Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna
The recommendations for Bharat Ratna are to be made by the Prime Minister of India to the President of India. The holders of the Bharat Ratna rank 7th in the Indian order of precedence The order was established by Rajendra Prasad, President of India, on 2 January 1954. The award was briefly suspended from 13 July 1977 to 26 January 1980 This has been one award to a naturalised Indian citizen, Mother Teresa (1980), and to two non-Indians, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1987) and Nelson Mandela (1990). Indira Gandhi is the youngest person alive at the time of receiving the award (at the age of 54) 1971 Rajiv Gandhi is the youngest overall to receive the Bharat Ratna (posthumously at the age of 47). D.K. Karvae is the eldest person alive at the time of receiving the award (age 100) 1958 and Vallabhbhai Patel is the eldest overall (posthumously at the age of 116)
Sl. no	Name	Year	Notes ( IA - independence activist)
1	Chakravarti Rajgopalachari	1954	IA, last Gov-General
2	Sir C. V. Raman	1954	Physicist
3	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1954	Philosopher, First and second Vice President (1952-1962),  (1962-1967)
4	Bhagwan Das	1955	IA, author
5	Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya	1955	Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore
6	Jawaharlal Nehru	1955	IA, author, first Prime Minister
7	Govind Ballabh Pant	1957	IA, CM of UP, Home Minister
8	Dhondo Keshav Karve	1958	Educator, social reformer
9	Bidhan Chandra Roy	1961	Physician, CM of West Bengal
10	Purushottam Das Tandon	1961	IA, educator
11	Rajendra Prasad	1962	IA, jurist, first President
12	Zakir Hussain	1963	Scholar, 3rd President
13	Pandurang Vaman Kane	1963	Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
14	Lal Bahadur Shastri	1966	Posthumous, IA, second Prime Minister
15	Indira Gandhi	1971	Third Prime Minister
16	V. V. Giri	1975	Trade unionist and fourth President
17	K. Kamaraj	1976	Posthumous, IA, CM of Tamil Nadu
18	Mother Teresa	1980	Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity
19	Vinoba Bhave	1983	Posthumous, social reformer,  IA,
20	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan	1987	First non-citizen, IA
21	M. G. Ramachandran	1988	Posthumous, film actor, CM of Tamil Nadu
22	B. R. Ambedkar	1990	Posthumous, chief architect of the Indian Constitution, politician, economist, and scholar
23	Nelson Mandela	1990	Second non-citizen and first non-Indian recipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid movement
24	Rajiv Gandhi	1991	Posthumous, Sixth Prime Minister
25	Vallabhbhai Patel	1991	Posthumous, IA, first Home Minister
26	Morarji Desai	1991	IA, fourth Prime Minister
27	Abul Kalam Azad	1992	Posthumous, IA, first Minister of Education
28	J. R. D. Tata	1992	Industrialist and philanthropist
29	Satyajit Ray	1992	Filmmaker
30	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	1997	Aeronautical Engineer,11th President
31	Gulzarilal Nanda	1997	IA, interim PM
32	Aruna Asaf Ali	1997	Posthumous, IA
33	M. S. Subbulakshmi	1998	Carnatic classical singer
34	Chidambaram Subramaniam	1998	IA, Minister of Agriculture
35	Jayaprakash Narayan	1999	Posthumous, IA and politician
36	Ravi Shankar	1999	Sitar player
37	Amartya Sen	1999	Economist
38	Gopinath Bordoloi	1999	Posthumous, IA, CM of Assam
39	Lata Mangeshkar	2001	Playback singer
40	Bismillah Khan	2001	Hindustani classical shehnai player
41	Bhimsen Joshi	2008	Hindustani classical singer
42	Sachin Tendulkar	2013	Sports
43	C.N.R. Rao	2013	Science
44	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	2014	Prime Minister of India
45	Madan Mohan Malaviya	2014	Founder Banaras Hindu University