Bharat Ratna Award Winners List and Facts

Bharat Ratna is India’s highest civilian award given for performance in highest order in any field of human Endeavour. Bharat Ratna award was introduced in 1954 and is awarded to 45 legend till date (Madan Mohan Malaviya and Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be 2 new names in this list).  Any person without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex is eligible for Bharat Ratna award.

The recommendations of the “Bharat Ratna” are made by the Prime Minister of India to the President of India and maximum three Bharat Ratna awards can be made in a year.

Before 2011 the Bharat Ratna given for Artistic, Literacy, Scientific Achievements, as well as “Recognition of public service of the highest order”. But in December 2011 Government of India has modified the criteria for Bharat Ratna Award. Now Sportsperson can also win Bharat Ratna Award.

Interesting Facts about Bharat Ratna Award Winners.

• First Bharat Ratna was awarded to Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Sir C.V. Raman, and Chakravarti Rajagopalachari in 1954.
• Last Bharat Ratna was awarded to Sachin Tendulkar and C. N. R. Rao in 2013.
• Mother Teresa was the first naturalized Indian citizen of Bharat Ratna Award Winner in 1980.
• Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1987) And Nelson Mandela (1990) are two non Indians of Bharat Ratna Award Winners.
• Sachin Tendulkar is the first sportsperson and the youngest Bharat Ratna Award Winner.

Here is the list of bharat ratna award winners.

No.	Name	Birth Year	Death Year	Awarded Year	About
1	Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari	1878	1972	1954	Independence Activist, Last Governor General
2	Sir C.V Raman	1888	1970	1954	Physicist , Nobel Prize Winner ( 1930 )
3	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1888	1975	1954	Philosopher, India’s First Vice President (1952-1962), and India’s Second President(1962-1967)
4	Bhagvan Das	1869	1958	1955	Independence activist, author
5	Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya	1861	1962	1955	Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore
6	Jawaharlal Nehru	1889	1964	1955	Independence activist, author, First Prime Minister (1947-1964)
7	Govind Ballabh Pant	1887	1961	1957	Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home Minister
8	Dhondo Keshav Karve	1858	1962	1958	Educator, social reformer
9	Bidhan Chandra Roy	1882	1962	1961	Physician, Chief Minister Of West Bengal
10	Purushottam Das Tandon	1882	1962	1961	Independence activist, educator
11	Rajendra Prasad	1884	1963	1962	Independence activist, jurist, First President (1950-1962)
12	Zakir Hussain	1897	1969	1963	Independence activist, Scholar, Third President (1967-1969)
13	Pandurang Vaman Kane	1880	1972	1963	Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
14	Lal Bahadur Shastri	1904	1966	1966	Posthumous, independence activist, Second Prime Minister (1964-1966)
15	Indira Gandhi	1917	1984	1971	Third Prime Minister (1980-1984)
16	V.V. Giri	1894	1980	1975	Trade unionist and Fourth President (1969)
17	K. Kamaraj	1903	1975	1976	Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State
18	Mother Teresa	1910	1997	1980	Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity
19	Vinoba Bhave	1895	1982	1983	Posthumous, social reformer, independence activist
20	Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan	1890	1988	1987	First non-citizen, independence activist
21	M.G. Ramchandran	1917	1987	1988	Posthumous, film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
22	B.R. Ambedkar	1891	1956	1990	Posthumous, chief architect of the Indian Constitution, politician, economist, and scholar
23	Nelson Mandela	1918	2013	1990	Second non-citizen and non-Indian recipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid movement
24	Rajiv Gandhi	1944	1991	1991	Posthumous, Sixth Prime Minister (1984-1989)
25	Vallabhbhai Patel	1875	1950	1991	Posthumous, independence activist, first Home Minister(1947-1950)
26	Morarji Desai	1896	1995	1991	Independence activist, fourth Prime Minister(1977-1979)
27	Abdul Kalam Azad	1888	1958	1992	Posthumous, independence activist, first Minister of Education
28	J. R. D. Tata	1904	1993	1992	Industrialist and philanthropist
29	Satyajit Ray	1922	1992	1992	Bengali Filmmaker
30	A.P.J. Abdul Kalam	1931		1997	Aeronautical Engineer,11th President of India
31	Gulzarilal Nanda	1898	1998	1997	Independence activist, interim Prime Minister
32	Aruna Asaf Ali	1908	1996	1997	Posthumous, independence activist
33	M.S. Subbulakshmi	1916	2004	1998	Carnatic classical singer
34	Chidambaram Subramaniam	1910	2000	1998	Independence activist, Minister of Agriculture
35	Jayaprakash Narayan	1902	1979	1999	Posthumous, independence activist and politician
36	Ravi Shankar	1920	2012	1999	Sitar Player
37	Amartya Sen	1933		1999	Economist
38	Gopinath Bardoloi	1890	1950	1999	Posthumous, 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 Singer
42	Sachin Tendulkar	1973		2013	Indian Cricketer, First Sportsman and Youngest Indian who got Bharat Ratna,
43	Prof. C.N.R Rao	1934		2013	Chemist
44	Madan Mohan Malaviya	1861	1946	2014	Educationist and politician
45	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	1924		2014	Former Prime Minister of India (1996), (1998), (1999-2004)

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