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)