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Complete List of Recipients: S.No Name Image Birth / Death Awarded Notes

The document lists 40 recipients of the Bharat Ratna award, India's highest civilian honor. It includes independence activists, politicians, scientists, artists, and others who have made major contributions to India. The list spans from 1954 to 2008 and includes people such as C.V. Raman, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Mother Teresa, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Lata Mangeshkar, and Bhimsen Joshi.

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The document lists 40 recipients of the Bharat Ratna award, India's highest civilian honor. It includes independence activists, politicians, scientists, artists, and others who have made major contributions to India. The list spans from 1954 to 2008 and includes people such as C.V. Raman, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Mother Teresa, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Lata Mangeshkar, and Bhimsen Joshi.

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Complete list of recipients

S.No Name Image Birth / Awarded death 1878 1972 1888 1970 1888 1975 1869 1958 1860 1962 1889 1964 1887 1961 1858 1962 1882 1962 1882 1962 1884 1963 1897 1969 1880 1972 1904 1966 Notes

1.

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari

1954

Independence activist, last GovernorGeneral

2.

C. V. Raman

1954

Physicist

3.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

1954

Philosopher, second President

4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

Bhagwan Das Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya Jawaharlal Nehru Govind Ballabh Pant Dhondo Keshav Karve Bidhan Chandra Roy Purushottam Das Tandon Rajendra Prasad Zakir Hussain Pandurang Vaman Kane Lal Bahadur Shastri

1955 1955 1955 1957 1958 1961 1961 1962 1963 1963 1966

Independence activist, author Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore Independence activist, author, first Prime Minister Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home Minister Educator, social reformer Physician, Chief Minister of West Bengal Independence activist, educator Independence activist, jurist, first President Scholar, third President Indologist and Sanskrit scholar Posthumous, independence activist, second Prime Minister

15.

Indira Gandhi

1917 1984

1971

Fourth Prime Minister

16.

V. V. Giri

1894 1980 1903 1975

1975

Trade unionist and fourth President

17.

K. Kamaraj

1976

Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Madras State

18.

Mother Teresa

1910 1997 1895 1982 1890 1988

1980

Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity Posthumous, social reformer, independence activist First non-citizen, independence activist

19.

Vinoba Bhave

1983

20.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

1987

21.

M. G. Ramachandran

1917 1987

1988

Posthumous, film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu

22.

B. R. Ambedkar

1891 1956

1990

Posthumous, chief architect of the Indian Constitution, politician, economist, and scholar

23.

Nelson Mandela

b. 1918 1990

Second non-citizen and first nonIndian recipient, Leader of the AntiApartheid movement

24.

Rajiv Gandhi

1944 1991

1991

Posthumous, Seventh Prime Minister

25.

Vallabhbhai Patel

1875 1950

1991

Posthumous, independence activist, first Home Minister

26.

Morarji Desai

1896 1995

1991

Independence activist, fifth Prime Minister

27.

Abul Kalam Azad

1888 1958

1992

Posthumous, independence activist, first Minister of Education

28.

J. R. D. Tata

1904 1993 19221992

1992

Industrialist and philanthropist

29.

Satyajit Ray

1992

Bengali filmmaker

30.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

b. 1931 1997

Aeronautical Engineer,11th President of India

31. 32.

Gulzarilal Nanda Aruna Asaf Ali

1898 1998 1908 1996

1997 1997

Independence activist, interim Prime Minister Posthumous, independence activist

33.

M. S. Subbulakshmi

1916 2004

1998

Classical Carnatic singer

34. 35.

Chidambaram Subramaniam Jayaprakash Narayan

1910 2000 1902 1979

1998 1999

Independence activist, Minister of Agriculture Posthumous, independence activist and politician Sitar player

36.

Ravi Shankar

b. 1920 1999

37.

Amartya Sen

b. 1933 1999

Economist

38. 39.

Gopinath Bordoloi Lata Mangeshkar

1890 1950

1999

Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Assam Playback singer

b. 1929 2001

40. 41.

Bismillah Khan Bhimsen Joshi

1916 2006 19222011

2001 2008

Hindustani classical shehnai player Hindustani classical singer

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