List of Bharat Ratna recipients:

 This is a list of recipients of Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award of India.

   1. Aruna Asaf Ali
   2. B. R. Ambedkar
   3. Abul Kalam Azad
   4. Vinoba Bhave
   5. Gopinath Bordoloi
   6. Subhas Chandra Bose
   7. Commemorations of Mother Teresa
   8. Bhagwan Das
   9. Morarji Desai
  10. Indira Gandhi
  11. Rajiv Gandhi
  12. V. V. Giri
  13. Zakir Hussain (politician)
  14. Abdul Kalam
  15. Pandurang Vaman Kane
  16. Dhondo Keshav Karve
  17. Bismillah Khan
  18. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
  19. Nelson Mandela
  20. Lata Mangeshkar
  21. Gulzarilal Nanda
  22. Jayaprakash Narayan
  23. Jawaharlal Nehru
  24. Govind Ballabh Pant
  25. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
  26. Rajendra Prasad
  27. Purushottam Das Tandon
  28. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
  29. C. Rajagopalachari
  30. M. G. Ramachandran
  31. C. V. Raman
  32. Satyajit Ray
  33. Bidhan Chandra Roy
  34. Amartya Sen
  35. Ravi Shankar
  36. Lal Bahadur Shastri
  37. M. S. Subbulakshmi
  38. Chidambaram Subramaniam
  39. J. R. D. Tata
  40. Mother Teresa
  41. Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya