Bharat Ratna has the highest honor status of India. It is not a common thing to get Bharat Ratna. Along with the stature of Bharat Ratna, the stature of the person bestowed with it is also seen. A few veterans who have a special identity in the country and the world, who shock everyone with their work, filter the hearts of people, bring their name to their lips even after being antagonistic, work for the country and society received this honor.
Being the highest national honor of India, Bharat Ratna's stature automatically increases from all other honors. Many people win this honor, while many people are awarded this honor posthumously. So far 48 celebrities have been given this honor in the history of Bharat Ratna. For the first time Bharat Ratna was conferred on Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the second President of the country in the year 1954. Let's know which are these 48 celebrities who have received Bharat Ratna?
List of 48 celebrities to receive Bharat Ratna
1954: Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Second President)
1954: C. Rajagopalachari (Last Governor General)
1954: Dr. C. Venkat Raman (Nobel Prize Awarded Physicist)
1955: Dr. Bhagwan Das (Freedom Fighter)
1955: Dr. Vishveshrayya (Civil Engineer)
1955: Jawaharlal Nehru (First Prime Minister)
1957: Govind Vallabh Pant (freedom fighter)
1957: Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve (social reformer)
1958: Dr. BC Roy (Chief Minister of West Bengal)
1961: Purushottam Das Tandon (freedom fighter fighter)
1961: Dr. Rajendra Prasad (First President)
1963: Dr. Zakir Hussain (Third President)
1963: Dr. PV Kane (Sanskrit scholar)
1966: Lal Bahadur Shastri (Third Prime Minister) posthumously
1971: Indira Gandhi (fourth Prime Minister)
1975: VV Giri (Fourth President)
1976: K.R. Kamaraj (freedom fighter) posthumously
1980: Mother Teresa (Nobel Prize Honored, Founder of Missionaries)
1983: Acharya Vinoba Bhave (Freedom Fighter) posthumously
1987: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (freedom fighter) first non-Indian
1988: MG Ramachandran (Actor, CM of Tamil Nadu) posthumously
1990: Dr. Ambedkar (Creator of the Constitution) posthumously
1990: Nelson Mandela (Nobel Prize Honored, leader of anti-apartheid movement)
1991: Rajiv Gandhi (seventh Prime Minister) posthumously
1991: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (First Home Minister, Freedom Fighter) posthumously
1991: Morarji Desai (Fifth Prime Minister)
1992: Maulana Azad (first Education Minister) posthumously
1992: JRD Tata, (Industrialist) posthumously
1992: Satyajit Ray (Filmmaker)
1997: APJ Abdul Kalam (Scientist)
1997: Gulzarilal Nanda (twice as acting Prime Minister)
1997: Aruna Asaf Ali (freedom fighter) posthumously
1998: MS Subbalakshmi (classical singer)
1998: C. Subramanian (Freedom Fighter)
1998: Jayaprakash Narayan (freedom fighter, father of JP movement) posthumously.
1999: Pandit Ravi Shankar (sitar player)
1999: Amartya Sen (Nobel Prize Honored Economist)
1999: Gopinath Bordoloi (Freedom Fighter) posthumously
2001: Lata Mangeshkar (Playback singer)
2001: Ustad Bismillah Khan (Shehnai Maestro)
2008: Pandit Bhimsen Joshi (Classical Singer)
2014: Sachin Tendulkar (Cricketer)
2014: CNR Rao (Scientist and Chemist)
2014: Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Former Prime Minister)
2014: Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya (Educationist)
2019: Pranab Mukherjee (Former President)
2019: Bhupen Hazarika (singer)
2019: Nanaji Deshmukh (thinker, philanthropist)
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