Bharat Ratna Award Winners list

Bharat Ratna Award Winners list (1954 to 2014):Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian honour, given for exceptional service towards advancement of Art, Literature and Science, and in recognition of Public Service of the highest order. The provision of Bharat Ratna was introduced in 1954.

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 in 2014.
* 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.
Bharat Ratna Award Winners - Complete List:

SN	Name	Year	Discipline / Work
1	Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari	1954	Independence Activist, Last Governor General
2	Sir C.V Raman	1954	Physicist , Nobel Prize Winner ( 1930 )
3	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1954	Philosopher,and India’s Second President(1962-1967)
4	Bhagvan Das	1955	Independence activist, author
5	Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya	1955	Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore
6	Jawaharlal Nehru	1955	Independence activist, author, First Prime Minister (1947-1964)
7	Govind Ballabh Pant	1957	Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home Minister
8	Dhondo Keshav Karve	1958	Educator, social reformer
9	Bidhan Chandra Roy	1961	Physician, Chief Minister Of West Bengal
10	Purushottam Das Tandon	1961	Independence activist, educator
11	Rajendra Prasad	1962	Independence activist, jurist, First President (1950-1962)
12	Zakir Hussain	1963	Independence activist, Scholar, Third President (1967-1969)
13	Pandurang Vaman Kane	1963	Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
14	Lal Bahadur Shastri	1966	Posthumous, independence activist, Second Prime Minister (1964-1966)
15	Indira Gandhi	1971	Third Prime Minister (1980-1984)
16	V.V. Giri	1975	Trade unionist and Fourth President (1969)
17	K. Kamaraj	1976	Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State
18	Mother Teresa	1980	Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity
19	Vinoba Bhave	1983	Posthumous, social reformer, independence activist
20	Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan	1987	First non-citizen, independence activist
21	M.G. Ramchandran	1988	Posthumous, film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
22	B.R. Ambedkar	1990	Posthumous, chief architect of the Indian Constitution, politician, economist, and scholar
23	Nelson Mandela	1990	Second non-citizen and non-Indian recipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid movement
24	Rajiv Gandhi	1991	Posthumous, Sixth Prime Minister (1984-1989)
25	Vallabhbhai Patel	1991	Posthumous, independence activist, first Home Minister(1947-1950)
26	Morarji Desai	1991	Independence activist, fourth Prime Minister(1977-1979)
27	Abdul Kalam Azad	1992	Posthumous, independence activist, first Minister of Education
28	J. R. D. Tata	1992	Industrialist and philanthropist
29	Satyajit Ray	1992	Bengali Filmmaker
30	A.P.J. Abdul Kalam	1997	Aeronautical Engineer,11th President of India
31	Gulzarilal Nanda	1997	Independence activist, interim Prime Minister
32	Aruna Asaf Ali	1997	Posthumous, independence activist
33	M.S. Subbulakshmi	1998	Carnatic classical singer
34	Chidambaram Subramaniam	1998	Independence activist, Minister of Agriculture
35	Jayaprakash Narayan	1999	Posthumous, independence activist and politician
36	Ravi Shankar	1999	Sitar Player
37	Amartya Sen	1999	Economist
38	Gopinath Bardoloi	1999	Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Assam
39	Lata Mangeshkar	2001	Playback singer
40	Bismillah Khan	2001	Hindustani Classical Shehnai Player
41	Bhimsen Joshi	2008	Hindustani Classical Singer
42	Prof. C.N.R Rao	2014	Man behing india’s maiden mars mission
43	Sachin Tendulkar	2014	Indian Cricketer, First Sportsman and Youngest Indian who got Bharat Ratna,