Complete list of BHARAT RATNA

1. Chakravarti Rajgopalachari
(INDEPENDENCE ACTIVIST, LAST GOVERNER GENERAL) 1954

2. C V Raman
(PHYSICIST) 1954

3. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
(PHILOSOPHER, 2ND PRESIDENT) 1954

4. Bhagwan Das
(INDEPENDENCE ACTIVIST, AUTHOR) 1955

5. M. Visvasvarayya
(CIVIL ENGINEER, DIWAN OF MYSURE) 1955

6. Jawahar lal nehru
(INDEPENDENCE ACTIVIST, AUTHOR, 1ST PRIME MINISTER) 1955

7. Govind Ballabh Pant
(INDEPENDENCE ACTIVIST, CM OF UTTAR PRADESH, HOME MINISTER) 1957

8. Dhondo Keshav Karve
(EDUCATOR, SOCIAL REFORMER) 1958

9. Bidhan Chandra Roy
(PHYSICIAN, CM OF WEST BENGAL) 1961

10. Purushottam Das tondon
(INDEPENDENCE ACTIVIST, EDUCATOR) 1961

11. Rajendra Prasad
(INDEPENDENCE ACTIVIST, JURIST, 1ST PRESIDENT) 1962

12. Zakir hussain
(SCHOLAR, 3RD PRESIDENT) 1963

13. Pandurang Vaman kane
(INDOLOGIST AND SANSKRIT SCHOLAR) 1963

14. Lal Bahadur Shastri
(POSTHUMOUS, INDEPENDENCE ACTIVIST, 2ND PRIME MINISTER) 1966

15. Indira Gandhi
(FOURTH PRIMINISTER) 1971

16. V V Giri
(TRADE UNIONIST AND FOURTH PRESIDENT) 1975

17. K. Kamraj
(POSTHUMOUS, INDEPENDENCE ACTIVIST, CHIEF MINISTER OF MADRAS STATE) 1976

18. Mother Teresa
(CATHOLIC NUN, FOUNDER OF THE MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY) 1980

19. Vinoba Bhave
(POSTHUMOUS, SOCIAL REFORMER, INDEPENDENCE ACTIVIST) 1983

20. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(INDEPENDENCE ACTIVIST) 1987

21. M. G. Ramchandran
(POSTHUMOUS, FILM ACTOR, CM OF TAMIL NADU) 1988

22. B. R. Ambedkar
(POSTHUMOUS, CHIEF ARCHITECT OF THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION, POLITICIAN, ECONOMIST AND SCHOLAR) 1990

23. Nelson Mandela
(2ND NON CITIZEN AND 1ST NON-INDIAN RECIPIENT, LEADER OF THE ANTI-APARTHEID MOVEMENT) 1990

24. Rajiv Gandhi (POSTHUMOUS, 7TH PRIME MINISTER) 1991

25. Vallabhbhai Patel
(POSTHUMOUS, INDEPENDENCE ACTIVIST, 1ST HOME MINISTER) 1991


....to be continued