- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan – 1954
- Chakravarti Rajagopalachari – 1954
- C. V. Raman – 1954
- Bhagwan Das – 1955
- Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya – 1955
- Jawaharlal Nehru – 1955
- Govind Ballabh Pant – 1957
- Dhondo Keshav Karve – 1958
- B. C. Roy – 1961
- Purushottam Das Tandon – 1961
- Rajendra Prasad – 1962
- Zakir Hussain – 1963
- Pandurang Vaman Kane – 1963
- Lal Bahadur Shastri – 1966
- Indira Gandhi – 1971
- V. V. Giri – 1975
- K. Kamaraj – 1976
- Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) – 1980
- Acharya Vinoba Bhave – 1983
- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan – 1987
- M. G. Ramachandran – 1988
- B. R. Ambedkar – 1990
- Nelson Mandela – 1990
- Rajiv Gandhi – 1991
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel – 1991
- Morarji Desai – 1991
- Maulana Abul Kalam Azad – 1992
- J. R. D. Tata – 1992
- Satyajit Ray – 1992
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam – 1997
- Gulzarilal Nanda – 1997
- Aruna Asaf Ali – 1997
- M. S. Subbulakshmi – 1998
- Chidambaram Subramaniam – 1998
- Jayaprakash Narayan – 1998
- Ravi Shankar – 1999
- Amartya Sen – 1999
- Gopinath Bordoloi -1999
- Lata Mangeshkar – 2001
- Ustad Bismillah Khan – 2001
- Pt. Bhimsen Joshi – 2008
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As I see Nelson Mandela in the list can Bharat Ratna be given to non Indians?
Yes it is possible. Apart from Bharat Ratna in 1990, Mr. Mandela also received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Order of Canada, he was the first living person to be made an honorary Canadian citizen. The last reciprocent of the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union, and in 1992 received Pakistan's Nishan-e-Pakistan. In 1992 he was awarded the Atatürk Peace Award by Turkey. He refused the award, citing human rights violations committed by Turkey at the time, but later accepted the award in 1999. Elizabeth II awarded him the Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of St. John and the Order of Merit.
list of bharat ratn award…..
He was awarded Bharat Ratna as he fulfilled the dreams of Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa.
thanks 4 ur precious information
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sachin Tendulkar
c. rajgopalchari is the first receiver of bharat ratna