Winners of Bharat Ratna
Following is the list of personalities who were conferred with Bharat Ratna:
- 1954 – Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman.
- 1955 – Dr. Bhagwan Das, Dr. Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
- 1957 – Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant.
- 1958 – Dr Dhondo Keshav Karve.
- 1961 – Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, Purushottam Das Tandon.
- 1962 – Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
- 1963 – Dr. Zakir Husain, Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane.
- 1966 – Lal Bahadur Shastri (Posthumous).
- 1971 – Indira Gandhi.
- 1975 – Varahagiri Venkata Giri.
- 1976 – Kumaraswamy Kamaraj (Posthumous).
- 1980 – Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa).
- 1983 – Acharya Vinoba Bhave (Posthumous).
- 1987 – Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan.
- 1988 – Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran (Posthumous).
- 1990 – Dr. Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar (Posthumous), Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.
- 1991 – Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous), Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous), Morarji Desai.
- 1992 – Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Posthumous), Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata, Satyajit Ray.
- 1997 – Gulzarilal Nanda, Aruna Asaf Ali (Posthumous) and Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
- 1998 – Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi and Chidambaram Subramaniam.
- 1999 – Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous), Professor Amartya Sen, Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (Posthumous) and Pandit Ravi Shankar.
- 2001 – Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar and Ustad Bismillah Khan.
- 2009 – Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi.
- 2014 – Professor C. N. R. Rao and Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.
- 2015 – Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya and Atal Bihari Vajpayee
References:
- Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India
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