List of recipients of Bharat Ratna award

Name	Year
Chakravarti Rajgopalachari	1954
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman(C.V. Raman)	1954
Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1954
Jawaharlal Nehru	1955
Bidhan Chandra Roy	1961
Rajendra Prasad	1962
Zakir Hussain	1963
Lal Bahadur Shastri	1966
Indira Gandhi	1971
Mother Teresa	1980
B. R. Ambedkar	1990
Nelson Mandela	1990
Rajiv Gandhi	1991
Vallabhbhai Patel	1991
Morarji Desai	1991
J. R. D. Tata	1992
Satyajit Ray	1992
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	1997
M. S. Subbulakshmi	1998
Ravi Shankar	1999
Amartya Sen	1999
Lata Mangeshkar	2001
Bismillah Khan	2001
Bhimsen Joshi	2008
C. N. R. Rao (Chemist)	2013
Sachin Tendulkar (Cricketer)	2013