Complete List of Bharat Ratna Recipients

 Here is the complete list of Bharat Ratna Recipients .  Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of the Republic of India.

Year	Image	Laureates		Notes
1954		C. Rajagopalachari		Independence activist, last and only Indian Governor-General of India
		C. V. Raman		Nobel laureate physicist (1930)
		Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan		Philosopher, India's first Vice-President (1952–62), and second President (1962–67)
1955		Bhagwan Das		Independence activist, theosophist, and founder of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith
		Visvesvaraya		Civil engineer, statesman and Diwan of Mysore (1912–18)
		Jawaharlal Nehru		Independence activist, author, and first Prime Minister of India (1947–64)
1957		Govind Ballabh Pant		Independence activist, first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (1950–54)
1958		Dhondo Keshav Karve		Social reformer
1961		Bidhan Chandra Roy		Physician-Surgeon and second Chief Minister of West Bengal (1948–62)
	–	Purushottam Das Tandon		Independence activist, educator
1962		Rajendra Prasad		Independence activist, lawyer, first President of India (1950–62)
1963		Zakir Hussain		Independence activist, second Vice-President of India (1962–67), and third President of India (1967–69)
	–	Pandurang Vaman Kane		Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
1966		Lal Bahadur Shastri		Independence activist and third Prime Minister of India (1964–66)
1971		Indira Gandhi		Former Prime Minister of India (1966–77, 1980–84)
1975		V. V. Giri		Trade unionist, first Acting President of India, and fourth President of India (1969–74)
1976		K. Kamaraj		Independence activist and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1954–57, 1957–62, 1962–63)
1980		Mother Teresa	#	Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and Nobel peace prize laureate (1979)
1983		Vinoba Bhave		Independence activist, social reformer, and Ramon Magsaysay Award laureate (1958)
1987		Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan		Independence activist
1988		M. G. Ramachandran		Film actor and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1977–80, 1980–84, 1985–87)
1990		B. R. Ambedkar		Chief architect of the Indian Constitution and social reformer
		Nelson Mandela		Leader of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1993)
1991		Rajiv Gandhi		Ninth Prime Minister of India (1984–89)
		Vallabhbhai Patel		Independence activist and first Deputy Prime Minister of India (1947–50)
		Morarji Desai		Independence activist and sixth Prime Minister of India (1977–79)
1992		Abul Kalam Azad		Independence activist
		J. R. D. Tata		Industrialist and philanthropist
		Satyajit Ray		Filmmaker
1997		Gulzarilal Nanda		Independence activist and two times interim Prime Minister of India
		Aruna Asaf Ali		Independence activist
		A. P. J. Abdul Kalam		Aerospace and Defense Scientist, eleventh President of India (2002–07)
1998		M. S. Subbulakshmi		Carnatic classical vocalist
	–	Chidambaram Subramaniam		Independence activist and former Minister of Agriculture of India (1964–66)
1999		Jayaprakash Narayan		Independence activist and social reformer
		Ravi Shankar		Hindustani classical Sitar player
		Amartya Sen		Nobel laureate economist (1998)
		Gopinath Bordoloi		Independence activist, first Chief Minister of Assam (1946–50)
2001		Lata Mangeshkar		Playback singer
		Bismillah Khan		Hindustani classical Shehnai player
2009		Bhimsen Joshi		Hindustani classical vocalist
2013		Sachin Tendulkar		Cricketer
		C. N. R. Rao		Chemist
2014		Madan Mohan Malaviya		Educationist and politician (President of Indian National Congress (INC) in 1909, 1918)
		Atal Bihari Vajpayee		Former Prime Minister of India (1996), (1998), (1999-2004)