Bharat Ratna Facts

Bharat Ratna is India's Highest Civilian Award given for performance in highest order in any field of any endeavor. Bharat Ratna award was introduced in 1954 and till now 45 persons has awarded by this award.

   
 Instituted: 1954
First awarded: 1954
Last awarded: 2015
Total awarded: 45

First awardee(s):
C. Rajagopalachari
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
C. V. Raman

Recent awardee(s):
Madan Mohan Malaviya (Posthumous)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee



-> 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


List Of Bharat Ratna Awardees:

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, India’s First Vice President (1952-1962), 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 Abul 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 Sachin Tendulkar  2013
Indian Cricketer, First Sportsman and Youngest Indian who got Bharat Ratna,

43 Prof. C.N.R Rao  2013 
Chemist, Scientist

44 Madan Mohan Malaviya 2014 Educationist and politician

45 Atal Bihari Vajpayee  2014
Former Prime Minister of India (1996), (1998), (1999-2004)