Category:Recipients of the Bharat Ratna

Recipients of Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.

Pages in category "Recipients of the Bharat Ratna"

The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.

v t e Recipients of Bharat Ratna Award
1954–1960	C. Rajagopalachari, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and C. V. Raman (1954) Bhagwan Das, M. Visvesvaraya, and Jawaharlal Nehru (1955) Govind Ballabh Pant (1957) Dhondo Keshav Karve (1958)
1961–1980	Bidhan Chandra Roy, and Purushottam Das Tandon (1961) Rajendra Prasad (1962) Zakir Husain, and Pandurang Vaman Kane (1963) Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966) Indira Gandhi (1971) V. V. Giri (1975) K. Kamaraj (1976) Mother Teresa (1980)
1981–2000	Vinoba Bhave (1983) Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1987) M. G. Ramachandran (1988) B. R. Ambedkar, and Nelson Mandela (1990) Rajiv Gandhi, Vallabhbhai Patel, and Morarji Desai (1991) Abul Kalam Azad, J. R. D. Tata and Satyajit Ray (1992) Gulzarilal Nanda, Aruna Asaf Ali, and A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1997) M. S. Subbulakshmi, and C. Subramaniam (1998) Jayaprakash Narayan, Amartya Sen, Gopinath Bordoloi, and Ravi Shankar (1999)
2001–2020	Lata Mangeshkar, and Bismillah Khan (2001) Bhimsen Joshi (2008) C. N. R. Rao, and Sachin Tendulkar (2014) Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and Madan Mohan Malaviya (2015) Nanaji Deshmukh, Bhupen Hazarika, and Pranab Mukherjee (2019)
2021–2040	Karpoori Thakur, Lal Krishna Advani, Charan Singh, P. V. Narasimha Rao, and M. S. Swaminathan (2024)