List Of Padma Bhushan Award Recipients (1954-2024)

Last Updated: 26 January 2024

The Padma Bhushan Award is the third-highest Civilian Award of the Republic of India.

Padma Bhushan Award was instituted on 2^nd January 1954 and is given for the “Distinguished Service of a High Order”, without distinction of Race, Occupation, Position, or Sex.

The Award is preceded by the Bharat Ratna Award and the Padma Vibhushan Award followed by the Padma Shri Award.

The Padma Bhushan Award was given to 23 Recipients when it was first instituted in 1954. The recipients were from the following states: Andhra Pradesh (1), Delhi (3), Gujarat (1), Karnataka (2), Kerala (1), Maharashtra (1), Odisha (1), Punjab (3), Tamil Nadu (3), Uttar Pradesh (4), & West Bengal (3).

Before we get into the list of the Padma Bhushan Award, let us first look at some of the interesting facts about this award.

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Facts About Padma Bhushan Award

Padma Bhushan Award recipients are announced every year on Republic Day i.e. 26^th of January.

The recommendations for the award are submitted on the 1^st of May and 15^th of September every year.

The award criteria include “Service In Any Field” including doctors and scientists but exclude those working with Public Sector Undertakings.

The Padma Bhushan Award was not awarded in 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1979, and 1978.

As of 2024, the award has been bestowed on 1323 individuals, including 32 Posthumous, 1 duo case, and 103 Non-Citizen Recipients.

The highest number of Padma Bhushan Awards was bestowed in the year 1972 (50 Recipients) and the least in the year 1980 (1 Recipient).

The first Posthumous Award was given to Begum Akhtar in the year 1975.

The first Non-Citizen Recipient was Surender Kumar Dey (1955).

The first person to refuse the Padma Bhushan Award was Sisir Kumar Bhaduri (1959).

In 1968 the award was returned by K. Shivaram Karanth and Manikonda Chalapathi Rau.

The Order of Precedence for the Civilian Awards:
- Bharat Ratna
- Padma Vibhushan
- Padma Bhushan
- Padma Shri

Award Recipients At A Glance

No.	Field	No. Of Recipients
1	Arts	253
2	Civil Service	138
3	Literature & Education	301
4	Medicine	131
5	Public Affairs	103
6	Science & Engineering	156
7	Social Work	92
8	Sports	32
9	Trade & Industry	89
10	Others	28
	Total	1323

2024 Padma Award Recipients At A Glance

For 2024, the President has approved the conferment of 132 Padma Awards.

2 duo cases (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one) as per the list.

The list comprises 5 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan, and 110 Padma Shri Awards.

30 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 8 persons from the Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI category and 9 Posthumous awardees.

✝ Indicates A Posthumous Honour
*In the Duo case, the Award is counted as one

Padma Bhushan Award (2020–2029)

2024

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	M Fathima Beevi^✝	Public Affairs	Kerala
2	Hormusji N Cama	Literature & Education [Journalism]	Maharashtra
3	Mithun Chakraborty	Art	West Bengal
4	Sitaram Jindal	Trade & Industry	Karnataka
5	Young Liu	Trade & Industry	Taiwan
6	Ashwin Balachand Mehta	Medicine	Maharashtra
7	Satyabrata Mookherjee^✝	Public Affairs	West Bengal
8	Ram Naik	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
9	Tejas Madhusudan Patel	Medicine	Gujarat
10	Olanchery Rajagopal	Public Affairs	Kerala
11	Dattatray Ambadas Mayaloo alias Rajdutt	Art	Maharashtra
12	Togdan Rinpoche^✝	Others [Spiritualism]	Ladakh
13	Pyarelal Sharma	Art	Maharashtra
14	Chandreshwar Prasad Thaku	Medicine	Bihar
15	Usha Uthup	Art	West Bengal
16	Vijaykanth^✝	Art	Tamil Nadu
17	Kundan Vyas	Literature & Education [Journalism]	Maharashtra

Padma Awards 2024 Press Release

2023

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	S. L. Bhyrappa	Literature & Education	Karnataka
2	Kumar Mangalam Birla	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
3	Deepak Dhar	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
4	Vani Jairam	Art	Tamil Nadu
5	Chinna Jeeyar	Others [Spiritualism]	Telangana
6	Suman Kalyanpur	Art	Maharashtra
7	Kapil Kapoor	Literature & Education	Delhi
8	Sudha Murty	Social Work	Karnataka
9	Kamlesh D. Patel	Others [Spiritualism]	Telangana

Padma Awards 2023 Press Release

2022

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Ghulam Nabi Azad	Public Affairs	Jammu and Kashmir
2	Victor Banerjee	Art	West Bengal
3	Gurmeet Bawa^✝	Art	Punjab
4	Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (Refused to Receive)	Public Affairs	West Bengal
5	Natarajan Chandrasekaran	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
6	Krishna Ella & Suchitra Ella*	Trade & Industry	Telangana
7	Madhur Jaffery	Others-Culinary	United States
8	Devendra Jhajharia	Sports	Rajasthan
9	Rashid Khan	Art	Uttar Pradesh
10	Rajiv Mehrishi	Civil Service	Rajasthan
11	Satya Narayana Nadella	Trade & Industry	United States
12	Sundararajan Pichai	Trade & Industry	United States
13	Cyrus Poonawalla	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
14	Sanjaya Rajaram^✝	Science & Engineering	Mexico
15	Pratibha Ray	Literature & Education	Odisha
16	Swami Sachidanand	Literature & Education	Gujarat
17	Vashishth Tripathi	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh

Padma Awards 2022 Press Release

2021

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Tarun Gogoi^✝	Public Affairs	Assam
2	Ram Vilas Paswan^✝	Public Affairs	Bihar
3	Keshubhai Patel^✝	Public Affairs	Gujarat
4	Tarlochan Singh	Public Affairs	Haryana
5	Chandrashekhara Kambara	Literature & Education	Karnataka
6	Krishnan Nair S. Chithra	Arts	Kerala
7	Sumitra Mahajan	Public Affairs	Madhya Pradesh
8	Rajnikant Devidas Shroff	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
9	Kalbe Sadiq^✝	Others	Uttar Pradesh
10	Nripendra Misra	Civil Service	Uttar Pradesh

2020

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Manohar Parrikar^✝	Public Affairs	Goa
2	Balkrishna V. Doshi	Others	Gujarat
3	Muzaffar Hussain Baig	Public Affairs	Jammu & Kashmir
4	Sri M. Mumtaz Ali	Others	Kerala
5	N. R. Madhava Menon^✝	Public Affairs	Kerala
6	Tsering Landol	Medicine	Ladakh
7	Anand Mahindra	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
8	S. C. Jamir	Public Affairs	Nagaland
9	Manoj Das	Literature & Education	Puducherry
10	P. V. Sindhu	Sports	Telangana
11	Krishnammal Jagannathan	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
12	Venu Srinivasan	Trade & Industry	Tamil Nadu
13	Anil Prakash Joshi	Social Work	Uttarakhand
14	Ajoy Chakrabarty	Arts	West Bengal
15	Syed Muazzem Ali^✝	Public Affairs	Bangladesh
16	Jagdish Sheth	Literature & Education	United States

Padma Bhushan Award (2010–2019)

2019

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Hukmdev Narayan Yadav	Public Affairs	Bihar
2	Kuldip Nayar	Literature & Education	Delhi
3	Mahashay Dharampal Gulati	Trade & Industry	Delhi
4	V. K. Shunglu	Civil Service	Delhi
5	Darshan Lal Jain	Social Work	Haryana
6	Kariya Munda	Public Affairs	Jharkhand
7	Mohanlal	Arts	Kerala
8	Nambi Narayanan	Science & Engineering	Kerala
9	Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade	Medicine	Maharashtra
10	Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa	Public Affairs	Punjab
11	Bachendri Pal	Sports	Uttarakhand
12	Budhaditya Mukherjee	Arts	West Bengal
13	Pravin Gordhan	Public Affairs	South Africa
14	John T. Chambers	Trade & Industry	United States

2018

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Sharda Sinha	Arts	Bihar
2	Laxman Pai	Arts	Goa
3	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	Sports	Jharkhand
4	Pankaj Advani	Sports	Karnataka
5	Philipose Mar Chrysostom	Others	Kerala
6	Arvind Parikh	Arts	Maharashtra
7	Ramachandran Nagaswamy	Others	Tamil Nadu
8	Alexander Kadakin^✝	Public Affairs	Russia
9	Ved Prakash Nanda	Literature & Education	United States

2017

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Niranjanananda Saraswati	Others	Bihar
2	Ratnasundarsuri	Others	Gujarat
3	Tehemton Erach Udwadia	Medicine	Maharashtra
4	Vishwa Mohan Bhatt	Arts	Rajasthan
5	Cho Ramaswamy^✝	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
6	Deviprasad Dwivedi	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
7	Maha Chakri Sirindhorn	Literature & Education	Thailand

