Holders of Bharat Ratna award . Republic of India's highest civilian award

Bharat Ratna
Republic of India's highest civilian award, for performance of highest order in any field of human endeavour.
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; however they do not carry any special title nor any other honorifics

List of Bharat Ratna holders are furnished below with year

Chakravarti Rajgopalachari
1954
Sir C. V. Raman
1954
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
1954
Bhagwan Das
1955
Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya
1955
Jawaharlal Nehru
1955
Govind Ballabh Pant
1957
Dhondo Keshav Karve
1958
Bidhan Chandra 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
Mother Teresa
1980
Vinoba Bhave
1983
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
1987
M. G. Ramachandran
1988
B. R. Ambedkar
1990
Nelson Mandela
1990
Rajiv Gandhi
1991
Vallabhbhai Patel
1991
Morarji Desai
1991
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
1999
Ravi Shankar
1999
Amartya Sen
1999
Gopinath Bordoloi
1999
Lata Mangeshkar
2001
Bismillah Khan
2001
Bhimsen Joshi
2008