Bharat Ratna Award Winners 2024 List
The Bharat Ratna is India’s highest civilian award, established in 1954. The term “Bharat Ratna” translates to “Jewel of India” in Hindi. It is awarded to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the advancement of art, literature, science, and public service.
Bharat Ratna Winners List Complete List from 1954 to 2024
| Bharat Ratna Award Recipients | Year |
|---|---|
| Lal Krishna Advani (A Veteran Bhartiya Janta Party Leader) | Bharat Ratna Winners 2024 |
| MS Swaminathan (Father of Green Revolution) | |
| Chaudhary Charan Singh (A former Prime Minister who supported the agricultural sector and upheld the rights of the farmers.) | |
| PV Narasimha Rao (Former Prime Minister) | |
| Karpoori Thakur ( Former Chief Minister) – Bihar | |
| Award not announced | Bharat Ratna Winners 2023 |
| Award not announced | Bharat Ratna Winners 2021 |
| Award not announced | Bharat Ratna Winners 2020 |
| Nanaji Deshmukh (social activist) – Maharashtra | Bharat Ratna Winners 2019 |
| Bhupen Hazarika (playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet, and film-maker) – Assam | |
| Pranab Mukherjee (politician) – West Bengal | |
| Atal Bihari Vajpayee (politician) – Madhya Pradesh | Bharat Ratna Award List 2015 |
| Madan Mohan Malaviya (Scholar and educational reformer) – Uttar Pradesh | |
| Sachin Tendulkar (cricketer) – Maharashtra | Bharat Ratna Winners List 2014 |
| CNR Rao (chemist and professor) – Karnataka | |
| Bhimsen Joshi (Hindustani classical vocalist) – Karnataka | Bharat Ratna Winners 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 | Bharat Ratna Winners List 1999 |
| Gopinath Bordoloi (Independence activist) – Assam | |
| Amartya Sen (economist) – West Bengal | |
| Jayaprakash Narayan (Independence activist, social reformer) – Bihar | |
| Chidambaram Subramaniam (Independence activist) – Tamil Nadu | Bharat Ratna Winners 1998 |
| MS Subbulakshmi (Carnatic classical vocalist) – Tamil Nadu | |
| A P J Abdul Kalam (Aerospace and defence 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 Winners 1992 |
| JRD Tata (Industrialist) – Maharashtra | |
| Abdul Kalam Azad (Independence activist) – West Bengal | |
| Morarji Desai (Independence activist) – Gujarat | Bharat Ratna Winners List 1991
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| Sadar Vallabhbhai Patel (Independence activist) – Gujarat | |
| Rajiv Gandhi (politician) – Uttar Pradesh | |
| Nelson Mandela (anti-apartheid activist) – South Africa | Bharat Ratna Winners 1990 |
| B R Ambedkar (Social reformer) – Maharashtra | |
| M G Ramachandran (actor turned politician) – Tamil Nadu | Bharat Ratna Winners 1988 |
| Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Independence activist) – Pakistan | Bharat Ratna Award List 1987 |
| Vinoba Bhave (Independence activist, social reformer) – Maharashtra | Bharat Ratna Winners List 1983 |
| Mother Teresa (Catholic nun) – West Bengal | Bharat Ratna Award List 1980 |
| K Kamaraj (politician) – Tamil Nadu | Bharat Ratna winners 1976 |
| V V Giri (Independence activist) – Odisha | Bharat Ratna Award List 1975 |
| Indira Gandhi (politician) – Uttar Pradesh | Bharat Ratna Award List 1971 |
| Lal Bahadur Shastri (Independence activist) – Uttar Pradesh | Bharat Ratna Winners List 1966 |
| Pandurang Vaman Kane (Indologist and Sanskrit scholar) – Maharashtra | Bharat Ratna Winners 1963 |
| Zakir Husain (Independence activist and education philosopher) – Andhra Pradesh | |
| Rajendra Prasad (Independence activist, lawyer, statesman, and scholar) – Bihar | Bharat Ratna Award List 1962 |
| Purushottam Das Tandon (Independence activist) – Uttar Pradesh | Bharat Ratna Winners 1961 |
| Bidhan Chandra Roy (physician, political leader, philanthropist, educationist, and social worker) – West Bengal | |
| Dhondo Keshav Karve (Social reformer and educator) – Maharashtra | Bharat Ratna Winners List 1958 |
| Govind Ballabh Pant (Independence activist) – Uttarakhand | Bharat Ratna Award List 1957 |
| Jawahar Lal Nehru (Independence activist and author) – Uttar Pradesh | Bharat Ratna Winners 1955 |
| M Visvesvaraya (Civil engineer, statesman, 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 (statesman, writer, lawyer, and independence activist) – Tamil Nadu |