2016

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	A. V. Rama Rao	Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
2	Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
3	Indu Jain	Trade & Industry	Delhi
4	Vinod Rai	Civil Service	Kerala
5	Anupam Kher	Arts	Maharashtra
6	Hafeez Contractor	Others	Maharashtra
7	N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
8	Tejomayananda	Others	Maharashtra
9	Udit Narayan	Arts	Maharashtra
10	Heisnam Kanhailal	Arts	Manipur
11	Barjinder Singh Hamdard	Literature & Education	Punjab
12	D. Nageshwar Reddy	Medicine	Telangana
13	Saina Nehwal	Sports	Telangana
14	Sania Mirza	Sports	Telangana
15	Dayananda Saraswati^✝	Others	Uttarakhand
16	Ram V. Sutar	Arts	Uttar Pradesh
17	Ravindra Chandra Bhargava	Public Affairs	Uttar Pradesh
18	Pallonji Mistry	Trade & Industry	Ireland
19	Robert Blackwill	Public Affairs	United States

2015

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Jahnu Barua	Arts	Assam
2	Ambrish Mithal	Medicine	Delhi
3	Ashok Seth	Medicine	Delhi
4	Harish Salve	Public Affairs	Delhi
5	Rajat Sharma	Literature & Education	Delhi
6	Satpal Singh	Sports	Delhi
7	Subhash C. Kashyap	Public Affairs	Delhi
8	Swapan Dasgupta	Literature & Education	Delhi
9	Khadg Singh Valdiya	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
10	Shivakumara Swami	Others	Karnataka
11	Gokulotsavji Maharaj	Arts	Madhya Pradesh
12	Vijay Bhatkar	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
13	N. Gopalaswami	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu
14	Sudha Ragunathan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
15	Satyamitranand Giri	Others	Uttar Pradesh
16	Saichiro Misumi	Public Affairs	Japan
17	Bill Gates	Social Work	United States
18	David Frawley	Literature & Education	United States
19	Manjul Bhargava	Science & Engineering	United States
20	Melinda Gates	Social Work	United States

2014

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Anumolu Ramakrishna^✝	Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
2	Pullela Gopichand	Sports	Andhra Pradesh
3	Anita Desai	Literature & Education	Delhi
4	Dalveer Bhandari	Public Affairs	Delhi
5	Mrityunjay Athreya	Literature & Education	Delhi
6	Neelam Kler	Medicine	Delhi
7	Thirumalachari Ramasami	Science & Engineering	Delhi
8	Vijayendra Nath Kaul	Civil Service	Delhi
9	Vinod Prakash Sharma	Science & Engineering	Delhi
10	Dhirubhai Thaker	Literature & Education	Gujarat
11	Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh	Arts	Gujarat
12	K. Radhakrishnan	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
13	Madappa Mahadevappa	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
14	Padmanabhan Balaram	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
15	Begum Parveen Sultana	Arts	Maharashtra
16	Jyeshtharaj Joshi	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
17	Leander Paes	Sports	Maharashtra
18	Kamal Haasan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
19	T. H. Vinayakram	Arts	Tamil Nadu
20	Vairamuthu	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
21	Ruskin Bond	Literature & Education	Uttarakhand
22	Anisuzzaman	Literature & Education	Bangladesh
23	Lloyd Rudolph	Literature & Education	United States
24	Susanne Hoeber Rudolph	Literature & Education	United States

2013

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	D. Ramanaidu	Arts	Andhra Pradesh
2	A. Sivathanu Pillai	Science & Engineering	Delhi
3	Maharaj Kishan Bhan	Civil Service	Delhi
4	Saroja Vaidyanathan	Arts	Delhi
5	Sharmila Tagore	Arts	Delhi
6	V. K. Saraswat	Science & Engineering	Delhi
7	B. N. Suresh	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
8	Rahul Dravid	Sports	Karnataka
9	Hemendra Singh Panwar	Civil Service	Madhya Pradesh
10	Adi Godrej	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
11	Kanak Rele	Arts	Maharashtra
12	Mangesh Padgaonkar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
13	Nandkishore Shamrao Laud	Medicine	Maharashtra
14	Rajesh Khanna^✝	Arts	Maharashtra
15	Shivajirao Girdhar Patil	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
16	Mary Kom	Sports	Manipur
17	Jaspal Bhatti^✝	Arts	Punjab
18	Ramamurthy Thyagarajan	Trade & Industry	Tamil Nadu
19	Ashoke Sen	Science & Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
20	Abdul Rashid Khan	Arts	West Bengal
21	Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	Literature & Education	United States
22	Jogesh Pati	Science & Engineering	United States
23	Satya N. Atluri	Science & Engineering	United States

