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The Padma Awards are one of the highest civilian awards in India, presented annually by the Government of India to recognize exceptional contributions in various fields. The award was established in 1954, and it is presented on the occasion of India's Republic Day, which falls on January 26.

The Padma Awards are presented in three categories - Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri. The Padma Vibhushan is the highest among the three awards, followed by Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.

The Padma Awards recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to various fields such as art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, medicine, trade and industry, sports, and education. The award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to their respective fields and have also contributed to society in a meaningful way.

The selection process for the Padma Awards is done by a committee appointed by the Government of India. The committee considers the nominations received from various sources and selects the deserving candidates based on their contributions to their respective fields.

The Padma Awards consist of a medal, a certificate, and a cash prize. The Padma Vibhushan carries a cash prize of Rs. 7.5 lakhs, the Padma Bhushan carries a cash prize of Rs. 5 lakhs, and the Padma Shri carries a cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh. Recipients of the award are also eligible to receive a lifelong monthly stipend of Rs. 20,000.

Over the years, many prominent personalities from India have been conferred with the Padma Awards for their exceptional contributions in various fields. Some of the notable recipients of the award include Sachin Tendulkar (Sports), Ratan Tata (Trade and Industry), Pranab Mukherjee (Public Affairs), and Amartya Sen (Social Work).

In conclusion, the Padma Awards are one of the highest civilian awards in India, presented annually by the Government of India to recognize exceptional contributions in various fields. The awards recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to their respective fields and have also contributed to society in a meaningful way. The selection process involves a committee appointed by the Government of India, and the awards consist of a medal, a certificate, and a cash prize.


