Bharat Ratna Award Winners: List of Recipients (1954-2019)

Sl No	Year	Laureates
1	1954	C. Rajagopalachari
2	1954	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
3	1954	C. V. Raman
4	1955	Bhagwan Das
5	1955	M. Visvesvaraya
6	1955	Jawaharlal Nehru
7	1957	Govind Ballabh Pant
8	1958	Dhondo Keshav Karve
9	1961	Bidhan Chandra Roy
10	1961	Purushottam Das Tandon
11	1962	Rajendra Prasad
12	1963	Zakir Husain
13	1963	Pandurang Vaman Kane
14	1966	Lal Bahadur Shastri
15	1971	Indira Gandhi
16	1975	V. V. Giri
17	1976	K. Kamaraj
18	1980	Mother Teresa
19	1983	Vinoba Bhave
20	1987	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
21	1988	M. G. Ramachandran
22	1990	B. R. Ambedkar
23	1990	Nelson Mandela
24	1991	Rajiv Gandhi
25	1991	Vallabhbhai Patel
26	1991	Morarji Desai
27	1992	Abul Kalam Azad
28	1992	J. R. D. Tata
29	1992	Satyajit Ray
30	1997	Gulzarilal Nanda
31	1997	Aruna Asaf Ali
32	1997	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
33	1998	M. S. Subbulakshmi
34	1998	Chidambaram Subramaniam
35	1999	Jayaprakash Narayan
36	1999	Amartya Sen
37	1999	Gopinath Bordoloi
38	1999	Ravi Shankar
39	2001	Lata Mangeshkar
40	2001	Bismillah Khan
41	2009	Bhimsen Joshi
42	2014	C. N. R. Rao
43	2014	Sachin Tendulkar
44	2015	Madan Mohan Malaviya
45	2015	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
46	2019	Pranab Mukherjee
47	2019	Nanaji Deshmukh
48	2019	Bhupen Hazarika