Sachin Tendulkar will be the 42nd recipient of Bharata Ratna Award. Here the list of All the recipients of Bharata Ratna. 1.Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari-1954-Indian political leader, the first and the only governor-general of independent India. 2.Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman-1954-Indian physicist, the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 3.Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan-1954-Philosopher, scholar and statesman, president of India from 1962 to 1967 4.Dr. Bhagwan Das-1955-Independence activist, author 5.Shri Jawaharlal Nehru-1955-Independence activist, author, first prime minister of independent India (1947-64) 6.Dr. Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya-1955-Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore 7.Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant-1957-Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home Minister 8.Dr. Dhonde Keshav Karve-1958-Also known as Maharishi Karve, Indian social reformer and educator 9.Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy-1961-Physician, Chief Minister of West Bengal 10.Shri Purushottam Das Tandon-1961-Independence activist, educator 11.Dr. Rajendra Prasad-1962-First president of the Republic of India (1950-62). A lawyer-turned-journalist, also president of the Indian National Congress 12.Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane-1963-Indologist and Sanskrit scholar 13.Dr. Zakir Hussain-1963-Scholar, third President of India 14.Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri-1966-Posthumous Award: independence activist, third Prime Minister 15.Smt. Indira Gandhi-1971-Fourth Prime Minister 16.Shri Varahagiri Venkata Giri-1975-Trade unionist and former President 17.Shri Kumaraswamy Kamraj-1976-Posthumous Award: independence activist, Chief Minister of Madras 18.Mother Teresa, (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) -1980-Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity. 19.Shri Acharya Vinoba Bhave-1983-Posthumous Award: social reformer, independence activist. 20.Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan-1987-First non-citizen, independence activist. 21.Shri Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran-1988-Posthumous Award: film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. 22.Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedakr-1990-Posthumous Award: architect of the Indian Constitution, politician, economist, and scholar. 23.Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela-1990-Second non-citizen and first non-Indian recipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid movement. 24.Shri Morarji Ranchhodji Desai-1991-Independence activist, fifth Prime Minister. 25.Shri Rajiv Gandhi-1991-Seventh Prime Minister. 26.Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel-1991-Posthumous Award: independence activist, first Home Minister. 27.JRD Tata-Shri Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata-1992-Industrialist and philanthropist 28.Shri Maulana Abul Kalam Azad-1992-Posthumous Award: independence activist, first Minister of Education 29.Shri Satyajit Ray-1992-Filmmaker 30.Shri (Dr.) Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam-1997-Aeronautical engineer, eminent defence scientist, Dr. Kalam was Indias eleventh president from 2002 to 2007 31.Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali-1997-Posthumous Award: independence activist 32.Shri Gulzari Lal Nanda-1997-Independence activist, second Prime Minister 33.Shri Chidambaram Subramaniam-1998-Chidambaram Subramaniam (birth: January 30, 1910 – death: November 7, 2000) He was an Indian statesman, Freedom fighter, state minister, central minister and governor. 34.Smt. Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi-1998-Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004), Also known as M.S., she was a renowned Carnatic vocalist. 35.Prof. Amartya Sen-1999-Distinguished economist and philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998 for his seminal work in welfare economics 36.Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi-1999-Posthumous Award: independence activist, Chief Minister of Assam 37.Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan-1999-Posthumous Award: Indian political leader and theorist, leader of socio-political mass-movements in Gujarat and Bihar 38.Pandit Ravi Shankar-1999-Sitar player 39.Kumari Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar-2001-Legendary Indian playback singer; sang for more than 2,000 Indian films in a career spanning nearly six decades 40.Ustad Bismillah Khan-2001-(birth March 21, 1916, Bhirung Raut Ki Gali, in Dumraon, Bihar; death Aug. 21, 2006, Varanasi). 41.Pandit Bhimsen Joshi-2008-(birth. Feb. 14, 1922, Gadag, Dharwad, Karnataka), His full name is Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi.
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