Bharat Ratna Award Name- Awarded in- About him/her Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari -1954- Last Governor - General, Independence activist Dr. Sarvapali Radhakrishnan -1954- Indias 1st Vice President (1952 - 1962), Philosopher and Indias 2nd President (1962 - 1967) Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman -1954- Physicist Dr. Bhagwan Das -1955- Author, Independence activist, Kashi Vidya Peeth Founder Dr. Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya -1955- Diwan of Mysore, Civil engineer Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru -1955- Author, Independence activist, 1st Prime Minister Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant -1957- Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Independence activist, Home Minister Dr. Dhondo Keshave Karve -1958- Educator, social reformer Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy -1961- Chief Minister of West Bengal and a Physician Shri Purushottam Das Tandon -1961- Educator, Independence activist Dr. Rajendra Prasad -1962- Jurist, Independence activist, 1st President of India Dr. Zakir Hussain -1963- Scholar, Independence activist, 3rd President of India Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane -1963- Sanskrit scholar and Indologist Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri (Posthumous) -1966- 2nd Prime Minister of India, Independence activist Smt. Indira Gandhi -1971- 3rd Prime Minister of India Shri Varahagiri Venkata Giri -1975- 4th President, Trade unionist Shri Kumaraswami Kamraj (Posthumous) -1976- Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Independence activist Mother Teresa -1980- Founder of Missionaries of Charity and a Catholic nun Shri Acharya Vinobha Bhave (Posthumous) -1983- Independence activist and a Social reformer Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan -1987- Independence activist, First non-citizen Shri Marudu Gopalan Ramachandran (Posthumous) -1988- Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Film actor Dr. Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar (Posthumous) -1990- Crusader against Untouchablity, Chief architect of Indian Constitution, Social Reformer, Dalit Icon, Historian, Economist, scholar, politician Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela -1990- 2nd non - citizen and non - Indian recipient, Leader of Anti - Apartheid movement Shri Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) -1991- 6th Prime Minister of India Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous) -1991- Independence activist, 1st Home Minister Shri Morarji Ranchhodji Desai -1991- 4th Prime Minister and Independence activist Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Posthumous) -1992- 1st Minister of Education and an Independence activist Shri Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata -1992 - Philanthropist and an Industrialist Shri Satyajit Ray -1992 Filmmaker Shri Gulzarilal Nanda -1997- Interim Prime Minister, Independence activist Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali (Posthumous) -1997- Independence activist Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam -1997- Aeronautical Engineer and 11th President of India Smt. Madurai Sanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi -1998- Carnatic classical singer Shri Chidambaram Subramniam -1998- Minister of Agriculture and an Independence activist Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous) -1999- Politician, Independence activist Professor Amartya Sen -1999- Economist Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (Posthumous) -1999- Chief Minister of Assam, Independence activist Pandit Ravi Shankar -1999- Sitar player Sushri Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar -2001- Playback singer Ustad Bismillah Khan -2001- Hindustani classical shehnai player Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi -2008- Hindustani classical singer Sachin Tendulkar - 2013 Cricketer C N R Rao -2013- Scientist
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