Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award given by the government of India. The Bharat Ratna was instituted in 1954 and the first recepient were C rajagopalachari, S Radhakrishnan and C.V. Raman. Previously Bharat Ratna was given in the fields of art, science, literature and public services but after 2011 it can be given in any field of human endevour. The recipient of Bharat Ratna are the seventh in the order of precedence. The award constitutes of a certificate signed by the president of India and a medallion which is like a leaf of peepal. Sachin Tendulkar is the youngest person to receive Bharat Ratna.
Here is the list of people of who have received Bharat Ratna since 1954.
| Year | Name of Recipient | Individuality |
| 1954 | C Rajagoplachari | Independence Activist, Last Governor General |
| S Radhakrishnan | Philosopher, India’s First Vice President (1952-1962), and India’s Second President(1962-1967) | |
| C.V. Raman | Physicist , Nobel Prize Winner ( 1930 ) | |
| 1955 | Bhagwan Das | Independence activist, author |
| M visevasarya | Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore | |
| Jawahar lal Nehru | Independence activist, author, First Prime Minister (1947-1964) | |
| 1957 | Govind Ballabh Pant | Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home Minister |
| 1958 | Dhondo Keshav Karve | Educator, social reformer |
| 1961 | Bidan Chandra Roy | Physician, Chief Minister Of West Bengal |
| Purushottam Das Tandon | Independence activist, educator | |
| 1962 | Rajendra Prasad | Independence activist, jurist, First President (1950-1962) |
| 1963 | Zakir Hussain | Independence activist, Scholar, Third President (1967-1969) |
| Pandurang Vaman Kane | Indologist and Sanskrit scholar | |
| 1966 | Lal Bhahdur Shastri | Posthumous, independence activist, Second Prime Minister (1964-1966) |
| 1971 | Indira Gandhi | Third Prime Minister (1980-1984) |
| 1975 | V.V. Giri | Trade unionist and Fourth President (1969) |
| 1976 | K. Kamaraj | Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State |
| 1980 | Mother Teresa | Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity |
| 1983 | Vinoba Bhave | Posthumous, social reformer, independence activist |
| 1987 | Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan | First non-citizen, independence activist |
| 1988 | M.G. Ramachandran | Posthumous, film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu |
| 1990 | B.R. Amedkar | Posthumous, chief architect of the Indian Constitution, politician, economist, and scholar |
| Nelson Mandela | Second non-citizen and non-Indian recipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid movement | |
| 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi | Posthumous, Sixth Prime Minister (1984-1989) |
| Vallabhbhai Patel | Posthumous, independence activist, first Home Minister(1947-1950) | |
| Morarji Desai | Independence activist, fourth Prime Minister(1977-1979) | |
| 1992 | Abul kalam Azad | Posthumous, independence activist, first Minister of Education |
| J.R.D. Tata | Industrialist and philanthropist | |
| Satyajit Ray | Bengali Filmmaker | |
| 1997 | Gulzarilal Nanda | Independence activist, interim Prime Minister |
| A.P.J. Abdul Kalam | Aeronautical Engineer,11th President of India | |
| Aruna Asaf Ali | Posthumous, independence activist | |
| 1998 | M.S. Subhalakshmi | Carnatic classical singer |
| Chidambaran Subramaniam | Independence activist, Minister of Agriculture | |
| 1999 | Jayprakash Narayan | Posthumous, independence activist and politician |
| Amratya Sen | Economist | |
| Gopinath Bordoloi | Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister of Assam | |
| Ravi Shankar | Sitar Player | |
| 2001 | Lata Mangeshkar | Playback singer |
| Bismillah Khan | Hindustani Classical Shehnai Player | |
| 2008 | Bhimsen Joshi | Hindustani Classical Singer |
| 2014 | C.N.R. Rao | Chemist |
| Sachin Tendulkar | Indian Cricketer, First Sportsman and Youngest Indian who got Bharat Ratna, | |
| 2015 | Madan Mohan Malviya | Educationist and politician |
| Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Former Prime Minister of India (1996), (1998), (1999-2004) |
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