Educationist Madan Mohan Malviya and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee are the 44th and 45th distinguished personalities who have been conferred with the country's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna.
Here's a list of others who have been conferred the Bharat Ratna:
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1) |
C Rajagopalachari | 1954 |
| 2) | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | 1954 |
| 3) | C V Raman | 1954 |
| 4) | Bhagwan Das | 1955 |
| 5) | Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya | 1955 |
| 6) | Jawaharlal Nehru | 1955 |
| 7) | Govind Ballabh Pant | 1957 |
| 8) | Dhondo Keshav Karve | 1958 |
| 9) | Bidhan Chandra Roy | 1961 |
| 10) | Purushottam Das Tandon | 1961 |
| 11) | Rajendra Prasad | 1962 |
| 12) | Zakir Hussain | 1963 |
| 13) | Pandurang Vaman Kane | 1963 |
| 14) | Lal Bahadur Shastri | 1966 |
| 15) | Indira Gandhi | 1971 |
| 16) | V V Giri | 1975 |
| 17) | K Kamaraj | 1976 |
| 18) | Mother Teresa | 1980 |
| 19) | Acharya Vinoba Bhave | 1983 |
| 20) | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | 1987 |
| 21) | M G Ramachandra | 1988 |
| 22) | B R Ambedkar | 1990 |
| 23) | Nelson Mandela | 1990 |
| 24) | Rajiv Gandhi | 1991 |
| 25) | Vallabhbhai Patel | 1991 |
| 26) | Morarji Desai | 1991 |
| 27) | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | 1992 |
| 28) | J R D Tata | 1992 |
| 29) | Satyajit Ray | 1992 |
| 30) | Gulzarilal Nanda | 1997 |
| 31) | Aruna Asaf Ali | 1997 |
| 32) | A P J Abdul Kalam | 1997 |
| 33) | M S Subbulakshmi | 1998 |
| 34) | Chidambaram Subramaniam | 1998 |
| 35) | Jayaprakash Narayan | 1999 |
| 36) | Amartya Sen | 1999 |
| 37) | Gopinath Bordoloi | 1999 |
| 38) | Pandit Ravi Shankar | 1999 |
| 39) | Lata Mangeshkar | 2001 |
| 40) | Ustad Bismillah Khan | 2001 |
| 41) | Bhimsen Joshi | 2009 |
| 42) | C N R Rao | 2014 |
| 43) | Sachin Tendulkar | 2014 |