A display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and a backlight unit disposed at a rear surface of the display panel and supplying a light to the display panel, where the backlight unit includes a first light source which provides a first color light to the display panel, a second light source which provides a second color light to the display panel, and a third light sources which provides a third color light to the display panel, spectral bands of the first, second and third color light are different from each other, and the first color light and the second color light have substantially the same color as each other.