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2025 Subramaniam Lakshminarayana Arts Karnataka (India)
2025 Madath Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Narayanan Nair Literature & Education Kerala (India)
2025 Duvvur Nageshwar Reddyy Medicine Telangana (India)
2025 Sharda Sinha Arts Bihar (India)
2024 Vyjayanthimala Arts Tamil Nadu (India)
2024 Bindeshwar Pathak Social Work Bihar (India)
2024 Konidela Chiranjeevi Arts Andhra Pradesh (India)
2024 Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh (India)
2024 Padma Subrahmanyam Arts Tamil Nadu (India)
2023 Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi Others Gujarat (India)
2023 Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna Public Affairs Karnataka (India)
2023 Dilip Mahalanabis Medicine West Bengal (India)
2023 Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan Science & Engineering United States
2023 Zakir Hussain Arts Maharashtra (India)
2023 Mulayam Singh Yadav Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh (India)
2022 Prabha Atre Arts Maharashtra (India)
2022 Radheshyam Khemka Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh (India)
2022 Bipin Rawat Civil Service Uttarakhand (India)
2022 Kalyan Singh Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh (India)
2021 Shinzo Abe Public Affairs Japan
2021 Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam Arts Tamil Nadu (India)
2021 Belle Monappa Hegde Medicine Karnataka (India)
2021 Narinder Singh Kapany Science & Engineering United States
2021 Wahiduddin Khan Others Delhi (India)
2021 Braj Basi Lal Others Delhi (India)
2021 Sudarshan Sahoo Art Odisha (India)
2020 George Fernandes Public Affairs Bihar (India)
2020 Arun Jaitley Public Affairs Delhi (India)
2020 Anerood Jugnauth Public Affairs Mauritius
2020 Mary Kom Sports Manipur (India)
2020 Chhannulal Mishra Arts Uttar Pradesh (India)
2020 Sushma Swaraj Public Affairs Delhi (India)
2020 Vishwesha Teertha Others Karnataka (India)
2019 Nambi Narayanan Science & Engineering Kerala (India)
2019 Kuldip Nayar Literature & Education Delhi (India)
2019 Bachendri Pal Sports Uttarakhand
2019 V. K. Shunglu Civil Service Delhi (India)
2019 Hukmdev Narayan Yadav Public Affairs Bihar (India)
2019 Mohanlal Arts Kerala (India)
2019 Budhaditya Mukherjee Arts West Bengal (India)
2019 Kariya Munda Public Affairs Jharkhand (India)
2019 Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa Public Affairs Punjab (India)
2019 Pravin Gordhan Public Affairs Citizen of South Africa
2019 Mahashay Dharampal Gulati Trade & Industry Delhi (India)
2019 Darshan Lal Jain Social Work Haryana (India)
2019 Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade Medicine Maharashtra (India)
2019 John T. Chambers Trade & Industry Citizen of the United States
2018 P. Parameswaran Literature & Education Kerala (India)
2018 Ghulam Mustafa Khan Arts Maharashtra (India)
2018 Ilaiyaraaja Arts Tamil Nadu (India)
2017 Murli Manohar Joshi Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh (India)
2017 Sunder Lal Patwa Public Affairs Madhya Pradesh (India)
2017 Sharad Pawar Public Affairs Maharashtra (India)
2017 Udupi Ramachandra Rao Science & Engineering Karnataka (India)
2017 P. A. Sangma Public Affairs Meghalaya (India)
2017 Jaggi Vasudev Others Karnataka (India)
2017 K. J. Yesudas Arts Kerala (India)
2016 Rajinikanth Arts - Cinema Tamil Nadu
2016 Ramoji Rao Literature & Education - Journalism Andhra Pradesh
2016 Jagmohan Public Affairs Delhi
2016 Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader) Others - Spiritualism Karnataka
2016 Dhirubhai Ambani Trade & Industry Maharashtra
2016 Yamini Krishnamurthy Arts - Classical Dance Delhi
2016 Girija Devi Arts - Classical Vocal West Bengal
2016 V Shanta Medicine - Oncology Tamil Nadu
2016 V. K. Aatre Science & Engineering Karnataka
2016 Avinash Dixit Literature & Education - Foreign -
2015 Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan (Foreigner) Trade and Industry France/United Kingdom
2015 Amitabh Bachchan Art India
2015 Dilip Kumar Art India
2015 Kottayan Katankot Venugopal Public Affairs India
2015 Lal Krishna Advani Public Affairs India
2015 Malur Ramasamy Srinivasan Science & Engineering India
2015 Parkash Singh Badal Public Affairs India
2015 Rambhadracharya Other India
2015 Veerendra Heggade Social Work India
2014 Raghunath Anant Mashelkar Science & Engineering India
2014 Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Yoga India
2013 Raghunath Mohapatra Arts India
2013 Roddam Narasimha Science & Engineering India
2013 Syed Haider Raza Arts India
2013 Yash Pal Science & Engineering India
2012 Bhupen Hazarika* Arts India
2012 K. G. Subramanyan Arts India
2012 Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti Medicine India
2012 Mario Miranda* Arts India
2012 T. V. Rajeswar Civil Service India
2011 Homai Vyarawalla Arts India
2011 Brajesh Mishra Civil Service India
2011 Azim Premji Trade and Industry India
