‘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 |
My voting bharat ratan swamivivekanand
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
My vote for bharat rattan is honourable swami vivekanand
My vote for bharat rattan is honourable swami vivekanand,
My special Vote. 4 my Honorable Lady Leader Late. INDIRA GANDHI JI….
my vote all person
My vote is for national hero dhyanchand
My vote for bharatratna is for national hero dhyanchandnational
my vote for Bharat ratna dhyanchand G
My vote is Sachin tendulkar.India’s best cricketer.word’s no1Hero
my vote mager dhyanchandra ko bhart ratn milna chahiye
Sachin
Bharat Ratna awarded major Dhyanchand ko v milna chahiye..
He is the hero of national Sports ” Hockey”. Hockey is my national sports
Bharat Ratna
My vote for lata ji
MY VOTE FOR JYOTI BASU…
(KOLKATA)
MY VOTE FOR Pandit Ravi Shankar…..BUT JYOTI BASU KO BI BHARAT RATNA AWARD MILNA CHIHAY………
my vote goes to k.chandrashaker roa and virat kohli
my vote goes to swamivivekanand ji
Barath Rathna should awarded for great hero Baghath Singh
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
my dream “Bharat ratna”..
i respect to all of them..but my dream “Bharat ratna”..and their is not any boundation for dreams..
My vote for Bharat Rattan honoruble Swami Vivekanand
Majar Dyanchand ji ko bhi milna chahiye bharat rattan
India ka ser
sarunee purab pati
kerakat junpur (UP)
Mu vote for. Alka yagni and Kumar sano he is gret singer
My Vote for Sachin Tendulkar Forever.
My dream
Sbne Kisi n Kisi ka naam likha h but Kisi apna naam ni likha u know why bcz khud Kuch bda ni krna chahte… .
Amrit kumar$ ajanera$ – my vote for bharat ratan is honourable Radha krishnan
Dashrath manjhi must be next bharat ratna