List of Bharat Ratna Award Winners Year-Wise PDF: Check the Awardees List from 1954 to Present

The Bharat Ratna Award is the country's highest civilian award instituted in 1954. Bharat Ratna Awards are given without any distinction of race, occupation, position or sex are the eligibility for these awards. It is awarded to recognize exceptional service/performance of the highest order for the performance.

The first award was given in the year 1954 and the first recipients were;

CV Raman (physicist) - Tamil Nadu

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (philosopher and politician) - Tamil Nadu

C Rajagopalachari (statesman, writer, lawyer and independent activist) - Tamilnadu

As of now, there are 53 people have received the Bharat Ratna Awards from the year 1954. Out of 53, there are 18 persons received this award posthumously.

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About Bharat Ratna Award

The highest civilian honor in India is the Bharat Ratna Award. It recognizes the "exceptional service/performance of the highest order" in arts, literature, science, and public services. But in December 2011, the Indian Government expanded the criteria of the award to "any field of human endeavor". Go through this page to know the complete details on the Bharat Ratna winners list pdf from 1954 to 2024. The winners are listed in the tabular column given in descending order. 

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Bharat Ratna Winners List pdf from 1954 to 2024

Recipients

Year

MS Swaminathan (Father of Green Revolution)

Bharat Ratna Winners 2024

Chaudhary Charan Singh (Former Prime Minister of India)

Bharat Ratna Winners 2024

PV Narasimha Rao (Former Prime Minister of India)

Bharat Ratna Winners 2024

Lal Krishna Advani (Former Minister of Home Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister of India)

Bharat Ratna Winners 2024

Karpoori Thakur ( Former Chief Minister) - Bihar

Bharat Ratna Winners 2024

Award not announced

Bharat Ratna Winners 2023

Award not announced

Bharat Ratna Winners 2021

Award not announced

Bharat Ratna Winners 2020

Nanaji Deshmukh (social activist) - Maharashtra

 

Bharat Ratna Winners 2019

 

Bhupen Hazarika (playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet, and film-maker) - Assam

Pranab Mukherjee (politician) - West Bengal

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (politician) - Madhya Pradesh

Bharat Ratna List 2015

Madan Mohan Malaviya (Scholar and educational reformer) - Uttar Pradesh

Sachin Tendulkar (cricketer) - Maharashtra

Bharat Ratna Winners List 2014

CNR Rao (chemist and professor) - Karnataka

Bhimsen Joshi (Hindustani classical vocalist) - Karnataka

Bharat Ratna Winners 2009

Bismillah Khan (Hindustani classical shehnai player) - Uttar Pradesh

Bharat Ratna List 2001

Lata Mangeshkar (playback singer) - Maharashtra

Ravi Shankar (sitar player) - Uttar Pradesh

Bharat Ratna Winners List 1999

Gopinath Bordoloi (Independence activist) - Assam

Amartya Sen (economist) - West Bengal

Jayaprakash Narayan (Independence activist, social reformer) - Bihar

Chidambaram Subramaniam (Independence activist) - Tamil Nadu

Bharat Ratna Winners 1998

MS Subbulakshmi (Carnatic classical vocalist) - Tamil Nadu

A P J Abdul Kalam (Aerospace and defense scientist) - Tamil Nadu

Bharat Ratna List 1997

Aruna Asaf Ali (Independence activist) - West Bengal

Gulzarilal Nanda (Independence activist) - Punjab

Satyajit Ray (Filmmaker) - West Bengal

Bharat Ratna Winners 1992

JRD Tata (Industrialist) - Maharashtra

Abdul Kalam Azad (Independence activist) - West Bengal

Morarji Desai (Independence activist) - Gujarat

 

Bharat Ratna Winners List 1991

 

Sadar Vallabhbhai Patel (Independence activist) - Gujarat

Rajiv Gandhi (politician) - Uttar Pradesh

Nelson Mandela (anti-apartheid activist) - South Africa

Bharat Ratna Winners 1990

B R Ambedkar (Social reformer) - Maharashtra

M G Ramachandran (actor turned politician) - Tamil Nadu

Bharat Ratna Winners 1988

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Independence activist) - Pakistan