2012

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Jatin Das	Arts	Delhi
2	Mira Nair	Arts	Delhi
3	Devi Shetty	Medicine	Karnataka
4	N. Vittal	Civil Service	Kerala
5	Balasubramanian Muthuraman	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
6	Dharmendra	Arts	Maharashtra
7	M. S. Raghunathan	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
8	N. H. Wadia	Medicine	Maharashtra
9	S. B. Mujumdar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
10	S. N. Goenka	Social Work	Maharashtra
11	Shabana Azmi	Arts	Maharashtra
12	Shashikumar Chitre	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
13	Suresh H. Advani	Medicine	Maharashtra
14	M. S. Gopalakrishnan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
15	M. V. Subbiah	Trade & Industry	Tamil Nadu
16	T. V. Gopalakrishnan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
17	Mata Prasad	Civil Service	Uttar Pradesh
18	Buddhadev Das Gupta	Arts	West Bengal
19	Khaled Choudhury	Arts	West Bengal
20	Ronen Sen	Civil Service	West Bengal
21	P. Chandrasekhara Rao	Public Affairs	Germany
22	George Yeo	Public Affairs	Singapore
23	Anish Kapoor	Arts	United Kingdom
24	Homi K. Bhabha	Literature & Education	United Kingdom
25	Arvind Panagariya	Literature & Education	United States
26	José Pereira	Literature & Education	United States
27	Sunil Janah	Arts	United States
28	Vidya Dehejia	Literature & Education	United States

2011

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Gunupati Venkata Krishna Reddy	Trade & Industry	Andhra Pradesh
2	Kallam Anji Reddy	Trade & Industry	Andhra Pradesh
3	Ajai Chowdhry	Trade & Industry	Delhi
4	Analjit Singh	Trade & Industry	Delhi
5	Arpita Singh	Arts	Delhi
6	Shyam Saran	Civil Service	Delhi
7	Surendra Singh	Civil Service	Delhi
8	Dashrath Patel^✝	Arts	Gujarat
9	Krishen Khanna	Arts	Haryana
10	Rajendra Singh Pawar	Trade & Industry	Haryana
11	Kris Gopalakrishnan	Trade & Industry	Karnataka
12	R. K. Srikantan	Arts	Karnataka
13	Ramdas Pai	Literature & Education	Karnataka
14	T. J. S. George	Literature & Education	Karnataka
15	Madavoor Vasudevan Nair	Arts	Kerala
16	Raghavan Thirumulpad^✝	Medicine	Kerala
17	M. N. Buch	Civil Service	Madhya Pradesh
18	Chanda Kochhar	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
19	Keki Byramjee Grant^✝	Medicine	Maharashtra
20	Mohammed Zahur Khayyam	Arts	Maharashtra
21	Rajashree Birla	Social Work	Maharashtra
22	Satyadev Dubey	Arts	Maharashtra
23	Shashi Kapoor	Arts	Maharashtra
24	Shobhana Ranade	Social Work	Maharashtra
25	Waheeda Rehman	Arts	Maharashtra
26	C. V. Chandrasekhar	Arts	Tamil Nadu
27	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam	Arts	Tamil Nadu
28	S. Ramachandran	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
29	Dwijen Mukhopadhyay	Arts	West Bengal
30	Shankha Ghosh	Literature & Education	West Bengal
31	Yogesh Chander Deveshwar	Trade & Industry	West Bengal

