandon	1882–1962	1961	Freedom Fighter, Educationist	Uttar Pradesh
11.	Dr. Rajendra Prasad	1884–1963	1962	First President, Freedom Fighter, Jurist	Bihar
12.	Dr. Zakir Hussain	1897–1969	1963	Former President, Scholar.	Andhra Pradesh
13.	Pandurang Vaman Kane	1880–1972	1963	Indologist and Sanskrit scholar	Maharashtra
14.	Lal Bahadur Shastri	1904–1966	1966	Posthumous, Second Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter	Uttar Pradesh
15.	Indira Gandhi	1917–1984	1971	Former Prime Minister	Uttar Pradesh
16.	V. V. Giri	1894–1980	1975	Former President, Trade Unionist.	Andhra Pradesh
17.	K. Kamaraj	1903–1975	1976	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu.	Tamil Nadu
18.	Mother Teresa	1910–1997	1980	Nobel Laureate (Peace, 1979).	Republic of Macedonia
19.	Acharya Vinoba Bhave	1895–1982	1983	Posthumous, Social Reformer, Freedom Fighter.	Maharashtra
20.	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan	1890–1988	1987	First non-citizen, Freedom Fighter.	Pakistan
21.	M. G. Ramachandran	1917–1987	1988	Posthumous, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu, Actor.	Tamil Nadu
22.	B. R. Ambedkar	1891–1956	1990	Posthumous, Architect-Indian Constitution,Social Reformer, Economist and Scholar	Maharashtra
23.	Nelson Mandela	b. 1918	1990	Second non-citizen and first non-Indian, Leader of Anti-Apartheid movement.	South Africa
24.	Rajiv Gandhi	1944–1991	1991	Posthumous, Former Prime Minister	New Delhi
25.	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel	1875–1950	1991	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, First Home Minister of India.	Gujarat
26.	Morarji Desai	1896–1995	1991	Former Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter.	Gujarat
27.	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad	1888–1958	1992	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, First Education Minister of India	West Bengal
28.	J. R. D. Tata	1904–1993	1992	Industrialist and philanthropist.	Maharashtra
29.	Satyajit Ray	1922–1992	1992	Film Director ,Oscar winner	West Bengal
30.	A.P.J. Abdul Kalam	b. 1931	1997	Former President, Scientist.	Tamil Nadu
31.	Gulzarilal Nanda	1898–1998	1997	Freedom Fighter, former Prime Minister.	Punjab
32.	Aruna Asaf Ali	1908–1996	1997	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter.	West Bengal
33.	M. S. Subbulakshmi	1916–2004	1998	Carnatic music vocalist.	Tamil Nadu
34.	Chidambaram Subramaniam	1910–2000	1998	Freedom Fighter, Minister of Agriculture (Father of Green revolution).	Tamil Nadu
35.	Jayaprakash Narayan	1902–1979	1998	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Social Reformer.	Bihar
36.	Pandit Ravi Shankar	b. 1920	1999	Classical sitar player.	Uttar Pradesh
37.	Amartya Sen	b. 1933	1999	Nobel Laureate (Economics, 1998), Economist.	West Bengal
38.	Gopinath Bordoloi	1890–1950	1999	Posthumous, freedom fighter	Assam
39.	Lata Mangeshkar	b. 1929	2001	Play back singer.	Maharashtra
40.	Ustad Bismillah Khan	1916-2006	2001	Classical Shehnai Maestro	Bihar
41.	Pandit Bhimsen Joshi	b. 1922	2008	Hindustani classical vocalist	Karnataka