The correct answer is Mother Teresa.

• Mother Teresa was the first non-Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna in 1980.
  • "Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta" was a catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.
  • She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work in 1979 and was beatified on 19 October 2003 by Pope John Paul II and canonized on 4 September 2016 by Pope Francis.
• Other than her, Khan Abdul Gaffer Khan (also known as Frontier Gandhi), a citizen of Pakistan was awarded Bharat Ratna in 1987.
  • He was widely known as "Frontier Gandhi", an independent activist and Pashtun leader Khan was a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
  • He joined Khilafat Movement in 1920 and founded Khudai Khidmatgar ("Red Shirt movement") in 1929.
• South African President Nelson Mandela was another non-Indian who was conferred Bharat Ratna by the Indian government in 1990.
  • He was the leader of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa, Mandela was the President of South Africa (1994–99).
  • Often called the "Gandhi of South Africa", Mandela's African National Congress movement was influenced by Gandhian philosophy.
• Martin Luther King, Jr., is known for his contributions to the American civil rights movement in the 1960s.
  • His most famous work is his “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered in 1963, in which he spoke of his dream of the United States that is void of segregation and racism.
  • At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.