Bharat Ratna Award Recipients List

Bharat Ratna Award Recipients List:

* Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi

Arts : 2009 : India : Karnataka



* Kumari Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar

Arts : 2001 : India : Maharashtra



* Late. Ustad Bismillah Khan

Arts : 2001 : India : Uttar Pradesh



* Prof. Amartya Sen

Literature & Education : 1999 : United Kingdom



* Lokpriya Gopinath (posth.) Bordoloi

Public Affairs : 1999 : India : Assam



* Loknayak Jayprakash (Posth.) Narayan

Public Affairs : 1999 : India : Bihar



* Pandit Ravi Shankar

Arts : 1999 : United States :



* Shri Chidambaram Subramaniam

Public Affairs : 1998 : India : Tamil Nadu



* Smt. M.S. Subbulakshmi

Arts : 1998 : India : Tamil Nadu



* Shri (Dr.) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Science & Engineering. : 1997 : India : Delhi



* Smt. Aruna Asaf (Posth.) Ali

Public Affairs : 1997 : India : Delhi



* Shri Gulzari Lal (Shri) Nanda

Public Affairs : 1997 : India : Gujarat



* Shri Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata

Trade & Industry : 1992 : India : Maharashtra



* Shri Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Public Affairs : 1992 : India : West Bengal



* Shri Satyajit Ray

Arts : 1992 : India : West Bengal



* Shri Morarji Ranchhodji Desai

Public Affairs : 1991 : India : Gujarat



* Shri Rajiv Gandhi

Public Affairs : 1991 : India : Delhi



* Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Public Affairs : 1991 : India : Gujarat



* Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Public Affairs : 1990 : India : Maharashtra



* Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

Public Affairs : 1990 : South Africa



* Shri Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran(MGR)

Public Affairs : 1988 : India : Tamil Nadu



* Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Social Work : 1987 : Pakistan :



* Shri Acharya Vinoba Bhave

Social Work : 1983 : India : Maharashtra



* Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu Teresa

Social Work : 1980 : India : West Bengal



* Shri Kumaraswamy Kamraj

Public Affairs : 1976 : India : Tamil Nadu



* Shri V.V. Giri

Public Affairs : 1975 : India : Orissa



* Smt. Indira Gandhi

Public Affairs : 1971 : India : Uttar Pradesh



* Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri

Public Affairs : 1966 : India : Uttar Pradesh



* Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane

Social Work : 1963 : India : Maharashtra



* Dr. Zakir Hussain

Public Affairs : 1963 : India : Andhra Pradesh



* Dr. Rajendra Prasad

Public Affairs : 1962 : India : Bihar



* Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy

Public Affairs : 1961 : India : West Bengal



* Shri Purushottam Das Tandon

Public Affairs : 1961 : India : Uttar Pradesh



* Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve

Social Work : 1958 : India : Maharashtra



* Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant

Public Affairs : 1957 : India : Uttar Pradesh



* Dr. Bhagwan Das

Literature & Education : 1955 : India : Uttar Pradesh



* Shri Jawaharlal Nehru

Public Affairs : 1955 : India : Uttar Pradesh



* Dr. M. Vishweshwariah

Civil Service : 1955 : India : Karnataka



* Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari

Public Affairs : 1954 : India : Tamil Nadu



* Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Science & Engineering. : 1954 : India : Tamil Nadu

There is no written provision that Bharat Ratna should be awarded to Indian citizens only. The award has been awarded to a naturalized Indian citizen, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa (1980) and to two non-Indians – Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Nelson Mandela (1990). It is also not mandatory that Bharat Ratna be awarded every year.