2010

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana	Arts	Andhra Pradesh
2	Abhijit Sen	Public Affairs	Delhi
3	B. K. Chaturvedi	Civil Service	Delhi
4	Bipan Chandra	Literature & Education	Delhi
5	G. P. Chopra	Literature & Education	Delhi
6	Jagdish Chandra Kapur	Science & Engineering	Delhi
7	Kushal Pal Singh	Trade & Industry	Delhi
8	Mohammad Amin	Literature & Education	Delhi
9	Moosa Raza	Civil Service	Delhi
10	Noshir M. Shroff	Medicine	Delhi
11	Ram Kumar	Arts	Delhi
12	Satya Paul Agarwal	Medicine	Delhi
13	Satya Vrat Shastri	Literature & Education	Delhi
14	Kumudini Lakhia	Arts	Gujarat
15	Madhusudan Dhaky	Arts	Gujarat
16	Mallika Sarabhai	Arts	Gujarat
17	Balagangadharanatha Swamiji	Social Work	Karnataka
18	Belle Monappa Hegde	Medicine	Karnataka
19	Puttaraj Gawai	Arts	Karnataka
20	E. T. Narayanan Mooss	Medicine	Kerala
21	Kuzhur Narayana Marar	Arts	Kerala
22	P. K. Warrier	Medicine	Kerala
23	Aamir Khan	Arts	Maharashtra
24	Akbar Padamsee	Arts	Maharashtra
25	Balasaheb Vikhe Patil	Social Work	Maharashtra
26	C. P. Krishnan Nair	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
27	P. R. Dubhashi	Civil Service	Maharashtra
28	Ramakanta Panda	Medicine	Maharashtra
29	Shrinivas Khale	Arts	Maharashtra
30	Sultan Khan	Arts	Maharashtra
31	S. P. Oswal	Trade & Industry	Punjab
32	Anil Bordia	Literature & Education	Rajasthan
33	A. R. Rahman	Arts	Tamil Nadu
34	Ilaiyaraaja	Arts	Tamil Nadu
35	Narayanan Vaghul	Trade & Industry	Tamil Nadu
36	Chhannulal Mishra	Arts	Uttar Pradesh
37	Bikash Sinha	Science & Engineering	West Bengal
38	Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay	Public Affairs	West Bengal
39	M. S. Banga	Trade & Industry	United Kingdom
40	Arogyaswami Paulraj	Science & Engineering	United States
41	Fareed Zakaria	Literature & Education	United States
42	Sant Singh Chatwal	Public Affairs	United States
43	Tan Chung	Literature & Education	United States

Padma Bhushan Award (2000–2009)

2009

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	G. Krishna	Arts	Andhra Pradesh
2	Brijendra Kumar Rao	Medicine	Delhi
3	Devendra Triguna	Medicine	Delhi
4	Gurdip Singh Randhawa	Science & Engineering	Delhi
5	Isher Judge Ahluwalia	Literature & Education	Delhi
6	Kirit Parikh	Public Affairs	Delhi
7	Kunwar Narayan	Literature & Education	Delhi
8	Sam Pitroda	Science & Engineering	Delhi
9	Satish Nambiar	Others	Delhi
10	Shekhar Gupta	Literature & Education	Delhi
11	R. C. Mehta	Arts	Gujarat
12	S. K. Misra	Civil Service	Haryana
13	Ramachandra Guha	Literature & Education	Karnataka
14	A. Sreedhara Menon	Literature & Education	Kerala
15	A. M. Naik	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
16	Nagnath Naikwadi	Social Work	Maharashtra
17	Shamshad Begum	Arts	Maharashtra
18	Inderjit Kaur Barthakur	Public Affairs	Meghalaya
19	Abhinav Bindra	Sports	Punjab
20	C. S. Seshadri	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
21	Jayakanthan	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
22	Sarojini Varadappan	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
23	Shanta Dhananjayan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
24	V. Ganapati Sthapati	Arts	Tamil Nadu
25	V. P. Dhananjayan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
26	Sarvagya Singh Katiyar	Science & Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
27	Minoru Hara	Literature & Education	Japan
28	Khalid Hameed	Medicine	United Kingdom
29	Bhakta B. Rath	Science & Engineering	United States
30	C. K. Prahalad	Literature & Education	United States
31	Thomas Kailath	Science & Engineering	United States

2008

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	B. N. Goswamy	Literature & Education	Chandigarh
2	Jagjit Singh Chopra	Medicine	Chandigarh
3	Amarnath Sehgal^✝	Arts	Delhi
4	Asad Ali Khan	Arts	Delhi
5	Asis Datta	Science & Engineering	Delhi
6	Chandrashekhar Dasgupta	Civil Service	Delhi
7	Jasdev Singh	Others	Delhi
8	K. Padmanabhaiah	Civil Service	Delhi
9	Nirmal Kumar Ganguly	Medicine	Delhi
10	Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar	Arts	Delhi
11	Shayama Chona	Literature & Education	Delhi
12	Sukh Dev	Science & Engineering	Delhi
13	Suresh Kumar Neotia	Trade & Industry	Delhi
14	Sushil Kumar Saxena	Arts	Delhi
15	Ravindra Kelekar	Literature & Education	Goa
16	T. K. Oommen	Literature & Education	Haryana
17	Mian Bashir Ahmed	Public Affairs	Jammu & Kashmir
18	V. Ramachandran	Civil Service	Kerala
19	Baba Kalyani	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
20	K. V. Kamath	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
21	Vasant Gowarikar	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
22	Inderjit Kaur Barthakur	Social Work	Punjab
23	D. R. Mehta	Social Work	Rajasthan
24	P. Susheela	Arts	Tamil Nadu
25	Shiv Nadar	Trade & Industry	Tamil Nadu
26	Sri Lal Sukla	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
27	Ji Xianlin	Literature & Education	China
28	Dominique Lapierre	Social Work	France
29	Yuli Vorontsov^✝	Public Affairs	Russia
30	Meghnad Desai	Public Affairs	United Kingdom
31	Kaushik Basu	Literature & Education	United States
32	Padma Desai	Literature & Education	United States
33	S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan	Literature & Education	United States
34	Sunita Williams	Others	United States
35	Vikram Pandit	Trade & Industry	United States

