The Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of the India. It was first awarded in 1954 to Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari and Dr. Chandrashekhar Venkata Raman. The award is given in the field of arts, science, literature, public services, and any field of human endeavour. The recommendations for the Bharat Ratna are made by the Prime Minister to the President. Here is the list of Bharat Ratna Recipients from 1954-2016.
Posthumous means “awarded after the death“
|
S.No. |
Year |
Recipients Name |
|
| 1 | 1954 | Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan | |
| 2 | 1954 | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari | |
| 3 | 1954 | Dr Chandrashekhar Venkata Raman | |
| 4 | 1955 | Dr. Bhagwan Das | |
| 5 | 1955 | Dr. Mokshgundm Visveswaraya | |
| 6 | 1955 | Jawaharlal Nehru | |
| 7 | 1957 | Pt Govind Ballabh Pant | |
| 8 | 1958 | Dr Dhonde Keshav Karve | |
| 9 | 1961 | Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy | |
| 10 | 1961 | Purushottam Das Tandon | |
| 11 | 1962 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad | |
| 12 | 1963 | Dr. Zakir Hussain | |
| 13 | 1963 | Pandurang Vaman Kane | |
| 14 | 1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri | posthumous |
| 15 | 1971 | Indira Gandhi | |
| 16 | 1975 | Varahagiri Venkata Giri | |
| 17 | 1976 | Kumaraswamy Kamaraj | posthumous |
| 18 | 1980 | Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) | |
| 19 | 1983 | Acharya Vinoba Bhave | posthumous |
| 20 | 1987 | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | the first overseas |
| 21 | 1988 | Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran | posthumous |
| 22 | 1990 | Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar | posthumous |
| 23 | 1990 | Nelson Mandela | |
| 24 | 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi | posthumous |
| 25 | 1991 | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel | posthumous |
| 26 | 1991 | Morarji Ranchhodji Desai | |
| 27 | 1992 | Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata | |
| 28 | 1992 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | posthumous |
| 29 | 1992 | Satyajit Ray | |
| 30 | 1997 | Aruna Asaf Ali | posthumous |
| 31 | 1997 | Gulzari Lal Nanda | posthumous |
| 32 | 1997 | Dr. Abul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam | |
| 33 | 1998 | Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi | |
| 34 | 1998 | Chidambaram Subramaniam | |
| 35 | 1999 | Prof. Amartya Sen | |
| 36 | 1999 | Pandit Ravi Shankar | |
| 37 | 1999 | Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoli | posthumous |
| 38 | 2001 | Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar | |
| 39 | 2001 | Ustad Bismilah Khan | |
| 40 | 2009 | Pandit Bhimsen Joshi | |
| 41 | 2014 | Sachin Tendulkar | |
| 42 | 2014 | Dr. CNR Rao | |
| 43 | 2015 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| 44 | 2015 | Madan Mohan Malviya | posthumous |