Bharat Ratna Award Recipients |
Year |
Karpoori Thakur (politician) – Bihar |
Bharat Ratna Winner 2023 |
Nanaji Deshmukh (social activist) – Maharashtra |
Bharat Ratna Winners 2019
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Bhupen Hazarika (playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet, and film-maker) – Assam |
Pranab Mukherjee (politician) – West Bengal |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (politician) – Madhya Pradesh |
Bharat Ratna Award List 2015 |
Madan Mohan Malaviya (Scholar and educational reformer) – Uttar Pradesh |
Sachin Tendulkar (cricketer) – Maharashtra |
Bharat Ratna Winners List 2014 |
CNR Rao (chemist and professor) – Karnataka |
Bhimsen Joshi (Hindustani classical vocalist) – Karnataka |
Bharat Ratna Winners 2009 |
Bismillah Khan (Hindustani classical shehnai player) – Uttar Pradesh |
Bharat Ratna Award List 2001 |
Lata Mangeshkar (playback singer) – Maharashtra |
Ravi Shankar (sitar player) – Uttar Pradesh |
Bharat Ratna Winners List 1999 |
Gopinath Bordoloi (Independence activist) – Assam |
Amartya Sen (economist) – West Bengal |
Jayaprakash Narayan (Independence activist, social reformer) – Bihar |
Chidambaram Subramaniam (Independence activist) – Tamil Nadu |
Bharat Ratna Winners 1998 |
MS Subbulakshmi (Carnatic classical vocalist) – Tamil Nadu |
A P J Abdul Kalam (Aerospace and defence scientist) – Tamil Nadu |
Bharat Ratna Award List 1997 |
Aruna Asaf Ali (Independence activist) – West Bengal |
Gulzarilal Nanda (Independence activist) – Punjab |
Satyajit Ray (Filmmaker) – West Bengal |
Bharat Ratna Winners 1992 |
JRD Tata (Industrialist) – Maharashtra |
Abdul Kalam Azad (Independence activist) – West Bengal |
Morarji Desai (Independence activist) – Gujarat |
Bharat Ratna Winners List 1991
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Sadar Vallabhbhai Patel (Independence activist) – Gujarat |
Rajiv Gandhi (politician) – Uttar Pradesh |
Nelson Mandela (anti-apartheid activist) – South Africa |
Bharat Ratna Winners 1990 |
B R Ambedkar (Social reformer) – Maharashtra |
M G Ramachandran (actor turned politician) – Tamil Nadu |
Bharat Ratna Winners 1988 |
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Independence activist) – Pakistan |
Bharat Ratna Award List 1987 |
Vinoba Bhave (Independence activist, social reformer) – Maharashtra |
Bharat Ratna Winners List 1983 |
Mother Teresa (Catholic nun) – West Bengal |
Bharat Ratna Award List 1980 |
K Kamaraj (politician) – Tamil Nadu |
Bharat Ratna winners 1976 |
V V Giri (Independence activist) – Odisha |
Bharat Ratna Award List 1975 |
Indira Gandhi (politician) – Uttar Pradesh |
Bharat Ratna Award List 1971 |
Lal Bahadur Shastri (Independence activist) – Uttar Pradesh |
Bharat Ratna Winners List 1966 |
Pandurang Vaman Kane (Indologist and Sanskrit scholar) – Maharashtra |
Bharat Ratna Winners 1963 |
Zakir Husain (Independence activist and education philosopher) – Andhra Pradesh |
Rajendra Prasad (Independence activist, lawyer, statesman, and scholar) – Bihar |
Bharat Ratna Award List 1962 |
Purushottam Das Tandon (Independence activist) – Uttar Pradesh |
Bharat Ratna Winners 1961 |
Bidhan Chandra Roy (physician, political leader, philanthropist, educationist, and social worker) – West Bengal |
Dhondo Keshav Karve (Social reformer and educator) – Maharashtra |
Bharat Ratna Winners List 1958 |
Govind Ballabh Pant (Independence activist) – Uttarakhand |
Bharat Ratna Award List 1957 |
Jawahar Lal Nehru (Independence activist and author) – Uttar Pradesh |
Bharat Ratna Winners 1955 |
M Visvesvaraya (Civil engineer, statesman, and Diwan of Mysore) – Karnataka |
Bhagwan Das (Independence activist, philosopher, and educationist) – Uttar Pradesh |
CV Raman (physicist) – Tamil Nadu |
Bharat Ratna Award List 1954 |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (philosopher and politician) – Tamil Nadu |
C Rajagopalachari (statesman, writer, lawyer, and independence activist) – Tamil Nadu |