BHARAT RATNA AWARDEES

1. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi

(2008)

2. Kumari Lata Dinanath

Mangeshkar (2001)

3. Ustad Bismillah Khan

(2001)

4. Prof. Amartya Sen (1999)

5. Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi

(1999)

6. Loknayak Jayprakash

Narayan (1999)

7. Pandit Ravi Shankar (1999)

8. Shri Chidambaram

Subramaniam (1998)

9. Smt. Madurai

Shanmukhavadivu

Subbulakshmi (1998)

10. Shri (Dr.) Avul Pakir

Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

(1997)

11. Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali

(1997)

12. Shri Gulzari Lal Nanda

(1997)

13. Shri Jehangir Ratanji

Dadabhai Tata (1992)

14. Shri Maulana Abul Kalam

Azad (1992)

15. Shri Satyajit Ray (1992)

16. Shri Morarji Ranchhodji

Desai (1991)

17. Shri Rajiv Gandhi (1991)

18. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

(1991)

19. Dr. Bhimrao Ramji

Ambedakr (1990)

20. Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla

Mandela (1990)

21. Shri Marudur Gopalan

Ramachandran (1988)

22. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

(1987)

23. Shri Acharya Vinoba

Bhave (1983)

24. Mother Teresa (Agnes

Gonxha Bojaxhiu) (1980)

25. Shri Kumaraswamy

Kamraj (1976)

26. Shri Varahagiri Venkata

Giri (1975)

27. Smt. Indira Gandhi (1971)

28. Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri

(1966)

29. Dr. Pandurang Vaman

Kane (1963)

30. Dr. Zakir Hussain (1963)

31. Dr. Rajendra Prasad

(1962)

32. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy

(1961)

33. Shri Purushottam Das

Tandon (1961)

34. Dr. Dhonde Keshav Karve

(1958)

35. Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant

(1957)

36. Dr. Bhagwan Das (1955)

37. Shri Jawaharlal Nehru

(1955)

38. Dr. Mokshagundam

Vivesvaraya (1955)

39. Shri Chakravarti

Rajagopalachari (1954)

40. Dr. Chandrasekhara

Venkata Raman (1954)

41. Dr. Sarvapalli

Radhakrishnan (1954)