Bharat Ratna Awardees

Bharat Ratna Awardees

1.Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi 
Arts : 2008 : Karnataka

2.Kumari Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar 
Arts : 2001 : Maharashtra

3.Late. Ustad Bismillah Khan 
Arts : 2001 : Uttar Pradesh

4.Prof. Amartya Sen 
Literature & Education : 1999 : United Kingdom

5.Lokpriya Gopinath (posth.) Bordoloi 
Public Affairs : 1999 : Assam

6.Loknayak Jayprakash (Posth.) Narayan 
Public Affairs : 1999 : Bihar

7.Pandit Ravi Shankar 
Arts : 1999 : United States

8.Shri Chidambaram Subramaniam 
Public Affairs : 1998 : Tamil Nadu

9.Smt. M.S. Subbulakshmi 
Arts : 1998 : Tamil Nadu

10.Shri (Dr.) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 
Science & Engineering. : 1997 : Delhi

11.Smt. Aruna Asaf (Posth.) Ali 
Public Affairs : 1997 : Delhi

12.Shri Gulzari Lal (Shri) Nanda 
Public Affairs : 1997 : Gujarat

13.Shri Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata 
Trade & Industry : 1992 : Maharashtra

14.Shri Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 
Public Affairs : 1992 : West Bengal

15.Shri Satyajit Ray 
Arts : 1992 : West Bengal

16.Shri Morarji Ranchhodji Desai 
Public Affairs : 1991 : Gujarat

17.Shri Rajiv Gandhi 
Public Affairs : 1991 : Delhi

18.Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 
Public Affairs : 1991 : Gujarat

19.Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedakr 
Public Affairs : 1990 : Maharashtra

20.Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela 
Public Affairs : 1990 : South Africa

21.Shri Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran 
Public Affairs : 1988 : Tamil Nadu

22.Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 
Social Work : 1987 : Pakistan

23.Shri Acharya Vinoba Bhave 
Social Work : 1983 : Maharashtra

24.Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu Teresa 
Social Work : 1980 : West Bengal

25.Shri Kumaraswamy Kamraj 
Public Affairs : 1976 : Tamil Nadu

26.Shri V.V. Giri 
Public Affairs : 1975 : Orissa

27.Smt. Indira Gandhi 
Public Affairs : 1971 : Uttar Pradesh

28.Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri 
Public Affairs : 1966 : Uttar Pradesh

29.Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane 
Social Work : 1963 : Maharashtra

30.Dr. Zakir Hussain 
Public Affairs : 1963 : Andhra Pradesh

31.Dr. Rajendra Prasad 
Public Affairs : 1962 : Bihar

32.Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy 
Public Affairs : 1961 : West Bengal

33.Shri Purushottam Das Tandon 
Public Affairs : 1961 : Uttar Pradesh

34.Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve 
Social Work : 1958 : Maharashtra

35.Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant 
Public Affairs : 1957 : Uttar Pradesh

36.Dr. Bhagwan Das 
Literature & Education : 1955 : Uttar Pradesh

37.Shri Jawaharlal Nehru 
Public Affairs : 1955 : Uttar Pradesh

38.Dr. M. Vishweshwariah 
Civil Service : 1955 : Karnataka

39.Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari 
Public Affairs : 1954 : Tamil Nadu

40.Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman 
Science & Engineering. : 1954 : Tamil Nadu

41.Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan 
Public Affairs : 1954 : Tamil Nadu

Note : No one was awarded the country's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007