Educationist Madan Mohan Malviya and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee are the 44th and 45th distinguished personalities who have been conferred with country's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna.

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Here is a list of all those who have been conferred with Bharat Ratna in the past:

1) C Rajagopalachari, 19542) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, 19543) C V Raman, 19544) Bhagwan Das, 19555) Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, 19556) Jawaharlal Nehru, 19557) Govind Ballabh Pant, 19578) Dhondo Keshav Karve, 19589) Bidhan Chandra Roy, 196110)Purushottam Das Tandon, 196111)Rajendra Prasad, 196212)Zakir Hussain, 196313)Pandurang Vaman Kane, 196314)Lal Bahadur Shastrim, 196615)Indira Gandhi, 197116)V V Giri, 197517)K Kamaraj, 197618)Mother Teresa, 198019)Acharya Vinoba Bhave, 198320)Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, 198721)M G Ramachandra, 198822)B R Ambedkar, 199023)Nelson Mandela, 199024)Rajiv Gandhi, 199125)Vallabhbhai Patel, 199126)Morarji Desai, 199127)Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, 199228)J R D Tata, 199229)Satyajit Ray, 199230)Gulzarilal Nanda, 199731)Aruna Asaf Ali, 199732)A P J Abdul Kalam 199733)M S Subbulakshmi, 199834)Chidambaram Subramaniam, 199835)Jayaprakash Narayan, 199936)Amartya Sen, 199937)Gopinath Bordoloi, 199938)Pandit Ravi Shankar, 199939)Lata Mangeshkar, 200140)Ustad Bismillah Khan, 200141)Bhimsen Joshi, 200942)C N R Rao, 201443)Sachin Tendulkar, 2014