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List of Bharat Ratna Award Recipients

Posted on February 7, 2022 by Vincent Augustine D'Souza

BHARAT RATNA

English: The Bharat Rathna Medal given to
The Bharat Rathna Medal given to (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

‘Bharat Ratna’, the highest civilian award of India, was instituted in the year 1954.

Any person without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex is eligible for these awards.

It is awarded for exceptional service towards advancement of Art, Literature and Science, and in recognition of public service of the highest order.

The recommendations for Bharat Ratna are made by the Prime Minister himself to the President. No formal recommendations for this are necessary.

The number of annual awards is restricted to a maximum of three in a particular year.

Gandhi and Vinoba Bhave
Gandhi and Vinoba Bhave (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

On conferment of the award, the recipient receives a Sanad (certificate) signed by the President and a medallion.

The award does not carry any monetary grant.

In terms of Article 18 (1) of the Constitution, the award cannot be used as a prefix or suffix to the recipient’s name. However, should an award winner consider it necessary, he/she may use the following expression in their bio-data/letterhead/visiting card etc. to indicate that he/she is a recipient of the award: –

‘Awarded Bharat Ratna by the President’
or
‘Recipient of Bharat Ratna award’

List of Bharat Ratna Awardees

Cropped version of File:Gandhi and Abdul Ghaff...
Cropped version of File:Gandhi and Abdul Ghaffar Khan during prayer.jpg. Plus, I increased the brightness and contrast a bit. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
  1. Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan (1954)
  2. Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1954)
  3. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1954)
  4. Dr. Mokshagundam Vivesvaraya (1955)
  5. Jawaharlal Nehru (1955)
  6. Dr. Bhagwan Das (1955)
  7. Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant (1957)
  8. Dr. Dhonde Keshav Karve (1958)
  9. Purushottam Das Tandon (1961)
  10. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy (1961)
  11. Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1962)
  12. Dr. Zakir Hussain (1963)
  13. Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane (1963)
  14. Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966)
  15. Mrs. Indira Gandhi (1971)
  16. Varahagiri Venkata Giri (1975)
  17. Kumaraswamy Kamraj (1976)
  18. Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) (1980)
  19. Acharya Vinoba Bhave (1983)
  20. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1987)
  21. Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran (1988)
  22. Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1990)
  23. Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedakr (1990)
  24. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1991)
  25. Rajiv Gandhi (1991)
  26. Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (1991)
  27. Satyajit Ray (1992)
  28. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1992)
  29. Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata (1992)
  30. Gulzari Lal Nanda (1997)
  31. Mrs. Aruna Asaf Ali (1997)
  32. Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (1997)
  33. Mrs. Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (1998)
  34. Chidambaram Subramaniam (1998)
  35. Pandit Ravi Shankar (1999)
  36. Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan (1999)
  37. Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (1999)
  38. Prof. Amartya Sen (1999)
  39. Ustad Bismillah Khan (2001)
  40. Kumari Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar (2001)
  41. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi (2008)
  42. Prof. Chintamani Nagesha Ramachandra Rao (2014)
  43. Sachin Tendulkar (2014)
  44. Madan Mohan Malaviya (2015)
  45. Atal Bihari Vajpayee (2015)
  46. Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh (Nanaji Deshmukh) (2019)
  47. Dr. Bhupen Hazarika (2019)
  48. Pranab Mukherjee (2019)
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  1. Annu Tandan says:
    October 10, 2014 at 10:50 am

    My voting bharat ratan swamivivekanand

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  2. nurul amin says:
    October 10, 2014 at 8:13 pm

    Mahatma phule and his wife both must be awarded bharath ratna ,because mahatma phule first started schools for backward classes,sc and sts,his wife savitri bai phule started first girls school in india at the time when education for girls is taboo in our society,I strongly support for this grat couple

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  3. abhishek says:
    October 25, 2014 at 9:48 am

    My vote for bharat rattan is honourable swami vivekanand

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  4. ravindra says:
    November 28, 2014 at 3:28 pm

    My vote for bharat rattan is honourable swami vivekanand,

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  5. Sumit Tiwari says:
    December 24, 2014 at 9:31 pm

    My special Vote. 4 my Honorable Lady Leader Late. INDIRA GANDHI JI….