Bharat Ratna List 1987

Vinoba Bhave (Independence activist, social reformer) - Maharashtra

Bharat Ratna Winners List 1983

Mother Teresa (a Catholic nun) - West Bengal

Bharat Ratna List 1980

K Kamaraj (politician) - Tamil Nadu

Bharat Ratna winners 1976

V V Giri (Independence activist) - Odisha

Bharat Ratna List 1975

Indira Gandhi (politician) - Uttar Pradesh

Bharat Ratna List 1971

Lal Bahadur Shastri (Independence activist) - Uttar Pradesh

Bharat Ratna Winners List 1966

Pandurang Vaman Kane (Indologist and Sanskrit scholar) - Maharashtra

Bharat Ratna Winners 1963

Zakir Husain (Independence activist and education philosopher) - Andhra Pradesh

Rajendra Prasad (Independence activist, lawyer, statesman, and scholar) - Bihar

Bharat Ratna List 1962

Purushottam Das Tandon (Independence activist) - Uttar Pradesh

Bharat Ratna Winners 1961

Bidhan Chandra Roy (physician, political leader, philanthropist, educationist, and social worker) - West Bengal

Dhondo Keshav Karve (Social reformer and educator) - Maharashtra

Bharat Ratna Winners List 1958

Govind Ballabh Pant (Independence activist) - Uttarakhand

Bharat Ratna List 1957

Jawahar Lal Nehru (Independence activist and author) - Uttar Pradesh

Bharat Ratna Winners 1955

M Visvesvaraya (Civil engineer, statesman, and Diwan of Mysore) - Karnataka

Bhagwan Das (Independence activist, philosopher, and educationist) - Uttar Pradesh

CV Raman (physicist) - Tamil Nadu

Bharat Ratna List 1954

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (philosopher and politician) - Tamil Nadu

C Rajagopalachari (statesman, writer, lawyer, and independence activist) - Tamil Nadu

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Posthumous Recipients 

Posthumous Recipients are the awardees who are awarded after they passed away. In this Shri. Lal Bahadur Shastri was the first posthumous recipient to receive the award on January 11 1966 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.,

  • Lal Bahadur Shastri (died on 11 January 1966)

  • Kamaraj (died on 2 October 1975)

  • Vinoba Bhave (died on 15 November 1982)

  • M. G. Ramachandran (died on 24 December 1987)

  • B. R. Ambedkar (died on 6 December 1956)

  • Rajiv Gandhi (died on 21 May 1991)

  • Vallabhbhai Patel (died on 15 December 1950)

  • Abdul Kalam Azad (died on 22 February 1958)

  • Aruna Asaf Ali (died on 29 July 1996)

  • Jayaprakash Narayan (died on 8 October 1979)

  • Gopinath Bordoloi (died on 5 August 1950)

  • Madan Mohan Malaviya (died on 12 November 1946)

  • Bhupen Hazarika (died on 5 November 2011)

  • Nanaji Deshmukh (died on 27 February 2010)

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Non-Citizen Recipients

The Bharat Ratna can also be awarded to non-Indians for this category there is no written provision that this award should be awarded only to Indians. There are two Non-Citizen Recipients, they are.,

  • Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan – Pakistan

  • Nelson Mandela – South Africa

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Naturalized Citizen Recipients

Here is the Bharat Ratna winners list, who are naturalized citizens of India.

