Option 1 : Sachin Tendulkar
The correct answer is Sachin Tendulkar.
- Sachin Tendulkar is the first sportsperson to receive Bharat Ratna.
- Sachin Tendulkar is the first sportsperson who has won the Bharat Ratna award.
- Sachin Tendulkar is also the youngest person to get the Bharat Ratna award.
- Sachin Tendulkar is a former Indian Cricket player known as “The God of cricket”.
- He was awarded Bharat Ratna in 2014 along with C. N. R. Rao.
- Bharat Ratna:
- The Bharat Ratna (Jewel of India) is the highest civilian award in India.
- It was instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conferred in recognition of exceptional service/performance of the highest order, without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex.
- In 1954, The first recipients of the Bharat Ratna were:
- The last Governor-General of the Dominion of India – C. Rajagopalachari,
- President and the First Vice President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and
- Nobel Prize Laureate, Physicist - C. V. Raman.