Bharat Ratna Winner
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List of Bharat Ratna Award winners
| # | Name | Birth-Death | Awarded | Remark |
| 1 | Chakravarti Rajgopalachari | 1878-1972 | 1954 | Last Governor-General and Independence activist |
| 2 | C. V. Raman | 1888-1970 | 1954 | Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner |
| 3 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | 1888-1975 | 1954 | First Vice President and Philosopher |
| 4 | Bhagwan Das | 1869-1958 | 1955 | Indian Theosophist and Public figure |
| 5 | Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya | 1861-1962 | 1955 | Engineer, scholar and the Diwan of Mysore |
| 6 | Jawaharlal Nehru | 1889-1964 | 1955 | First Prime Minister, Independence activist and Author |
| 7 | Govind Ballabh Pant | 1887-1961 | 1957 | Indian politician and independence activist |
| 8 | Dhondo Keshav Karve | 1858-1962 | 1958 | Social reformer |
| 9 | Bidhan Chandra Roy | 1882-1962 | 1961 | Physician, Chief Minister of West Bengal |
| 10 | Purushottam Das Tandon | 1882-1962 | 1961 | Freedom fighter |
| 11 | Rajendra Prasad | 1884-1963 | 1962 | First President and Independence activist |
| 12 | Zakir Hussain | 1897-1969 | 1963 | Independence activist and Scholar |
| 13 | Pandurang Vaman Kane | 1880-1972 | 1963 | Indologist and Sanskrit scholar |
| 14 | Lal Bahadur Shastri | 1904-1966 | 1966 | Second Prime Minister, First Posthumously Given |
| 15 | Indira Gandhi | 1917-1984 | 1971 | Third Prime Minister |
| 16 | V. V. Giri | 1894-1980 | 1975 | Fourth President |
| 17 | K. Kamaraj | 1903-1975 | 1976 | Independence activist and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State |
| 18 | Mother Teresa | 1910-1997 | 1980 | Humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize Winner |
| 19 | Vinoba Bhave | 1895-1982 | 1983 | Advocate of nonviolence and human rights |
| 20 | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | 1890-1988 | 1987 | Independence activist and First non-citizen to received award |
| 21 | M. G. Ramachandran | 1917-1987 | 1988 | Actor, director, producer, and politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu |
| 22 | B. R. Ambedkar | 1891-1956 | 1990 | First law minister and Principal architect of the Constitution of India |
| 23 | Nelson Mandela | 1918-2013 | 1990 | South African politician and President of South Africa |
| 24 | Rajiv Gandhi | 1944-1991 | 1991 | Sixth Prime Minister |
| 25 | Vallabhbhai Patel | 1875-1950 | 1991 | First Home Minister and Independence activist |
| 26 | Morarji Desai | 1896-1995 | 1991 | Fourth Prime Minister |
| 27 | Abul Kalam Azad | 1888-1958 | 1992 | First Minister of Education |
| 28 | J. R. D. Tata | 1904-1993 | 1992 | Business magnate |
| 29 | Satyajit Ray | 1922-1992 | 1992 | Filmmaker and Oscar Winner |
| 30 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | 1931-2015 | 1997 | Indian scientist |
| 31 | Gulzarilal Nanda | 1898-1998 | 1997 | Independence activist |
| 32 | Aruna Asaf Ali | 1908-1996 | 1997 | Independence activist |
| 33 | M. S. Subbulakshmi | 1916-2004 | 1998 | Carnatic vocalist |
| 34 | Chidambaram Subramaniam | 1910-2000 | 1998 | Minister of Agriculture |
| 35 | Jayaprakash Narayan | 1902-1979 | 1999 | Independence activist and political leader |
| 36 | Ravi Shankar | 1920-2012 | 1999 | Musician,composer and Sitar player |
| 37 | Amartya Sen | 1933 | 1999 | Economist and Nobel Prize Winner |
| 38 | Gopinath Bordoloi | 1890-1950 | 1999 | Independence activist, Chief Minister of Assam |
| 39 | Lata Mangeshkar | 1929 | 2001 | Playback singer |
| 40 | Bismillah Khan | 1916-2006 | 2001 | Hindustani classical shehnai player |
| 41 | Bhimsen Joshi | 1922-2011 | 2008 | Hindustani classical vocalist |
| 42 | C. N. R. Rao | 1934 | 2014 | Scientist |
| 43 | Sachin Tendulkar | 1973 | 2014 | Cricketer |
| 44 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 1924 | 2015 | Educationist and Politician |
| 45 | Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya | 1861-1946 | 2015 | Former Prime Minister |
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