Bharat Ratna Awardees
- Kumari Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar
Arts : 2001 : India : Maharashtra
- Late. Ustad Bismillah Khan
Arts : 2001 : India : Uttar Pradesh
- Prof. Amartya Sen
Literature & Education : 1999 : United Kingdom :
- Lokpriya Gopinath (posth.) Bordoloi
Public Affairs : 1999 : India : Assam
- Loknayak Jayprakash (Posth.) Narayan
Public Affairs : 1999 : India : Bihar
- Pandit Ravi Shankar
Arts : 1999 : United States :
- Shri Chidambaram Subramaniam
Public Affairs : 1998 : India : Tamil Nadu
- Smt. M.S. Subbulakshmi
Arts : 1998 : India : Tamil Nadu
- Shri (Dr.) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Science & Engineering. : 1997 : India : Delhi
- Smt. Aruna Asaf (Posth.) Ali
Public Affairs : 1997 : India : Delhi
- Shri Gulzari Lal (Shri) Nanda
Public Affairs : 1997 : India : Gujarat
- Shri Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata
Trade & Industry : 1992 : India : Maharashtra
- Shri Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Public Affairs : 1992 : India : West Bengal
- Shri Satyajit Ray
Arts : 1992 : India : West Bengal
- Shri Morarji Ranchhodji Desai
Public Affairs : 1991 : India : Gujarat
- Shri Rajiv Gandhi
Public Affairs : 1991 : India : Delhi
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Public Affairs : 1991 : India : Gujarat
- Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedakr
Public Affairs : 1990 : India : Maharashtra
- Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Public Affairs : 1990 : South Africa :
- Shri Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran
Public Affairs : 1988 : India : Tamil Nadu
- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Social Work : 1987 : Pakistan :
- Shri Acharya Vinoba Bhave
Social Work : 1983 : India : Maharashtra
- Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu Teresa
Social Work : 1980 : India : West Bengal
- Shri Kumaraswamy Kamraj
Public Affairs : 1976 : India : Tamil Nadu
- Shri V.V. Giri
Public Affairs : 1975 : India : Orissa
- Smt. Indira Gandhi
Public Affairs : 1971 : India : Uttar Pradesh
- Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri
Public Affairs : 1966 : India : Uttar Pradesh
- Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane
Social Work : 1963 : India : Maharashtra
- Dr. Zakir Hussain
Public Affairs : 1963 : India : Andhra Pradesh
- Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Public Affairs : 1962 : India : Bihar
- Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
Public Affairs : 1961 : India : West Bengal
- Shri Purushottam Das Tandon
Public Affairs : 1961 : India : Uttar Pradesh
- Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve
Social Work : 1958 : India : Maharashtra
- Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant
Public Affairs : 1957 : India : Uttar Pradesh
- Dr. Bhagwan Das
Literature & Education : 1955 : India : Uttar Pradesh
- Shri Jawaharlal Nehru
Public Affairs : 1955 : India : Uttar Pradesh
- Dr. M. Vishweshwariah
Civil Service : 1955 : India : Karnataka
- Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
Public Affairs : 1954 : India : Tamil Nadu
- Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Science & Engineering. : 1954 : India : Tamil Nadu
- Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
Public Affairs : 1954 : India : Tamil Nadu
