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Bharat Ratna awardees

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Last Updated : Dec 24 2014 | 1:57 PM IST

Following is the list of Bharat Ratna winners:

C.N.R. Rao (1934-) - 2014

Sachin Tendulkar (1973-) - 2014

Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi (1922-2011) - 2009

Ustad Bismillah Khan (1916-2006) - 2001

Lata Mangeshkar (1929-) - 2001

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Pandit Ravi Shankar (1920-2012) - 1999

Gopinath Bordoloi (Posthumous) (1890-1950) - 1999

Amartya Sen (1933-) - 1999

Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous) (1902-79) - 1999

Chidambaram Subramaniam (1910-2000) - 1998

M.S. Subbulakshmi (1916-2005) - 1998

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (1931-) - 1997

Aruna Asaf Ali (Posthumous) (1909-1996) - 1997

Gulzarilal Nanda (1898-1998) - 1997

Satyajit Ray (1922-1992) - 1992

Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata (1904-1993) - 1992

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Posthumous) (1888-1958) - 1992

Morarji Desai (1896-1995) - 1991

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous) (1875-1950) - 1991

Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) (1944-1991) - 1991

Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) - 1990

B.R. Ambedkar (Posthumous) (1891-1956) - 1990

M.G. Ramachandran (Posthumous) (1917-1987) - 1988

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988) - 1987

Acharya Vinobha Bhave (Posthumous) (1895-1982) - 1983

Mother Teresa (1910-1997) - 1980

K. Kamraj (Posthumous) (1903-1975) - 1976

V.V. Giri (1894-1980) - 1975

Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) - 1971

Lal Bahadur Shastri (Posthumous) (1904-66)- 1966

Pandurang Vaman Kane (1880-1972) -1963

Zakir Hussain (1897-1969) - 1963

Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) - 1962

Purushottam Das Tandon (1882-1962) - 1961

Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882-1962) - 1961

Dhondo Keshave Karve (1858-1962) - 1958

Govind Ballabh Pant (1887-1961) - 1957

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) - 1955

Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (1861-1962) - 1955

Bhagwan Das (1869-1958) - 1955

Chandrasekhara Venkataraman (1888-1970) - 1954

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) - 1954

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1878-1972) - 1954

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First Published: Dec 24 2014 | 1:46 PM IST

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