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List of Bharat Ratna Award winners

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The Bharat Ratna  is the highest civilian award of the Republic of India.The Structure of Bharat Ratna is like as: Front side, An image of the Sun along with the words “Bharat Ratna”, inscribed in Devanagari script, on a peepal leaf and the Opposite side A platinum State Emblem of India placed in the centre with the national motto, “Satyameva Jayate” in Devanagari script.

Bharat Ratna Winner List.

Name of the Awardees  Year
1. Shri C. Rajagopalachari 1954
2. Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 1954
3. Dr. C. V. Raman 1954
4. Dr. Bhagwan Das 1955
5. Dr. M Visvesvaraya 1955
6. Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru 1955
7. Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant 1957
8. Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve 1958
9. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy 1961
10. Shri Purushottam Das Tandon 1961
11. Dr. Rajendra Prasad 1962
12. Dr. Zakir Husain 1962
13. Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane 1963
14. Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri (posthumous) 1966
15. Smt. Indira Gandhi 1971
16. Shri V. V. Giri 1975
17. Shri K. Kamaraj(posthumous) 1976
18. Mother Teresa 1980
19. Shri Acharya Vinoba Bhave 1983
20. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 1987
21. Shri M. G. Ramachandran 1988
22. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar 1990
23. Nelson Mandela 1990
24. Shri Rajiv Gandhi (posthumous) 1991
25. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (posthumous) 1991
26. Shri Morarji Desai 1991
27. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (posthumous) 1992
28. Shri J. R. D. Tata 1992
29. Shri Satyajit Ray 1992
30. Shri Gulzarilal Nanda 1997
31. Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali(posthumous) 1997
32. Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 1997
33. Smt. M. S. Subbulakshmi 1998
34. Shri Chidambaram Subramaniam 1998
35. Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan (posthumous) 1999
36. Professor Amartya Sen 1999
37. Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (posthumous) 1999
38. Pandit Ravi Shankar 1999
39. ShushriLata Mangeshkar 2001
40. Ustad Bismillah Khan 2001
41. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi 2009
42. Professor C. N. R. Rao 2014
43. Shri Sachin Tendulkar 2014
44. Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (posthumous) 2015
45. Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee 2015

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