2007

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Chandra Prasad Saikia^✝	Literature & Education	Assam
2	Gurcharan Singh Kalkat	Science & Engineering	Chandigarh
3	Manju Sharma	Science & Engineering	Delhi
4	Prithipal Singh Maini	Medicine	Delhi
5	Rajan Misra	Arts	Delhi
6	Sajan Misra	Arts	Delhi
7	Shiv Kumar Sarin	Medicine	Delhi
8	Sunil Mittal	Trade & Industry	Delhi
9	V. Mohini Giri	Social Work	Delhi
10	Gabriel Chiramel	Literature & Education	Kerala
11	K. T. Thomas	Public Affairs	Kerala
12	Kavalam Narayana Panicker	Arts	Kerala
13	Ramankutty Nair	Arts	Kerala
14	Jamshed Jiji Irani	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
15	Javed Akhtar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
16	Shriram Sharma	Medicine	Maharashtra
17	Tyeb Mehta	Arts	Maharashtra
18	L. Z. Sailo	Literature & Education	Mizoram
19	N. Mahalingam	Trade & Industry	Tamil Nadu
20	Gopaldas Neeraj	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
21	Saroj Ghose	Science & Engineering	West Bengal
22	Somnath Hore^✝	Arts	West Bengal
23	Syed Mohammad Sharfuddin Quadri	Medicine	West Bengal
24	Osamu Suzuki	Trade & Industry	Japan
25	Syed Haider Raza	Arts	France
26	Ela Gandhi	Public Affairs	South Africa
27	Bhikhu Parekh	Literature & Education	United Kingdom
28	Tapan Raychaudhuri	Literature & Education	United Kingdom
29	Indra Nooyi	Trade & Industry	United States
30	Jeffrey Sachs	Literature & Education	United States
31	T. N. Srinivasan	Literature & Education	United States
32	Vilayanur S. Ramachandran	Science & Engineering	United States

2006

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Chiranjeevi	Arts	Andhra Pradesh
2	Hira Lall Sibal	Public Affairs	Chandigarh
3	K. K. Talwar	Medicine	Chandigarh
4	Dinesh Nandini Dalmia	Literature & Education	Delhi
5	Lokesh Chandra	Literature & Education	Delhi
6	Sabri Khan	Arts	Delhi
7	Shanno Khurana	Arts	Delhi
8	Shashi Bhushan	Public Affairs	Delhi
9	K. G. Subramanyan	Arts	Gujarat
10	Jasjit Singh	Others	Haryana
11	Kamleshwar	Literature & Education	Haryana
12	Tarun Das	Trade & Industry	Haryana
13	Devaki Jain	Social Work	Karnataka
14	K. P. P. Nambiar	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
15	N. S. Ramaswamy	Social Work	Karnataka
16	Nandan Nilekani	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
17	P. S. Appu	Civil Service	Karnataka
18	M. V. Pylee	Literature & Education	Kerala
19	Ramakanta Rath	Literature & Education	Odisha
20	A. K. Hangal	Arts	Maharashtra
21	Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan	Arts	Maharashtra
22	Deepak Parekh	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
23	Gunter Kruger^✝	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
24	Madhav Gadgil	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
25	Sai Paranjpye	Arts	Maharashtra
26	Subramaniam Ramadorai	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
27	Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan	Arts	Maharashtra
28	Vijaypat Singhania	Sports	Maharashtra
29	Vijay Shankar Vyas	Literature & Education	Rajasthan
30	Jaiveer Agarwal	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
31	P. Leela^✝	Arts	Tamil Nadu
32	V. Shanta	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
33	Billy Arjan Singh	Others	Uttar Pradesh
34	Pavani Parameswara Rao	Public Affairs	Uttar Pradesh
35	Ganga Prasad Birla	Social Work	West Bengal
36	Dušan Zbavitel	Literature & Education	Czech Republic
37	Grigory Bongard-Levin	Literature & Education	Russia

