Bharat Ratna Awardees: Bharat Ratna Award Winners List From 1954 to 2014

S.No	Name	Birth / death	Awarded	Field of Performance	Indian state or country
1.	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1888–1975	1954	Second President, First Vice President, Philosopher.	Tamil Nadu
2.	Chakravarti Rajagopalachari	1878–1972	1954	Last Governor-General, Freedom Fighter.	Tamil Nadu
3.	C. V. Raman	1888–1970	1954	Nobel-prize winning Physicist	Tamil Nadu
4.	Bhagwan Das	1869–1958	1955	Philosopher, Freedom Fighter	Uttar Pradesh
5.	Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya	1861–1962	1955	Civil Engineer	Karnataka
6.	Jawaharlal Nehru	1889–1964	1955	First Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter, Author.	Uttar Pradesh
7.	Govind Ballabh Pant	1887–1961	1957	Freedom Fighter, Home Minister	Uttar Pradesh
8.	Dhondo Keshav Karve	1858–1962	1958	Educationist, Social Reformer	Maharashtra
9.	B. C. Roy	1882–1962	1961	Physician, Politician	West Bengal
10.	Purushottam Das Tandon	1882–1962	1961	Freedom Fighter, Educationalist.	Uttar Pradesh
11.	Rajendra Prasad	1884–1963	1962	First President, Freedom Fighter, Jurist	Bihar
12.	Zakir Hussain	1897–1969	1963	Former President, Scholar.	Andhra Pradesh
13.	Pandurang Vaman Kane	1880–1972	1963	Indologist and Sanskrit scholar	Maharashtra
14.	Lal Bahadur Shastri	1904–1966	1966	Posthumous, Second Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter	Uttar Pradesh
15.	Indira Gandhi	1917–1984	1971	Former Prime Minister	Uttar Pradesh
16.	V. V. Giri	1894–1980	1975	Former President, Trade Unionist.	Andhra Pradesh
17.	K. Kamaraj	1903–1975	1976	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu.	Tamil Nadu
18.	Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa)	1910–1997	1980	Naturalized Indian citizen, Nobel Laureate (Peace, 1979).	West Bengal
19.	Acharya Vinoba Bhave	1895–1982	1983	Posthumous, Social Reformer, Freedom Figher.	Maharashtra
20.	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan	1890–1988	1987	First non-citizen, Freedom Fighter.	Pakistan
21.	M. G. Ramachandran	1917–1987	1988	Posthumous, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu, Actor.	Tamil Nadu
22.	B. R. Ambedkar	1891–1956	1990	Posthumous, Architect-Indian Constitution, Leader of Buddhist people of India	Maharashtra
23.	Nelson Mandela	b. 1918	1990	Second non-citizen and first non-Indian, Leader of Anti-Apartheid movement.	South Africa
24.	Rajiv Gandhi	1944–1991	1991	Posthumous, Former Prime Minister	New Delhi
25.	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel	1875–1950	1991	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, First Home Minister of India.	Gujarat
26.	Morarji Desai	1896–1995	1991	Former Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter.	Gujarat
27.	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad	1888–1958	1992	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Educator.	West Bengal
28.	J. R. D. Tata	1904–1993	1992	Industrialist and philanthropist.	Maharashtra
29.	Satyajit Ray	1922–1992	1992	Legendary Indian Film Director	West Bengal
30.	A.P.J. Abdul Kalam	b. 1931	1997	Former President, Scientist.	Tamil Nadu
31.	Gulzarilal Nanda	1898–1998	1997	Freedom Fighter, former Prime Minister.	Punjab
32.	Aruna Asaf Ali	1908–1996	1997	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter.	West Bengal
33.	M. S. Subbulakshmi	1916–2004	1998	Classical singer.	Tamil Nadu
34.	Chidambaram Subramaniam	1910–2000	1998	Freedom Fighter, Minister of Agriculture(Father of Green revolution).	Tamil Nadu
35.	Jayaprakash Narayan	1902–1979	1998	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Social Reformer.	Uttar Pradesh
36.	Ravi Shankar	b. 1920	1999	Classical sitar  player.	west Bengal
37.	Amartya Sen	b. 1933	1999	Nobel Laureate (Economics, 1998), Economist.	West Bengal
38.	Gopinath Bordoloi	1890–1950	1999	Posthumous, freedom fighter	Assam
39.	Lata Mangeshkar	b. 1929	2001	Play back singer	Maharashtra
40.	Ustad Bismillah Khan	1916-2006	2001	Hindustani classical shehnai player	Bihar
41.	Bhimsen Joshi	1922–2011	2009	Hindustani classical singer	Karnataka
42.	C. N. R. Rao	b. 1934	2014	Scientist	Karnataka
43.	Sachin Tendulkar	b. 1973	2014	Cricketer	Maharashtra

Note : No one was awarded the country's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007