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  6. Pushkar says:
    December 27, 2014 at 6:58 pm

    my vote all person

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  7. rajeev says:
    December 28, 2014 at 1:42 am

    My vote is for national hero dhyanchand

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  8. rajeev says:
    December 28, 2014 at 1:44 am

    My vote for bharatratna is for national hero dhyanchandnational

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  9. pankaj says:
    January 3, 2015 at 6:56 pm

    my vote for Bharat ratna dhyanchand G

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  10. ABHISHEK SRIWASTWA says:
    January 13, 2015 at 3:23 pm

    My vote is Sachin tendulkar.India’s best cricketer.word’s no1Hero

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  11. RAMRAJA DWIVEDI says:
    February 15, 2015 at 7:39 pm

    my vote mager dhyanchandra ko bhart ratn milna chahiye

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  12. Mahmad rafi says:
    February 18, 2015 at 11:26 am

    Sachin

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  13. Bittu Kumar says:
    March 21, 2015 at 6:42 am

    Bharat Ratna awarded major Dhyanchand ko v milna chahiye..
    He is the hero of national Sports ” Hockey”. Hockey is my national sports

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  14. deepak khandelwal says:
    March 27, 2015 at 11:50 am

    Bharat Ratna

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  15. Ramanuj Singh Monu says:
    March 27, 2015 at 10:34 pm

    My vote for lata ji

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  16. PARTHO ROY says:
    May 2, 2015 at 12:20 am

    MY VOTE FOR JYOTI BASU…
    (KOLKATA)

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  17. PARTHO ROY says:
    May 2, 2015 at 12:28 am

    MY VOTE FOR Pandit Ravi Shankar…..BUT JYOTI BASU KO BI BHARAT RATNA AWARD MILNA CHIHAY………

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  18. R.vinod kumar says:
    May 30, 2015 at 12:31 am

    my vote goes to k.chandrashaker roa and virat kohli

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  19. amit kumar says:
    June 2, 2015 at 5:42 pm

    my vote goes to swamivivekanand ji

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  20. Deepak Shahabad says:
    July 18, 2015 at 7:55 pm

    Barath Rathna should awarded for great hero Baghath Singh

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  21. Dhirendra kumar says:
    July 29, 2015 at 11:12 pm

    Mere khyal se bharat ratn mejar dhyan chandra ko diya jaana chahiye kyo ki unho ne desh ka naam ucha kiya hai aur vah isake haqdaar hai

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  22. diksha soni says:
    August 4, 2015 at 11:08 pm

    my dream “Bharat ratna”..

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  23. diksha soni says:
    August 4, 2015 at 11:11 pm

    i respect to all of them..but my dream “Bharat ratna”..and their is not any boundation for dreams..

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  24. Rahul Bhardwaj says:
    September 2, 2015 at 3:56 pm

    My vote for Bharat Rattan honoruble Swami Vivekanand

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  25. Ramavatar saini says:
    October 4, 2015 at 8:02 am

    Majar Dyanchand ji ko bhi milna chahiye bharat rattan

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  26. Lalsahab yadav says:
    November 6, 2015 at 10:17 pm

    India ka ser

    sarunee purab pati
    kerakat junpur (UP)

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    1. anup kumar saroj says:
      February 21, 2016 at 12:07 pm

      Mu vote for. Alka yagni and Kumar sano he is gret singer

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  27. Rahul says:
    March 29, 2016 at 12:50 pm

    My Vote for Sachin Tendulkar Forever.

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  28. pratap singh says:
    July 22, 2016 at 7:10 pm

    My dream

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  29. Vikram says:
    October 17, 2016 at 6:32 am

    Sbne Kisi n Kisi ka naam likha h but Kisi apna naam ni likha u know why bcz khud Kuch bda ni krna chahte… .

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  30. Amrit kumar says:
    November 4, 2016 at 5:19 pm

    Amrit kumar$ ajanera$ – my vote for bharat ratan is honourable Radha krishnan

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  31. aastha says:
    September 7, 2018 at 11:41 am

    Dashrath manjhi must be next bharat ratna

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