Bharat Ratna Award Winners List – The Bharat Ratna award is the highest civilian honour in the country, it is given for exceptional service and recognition of Public Service of the highest order.
How many Bharat Ratnas can be awarded in a year?
- In a year, 3 persons are selected as the maximum honored with Bharat Ratna. In the last year, three personalities were honored with this award: Nanaji Deshmukh, Pranab Mukherjee, and Bhupen Hazarika.
Bharat Ratna Award Winners List Complete (1954 – 2024)
| Year | Awardee |
|---|---|
| Bharat Ratna 1954 | C. Rajagopalachari Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan C. V. Raman |
| Bharat Ratna 1955 | Bhagwan Das M. Visvesvaraya Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Bharat Ratna 1957 | Govind Ballabh Pant |
| Bharat Ratna 1958 | Dhondo Keshav Karve |
| Bharat Ratna 1961 | Bidhan Chandra Roy Purushottam Das Tandon |
| Bharat Ratna 1962 | Rajendra Prasad |
| Bharat Ratna 1963 | Zakir Husain Pandurang Vaman Kane |
| Bharat Ratna 1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| Bharat Ratna 1971 | Indira Gandhi |
| Bharat Ratna 1975 | V. V. Giri |
| Bharat Ratna 1976 | K. Kamaraj |
| Bharat Ratna 1980 | Mother Teresa |
| Bharat Ratna 1983 | Vinoba Bhave |
| Bharat Ratna 1987 | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
| Bharat Ratna 1988 | M. G. Ramachandran |
| Bharat Ratna 1990 | B. R. Ambedkar Nelson Mandela |
| Bharat Ratna 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi Vallabhbhai Patel Morarji Desai |
| Bharat Ratna 1992 | Abul Kalam Azad J. R. D. Tata Satyajit Ray |
| Bharat Ratna 1997 | Gulzarilal Nanda Aruna Asaf Ali A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| Bharat Ratna 1998 | M. S. Subbulakshmi Chidambaram Subramaniam |
| Bharat Ratna 1999 | Jayaprakash Narayan Amartya Sen Gopinath Bordoloi Ravi Shankar |
| Bharat Ratna 2001 | Lata Mangeshkar Bismillah Khan |
| Bharat Ratna2009 | Bhimsen Joshi |
| Bharat Ratna 2014 | C. N. R. Rao Sachin Tendulkar |
| Bharat Ratna 2015 | Madan Mohan Malaviya Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| Bharat Ratna 2019 | Pranab Mukherjee Nanaji Deshmukh Bhupen Hazarika |
| Bharat Ratna 2024 (Posthumously) | Karpoori Thakur |
| Bharat Ratna 2024 | Lal Krishna Advani |
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