The provision of Bharat Ratna was introduced in 1954. There is no written provision that Bharat Ratna should be awarded to Indian citizens only. The award has been awarded to a naturalized Indian citizen, Mother Teresa (1980) and to two non-Indians – Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Nelson Mandela (1990).
| Awarded In | Name of Recipient |
|---|---|
| 1954 | CV Raman C Rajagopalachari Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| 1955 | Bhagwan Das M Visvesvaraya Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 1957 | Govind Ballabh Pant |
| 1958 | Dhondo Keshav Karve |
| 1961 | Bidhan Chandra Roy Purushottam Das Tandon |
| 1962 | Rajendra Prasad |
| 1963 | Zakir Husain Pandurang Vaman Kane |
| 1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| 1971 | Indira Gandhi |
| 1975 | VV Giri |
| 1976 | K Kamaraj |
| 1980 | Mother Teresa |
| 1983 | Vinoba Bhave |
| 1987 | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
| 1988 | MG Ramachandran |
| 1990 | BR Ambedkar Nelson Mandela |
| 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi Vallabhbhai Patel Morarji Desai |
| 1992 | Abul Kalam Azad JRD Tata Satyajit Ray |
| 1997 | Gulzarilal Nanda Aruna Asaf Ali APJ Abdul Kalam |
| 1998 | MS Subbulakshmi Chidambaram Subramaniam |
| 1999 | Jayaprakash Narayan Ravi Shankar Amartya Sen Gopinath Bordoloi |
| 2001 | Lata Mangeshkar Bismillah Khan |
| 2009 | Bhimsen Joshi |
| 2014 | CNR Rao Sachin Tendulkar |
| 2015 | Madan Mohan Malaviya Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| 2019 | Pranab Mukherjee Nanaji Deshmukh Bhupen Hazarika |
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