Bharat Ratna Award Winners List India from 1954 to 2015

S.No.	Name	Awarded Year	Birth/Death	About him/her
1	Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari	1954	1878 – 1972	Last Governor – General, Independence activist
2	Dr. Sarvapali Radhakrishnan	1954	1888 –1975	India’s 1st Vice President (1952 – 1962), Philosopher and India’s 2nd President (1962 – 1967)
3	Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman	1954	1888 – 1970	Physicist
4	Dr. Bhagwan Das	1955	1869 –1958	Author, Independence activist, Kashi Vidya Peeth Founder
5	Dr. Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya	1955	1861 –1962	Diwan of Mysore, Civil engineer
6	Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru	1955	1889 –1964	Author, Independence activist, 1st Prime Minister
7	Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant	1957	1887 –1961	Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Independence activist, Home Minister
8	Dr. Dhondo Keshave Karve	1958	1858 –1962	Educator, social reformer
9	Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy	1961	1882 –1962	Chief Minister of West Bengal and a Physician
10	Shri Purushottam Das Tandon	1961	1882 –1962	Educator, Independence activist
11	Dr. Rajendra Prasad	1962	1884 –1963	Jurist, Independence activist, 1st President of India
12	Dr. Zakir Hussain	1963	1897 –1969	Scholar, Independence activist, 3rd President of India
13	Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane	1963	1880 –1972	Sanskrit scholar and Indologist
14	Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri (Posthumous)	1966	1904 – 1966	2nd Prime Minister of India, Independence activist
15	Smt. Indira Gandhi	1971	1917 –1984	3rd Prime Minister of India
16	Shri Varahagiri Venkata Giri	1975	1894 –1980	4th President, Trade unionist
17	Shri Kumaraswami Kamraj (Posthumous)	1976	1903 – 1975	Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Independence activist
18	Mother Teresa	1980	1910 –1997	Founder of Missionaries of Charity and a Catholic nun
19	Shri Acharya Vinobha Bhave (Posthumous)	1983	1895 –1982	Independence activist and a Social reformer
20	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan	1987	1890 –1988	Independence activist, First non-citizen
21	Shri Marudu Gopalan Ramachandran (Posthumous)	1988	1917 –1987	Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Film actor
22	Dr. Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar (Posthumous)	1990	1891 –1956	Crusader against Untouchablity, Chief architect of Indian Constitution, Social Reformer, Dalit Icon, Historian, Economist, scholar, politician
23	Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela	1990	1918-	2nd non – citizen and non – Indian recipient, Leader of Anti – Apartheid movement
24	Shri Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous)	1991	1944 –1991	6th Prime Minister of India
25	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous)	1991	1875 – 1950	Independence activist, 1st Home Minister
26	Shri Morarji Ranchhodji Desai	1991	1896 –1995	4th Prime Minister and Independence activist
27	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Posthumous)	1992	1888 – 1958	1st Minister of Education and an Independence activist
28	Shri Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata	1992	1904 – 1993	Philanthropist and an Industrialist
29	Shri Satyajit Ray	1992	1922 –1992	Filmmaker
30	Shri Gulzarilal Nanda	1997	1898 –1998	Interim Prime Minister, Independence activist
31	Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali (Posthumous)	1997	1909 – 1996	Independence activist
32	Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam	1997	1931-	Aeronautical Engineer and 11th President of India
33	Smt. Madurai Sanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi	1998	1916 –2004	Carnatic classical singer
34	Shri Chidambaram Subramniam	1998	1910 –2000	Minister of Agriculture and an Independence activist
35	Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous)	1999	1902 –1979	Politician, Independence activist
36	Professor Amartya Sen	1999	1933-	Economist
37	Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (Posthumous)	1999	1890 –1950	Chief Minister of Assam, Independence activist
38	Pandit Ravi Shankar	1999	1920 –2012	Sitar player
39	Sushri Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar	2001	1929-	Playback singer
40	Ustad Bismillah Khan	2001	1916 –2006	Hindustani classical shehnai player
41	Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi	2008	1922 – 2011	Hindustani classical singer
42	Sachin Tendulkar	2014	1973-	Indian Cricketer, First Sportsman and Youngest Indian who got Bharat Ratna
43	Prof. C.N.R Rao	2014	1934-	Indian Scientist
44	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	2015	1924-	Atal Bihari Vajpayee is an Indian statesman who was the Eleventh Prime Minister of India from BJP
45	Madan Mohan Malviya	2015	1861 –1946	The freedom icon and Educationist popularly known as ‘Mahamana”.