Year-wise list of the recipients of Bharat Ratna award –
| Year of Nomination | Laureates | |
| 1954 | C. Rajagopalachari | |
| Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | ||
| C. V. Raman | ||
| 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 | Posthumous Recipient |
| 1971 | Indira Gandhi | |
| 1975 | V. V. Giri | |
| 1976 | K. Kamaraj | Posthumous Recipient |
| 1980 | Mother Teresa | Naturalised Citizen Recipient |
| 1983 | Vinoba Bhave | Posthumous Recipient |
| 1987 | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | Non-Citizen Recipient |
| 1988 | M. G. Ramachandran | Posthumous Recipient |
| 1990 | B. R. Ambedkar | Posthumous Recipient |
| Nelson Mandela | Non-Citizen Recipient | |
| 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi | Posthumous Recipient |
| Vallabhbhai Patel | Posthumous Recipient | |
| Morarji Desai | ||
| 1992 | Abul Kalam Azad | Posthumous Recipient |
| J. R. D. Tata | ||
| Satyajit Ray | ||
| 1997 | Gulzarilal Nanda | |
| Aruna Asaf Ali | Posthumous Recipient | |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | ||
| 1998 | M. S. Subbulakshmi | |
| Chidambaram Subramaniam | ||
| 1999 | Jayaprakash Narayan | Posthumous Recipient |
| Amartya Sen | ||
| Gopinath Bordoloi | Posthumous Recipient | |
| Ravi Shankar | ||
| 2001 | Lata Mangeshkar | |
| Bismillah Khan | ||
| 2009 | Bhimsen Joshi | |
| 2014 | C. N. R. Rao | |
| Sachin Tendulkar | ||
| 2015 | Madan Mohan Malaviya | Posthumous Recipient |
| Atal Bihari Vajpayee | ||
| 2019 | Pranab Mukherjee | |
| Nanaji Deshmukh | Posthumous Recipient | |
| Bhupen Hazarika | Posthumous Recipient | |
| 2024 | Karpoori Thakur | Posthumous Recipient |
| L. K. Advani | ||
| P. V. Narasimha Rao | Posthumous Recipient | |
| Chaudhry Charan Singh | Posthumous Recipient | |
| M. S. Swaminathan | Posthumous Recipient |
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