2005

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	K. I. Varaprasad Reddy	Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
2	A. Ramachandran	Arts	Delhi
3	Andre Beteille	Literature & Education	Delhi
4	Anil Kohli	Medicine	Delhi
5	Brijmohan Lall Munjal	Trade & Industry	Delhi
6	Girish Chandra Saxena	Civil Service	Delhi
7	Hari Mohan	Medicine	Delhi
8	K. Srinath Reddy	Medicine	Delhi
9	Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri	Literature & Education	Delhi
10	Syed Mir Qasim^✝	Public Affairs	Delhi
11	Tarlochan Singh Kler	Medicine	Delhi
12	V. S. Ramamurthy	Science & Engineering	Delhi
13	William Mark Tully	Literature & Education	Delhi
14	Sardar Anjum	Literature & Education	Haryana
15	Balraj Puri	Literature & Education	Jammu & Kashmir
16	Azim Premji	Trade & Industry	Karnataka
17	Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
18	Manna Dey	Arts	Karnataka
19	Narasimhiah Seshagiri	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
20	Tumkur Ramaiya Satishchandran	Civil Service	Karnataka
21	M. T. Vasudevan Nair	Literature & Education	Kerala
22	Yash Chopra	Arts	Maharashtra
23	Yusuf Hamied	Medicine	Maharashtra
24	Mrinal Miri	Literature & Education	Meghalaya
25	G. V. Iyer Ramakrishna	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu
26	Chandi Prasad Bhatt	Others	Uttarakhand
27	Irfan Habib	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
28	Qurratulain Hyder	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh

2004

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Chennamaneni Hanumantha Rao	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
2	Thiruvengadam Lakshman Sankar	Civil Service	Andhra Pradesh
3	Bijoy Nandan Shahi	Medicine	Delhi
4	Gopi Chand Narang	Literature & Education	Delhi
5	Vishnu Prabhakar	Literature & Education	Delhi
6	Poornima Arvind Pakvasa	Social Work	Gujarat
7	Govindarajan Padmanaban	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
8	Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
9	Gulzar	Arts	Maharashtra
10	Madhav Vittal Kamath	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
11	Sardara Singh Johl	Science & Engineering	Punjab
12	Komal Kothari	Arts	Rajasthan
13	Alarmel Valli	Arts	Tamil Nadu
14	Krishna Srinivas	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
15	T. N. Seshagopalan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
16	Thoppil Varghese Antony	Civil service	Tamil Nadu
17	N. Rajam	Arts	Uttar Pradesh
18	Soumitra Chatterjee	Arts	West Bengal
19	Yoshiro Mori	Public Affairs	Japan

2003

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Teejan Bai	Arts	Chhattisgarh
2	Bagicha Singh Minhas	Science & Engineering	Delhi
3	Coluthur Gopalan	Medicine	Delhi
4	Hari Shankar Singhania	Trade & Industry	Delhi
5	Parasaran Kesava Iyengar	Public Affairs	Delhi
6	Prabhu Chawla	Others	Delhi
7	Ram Badan Singh	Science & Engineering	Delhi
8	Ramesh Kumar	Medicine	Delhi
9	Swapna Sundari	Arts	Delhi
10	T. V. R. Shenoy	Others	Delhi
11	Shri Krishna Joshi	Science & Engineering	Haryana
12	Arcot Ramachandran	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
13	Rajinder Kumar	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
14	Ammannur Madhava Chakyar	Arts	Kerala
15	O. V. Vijayan	Literature & Education	Kerala
16	Jagjit Singh	Arts	Maharashtra
17	Jamshyd Godrej	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
18	Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti	Medicine	Maharashtra
19	Naseeruddin Shah	Arts	Maharashtra
20	Sitakant Mahapatra	Literature & Education	Odisha
21	B. Rajam Iyer	Arts	Tamil Nadu
22	Madurai N. Krishnan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
23	Narayanan Srinivasan	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
24	P. S. Narayanaswamy	Arts	Tamil Nadu
25	Padma Subrahmanyam	Arts	Tamil Nadu
26	T. V. Sankaranarayanan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
27	Trichur V. Ramachandran	Arts	Tamil Nadu
28	Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman	Arts	Tamil Nadu
29	Purshotam Lal	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
30	Subhash Mukhopadhyay	Literature & Education	West Bengal
31	Herbert Fischer	Public Affairs	Germany
32	Herbert Alexandrovich Yefremov	Science & Engineering	Russia

