Bharat Ratna Award Winners List 2014
Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award India. Bharat Ratna means Gem of India or Jewel of India. Bharat Ratna was first awarded in the year 1954. Any person can be eligible to get this award from PM of India without distinction of race, position and occupation.
Here is a list of bharat ratna awardees:
| Name | Awarded | Notes |
| C. N. R. Rao[8][9] | 2020 | Scientist |
| Sachin Tendulkar[8][9] | 2020 | Cricket player |
| Lata Mangeshkar | 2001 | Playback singer |
| Bismillah Khan | 2001 | Hindustani classical shehnai player |
| Bhimsen Joshi | 2009 | Hindustani classical singer |
| Ravi Shankar | 1999 | Sitar player from Calcutta |
| Amartya Sen | 1999 | Economist from Kolkata and a Nobel laureate |
| Gopinath Bordoloi | 1999 | Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Assam |
| M. S. Subbulakshmi | 1998 | Carnatic classical singer |
| Chidambaram Subramaniam | 1998 | Independence activist, Minister of Agriculture |
| Jayaprakash Narayan | 1998 | Posthumous, independence activist and politician |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | 1997 | Aeronautical Engineer,11th President of India |
| Gulzarilal Nanda | 1997 | Independence activist, interim Prime Minister |
| Aruna Asaf Ali | 1997 | Posthumous, independence activist |
| Abul Kalam Azad | 1992 | Posthumous, independence activist, first Minister of Education |
| J. R. D. Tata | 1992 | Industrialist and philanthropist |
| Satyajit Ray | 1992 | Bengali Filmmaker |
| Rajiv Gandhi | 1991 | Posthumous, Sixth Prime Minister. |
| Vallabhbhai Patel | 1991 | Posthumous, independence activist |
| Morarji Desai | 1991 | Independence activist, fourth Prime Minister |
| B. R. Ambedkar | 1990 | Posthumous, Chief architect of the Indian Constitution |
| Nelson Mandela | 1990 | Second non-citizen and non-Indian recipient |
| M. G. Ramachandran | 1988 | Posthumous, film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu |
| Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | 1987 | First non-citizen, independence activist |
| Vinoba Bhave | 1983 | Posthumous, social reformer, independence activist |
| Mother Teresa of Calcutta | 1980 | Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata and Nobel laureate |
| K. Kamaraj | 1976 | Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State |
| V. V. Giri | 1975 | Trade unionist and fourth President of India |
| Indira Gandhi | 1971 | Third Prime Minister, first female Prime Minister of India (1966–1977,1980–1984) |
| Lal Bahadur Shastri | 1966 | Posthumous, independence activist, second Prime Minister |
| Zakir Hussain | 1963 | Independence activist, Scholar, third President |
| Pandurang Vaman Kane | 1963 | Indologist and Sanskrit scholar |
| Rajendra Prasad | 1962 | Independence activist, jurist, first President |
| Bidhan Chandra Roy | 1961 | Physician, Chief Minister of West Bengal |
| Purushottam Das Tandon | 1961 | Independence activist, educator |
| Dhondo Keshav Karve | 1958 | Educator, social reformer |
| Govind Ballabh Pant | 1957 | Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home Minister |
| Bhagwan Das | 1955 | Independence activist, author, Founder of Kashi Vidya Peeth |
| Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya | 1955 | Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 1955 | Independence activist, author, first Prime Minister |
| ajagopalachari | 1954 | Independence activist, last and the only Indian Governor-General of India |
| C. V. Raman | 1954 | Physicist from Madras and a Nobel laureate |
| Radhakrishnan | 1954 | Philosopher, India’s First and Second Vice President |
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