Famous Persons of India 

List of persons who have received the Bharat Ratna 

•  Ravi Shankar
•  M. S. Swaminathan
•  Atal Bihari Vajpayee,
•   Sachin Tendulkar .

1. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956)
2. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015)
3. Vallabhbhai Patel (1875–1950)
4. Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964)
5. Mother Teresa (1910–1997)
6. J. R. D. Tata (1904–1993)
7. Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)
8. Sachin Tendulkar (b. 1973)
9. Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018)
10. Lata Mangeshkar (b. 1929)
11. Jayaprakash Narayan (1902–1979) social reformer
12. Kanshi Ram (1934–2006) politician and Founder of the BSP
13. Ram Manohar Lohia (1910–1967) Socialist leader
14. C. Rajagopalachari (1878–1972) First Indian Governor-General of India
15. Sam Manekshaw (1914–2008) Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army
16. Baba Amte (1914–2008) social worker
17. Ela Bhatt (b. 1933) founder Self-Employed Women's Association of India
18. Vinoba Bhave (1895–1982) advocate of nonviolence
19. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903–1988) freedom fighter
20. Ravi Shankar (1920–2012) musician
21. M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916–2004) Carnatic vocalist
22. M. F. Husain (1915–2011) painter
23. Bismillah Khan (1916–2006) musician
24. R. K. Narayan (1906–2001) writer
25. R. K. Laxman (1921–2015) cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist
26. B. K. S. Iyengar (1918–2014) founder of Iyengar Yoga
27. Amitabh Bachchan (b. 1942) film actor
28. Raj Kapoor (1924–1988) director of Hindi cinema
29. Kamal Hasan (b. 1954) actor, director
30. Satyajit Ray (1921–1992) filmmaker
31. A. R. Rahman (b. 1967) composer and philanthropist
32. Kishore Kumar (1929–1987) film playback singer
33. Dilip Kumar (b. 1922) actor, producer and activist
34. Dev Anand (1923–2011) producer and actor
35. Mohammad Rafi (1924–1980) singer
36. Homi Bhabha (1909–1966) nuclear physicist
37. Dhirubhai Ambani (1932–2002) business tycoon, founder of Reliance Industries
38. Verghese Kurien (1921–2012) social entrepreneur
39. Ghanshyam Das Birla (1894–1983) businessman
40. N. R. Narayana Murthy (b. 1946) IT industrialist
41. Vikram Sarabhai (1919–1971) scientist
42. M. S. Swaminathan (b. 1925) geneticist
43. Ramnath Goenka (1904–1991) newspaper publisher
44. Amartya Sen (b. 1933) philosopher and economist
45. E. Sreedharan (b. 1932) civil engineer
46. Kapil Dev (b. 1959) cricketer
47. Sunil Gavaskar (b. 1949) cricketer
48. Dhyan Chand (1905–1979) hockey player
49. Viswanathan Anand (b. 1969) chess Grandmaster
50. Milkha Singh (1935–2021) field sprinter