List of Bharat Ratna Award Recipients
‘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.
List of Bharat Ratna Awardees
| Year | Recipient | State / Country |
| 2024 | Charan Singh | Uttar Pradesh |
| 2024 | Karpoori Thakur | Bihar |
| 2024 | L. K. Advani | Delhi |
| 2024 | M. S. Swaminathan | Tamil Nadu |
| 2024 | P. V. Narasimha Rao | Telangana |
| 2019 | Bhupen Hazarika | Assam |
| 2019 | Nanaji Deshmukh | Maharashtra |
| 2019 | Pranab Mukherjee | West Bengal |
| 2015 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Madhya Pradesh |
| 2015 | Madan Mohan Malaviya | Uttar Pradesh |
| 2014 | C. N. R. Rao | Karnataka |
| 2014 | Sachin Tendulkar | Maharashtra |
| 2009 | Bhimsen Joshi | Karnataka |
| 2001 | Bismillah Khan | Bihar |
| 2001 | Lata Mangeshkar | Maharashtra |
| 1999 | Amartya Sen | West Bengal |
| 1999 | Gopinath Bordoloi | Assam |
| 1999 | Jayaprakash Narayan | Bihar |
| 1999 | Ravi Shankar | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1998 | C. Subramaniam | Tamil Nadu |
| 1998 | M. S. Subbulakshmi | Tamil Nadu |
| 1997 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Tamil Nadu |
| 1997 | Aruna Asaf Ali | West Bengal |
| 1997 | Gulzarilal Nanda | Punjab |
| 1992 | Abul Kalam Azad | West Bengal |
| 1992 | J. R. D. Tata | Maharashtra |
| 1992 | Satyajit Ray | West Bengal |
| 1991 | Morarji Desai | Gujarat |
| 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1991 | Vallabhbhai Patel | Gujarat |
| 1990 | B. R. Ambedkar | Maharashtra |
| 1990 | Nelson Mandela | South Africa |
| 1988 | M. G. Ramachandran | Tamil Nadu |
| 1987 | Abdul Ghaffar Khan | Pakistan |
| 1983 | Vinoba Bhave | Maharashtra |
| 1980 | Mother Teresa | West Bengal (born: Skopje, North Macedonia) |
| 1976 | K. Kamaraj | Tamil Nadu |
| 1975 | V. V. Giri | Odisha |
| 1971 | Indira Gandhi | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1963 | Pandurang Vaman Kane | Maharashtra |
| 1963 | Zakir Husain | Telangana |
| 1962 | Rajendra Prasad | Bihar |
| 1961 | Bidhan Chandra Roy | West Bengal |
| 1961 | Purushottam Das Tandon | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1958 | Dhondo Keshav Karve | Maharashtra |
| 1957 | Govind Ballabh Pant | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1955 | Bhagwan Das | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1955 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1955 | M. Visvesvaraya | Karnataka |
| 1954 | C. Rajagopalachari | Tamil Nadu |
| 1954 | C. V. Raman | Tamil Nadu |
| 1954 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | Tamil Nadu |