Bharat Ratna: Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi Year: 2008State / Country: Karnataka - India Notes: Hindustani classical singer Ustad Bismillah Khan Year: 2001State / Country: Uttar Pradesh Notes: Classical Maestro Lata Mangeshkar Year: 2001State / Country: Maharashtra Notes: Play back singer. Ravi Shankar Year: 1999State / Country: west bengal Notes: Classical sitar player. Amartya Sen Year: 1999State / Country: West Bengal Notes: Nobel Laureate (Economics, 1998), Economist. Gopinath Bordoloi Year: 1999State / Country: Assam Notes: Posthumous, freedom fighter Jayaprakash Narayan Year: 1998State / Country: Uttar Pradesh Notes: Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Social Reformer. Chidambaram Subramaniam Year: 1998State / Country: Tamil Nadu Notes: Freedom Fighter, Minister of Agriculture(Father of Green revolution). M. S. Subbulakshmi Year: 1998State / Country: Tamil Nadu Notes: Classical singer. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Year: 1997State / Country: Tamil Nadu Notes: Former President, Scientist. Gulzarilal Nanda Year: 1997State / Country: Punjab Notes: Freedom Fighter, former Prime Minister. Aruna Asaf Ali Year: 1997State / Country: West Bengal Notes: Posthumous, Freedom Fighter. Satyajit Ray Year: 1992State / Country: West Bengal Notes: Legendary Indian Film Director J. R. D. Tata Year: 1992State / Country: Maharashtra Notes: Industrialist and philanthropist. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Year: 1992State / Country: West Bengal Notes: Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Educator. Morarji Desai Year: 1991State / Country: Gujarat Notes: Former Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Year: 1991State / Country: Gujarat Notes: Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, First Home Minister of India. Rajiv Gandhi Year: 1991State / Country: New Delhi Notes: Posthumous, Former Prime Minister Nelson Mandela Year: 1990State / Country: South Africa Notes: Second non-citizen and first non-Indian, Leader of Anti-Apartheid movement. B. R. Ambedkar Year: 1990State / Country: Maharashtra Notes: Posthumous, Architect-Indian Constitution, Leader of Buddhist people of India M. G. Ramachandran Year: 1988State / Country: Tamil Nadu Notes: Posthumous, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu, Actor. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Year: 1987State / Country: Pakistan Notes: First non-citizen, Freedom Fighter. Acharya Vinoba Bhave Year: 1983State / Country: Maharashtra Notes: Posthumous, Social Reformer, Freedom Figher. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) Year: 1980State / Country: West Bengal Notes: Naturalized Indian citizen, Nobel Laureate (Peace, 1979). K. Kamaraj Year: 1976State / Country: Tamil Nadu Notes: Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu. V. V. Giri Year: 1975State / Country: Andhra Pradesh Notes: Former President, Trade Unionist. Indira Gandhi Year: 1971State / Country: Uttar Pradesh Notes: Former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri Year: 1966State / Country: Uttar Pradesh Notes: Posthumous, Second Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter Pandurang Vaman Kane Year: 1963State / Country: Maharashtra Notes: Indologist and Sanskrit scholar Zakir Hussain Year: 1963State / Country: Andhra Pradesh Notes: Former President, Scholar. Rajendra Prasad Year: 1962State / Country: Bihar Notes: First President, Freedom Fighter, Jurist Purushottam Das Tandon Year: 1961State / Country: Uttar Pradesh Notes: Freedom Fighter, Educationalist. B. C. Roy Year: 1961State / Country: West Bengal Notes: Physician, Politician Dhondo Keshav Karve Year: 1958State / Country: Maharashtra Notes: Educationist, Social Reformer Govind Ballabh Pant Year: 1957State / Country: Uttar Pradesh Notes: Freedom Fighter, Home Minister Bhagwan Das Year: 1955State / Country: Uttar Pradesh Notes: Philosopher, Freedom Fighter Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya Year: 1955State / Country: Karnataka Notes: Civil Engineer Jawaharlal Nehru Year: 1955State / Country: Uttar Pradesh Notes: First Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter, Author. C. V. Raman Year: 1954State / Country: Tamil Nadu Notes: Nobel-prize winning Physicist Chakravarti Rajagopalachari Year: 1954State / Country: Tamil Nadu Notes: Last Governor-General, Freedom Fighter. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Year: 1954State / Country: Tamil Nadu Notes: Second President, First Vice President, Philosopher.