General Awareness-7

LIST OF ALL BHARAT RATAN RECIPIENTS

	Name	Birth / Death	Awarded	Notes
1.	C Rajagopalachari	1878–1972	1954	Independence activist, last and the only Indian Governor-General of India
2.	C. V. Raman	1888–1970	1954	Physicist from Madras and a Nobel laureate
3.	S.Radhakrishnan	1888–1975	1954	Philosopher, India's First Vice-President (1952–1962), and India's Second President(1962–1967)
4.	Bhagwan Das	1869–1958	1955	Independence activist, author, Founder of KashiVidyaPeeth
5.	MokshagundamVisvesvarayya	1861–1962	1955	Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore
6.	Jawaharlal Nehru	1889–1964	1955	Independence activist, author, first Prime Minister
7.	GovindBallabh Pant	1887–1961	1957	Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home Minister
8.	DhondoKeshavKarve	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
12.	ZakirHussain	1897–1969	1963	Independence activist, scholar, third President
13.	PandurangVaman Kane	1880–1972	1963	Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
14.	LalBahadurShastri	1904–1966	1966	Posthumous, independence activist, second Prime Minister
15.	Indira Gandhi	1917–1984	1971	Third Prime Minister, first female Prime Minister of India (1966–1977,1980–1984)
16.	V. V. Giri	1894–1980	1975	Trade unionist and fourth President of India
17.	K. Kamaraj	1903–1975	1976	Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State
18.	Mother Teresa of Calcutta	1910–1997	1980	Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata and Nobel laureate
19.	VinobaBhave	1895–1982	1983	Posthumous, social reformer, independence activist
20.	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan	1890–1988	1987	First non-citizen, independence activist
21.	M. G. Ramachandran	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,Crusader against Untouchability, Dalit Icon, Social Reformer, historian, politician, economist, and scholar
23.	Nelson Mandela	1918–2013	1990	Second non-citizen and non-Indian recipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid movement and Nobel laureate
24.	Rajiv Gandhi	1944–1991	1991	Posthumous, Sixth Prime Minister.
25.	Vallabhbhai Patel	1875–1950	1991	Posthumous, independence activist, first Home Minister,Was responsible for unification of all Indian princely states.
26.	Morarji Desai	1896–1995	1991	Independence activist, fourth Prime Minister
27.	AbulKalam 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	b. 1931	1997	Aeronautical Engineer,11th President of India
31.	Gulzarilal Nanda	1898–1998	1997	Independence activist, interim Prime Minister
32.	ArunaAsaf 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	1998	Posthumous, independence activist and politician
36.	Ravi Shankar	1920–2012	1999	Sitar player from Calcutta
37.	Amartya Sen	b. 1933	1999	Economist from Kolkata and a Nobel laureate
38.	Gopinath Bordoloi	1890–1950	1999	Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Assam
39.	Lata Mangeshkar	b. 1929	2001	Playback singer
40.	Bismillah Khan	1916–2006	2001	Hindustani classical shehnai player
41.	Bhimsen Joshi	1922–2011	2008	Hindustani classical singer
42.	C. N. R. Rao	b. 1934	2014	Scientist
43.	Sachin Tendulkar	b. 1973	2014	Cricket player