  • Mother Teresa – North Macedonia

 

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Bharat Ratna Award Winners List 2024 in Hindi

1954 से 2024 तक भारत रत्न विजेताओं की सूची पीडीएफ

भारत रत्न पुरस्कार प्राप्तकर्ता

वर्ष

एमएस स्वामीनाथन (हरी क्रांति के पिता)

भारत रत्न विजेता 2024

चौधरी चरण सिंह (भारत के पूर्व मुख्य मंत्री)

भारत रत्न विजेता 2024

पीवी नरसिंह राव (भारत के पूर्व मुख्य मंत्री)

भारत रत्न विजेता 2024

लाल कृष्ण आडवाणी (पूर्व गृह मंत्री,  भारत के उप मुख्य मंत्री)

भारत रत्न विजेता 2024

कर्पूरी ठाकुर (पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री) - बिहार

भारत रत्न विजेता 2024

पुरस्कार की घोषणा नहीं हुई 

भारत रत्न विजेता 2023

पुरस्कार की घोषणा नहीं हुई 

भारत रत्न विजेता 2021

पुरस्कार की घोषणा नहीं हुई 

भारत रत्न विजेता 2020

नानाजी देशमुख (सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता) - महाराष्ट्र




भारत रत्न विजेता 2019

भूपेन हजारिका (पार्श्व गायक, गीतकार, संगीतकार, कवि, और फिल्म निर्माता) - असम

प्रणब मुखर्जी (राजनीतिज्ञ) - पश्चिम बंगाल

अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी (राजनीतिज्ञ) - मध्य प्रदेश

भारत रत्न पुरस्कार सूची 2015

मदन मोहन मालवीय (विद्वान एवं शिक्षाविद) सुधारक) - उत्तर प्रदेश

 

सचिन तेंडुलकर (क्रिकेटर) - महाराष्ट्र



भारत रत्न विजेता सूची 2014

सीएनआर राव (रसायनज्ञ और प्रोफेसर) - कर्नाटक

भीमसेन जोशी (हिंदुस्तानी क्लासिक गायक) - कर्नाटक

भारत रत्न विजेता 2009

बिस्मिल्लाह खान (हिंदुस्तानी शास्त्रीय शहनाई वादक) - उत्तर प्रदेश



भारत रत्न पुरस्कार सूची 2001

लता मंगेशकर (प्लेबैक गायक) - महाराष्ट्र

रवि शंकर (सितार खिलाड़ी) - उत्तर प्रदेश





भारत रत्न विजेताओं सूची 1999

गोपीनाथ बोरदोलोई (आजादी कार्यकर्ता) - असम

अमर्त्य सेन (अर्थशास्त्री) - पश्चिम बंगाल

जयप्रकाश नारायण (स्वतंत्रता कार्यकर्ता, सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता) सुधारक) - बिहार

चिदंबरम सुब्रमण्यम (स्वतंत्रता कार्यकर्ता) - तामिल तमिलनाडु



भारत रत्न विजेता 1998

एमएस सुब्बुलक्ष्मी (कर्नाटक शास्त्रीय गायिका) - तमिल तमिलनाडु

ए.पी.जे. अब्दुल कलाम (एयरोस्पेस और रक्षा वैज्ञानिक) - तामिल तमिलनाडु

भारत रत्न पुरस्कार सूची 1997

अरुणा आसफ अली (आजादी कार्यकर्ता) - पश्चिम बंगाल

 

