Bharat Ratna AwardS till 2015
Here is the list of recipients of Bharat Ratna Awards till 2015. Till Date 45 people have been awarded this prestigious award of which only Nelson Mandela is a foreign national to receive this award in 1990. Please find all the names enclosed who won the prestigious Bharat Ratna award for their contribution towards the nation.
| 1954 | Dr. Sarvopalli Radhakrishnan |
| 1954 | Chakravarti Rajgopalachari |
| 1954 | Dr. Chandra Shekhar Venkatraman |
| 1955 | Dr Bhagwan Das |
| 1955 | Dr Mokshagundam Visvesvaray |
| 1955 | Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| 1957 | Govind Vallabh Pant |
| 1958 | Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve |
| 1961 | Dr. Bidhan Chand Roy |
| 1961 | Purushotam Das Tondon |
| 1962 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| 1963 | Dr Zakir Hussain |
| 1963 | Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane |
| 1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| 1971 | Indira Gandhi |
| 1975 | Varahagiri Venkata Giri |
| 1976 | K. Kamraj |
| 1980 | Mother Terasa |
| 1983 | Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| 1987 | Abdul Gaffar Khan |
| 1988 | M. G. Ramachandran |
| 1990 | Dr B.R. Ambedkar |
| 1990 | Nelson Mandela |
| 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi |
| 1991 | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| 1991 | Morarji Desai |
| 1992 | Abdul Kalam Azad |
| 1992 | J.R.D. Tata |
| 1992 | Satyajeet Ray |
| 1997 | Abdul Kalam |
| 1997 | Gulzarilal Nanda |
| 1997 | Aruna Asaf Ali |
| 1998 | M. S. Subbalaxmi |
| 1998 | C. Subramaniyam |
| 1998 | Jayprakash Narayan |
| 1999 | Pandit Ravi Shankar |
| 1999 | Amartya Sen |
| 1999 | Gopinath Bordoloi |
| 2001 | Lata Mangeshkar |
| 2001 | Ustad Bismillah Khan |
| 2008 | Pandit Bhimsen Joshi |
| 2013 | C.N.R. Rao |
| 2013 | Sachin Tendulkar |
| 2014 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| 2015 | Madan Mohan Malviya |
