Bharat Ratna Award List :
Bharat Ratna ,is the country’s highest civilian award instituted on 2 January 1954, is given in recognition of exceptional service, performance of the highest order in any field of human endeavor. Any person without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex is eligible for this award. The recommendations for Bharat Ratna are made by the Prime Minister to the President. The number of annual awards is restricted to a maximum of three in a year
Here is a list of Bharat Ratna Awardees which will help you in exams like UPSC, BPSC,SSC MTS.SSC CHSL, SSC CGL,Railways and other Banking Exams like IBPS, RBI, SBI Clerk etc.
S.No. | Name of the Awardees | Year |
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1 | Shri C. Rajagopalachari | 1954 |
2 | Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | 1954 |
3 | Dr.C. V. Raman | 1954 |
4 | Dr.Bhagwan Das | 1955 |
5 | Dr.M Visvesvaraya | 1955 |
6 | Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru | 1955 |
7 | Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant | 1957 |
8 | Dr.Dhondo Keshav Karve | 1958 |
9 | Dr.Bidhan Chandra Roy | 1961 |
10 | Shri.Purushottam Das Tandon | 1961 |
11 | Dr.Rajendra Prasad | 1962 |
12 | Dr.Zakir Husain | 1962 |
13 | Dr.Pandurang Vaman Kane | 1963 |
14 | Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri (posthumous) | 1966 |
15 | Smt.Indira Gandhi | 1971 |
16 | Shri V. V. Giri | 1975 |
17 | Shri K. Kamaraj(posthumous) | 1976 |
18 | Mother Teresa | 1980 |
19 | Shri Acharya Vinoba Bhave | 1983 |
20 | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | 1987 |
21 | Shri M. G. Ramachandran | 1988 |
22 | Dr.B. R. Ambedkar | 1990 |
23 | Nelson Mandela | 1990 |
24 | Shri.Rajiv Gandhi (posthumous) | 1991 |
25 | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (posthumous) | 1991 |
26 | Shri Morarji Desai | 1991 |
27 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (posthumous) | 1992 |
28 | Shri J. R. D. Tata | 1992 |
29 | Shri Satyajit Ray | 1992 |
30 | Shri Gulzarilal Nanda | 1997 |
31 | Smt.Aruna Asaf Ali(posthumous) | 1997 |
32 | Dr.A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | 1997 |
33 | Smt.M. S. Subbulakshmi | 1998 |
34 | Shri Chidambaram Subramaniam | 1998 |
35 | Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan (posthumous) | 1999 |
36 | Professor Amartya Sen | 1999 |
37 | Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (posthumous) | 1999 |
38 | Pandit Ravi Shankar | 1999 |
39 | ShushriLata Mangeshkar | 2001 |
40 | Ustad Bismillah Khan | 2001 |
41 | Pandit Bhimsen Joshi | 2009 |
42 | Professor C. N. R. Rao | 2014 |
43 | Shri Sachin Tendulkar | 2014 |
44 | Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (posthumous) | 2015 |
45 | Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 2015 |
Did You Know?
- The original 1954 specifications of the award was a circle made of gold 1 3⁄8 inches (35 mm) in diameter with a centred sunburst design on the obverse side.
- The text “Bharat Ratna”, in Devanagari Script, is inscribed on the upper edge in silver gilt with a wreath set along on the lower edge.