LIST OF RECIPIENTS OF BHARAT RATNA AWARD

Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of the Republic of India. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conferred "in recognition of exceptional service/performance of the highest order", without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex

The Bharat Ratna ceremony is usually held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi but a special ceremony was held on 18 April 1958 at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai to honour Karve on his 100th birthday.

1954 - C. Rajagopalachari

1954 - C. V. Raman

1954 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

1955 - Bhagwan Das

1955 – Visvesvaraya

1955 - Jawaharlal Nehru

1957 - Govind Ballabh Pant

1958 - Dhondo Keshav Karve

1961 - Bidhan Chandra Roy

1961 - Purushottam Das Tandon

1962 - Rajendra Prasad

1963 - Zakir Hussain

1963 - Pandurang Vaman Kane

1966 - Lal Bahadur Shastri

1971 - Indira Gandhi

1975 - V. V. Giri

1976 - K. Kamaraj

1980 - Mother Teresa

1983 - Vinoba Bhave

1987 - Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

1988 - M. G. Ramachandran

1990 - B. R. Ambedkar

1990 - Nelson Mandela

1990 - Rajiv Gandhi

1991 - Vallabhbhai Patel

1991 - Morarji Desai

1992 - Abul Kalam Azad

1992 - J. R. D. Tata

1992 - Satyajit Ray

1997 - Gulzarilal Nanda

1997 - Aruna Asaf Ali

1997 - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

1998 - M. S. Subbulakshmi

1998 - Chidambaram Subramaniam

1999 - Jayaprakash Narayan

1999 - Ravi Shankar

1999 - Amartya Sen

1999 - Gopinath Bordoloi

2001 - Lata Mangeshkar

2001 - Bismillah Khan

2009 - Bhimsen Joshi

2014 - C. N. R. Rao

2014 - Sachin Tendulkar

2015 - Madan Mohan Malaviya

2015 - Atal Bihari Vajpayee