WINNER OF BHARAT RATNA

WINNER OF BHARAT RATNA

•    Bharat Ratna is India’s highest Civilian Award. It was first awarded  in 1954. The actual award is designed in the shape of a peepal  leaf with Bharat Ratna inscribed in Devanagri script in the sun figure.
•    The reverse aide of the decoration Satyamev Jayate has been write in Hindi with an inscription of state emblem. The emblem, the sun and the rim are of platinum. The inscriptions are in burnished bronze.

YEAR	WINNER
2013	Sachin Tendulkar
2013	Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
2008	pandit bhimsen Joshi
2001	ustad Bismillah Khan
2001	Lata Dinanath mangeshkar
1999	Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi
1999	prof Amarty Sen
1999	loknayak  jayprakash narayan
1999	pandit ravi Shankar
1998	smt Madurai shanmukhavadidu
1998	Sri Chidambaram Subramaniam
1997	Sri (Dr) Avul Pakir Jainualabdeen Abdul Kalam
1997	Smt Arunna Asaf Ali
1997	Sri Gulzari Lal Nanda
1992	Sri Maulalana Abul Kalam Azad
1992	Sri SAatyajith Ray
1992	Sri Jahangir Ratanji Dadahai Tata
1991	Sri Rajiv Gandhi
1991	Sardar Vallabhai Patel
1991	Sri Morarji Ranchodji Desai
1990	Dr Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
1990	Dr Bhimaro Ramji Ambedkar
1988	Sri Marudur Gopalan Ramachan -dran
1987	Khan Abdul ghaffar khan
1983	Shri acharrya Vinoba Bhave
1980	Mother Teresa(Agnes Gonxha)
1976	Shri kumaraswamy kamraj
1975	Shri varahagiri venkata Giri
1971	Smt indira Gandhi
1966	Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri
1963	Dr Zakir Hussain
1963	Dr Pandurang Vaman Kane
1962	Dr Rajendra Prasad
1961	Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy
1961	Shri Purushottam Das Tandon
1958	Dr dhonde keshav Karve
1957	Pt Govind Nallabh Pant
1955	Shri Jawaharlal Nehru
1955	Dr Mokshagundam vivesvaraya
1955	Dr Bhagwan Das
1954	Dr Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
1954	Dr Sarvapali Radhakrishnan
1954	Shri Chakravati Rajagopalachari

NOTE: Abdul Ghaffar Khan was the first foreigner to be honoured with this award in 1987. And Later Nelson Mandela (1990).

Award to Naturallsed Indian Citizen    -- Mother Teresa(1980).    Youngest Overall to Receive the Bharat Ratna – Rajn Gandhi (Posthumously).    Wldest Overall to Receive the Award  -- Vallabhabhai Patel.

FIRST IN INDIA(FEMALE)

FIRST IN INDIA(FEMALE)

Achieve	Person
The first lady to become Miss World	Reita Faria
The first woman Judge in Supreme Court	Fatima Beevi
The first woman Chief Justice of High Court	Leela Seth
The first woman Judge	Anna Chandy
The first woman Lawyer	Comelia Sorabjee
The first woman Amnassador	CB Muthamma
The first woman Governor of a state in free India	Sarojini Naidu
The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly	Shanno Devi
The first woman Prime Minister	Indira Gandhi
The first woman Minister of Government	Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
The first woman to climb Mount Everest	Bachhendri Pal
The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice	Santosh Yadav
The first woman Pilot in Indian Air Force	Harita Kaur Dayal
The first woman Airline Pilot	Durga Banerje
The first woman Honours Graduate	Kamini Roy
The first woman Olympic Medal Winner	Karnam Malleswari
The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner	Kamaljit Sandhu
The first woman President of United Nations General Assembly	Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
The first woman Chief  Minister of an Indian State	Sucheta Kripalani
The first woman Chiefman of United Public Service Commission	Rose Millian Bethew
The first woman Director General of Police	Kanchan C Bhattacharya
The first woman Lieutenant General	Puneeta Arora
The first woman Air Vice Marshal	P Bandopadhyaya
The first woman Chairperson of Indian Airlines	Sushma Chawla
The first woman IPS Officer	Kiran Bedi
The first woman to receive Ashoka Cahkra	Nirja Bhanot
The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award	Ashapurna Devi
The first woman to cross English Channel	Arati Saha
The first woman to receive Noble Prize	Mother Teresa

FIRST IN INDIA

                          FIRST IN INDIA(MALE)

Achieve	Person
The first Indian to win the Noble prize	Rabindranath Tagore (1913)
The first Muslim President of India	Dr Zakir Hussain
The first man to introduce Printing Press in India	James Hicky
The first Indian to join the ICS n	Satyendra Nath Tagore
India’s first man in Space	Rakesh  Sharma
The first Prime minister of India who resigned before the full term	Morarji Desai
The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India	General Cariappa
The first Chief of Army Staff	General Maharaj Rajendra Singh Ji
The first Chief of Air Staff	Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst
The first Indian Member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council	SP Sinha
The first Field Marshal of India	SHFJ Manekshaw
The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna Award	DR Radhakrishnan
The first person to receive Jnanpith Award	Sri Shankar Kurup
The first Education Minister	Abul Kalam Azad
The first Home Minister of India	Saradar Vallabhbhai Patel
The first Indian Air Chief  Marshal	Subroto Mukherjee
The first Indian Naval Chief	Vice Admiral R D Katari
The first Judge of International Court of Justice	Dr Nagendra Singh
The first person to reach Mt Everest without oxygen	Sherpa Anga Dorjee
The first person to get Pram Vir Chakra	Major Somnath Sharma
The first person to receive Magsayasy Award	Acharya Vinoba Bhave
The first person of Indian origin to get Noble Prize in Medicine	Hargobind Khorana
The first person to receive Stalin Prize	Saifuddin Kitchiew
The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet	Shyama Mukherjee
The first Indian to get Noble Prize in Physics	CV Raman
The first Indian to receive Noble Prize in Economics	Amartya sen
The first Indian Pilot	JRD Tata(1929)