Bharat Ratna Awardees List

 

Year	Recipient	State
1954	C. Rajagopalachari	Tamil Nadu
	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	Tamil Nadu
	C. V. Raman	Tamil Nadu
1955	Bhagwan Das	Uttar Pradesh
	M. Visvesvaraya	Karnataka
	Jawaharlal Nehru	Uttar Pradesh
1957	Govind Ballabh Pant	Uttarakhand
1958	Dhondo Keshav Karve	Maharashtra
1961	Bidhan Chandra Roy	West Bengal
	Purushottam Das Tandon	Uttar Pradesh
1962	Rajendra Prasad	Bihar
1963	Zakir Husain	Andhra Pradesh
	Pandurang Vaman Kane	Maharashtra
1966	Lal Bahadur Shastri	Uttar Pradesh
1971	Indira Gandhi	Uttar Pradesh
1975	V. V. Giri	Odisha
1976	K. Kamaraj	Tamil Nadu
1980	Mother Teresa	West Bengal
1983	Vinoba Bhave	Maharashtra
1987	Abdul Ghaffar Khan	Pakistan
1988	M. G. Ramachandran	Tamil Nadu
1990	B. R. Ambedkar	Maharashtra
	Nelson Mandela	South Africa
1991	Rajiv Gandhi	Uttar Pradesh
	Vallabhbhai Patel	Gujarat
	Morarji Desai	Gujarat
1992	Abul Kalam Azad	West Bengal
	J. R. D. Tata	Maharashtra
	Satyajit Ray	West Bengal
1997	Gulzarilal Nanda	Punjab
	Aruna Asaf Ali	Haryana
	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	Tamil Nadu
1998	M. S. Subbulakshmi	Tamil Nadu
	Chidambaram Subramaniam	Tamil Nadu
1999	Jayaprakash Narayan	Bihar
	Amartya Sen	West Bengal
	Gopinath Bordoloi	Assam
	Ravi Shankar	Uttar Pradesh
2001	Lata Mangeshkar	Maharashtra
	Bismillah Khan	Bihar
2009	Bhimsen Joshi	Karnataka
2014	C. N. R. Rao	Karnataka
	Sachin Tendulkar	Maharashtra
2015	Madan Mohan Malaviya	Uttar Pradesh
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Madhya Pradesh
2019	Pranab Mukherjee	West Bengal
	Bhupen Hazarika	Assam
	Nanaji Deshmukh	Maharashtra