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COMPETEEXAM.COM List of Bharat Ratna Recipient S.No. Year Recipient Name Notes/ Area 1 C. Rajagopalachari Last and Only Indian Governor - General of India, Independence Activist 2 1954 C.V. Raman Nobel Wineer Physicist 3 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan India's Vice President and Second President 4 Bhagwan Das Founder of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth 5 1955 Visvesvaraya Civil Engineer, Diwan of Mysore 6 Jawahar Lal Nehri First Prime Minister Of India 7 1957 Govind Ballabh Pant First Chief Miniser of Uttar Pradesh 8 1958 Dhondo Keshav Karve Social Reformer 9 Bidhan Chandra Roy Second Chief Minister of West Bengal, Physcian Surgeon 1961 10 Purshottam Das Tondon Educator 11 1962 Rajendra Prasad Lawyer, First President of India 12 Zakir Hussain Third President of India, Second Vice-President of India 13 1963 Pandurang Vaman Kane Indologist and Sanskrit Scholar 14 1966 Lal Bahadur Shastri Second President of India 15 1971 Indira Gandhi Former Prime Minister of India 16 1975 V. V. Giri First Acting President of India, Fourth President of India 17 1976 K. Kamaraj Former Chief Minister of Tamilnadu 18 1980 Mother Teresa Nobel Peace Winner, Catholic Nun, Founder of Missioniaries of Charity 19 1983 Vinoba Bhave Social Reformer, Ramon Magsaysay Award Winner 20 1987 Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan Independence Activist 21 1988 M.G. Ramachandran Film Actor and Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu 22 B.R. Ambedkar Chief Architect of Indian Constitution 1990 23 Nelson Mandela Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Leader of Anti Apartheid Movement 24 Rajiv Gandhi Former Prime Minister of India 25 1991 Vallabhbhai Patel First Deputy Prime Minister of India 26 Morarji Desai Fourth Prime Minister of India 27 Abdul Kalam Azad First Minister of Education of India 28 1992 JRD Tata Industrialist 29 Satyajit Ray Filmmaker 30 Gulzari Lal Nanda Two Times Interim Prime Minister of India 31 1997 Aruna Asif Ali Independence Activist 32 A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Aerospace and Defense Scientist, 11th Presidnet of India 33 M.S. Subbulakshmi Carnatic Classical Vocalist 1998 34 Chidambaram Subramaniam Former Minister of Agriculture 35 Jayaprakash Narayan Social Reformer 36 Ravi Shankar Hindustani Classical Sitar Player 1999 37 Amartya Sen Nobel Economics Winner 38 Gopinath Bordoloi First Chief Minister of Assam 39 Lata Mangeshkar Playback Singer 2001 40 Bismillaha Khan Hindustani Classical Shehnai Player 41 2008 Bhimsen Joshi Hindustani Classical Vocalist 42 C.N.R. Rao Chemist 2013 43 Sachin Tendulkar Cricketer Color Legend Posthumous Recipient Non Citizen Recipient
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