| Bharat Ratna Award Recipient |
Year |
| Karpoori Thakur (politician)-Bihar |
bharat ratna winner 2023 |
| Nanaji Deshmukh (social activist) – Maharashtra |
Bharat Ratna Winner 2019
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| Bhupen Hazarika (Playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet and filmmaker) – Assam |
| Pranab Mukherjee (politician) – West Bengal |
| Atal Bihari Vajpayee (politician) – Madhya Pradesh |
bharat ratna award list 2015 |
| Madan Mohan Malviya (scholar and education reformer)-Uttar Pradesh |
| Sachin Tendulkar (cricketer) – Maharashtra |
Bharat Ratna Winners List 2014 |
| CNR Rao (Chemist and Professor) – Karnataka |
| Bhimsen Joshi (Hindustani classical singer) – Karnataka |
Bharat Ratna Winner 2009 |
| Bismillah Khan (Hindustani classical Shehnai player) – Uttar Pradesh |
Bharat Ratna Award List 2001 |
| Lata Mangeshkar (playback singer) – Maharashtra |
| Ravi Shankar (sitar player)-Uttar Pradesh |
List of Bharat Ratna winners 1999 |
| Gopinath Bordoloi (independence activist) – Assam |
| Amartya Sen (economist) – West Bengal |
| Jaiprakash Narayan (Independence Activist, Social Reformer) – Bihar |
| Chidambaram Subramaniam (independence activist) – Tamil Nadu |
Bharat Ratna Winner 1998 |
| MS Subbulakshmi (Karnataka classical singer) – Tamil Nadu |
| APJ Abdul Kalam (Aerospace and Defense Scientist) – Tamil Nadu |
Bharat Ratna Award List 1997 |
| Aruna Asaf Ali (independence activist) – West Bengal |
| Gulzarilal Nanda (independence activist) – Punjab |
| Satyajit Ray (filmmaker) – West Bengal |
Bharat Ratna winner 1992 |
| JRD Tata (Industrialist) – Maharashtra |
| Abdul Kalam Azad (independence activist) – West Bengal |
| Morarji Desai (independence activist) – Gujarat |
List of Bharat Ratna winners 1991
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| Sadar Vallabhbhai Patel (Freedom Fighter) – Gujarat |
| Rajiv Gandhi (politician) – Uttar Pradesh |
| Nelson Mandela (anti-apartheid activist) – South Africa |
Bharat Ratna winner 1990 |
| BR Ambedkar (social reformer) – Maharashtra |
| MG Ramachandran (actor turned politician)-Tamil Nadu |
Bharat Ratna winner 1988 |
| Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (independence activist) – Pakistan |
Bharat Ratna Award List 1987 |
| Vinoba Bhave (Independence Activist, Social Reformer) – Maharashtra |
List of Bharat Ratna winners 1983 |
| Mother Teresa (Catholic Nun) – West Bengal |
Bharat Ratna Award List 1980 |
| K Kamaraj (politician)-Tamil Nadu |
Bharat Ratna winner 1976 |
| VV Giri (independence activist) – Odisha |
Bharat Ratna Award List 1975 |
| Indira Gandhi (politician) – Uttar Pradesh |
Bharat Ratna Award List 1971 |
| Lal Bahadur Shastri (Freedom Fighter) – Uttar Pradesh |
List of Bharat Ratna winners 1966 |
| Pandurang Vaman Kane (Indologist and Sanskrit scholar) – Maharashtra |
Bharat Ratna winner 1963 |
| Zakir Hussain (independence activist and education philosopher) – Andhra Pradesh |
| Rajendra Prasad (independence activist, lawyer, politician and scholar) – Bihar |
Bharat Ratna Award List 1962 |
| Purushottam Das Tandon (Freedom Fighter)-Uttar Pradesh |
Bharat Ratna winner 1961 |
| Bidhan Chandra Roy (Physician, political leader, philanthropist, educationist and social worker) – West Bengal |
| Dhondo Keshav Karve (Social Reformer and Teacher) – Maharashtra |
List of Bharat Ratna winners 1958 |
| Govind Ballabh Pant (Freedom Fighter)-Uttarakhand |
Bharat Ratna Award List 1957 |
| Jawaharlal Nehru (independence activist and writer) – Uttar Pradesh |
bharat ratna winner 1955 |
| M Visvesvaraya (civil engineer, politician and Diwan of Mysore) – Karnataka |
| Bhagwan Das (independence activist, philosopher and educationist) – Uttar Pradesh |
| CV Raman (Physicist)-Tamil Nadu |
Bharat Ratna Award List 1954 |
| Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (philosopher and politician) – Tamil Nadu |
| C Rajagopalachari (politician, writer, lawyer and independence activist) – Tamil Nadu |