Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Bharat Ratna Award winners


#
Year
Winner
States/Country
Notes
1
1954
C. Rajagopalachari
Tamil Nadu
Independence activist, last Governor-General
2
Sir C V Raman
Tamil Nadu
Physicist
3
S Radhakrishnan
Tamil Nadu
Philosopher, India’s first Vice President
4
1955
Bhagwan Das
Uttar Pradesh
Independence activist, Author
5
M Visvesvarayya
Karnataka
Civil Engineer
6
Jawaharlal Nehru
Uttar Pradesh
I Indian PM
7
1957
Govind Ballabh Pant
Uttar Pradesh
Independence activist, CM
8
1958
D Karve
Maharashtra
Educator, Social reformer
9
1961
B C Roy
Bihar
Physician, CM of West Bengal
10
P D Tandon
Uttar Pradesh
Independence activist
11
1962
Rajendra Prasad
Bihar
I President of India
12
1963
Zakir Hussian
Andhra Pradesh
III President of India
13
P V Kane
Maharashtra
Indologist & Sanskrit scholar
14
1966
Lal Bahadur Shastri *
Uttar Pradesh
II PM
15
1971
Indira Gandhi
Uttar Pradesh
III PM
16
1975
V V Giri
Odisha
IV President
17
1976
K Kamaraj*
Tamil Nadu
CM of Tamil Nadu
18
1980
Mother Teresa
Albania / India
Catholic nun
19
1983
Vinobha Bhave*
Maharashtra
Social Reformer
20
1987
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Pakistan

21
1988
M G Ramachandran *
Tamil Nadu
CM of Tamil Nadu
22
1990
B R Ambedkar *
Madhya Pradesh
Chief Architect of Indian Constitution
23
1990
Nelson Mandela
South Africa

24
1991
Rajiv Gandhi *
Uttar Pradesh
VI PM
25
Vallabhbhai Patel *
Maharashtra
I Home Minister
26
Moraji Desai
Gujarat
IV PM
27
1992
Abul Kalam Azad*
West Bengal
Independence Activist
28
J R D Tata

Industrialist
29
Satyajit Ray
West Bengal
Filmmaker
30
1997
APJ Abdul Kalam
Tamil Nadu
XI Pres of India
31
Gulzarilal Nandha
Uttar Pradesh
Interim PM
32
Aruna Asaf Ali*
Haryana
Independence Activist
33
1998
M S Subbulakshmi
Tamil Nadu
Carnatic Classical Singer
34
C Subramaniam
Tamil Nadu
Union Agriculture Minister
35
1999
Jayaprakash Narayan*
Bihar
Independence Activist
36
Ravi Shankar
Uttar Pradesh
Sitar player
37
Amartya Sen
West Bengal
Economist
38
Gopinath Bordoloi*
Assam
CM of Assam
39
2001
Lata Mangeshkar
Madhya Pradesh
Playback Singer
40
Bismillah Khan
Bihar
Shehnai Player
41
2008
Bhimsen Joshi
Karnataka
Hindustani classical singer
42
2013
CN Rao
Karnataka
Scientist
43
Sachin Tendulkar
Maharashtra
Sport person






Note: * à posthumous winners

Living recipients:-
Indian recipients
Ø     P. J. Abdul Kalam (1997)
Ø     Amartya Sen (1999)
Ø     Lata Mangeshkar (2001)
Ø     CN Rao (2013)
Ø     Sachin Tendulkar (2013)
Foreign recipients

Ø     Nelson Mandela (1990)