Complete List Of Bharat Ratna Recipients Since 1954

1954: Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan; Chakravarti Rajagopalachari; Dr CV Raman

1955: Dr M Visvesvaraya; Dr Bhagwan Das; Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

1957: Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant; 1958: Dr Dhondo Keshav Karve

1961: Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy; Purushottam Das Tandon

1962: Dr Rajendra Prasad; 1963: Dr Zakir Husain; Dr Pandurang Vaman Kane

1966: Lal Bahadur Shastri (Posthumous); 1971: Indira Gandhi

1975: VV Giri; 1976: K Kamraj (Posthumous)

1980: Mother Teresa; 1983: Acharya Vinoba Bhave

1987: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan; 1988: MG Ramachandran (Posthumous)

1990: Dr BR Ambedkar (Posthumous); 1990: Nelson Mandela

1991: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous); Morarji Desai; Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous)

1992: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Posthumous); JRD Tata; Satyajit Ray

1997: Gulzarilal Nanda; Aruna Asaf Ali; Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

1998: Chidambaram Subramaniam; MS Subbulakshmi

1999: Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous); Amartya Sen; Gopinath Bordoloi (Posthumous); Pt Ravi Shankar

2001: Lata Mangeshkar; Ustad Bismillah Khan; 2009: Pandit Bhimsen Joshi

2014: Sachin Tendulkar; Professor CNR Rao

2015: Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (Posthumous); Atal Bihari Vajpayee

2019: Nanaji Deshmukh (Posthumous); Dr Bhupen Hazarika (Posthumous); Pranab Mukherjee

2024: Karpoori Thakur (Posthumous); PV Narasimha Rao (Posthumous); Ch Charan Singh (Posthumous); Dr MS Swaminathan (Posthumous); & Lal Krishna Advani

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