Bharat Ratna is the India’s highest award given to a civilian. It is the one of the biggest award of the world.It is awarded for the highest degrees of national service. This service includes artistic, literary and scientific achievements, as well as public service.
List of the recipients of the Bharat Ratna Award
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1954)
- C. Rajagopalachari (1954)
- C. V. Raman (1954)
- Bhagwan Das (1955)
- Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya (1955)
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1955)
- Govind Ballabh Pant (1957)
- Dhondo Keshav Karve (1958)
- Bidhan Chandra Roy (1961)
- Purushottam Das Tandon (1961)
- Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1962)
- Dr. Zakir Hussain (1963)
- Pandurang Vaman Kane (1963)
- Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966)
- Indira Gandhi (1971)
- V. V. Giri (1975)
- K. Kamaraj (1976)
- Mother Teresa (1980)
- Acharya Vinoba Bhave (1983)
- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1987)
- M. G. Ramachandran (1988)
- B. R. Ambedkar (1990)
- Nelson Mandela (1990)
- Rajiv Gandhi (1991)
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1991)
- Morarji Desai (1991)
- Abul Kalam Azad (1992)
- J. R. D. Tata (1992)
- Satyajit Ray (1992)
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1997)
- Gulzarilal Nanda (1997)
- Aruna Asaf Ali (1997)
- M. S. Subbulakshmi (1998)
- Chidambaram Subramaniam (1998)
- Jayaprakash Narayan (1998)
- Ravi Shankar (1999)
- Amartya Sen (1999)
- Gopinath Bordoloi (1999)
- Lata Mangeshkar (2001)
- Bismillah Khan (2001)
- Bhimsen Joshi (2008)
- C. N. R. Rao (2013)
- Sachin Tendulkar (2013)
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee (2014)
- Madan Mohan Malaviya (2014)
