Bharat Ratna Award is the Indias highest honour which is awarded for exceptional and

distinguished services of a high order in any field i.e. art, literature, science and public
service. Following are the recipients of the Bharat Ratna:
Name of Awardee
No Awardee
Pt. Bhimsen Joshi (1922 Live)
Latha Mangeshkar (1929 Live)
Bismilla Khan (19162006)
Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous) (1902 1979)
Dr. Amartiya Sen (1933 Live)
Pandit Ravi Shankar (1920 Live)
Gopinath Bordoloi (Posthumous) (1890 1950)
M.S. Subbulakshmi (1916 2004)
C. Subramaniam (1910 2000)
Aruna Asaf All (Posthumus) (1909 1996)
Gulzarilal Nanda (Posthumous) (1898 1997)
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (1931 Live)
J.R.D. Tata (1904 1993)
Satyajit Ray (1922 1992)
Moulana Abul Kalam Azad (Posthumous) (1888 1958)
Morarji Desai (1896 1995)
Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) (1944 1991)
Sardar Vallab Bhai Patel (Posthumous) (1875 1950)
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (Posthumous) (1891 1956)
Dr. Nelson Mandela (1918 Live)
M.G. Ramachandra (Posthumous) (1917 1987)
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890 1988)
Acharya Vinoba Bhave (Posthumous) (1895 1982)
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) (1910 1997)
Kumaraswami Kamaraj (Posthumous) (1903 1975)
Varaha Giri Venkata Giri (1884 1980)
Indira Gandhi (1917 1984)
Dr.Lal Bahadur Shastri (Posthumous) (1904 1966)
Dr.Zakir Hussian (1897 1969)
Dr.Pandurang Vamman Kane (1880 1972)
Dr.Rajendra Prasad (1884 1963)
Dr.Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882 1962)
Purushotham Das Tandon (1882 1962)

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1961

Dr.Dhondo Keshav Karve (1858 1962)

Govind Vallabh Pant (1887 1961)
Dr.Bhagwan Das (1869 1958)
Dr.Mokshagundam Viswesvaraya (1861 1962)
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 1964)
Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888 1975)
Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari (1878 1972)
Dr.Chandrasekhar Venkatraman (1888 1970)

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1954