गुलजारीलाल नंदा (आजादी कार्यकर्ता) - पंजाब

सत्यजीत रे (फिल्म निर्माता) - पश्चिम बंगाल




भारत रत्न विजेता 1992

जेआरडी टाटा (उद्योगपति) - महाराष्ट्र

अब्दुल कलाम आजाद (आजादी कार्यकर्ता) - पश्चिम बंगाल

मोरारजी देसाई (आजादी कार्यकर्ता) - गुजरात



भारत रत्न विजेता सूची 1991

सदर वल्लभभाई पटेल पटेल (आजादी कार्यकर्ता) - गुजरात

राजीव गांधी (राजनीतिज्ञ) - उत्तर प्रदेश

नेल्सन मंडेला (रंगभेद विरोधी कार्यकर्ता) - दक्षिण अफ्रीका


भारत रत्न विजेता 1990

बी आर अम्बेडकर (सामाजिक सुधारक) - महाराष्ट्र

एम जी रामचंद्रन (अभिनेता एवं राजनीतिज्ञ) - तामिल तमिलनाडु

भारत रत्न विजेता 1988

खान अब्दुल गफ्फार खान (स्वतंत्रता कार्यकर्ता) - पाकिस्तान

भारत रत्न पुरस्कार सूची 1987

विनोबा भावे (स्वतंत्रता कार्यकर्ता, समाज सुधारक) - महाराष्ट्र

भारत रत्न विजेता सूची 1983

मदर टेरेसा (कैथोलिक नन) - पश्चिम बंगाल

भारत रत्न पुरस्कार सूची 1980

के कामराज (राजनीतिज्ञ) - तमिलनाडु

भारत रत्न विजेता 1976

वी वी गिरि (आजादी कार्यकर्ता) - ओडिशा

भारत रत्न पुरस्कार सूची 1975

इंदिरा गांधी (राजनीतिज्ञ) - उत्तर प्रदेश

भारत रत्न पुरस्कार सूची 1971

लाल बहादुर शास्त्री (स्वतंत्रता सेनानी) - उत्तर प्रदेश

भारत रत्न विजेता सूची 1966

पांडुरंग वामन काणे (भारतविद् एवं संस्कृत विद्वान) - महाराष्ट्र



भारत रत्न विजेता 1963

जाकिर हुसैन (स्वतंत्रता कार्यकर्ता और शिक्षाविद्) दार्शनिक) - आंध्र प्रदेश

राजेंद्र प्रसाद (स्वतंत्रता कार्यकर्ता, वकील, राजनेता, और विद्वान) - बिहार

भारत रत्न पुरस्कार सूची 1962

पुरुषोत्तम दास टंडन (स्वतंत्रता सेनानी) - उत्तर प्रदेश प्रदेश



भारत रत्न विजेता 1961

बिधान चंद्र रॉय (चिकित्सक, राजनीतिक नेता, परोपकारी, शिक्षाविद् और सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता) - पश्चिम बंगाल

धोंडो केशव कर्वे (समाज सुधारक और शिक्षक) - महाराष्ट्र

भारत रत्न विजेता सूची 1958

गोविंद बल्लभ पंत (स्वतंत्रता सेनानी) - उत्तराखंड

भारत रत्न पुरस्कार सूची 1957

जवाहर लाल नेहरू (स्वतंत्रता कार्यकर्ता और लेखक) - उत्तर प्रदेश




भारत रत्न विजेता 1955

एम विश्वेश्वरैया (सिविल इंजीनियर, राजनेता और दीवान) मैसूर) - कर्नाटक

भगवान दास (स्वतंत्रता कार्यकर्ता, दार्शनिक और पत्रकार) शिक्षाविद्) - उत्तर प्रदेश

सीवी रमन (भौतिक विज्ञानी) - तामिल तमिलनाडु




भारत रत्न पुरस्कार सूची 1954

सर्वपल्ली राधाकृष्णन (दार्शनिक और राजनीतिज्ञ) - तामिल तमिलनाडु

सी राजगोपालाचारी (राजनेता, लेखक, वकील और पत्रकार) आजादी कार्यकर्ता) - तमिलनाडु

 

FAQs

Q: Where can I get the winners list of Bharat Ratna pdf for preparation?

A: You can get the Bharat Ratna winners list pdf from 1954 to 2024 on this page.

Q: Who is the 1st woman recipient of the Bharat Ratna Awards?

A: Indira Gandhi was the 1st woman to receive the Bharat Ratna in 1971.

Q: Who is the 1st Bharat Ratna Awardee in India?

A: CV Raman, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan & C Rajagopalachari are the 1st Bharat Ratna awardees in India.

Q: When was the Bharat Ratna award first issued?

A: The Bharat Ratna Award was first issued in 1954.

Q: When was the Bharat Ratna award given to B R Ambedkar?

A: In 1990, the Bharat Ratna award was given to B R Ambedkar.

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