2011 AR Kidwai Public Affairs India
2011 Amjad Ali Khan Arts India
2011 Akkineni Nageshwara Rao Arts India
2011 Kapila Vatsyayan Arts India
2011 Lakshmi Chand Jain Public Affairs India
2011 Vijay Kelkar Public Affairs India
2011 Sitakant Mahapatra Literature India
2011 Parasaran Kesava Iyenger Public Affairs India
2011 Palle Rama Rao Science India
2011 Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup Literature India
2011 Montek Singh Ahluwalia Public Affairs India
2010 Ebrahim Alkazi Arts India
2010 Prathap C. Reddy Trade & Industry India
2010 Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman Arts India
2010 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Science & Engineering United Kingdom
2010 Y. Venugopal Reddy Law and Public affairs India
2010 Zohra Sehgal Arts India
2009 A. S. Ganguly Trade & Industry India
2009 Anil Kakodkar Science & Engineering India
2009 Chandrika Prasad Srivastava Civil Service India
2009 D. P. Chattopadhyaya Literature & Education India
2009 Dr. G. Madhavan Nair Science & Engineering India
2009 Govind Narain Public Affairs India
2009 Jasbir Singh Bajaj Medicine India
2009 Purshotam Lal Medicine India
2009 Sister Nirmala Social Work India
2009 Sunderlal Bahuguna Environmental Conservation India
2008 Edmund Hillary Mountaineering New Zealand
2008 E. Sreedharan Delhi Metro India
2008 Asha Bhosle Arts India
2008 Adarsh Sein Anand Public Affairs India
2008 Lakshmi Niwas Mittal Industry India
2008 N. R. Narayana Murthy Information Technology India
2008 P. N. Dhar Civil Service India
2008 P. R. S. Oberoi Trade India
2008 Pranab Mukherjee Public affairs India
2008 Ratan Tata Industry India
2008 Sachin Tendulkar Sports India
2007 N.N. Vohra Civil Service India
2007 Khushwant Singh Literature & Education India
2007 Fali Sam Nariman Law and Public Affairs India
2007 Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan Science & Engineering United States
2007 Balu Sankaran Medicine India
2007 Naresh Chandra Civil Service India
2007 Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati Law and Public Affairs India
2007 Viswanathan Anand Sports India
2007 Venkataraman Krishnamurthy Civil Service India
2007 Rajendra K. Pachauri Environmentalism India
2007 Raja Rao Literature & Education United States
2007 Raja Jesudoss Chelliah Public Affairs India
2006 Adoor Gopalakrishnan Arts India
2006 C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao Civil Service India
2006 Charles Correa Science & Engineering India
2006 Mahasveta Devi Literature & Education India
2006 Nirmala Deshpande Social Work India
2006 Norman E. Borlaug Science & Engineering United States
2006 Obaid Siddiqui Science & Engineering India
2006 Prakash Narain Tandon Medicine India
2006 V. N. Khare Law and Public Affairs India
2005 B. K. Goyal Medicine India
2005 Jyotindra Nath Dixit Civil Service India
2005 Karan Singh Public Affairs India
2005 Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valiathan Medicine India
2005 Milon Kumar Banerji Law and Public Affairs India
2005 Mohan Dharia Social Work India
2005 R. K. Laxman Arts India
2005 Ram Narayan Arts India
2004 Amrita Pritam Literature & Education India
2004 Jayant Vishnu Narlikar Science & Engineering India
2004 Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah Law and Public Affairs India
2003 Sonal Mansingh Arts India
2003 Kazi Lhendup Dorji Kangsarpa Public Affairs India
2003 Bhrihaspati Dev Triguna Medicine India
2003 Bal Ram Nanda Literature & Education India
2002 Chakravthi Rangarajan Literature & Education India
2002 Gangubai Hangal Arts India
2002 Kishan Maharaj Arts India
2002 Kishori Amonkar Arts India
2002 Soli Jehangir Sorabjee Law India
2001 Zubin Mehta Arts India
2001 Shivkumar Sharma Arts India
2001 Man Mohan Sharma Science & Engineering India
2001 Kotha Satchidanda Murthy Literature & Education India
2001 John Kenneth Galbraith Literature & Education United States
2001 Hrishikesh Mukherjee Arts India
2001 Hosei Norota Public Affairs Japan
2001 Chakravarthi Vijayaraghava Narasimhan Civil Service India
2001 Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao Science & Engineering United States
2001 Benjamin Arthur Gilman Public Affairs United States
2001 Amjad Ali Khan Arts India
2000 Kakkadan Nandanath Raj Literature & Education India
2000 Jasraj Arts India
2000 Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati Literature & Education India
2000 Hari Prasad Chaurasia Arts India
2000 Bhairab Dutt Pande Civil Service India
2000 Kelucharan Mohapatra Arts India
2000 Krishen Behari Lall Civil Service India
2000 Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan Science & Engineering India
2000 Maidavolu Narasimham Trade & Industry India
2000 Manohar Singh Gill Civil Service India
2000 R. K. Narayan Literature & Education India
2000 Sikander Bakht Public Affairs India
2000 Tarlok Singh Civil Service India
1999 Lallan Prasad Singh* Civil Service India
