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Bharat Ratna Award Winners List and Facts

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  • — 28 Jan, 2019

bharat ratnaBharat Ratna is India’s highest civilian award given for performance in highest order in any field of human Endeavour. Bharat Ratna award was introduced in 1954 and is awarded to 45 legend till date (Madan Mohan Malaviya and Atal Bihari Vajpayee are the recent 2 new names in this list).  Any person without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex is eligible for Bharat Ratna award.

The recommendations of the “Bharat Ratna” are made by the Prime Minister of India to the President of India and maximum three Bharat Ratna awards can be made in a single year.

Before 2011 the Bharat Ratna given for Artistic, Literacy, Scientific Achievements, as well as “Recognition of public service of the highest order”. But, since December 2011 Government of India has modified the criteria for Bharat Ratna Award and accordingly nominate the name for this most prestigious award in India. Now Bharat ratna is also awarded to Sportsperson who contributed in highest order in the field of any sports.

The most recent Bharat Ratna was awarded on 25th January 2019. Former president Pranab Mukherjee, Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader Nanaji Deshmukh and singer Bhupen Hazarika were awarded Bharat Ratna in 2019.

Interesting Facts about Bharat Ratna Award Winners.

  • First Bharat Ratna was awarded to Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Sir C.V. Raman, and Chakravarti Rajagopalachari in 1954.
  • Last Bharat Ratna was awarded to Atal Bihari Vajpayee & Madan Mohan Malaviya in 2014.
  • Mother Teresa was the first naturalized Indian citizen of Bharat Ratna Award Winner in 1980.
  • Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1987) And Nelson Mandela (1990) are two non Indians of Bharat Ratna Award Winners.
  • Sachin Tendulkar is the first sportsperson and the youngest Bharat Ratna Award Winner who awarded Bharat Ratna in 2013.

Here is the list of Bharat Ratna Award Winners.

 

 

No. Name Birth Year Death Year Awarded Year About
1 Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari 1878 1972 1954 Independence Activist, Last Governor General
2 Sir C.V Raman 1888 1970 1954 Physicist , Nobel Prize Winner ( 1930 )
3 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 1888 1975 1954 Philosopher, India’s First Vice President (1952-1962), and India’s Second President(1962-1967)
4 Bhagvan Das 1869 1958 1955 Independence activist, author
5 Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya 1861 1962 1955 Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore
6 Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 1964 1955 Independence activist, author, First Prime Minister (1947-1964)
7 Govind Ballabh Pant 1887 1961 1957 Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home Minister
8 Dhondo Keshav Karve 1858 1962 1958 Educator, social reformer
9 Bidhan Chandra Roy 1882 1962 1961 Physician, Chief Minister Of West Bengal
10 Purushottam Das Tandon 1882 1962 1961 Independence activist, educator
11 Rajendra Prasad 1884 1963 1962 Independence activist, jurist, First President (1950-1962)
12 Zakir Hussain 1897 1969 1963 Independence activist, Scholar, Third President (1967-1969)
13 Pandurang Vaman Kane 1880 1972 1963 Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
14 Lal Bahadur Shastri 1904 1966 1966 Posthumous, independence activist, Second Prime Minister (1964-1966)
15 Indira Gandhi 1917 1984 1971 Third Prime Minister (1980-1984)
16 V.V. Giri 1894 1980 1975 Trade unionist and Fourth President (1969)
17 K. Kamaraj 1903 1975 1976 Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State
18 Mother Teresa 1910 1997 1980 Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity
19 Vinoba Bhave 1895 1982 1983 Posthumous, social reformer, independence activist
20 Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan 1890 1988 1987 First non-citizen, independence activist
21 M.G. Ramchandran 1917 1987 1988 Posthumous, film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
22 B.R. Ambedkar 1891 1956 1990 Posthumous, chief architect of the Indian Constitution, politician, economist, and scholar
23 Nelson Mandela 1918 2013 1990 Second non-citizen and non-Indian recipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid movement
24 Rajiv Gandhi 1944 1991 1991 Posthumous, Sixth Prime Minister (1984-1989)
25 Vallabhbhai Patel 1875 1950 1991 Posthumous, independence activist, first Home Minister(1947-1950)
26 Morarji Desai 1896 1995 1991 Independence activist, fourth Prime Minister(1977-1979)
27 Abul Kalam Azad 1888 1958 1992 Posthumous, independence activist, first Minister of Education
28 J. R. D. Tata 1904 1993 1992 Industrialist and philanthropist
29 Satyajit Ray 1922 1992 1992 Bengali Filmmaker
30 A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 1931  2015 1997 Aeronautical Engineer,11th President of India
31 Gulzarilal Nanda 1898 1998 1997 Independence activist, interim Prime Minister
32 Aruna Asaf Ali 1908 1996 1997 Posthumous, independence activist
33 M.S. Subbulakshmi 1916 2004 1998 Carnatic classical singer
34 Chidambaram Subramaniam 1910 2000 1998 Independence activist, Minister of Agriculture
35 Jayaprakash Narayan 1902 1979 1999 Posthumous, independence activist and politician
36 Ravi Shankar 1920 2012 1999 Sitar Player
37 Amartya Sen 1933 1999 Economist
38 Gopinath Bardoloi 1890 1950 1999 Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Assam
39 Lata Mangeshkar 1929 2001 Playback singer
40 Bismillah Khan 1916 2006 2001 Hindustani Classical Shehnai Player
41 Bhimsen Joshi 1922 2011 2008 Hindustani Classical Singer
42 Sachin Tendulkar 1973 2013 Indian Cricketer, First Sportsman and Youngest Indian who got Bharat Ratna,
43 Prof. C.N.R Rao 1934 2013 Chemist
44 Madan Mohan Malaviya 1861  1946 2014 Educationist and politician
45 Atal Bihari Vajpayee 1924 2014 Former Prime Minister of India (1996), (1998), (1999-2004)
42 Pranab Mukherjee 1935 2019 13th President of India (2017), senior leader in the (INC) Indian National Congress.
42 Bhupen Hazarika 1926 2011 2019 Playback singer, lyricist, musician, singer, poet and film-maker from Assam.
42 Nanaji Deshmukh 1916 2010 2019 Social activist in the fields of education, health, and rural self-reliance.

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