Bharat Ratna: Bharat Ratna Award Winners List 1 Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari 1954 Indian political leader, the first and the only governor-general of independent India. 2 Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman 1954 Indian physicist, the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 (birth. Nov. 7, 1888, Trichinopoly [Tiruchirappalli], India; death. Nov. 21, 1970, Bengaluru), 3 Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 1954 Philosopher, scholar and statesman, president of India from 1962 to 1967 4 Dr. Bhagwan Das 1955 Independence activist, author 5 Shri Jawaharlal Nehru 1955 Independence activist, author, first prime minister of independent India (1947-64) 6 Dr. Mokshagundam Vivesvaraya 1955 Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore 7 Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant 1957 Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home Minister 8 Dr. Dhonde Keshav Karve 1958 Also known as Maharishi Karve, Indian social reformer and educator 9 Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy 1961 Physician, Chief Minister of West Bengal 10 Shri Purushottam Das Tandon 1961 Independence activist, educator 11 Dr. Rajendra Prasad 1962 First president of the Republic of India (1950-62). A lawyer-turned-journalist, also president of the Indian National Congress 12 Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane 1963 Indologist and Sanskrit scholar 13 Dr. Zakir Hussain 1963 Scholar, third President 14 Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri 1966 Posthumous Award: independence activist, third Prime Minister 15 Smt. Indira Gandhi 1971 Fourth Prime Minister 16 Shri Varahagiri Venkata Giri 1975 Trade unionist and fourth President 17 Shri Kumaraswamy Kamraj 1976 Posthumous Award: independence activist, Chief Minister of Madras State 18 Mother Teresa, (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1980 Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity 19 Shri Acharya Vinoba Bhave 1983 Posthumous Award: social reformer, independence activist 20 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 1987 First non-citizen, independence activist 21 Shri Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran 1988 Posthumous Award: film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu 22 Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedakr 1990 Posthumous Award: architect of the Indian Constitution, politician, economist, and scholar 23 Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela 1990 Second non-citizen and first non-Indian recipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid movement 24 Shri Morarji Ranchhodji Desai 1991 Independence activist, fifth Prime Minister 25 Shri Rajiv Gandhi 1991 Seventh Prime Minister 26 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 1991 Posthumous Award: independence activist, first Home Minister 27 JRD Tata Shri Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata 1992 Industrialist and philanthropist 28 Shri Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 1992 Posthumous Award: independence activist, first Minister of Education 29 Shri Satyajit Ray 1992 Filmmaker 30 Shri (Dr.) Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam 1997 Aeronautical engineer, eminent defence scientist, Dr. Kalam was Indias eleventh president from 2002 to 2007 31 Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali 1997 Posthumous Award: independence activist 32 Shri Gulzari Lal Nanda 1997 Independence activist, second Prime Minister 33 Shri Chidambaram Subramaniam 1998 Chidambaram Subramaniam (birth: January 30, 1910 – death: November 7, 2000) He was an Indian statesman, Freedom fighter, state minister, central minister and governor. 34 Smt. Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi 1998 Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004), Also known as M.S., she was a renowned Carnatic vocalist. 35 Prof. Amartya Sen 1999 Distinguished economist and philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998 for his seminal work in welfare economics 36 Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi 1999 Posthumous Award: independence activist, Chief Minister of Assam 37 Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan 1999 Posthumous Award: Indian political leader and theorist, leader of socio-political mass-movements in Gujarat and Bihar 38 Pandit Ravi Shankar 1999 Sitar player 39 Kumari Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar 2001 Legendary Indian playback singer; sang for more than 2,000 Indian films in a career spanning nearly six decades 40 Ustad Bismillah Khan 2001 (birth March 21, 1916, Bhirung Raut Ki Gali, in Dumraon, Bihar; death Aug. 21, 2006, Varanasi). 41 Pandit Bhimsen Joshi 2008 (birth. Feb. 14, 1922, Gadag, Dharwad, Karnataka), His full name is Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi.
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