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Bharat Ratna Award Winners List 2018, 2017, 2016:
The Bharat Ratna Award was last conferred in 2015. In 2018, 2017 and 2016 this award was not presented to anyone.
What is Bharat Ratna
Introduction:
- The Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of the Republic of India.
- Instituted in 1954, the award is conferred “in recognition of exceptional service/performance of the highest order”, in the arts, literature, science, and public services, any field of human endeavor.
- The recommendations for the Bharat Ratna are made by the Prime Minister to the President, with a maximum of three nominees being awarded per year.
- Recipients receive a Sanad (certificate) signed by the President and a peepal-leaf–shaped medallion; there is no monetary grant associated with the award.
- The first recipients of the Bharat Ratna were politician C. Rajagopalachari, philosopher Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and scientist C. V. Raman, who were honoured in 1954.
- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Pakistan) and Nelson Mandela (South Africa) are the only two non-indian citizens to have received the Bharat Ratna Award. Mother Teresa born in Skopje (now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia) and she got Indian Citizenship.
- On 24 December 2014, the Indian government announced the award to independence activist Madan Mohan Malaviya (posthumously) and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for the year 2015. (After that no one has been awarded Bharat Ratna)
Bharat Ratna Awardees List:
| Name | Birth / death | Awar- ded | Notes | State / Country/Birthplace | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Chakravarti Rajgopalachari | 1878–1972 | 1954 | Independence activist, last Governor-General | TamilNadu |
| 2. | C. V. Raman | 1888–1970 | 1954 | Physicist | TamilNadu |
| 3. | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | 1888–1975 | 1954 | Philosopher, second President | Andhra Pradesh |
| 4. | Bhagwan Das | 1869–1958 | 1955 | Independence activist, author | Uttar Pradesh |
| 5. | Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya | 1861–1962 | 1955 | Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore | Karnataka |
| 6. | Jawaharlal Nehru | 1889–1964 | 1955 | Independence activist, author, first Prime Minister | Uttar Pradesh |
| 7. | Govind Ballabh Pant | 1887–1961 | 1957 | Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home Minister | Uttar Pradesh |
| 8. | Dhondo Keshav Karve | 1858–1962 | 1958 | Educator, social reformer | Maharashtra |
| 9. | Bidhan Chandra Roy | 1882–1962 | 1961 | Physician, Chief Minister of West Bengal | West Bengal |
| 10. | Purushottam Das Tandon | 1882–1962 | 1961 | Independence activist, educator | Uttar Pradesh |
| 11. | Rajendra Prasad | 1884-1963 | 1962 | Independence activist, jurist, first President | Bihar |
| 12. | Zakir Hussain | 1897–1969 | 1963 | Scholar, third President | Andhra Pradesh |
| 13. | Pandurang Vaman Kane | 1880–1972 | 1963 | Indologist and Sanskrit scholar | Maharashtra |
| 14. | Lal Bahadur Shastri | 1904–1966 | 1966 | Posthumous, independence activist, second Prime Minister | Uttar Pradesh |
| 15. | Indira Gandhi | 1917–1984 | 1971 | Third Prime Minister | Uttar Pradesh |
| 16. | V. V. Giri | 1894–1980 | 1975 | Trade unionist and fourth President | orissa |
| 17. | K. Kamaraj | 1903–1975 | 1976 | Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State | TamilNadu |
| 18. | Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa of Calcutta) | 1910–1997 | 1980 | Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity | West Bengal / Albania |
| 19. | Vinoba Bhave | 1895–1982 | 1983 | Posthumous, social reformer, independence activist | Maharashtra |
| 20. | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | 1890–1988 | 1987 | First non-citizen, independence activist | Pakistan |
| 21. | M. G. Ramachandran | 1917–1987 | 1988 | Posthumous, film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu | TamilNadu |
| 22. | B. R. Ambedkar | 1891–1956 | 1990 | Posthumous, chief architect of the Indian Constitution, politician, economist, and scholar | Madhya Pradesh |
| 23. | Nelson Mandela | b. 1918 | 1990 | Second non-citizen and first non-Indian recipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid movement | south Africa |
| 24. | Rajiv Gandhi | 1944–1991 | 1991 | Posthumous, Sixth Prime Minister | New Delhi |
| 25. | Vallabhbhai Patel | 1875–1950 | 1991 | Posthumous, independence activist, first Home Minister | Maharashtra |
| 26. | Morarji Desai | 1896–1995 | 1991 | Independence activist, fourth Prime Minister | New Delhi |
| 27. | Abul Kalam Azad | 1888–1958 | 1992 | Posthumous, independence activist, first Minister of Education | Saudi Arabia |
| 28. | J. R. D. Tata | 1904–1993 | 1992 | Industrialist and philanthropist | France |
| 29. | Satyajit Ray | 1922–1992 | 1992 | Bengali filmmaker | west Bengal |
| 30. | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | b. 1931 | 1997 | Aeronautical Engineer,11th President of India | TamilNadu |
| 31. | Gulzarilal Nanda | 1898–1998 | 1997 | Independence activist, interim Prime Minister | New Delhi |
| 32. | Aruna Asaf Ali | 1908–1996 | 1997 | Posthumous, independence activist | Punjab |
| 33. | M. S. Subbulakshmi | 1916–2004 | 1998 | Carnatic classical singer | TamilNadu |
| 34. | Chidambaram Subramaniam | 1910–2000 | 1998 | Independence activist, Minister of Agriculture | TamilNadu |
| 35. | Jayaprakash Narayan | 1902–1979 | 1999 | Posthumous, independence activist and politician | Bihar |
| 36. | Pandit Ravi Shankar | 1920-2012 | 1999 | Sitar player | Uttar Pradesh |
| 37. | Amartya Sen | b. 1933 | 1999 | Economist, Nobel Laureate | West Bengal |
| 38. | Gopinath Bordoloi | 1890–1950 | 1999 | Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Assam | Assam |
| 39. | Lata Mangeshkar | b. 1929 | 2001 | Playback singer | Madhya Pradesh |
| 40. | Ustad Bismillah Khan | 1916–2006 | 2001 | Hindustani classical shehnai player | Uttar Pradesh |
| 41. | Pandit Bhimsen Joshi | 1922–2011 | 2008 | Hindustani classical singer | Karnataka |
| 42. | C.N.R.Rao | 1934- | 2014 | Chemist & Professor | Karnataka |
| 43. | Sachin Tendulkar | 1973- | 2014 | Cricket player | Maharashtra |
| 44. | Madan Mohan Malviya | 1861-1946 | 2015 | Scholar & Educational Reformer | Uttar Pradesh |
| 45. | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 1924-2018 | 2015 | Former Prime Minister, Parliamentarian for over 4 decades | Madhya Pradesh |
Foreign Recipients of Bharat Ratna:
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan      1987
Nelson Mandela                 1990
Posthumously Awardees of Bharat Ratna:
Lal Bahadur Shastri             1966
K. Kamaraj                         1976
Vinoba Bhave                     1983
M. G. Ramachandran           1988
B. R. Ambedkar                  1990
Rajiv Gandhi                      1991
Vallabhbhai Patel               1991
Abul Kalam Azad                1992
Aruna Asaf Ali                   1997
Jayaprakash Narayan         1999
Gopinath Bordoloi               1999
Madan Mohan Malviya         2015
