BHARAT RATNA AWARDEES LIST

1) Kumari Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar - Arts : 2001

2) Late. Ustad Bismillah Khan - Arts : 2001

3) Prof. Amartya Sen - Literature & Education : 1999

4) Lokpriya Gopinath (posth.) Bordoloi - Public Affairs : 1999

5) Loknayak Jayprakash (Posth.) Narayan - Public Affairs : 1999

6) Pandit Ravi Shankar - Arts : 1999

7) Shri Chidambaram Subramaniam - Public Affairs : 1998

8) Smt. M.S. Subbulakshmi - Arts : 1998

9) Shri (Dr.) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam - Science & Engineering. : 1997

10) Smt. Aruna Asaf (Posth.) Ali - Public Affairs : 1997

11) Shri Gulzari Lal (Shri) Nanda - Public Affairs : 1997

12) Shri Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata - Trade & Industry : 1992

13) Shri Maulana Abul Kalam Azad - Public Affairs : 1992

14) Shri Satyajit Ray - Arts : 1992

15) Shri Morarji Ranchhodji Desai - Public Affairs : 1991

16) Shri Rajiv Gandhi - Public Affairs : 1991

17) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel - Public Affairs : 1991

18) Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedakr - Public Affairs : 1990

19) Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela - Public Affairs : 1990

20) Shri Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran - Public Affairs : 1988

21) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan - Social Work : 1987 : Pakistan :

22) Shri Acharya Vinoba Bhave - Social Work : 1983 : India : Maharashtra

23) Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu Teresa - Social Work : 1980

24) Shri Kumaraswamy Kamraj - Public Affairs : 1976

25) Shri V.V. Giri - Public Affairs : 1975

26) Smt. Indira Gandhi - Public Affairs : 1971

27) Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri - Public Affairs : 1966

28) Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane - Social Work : 1963

29) Dr. Zakir Hussain - Public Affairs : 1963

30) Dr. Rajendra Prasad - Public Affairs : 1962

31) Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy - Public Affairs : 1961

32) Shri Purushottam Das Tandon - Public Affairs : 1961

33) Dr. Dhonde Keshav Karve - Social Work : 1958

34) Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant - Public Affairs : 1957

35) Dr. Bhagwan Das - Literature & Education : 1955

36) Shri Jawaharlal Nehru - Public Affairs : 1955

37) Dr. M. Vivesvaraya - Civil Service : 1955

38) Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari - Public Affairs : 1954

39) Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman - Science & Engineering. : 1954

40) Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan - Public Affairs : 1954