1999 Hans Raj Khanna Public Affairs India
1999 Dharma Vira Civil Service India
1999 D. K. Pattammal Arts India
1999 Braj Kumar Nehru Civil Service India
1999 Bhimsen Joshi Arts India
1999 Lata Mangeshkar Arts India
1999 Nana Deshmukh Social Work India
1999 Pandurang Shastri Athavale Social Work India
1999 Rajagopala Chidambaram Science & Engineering India
1999 Sarvepalli Gopal Literature & Education India
1999 Satish Gujral Arts India
1999 V. R. Krishna Iyer Law and Public Affairs India
1999 Verghese Kurien Science & Engineering India
1998 Lakshmi Sahgal Public Affairs India
1998 Nani Ardeshir Palkhivala Law and Public Affairs India
1998 Usha Mehta Social Work India
1998 Walter Sisulu Public Affairs South Africa
1992 Aruna Asaf Ali Public Affairs India
1992 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Public Affairs India
1992 Govinddas Shroff Literature & Education India
1992 Kaloji Narayana Rao Arts India
1992 Lakshmanshastri Joshi Literature & Education India
1992 Mallikarjun Mansur Arts India
1992 Ravi Narayan Reddy Public Affairs India
1992 Sardar Swaran Singh Public Affairs India
1992 Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati Medicine India
1992 V. Shantaram Arts India
1991 Gulzari Lal Nanda Public Affairs India
1991 Hiren Mukerjee Public Affairs India
1991 Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel Science & Engineering India
1991 Khusro Faramurz Rustamji Civil Service India
1991 M. Balamuralikrishna Arts India
1991 M.F. Husain Arts India
1991 N. G. Ranga Public Affairs India
1991 Rajaram Shastri Literature & Education India
1990 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Science & Engineering India
1990 Bhabatosh Dutta Literature & Education India
1990 Kumar Gandharva Arts India
1990 Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer Arts India
1990 Triloki Nath Chaturvedi Civil Service India
1990 Vallmpadugai Srinivasa Raghavan Arunachalam Science & Engineering India
1989 Umashankar Dikshit Public Affairs India
1989 M. S. Swaminathan Science & Engineering India
1989 Ali Akbar Khan Arts India
1988 Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa Literature & Education India
1988 Mahadevi Verma Literature & Education India
1988 Mirza Hameedullah Beg Law and Public Affairs India
1987 Manmohan Singh Civil Service India
1987 Kamladevi Chattopadhyay Social Work India
1987 Benjamin Peary Pal Science & Engineering India
1987 Arun Shridhar Vaidya Military Service India
1986 Autar Singh Paintal Medicine India
1986 Baba Amte Social Work India
1986 Birju Maharaj Arts India
1985 Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon Civil Service India
1985 C. N. R. Rao Science & Engineering India
1982 Mira Behn Social Work United Kingdom
1981 Satish Dhawan Science & Engineering India
1981 Ravi Shankar Arts India
1980 Bismillah Khan Arts India
1980 Rai Krishnadasa Civil Service India
1977 Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee Public Affairs India
1977 Ajudhia Nath Khosla Civil Service India
1977 Ali Yavar Jung Public Affairs India
1977 Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh Literature & Education India
1977 Om Prakash Mehra Military Service India
1977 T. Balasaraswati Arts India
1976 Bashir Hussain Zaidi Literature & Education India
1976 Giani Gurmukh Singh Mussafir Literature & Education India
1976 Kalpathi Ramakrishna Ramanathan Science & Engineering India
1976 Kalu Lal Shrimali Literature & Education India
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1975 Homi Nusserwanji Sethna Civil Service India
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1975 Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey Literature & Education India
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1974 Harish Chandra Sarin Civil Service India
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1974 V. Kasturi Ranga Varadarja Rao Civil Service India
1973 Daulat Singh Kothari Science & Engineering India
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1972 Aditya Nath Jha Public Affairs India
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1972 Hormasji Maneckji Seervai Law and Public affairs India
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1972 Pratap Chandra Lal Military Service India
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1971 A. Rameswami Mudaliar Civil Service India
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1968 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Statistical Science India
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1967 Pattadakal Venkanna R Rao Civil Service India
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1964 Gopinath Kaviraj Literature & Education India
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1957 Motilal Chimanlal Setalvad Law and Public affairs India
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1956 Jankibai Bajaj Social Work India
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