2002

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	H. P. S. Ahluwalia	Social Work	Delhi
2	Kottayan Katankot Venugopal	Public Affairs	Delhi
3	Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra	Civil Service	Delhi
4	Nirmal Verma	Literature & Education	Delhi
5	Mario Miranda	Literature & Education	Goa
6	K. J. Yesudas	Arts	Kerala
7	Ramanujam Varatharaja Perumal	Science & Engineering	Kerala
8	Habib Tanvir	Arts	Madhya Pradesh
9	B. K. S. Iyengar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
10	Chandu Borde	Sports	Maharashtra
11	Faquir Chand Kohli	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
12	Henning Holck-Larsen	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
13	Ismail Merchant	Arts	Maharashtra
14	Prabha Atre	Arts	Maharashtra
15	Pravinchandra Varjivan Gandhi	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
16	Shobha Gurtu	Arts	Maharashtra
17	Zakir Hussain	Arts	Maharashtra
18	Jagat Singh Mehta	Civil Service	Rajasthan
19	Natesan Rangabashyam	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
20	V. C. Kulandaiswamy	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
21	Eugene Chelyshev	Literature & Education	Russia
22	Gury Marchuk	Science & Engineering	Russia
23	Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharyya	Public Affairs	United Kingdom
24	Frank Pallone	Public Affairs	United States
25	Gary Ackerman	Public Affairs	United States

2001

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Bhupathiraju Vissam Raju	Trade & Industry	Andhra Pradesh
2	Boyi Bhimanna	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
3	Palle Rama Rao	Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
4	Shiv K. Kumar	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
5	Bhupen Hazarika	Arts	Assam
6	Aroon Purie	Literature & Education	Delhi
7	Ashok Desai	Public Affairs	Delhi
8	Kum Uma Sharma	Arts	Delhi
9	Mohan Singh Oberoi	Trade & Industry	Delhi
10	Naresh Kumar Trehan	Medicine	Delhi
11	Rajendra K. Pachauri	Others	Delhi
12	Yamini Krishnamurthy	Arts	Delhi
13	Amrita Patel	Trade & Industry	Gujarat
14	L. Subramaniam	Arts	Karnataka
15	Karimpumannil Mathai George	Literature & Education	Kerala
16	Raghunath Mohapatra	Arts	Odisha
17	Abdul Karim Parekh	Social Work	Maharashtra
18	Amitabh Bachchan	Arts	Maharashtra
19	B. R. Barwale	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
20	Balasaheb Bharde	Social Work	Maharashtra
21	Baldev Raj Chopra	Arts	Maharashtra
22	Dev Anand	Arts	Maharashtra
23	Pran	Arts	Maharashtra
24	Rahul Bajaj	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
25	Sundaram Ramakrishnan	Social Work	Maharashtra
26	Bhanumathi Ramakrishna	Arts	Tamil Nadu
27	Lalgudi Jayaraman	Arts	Tamil Nadu
28	Viswanathan Anand	Sports	Tamil Nadu
29	Arun Netravali	Science & Engineering	United States
30	Chitranjan Singh Ranawat	Medicine	United States
31	Raj Reddy	Science & Engineering	United States
32	Swadesh Chatterjee	Public Affairs	United States

2000

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Ram Narain Agarwal	Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
2	Anil Kumar Agarwal	Others	Delhi
3	B. B. Lal	Science & Engineering	Delhi
4	H. Y. Sharada Prasad	Literature & Education	Delhi
5	Pavaguda V. Indiresan	Science & Engineering	Delhi
6	Radha Reddy	Arts	Delhi
7	Raja Reddy	Arts	Delhi
8	Raghunath Anant Mashelkar	Science & Engineering	Delhi
9	Sharan Rani Backliwal	Arts	Delhi
10	Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre	Science & Engineering	Delhi
11	Wahiduddin Khan	Public Affairs	Delhi
12	Harbans Singh Wasir	Medicine	Haryana
13	Pakkiriswamy Chandra Sekharan	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
14	Veerendra Heggade	Social Work	Karnataka
15	S. Srinivasan^✝	Science & Engineering	Kerala
16	Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya^✝	Social Work	Maharashtra
17	Ratan Tata	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
18	Rajinikanth	Arts	Tamil Nadu
19	Begum Aizaz Rasul	Social Work	Uttar Pradesh
20	Kalyan Dev	Social Work	Uttar Pradesh

Padma Bhushan Award (1990–1999)

1999

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Pushpalata Das	Social Work	Assam
2	H. D. Shourie	Social Work	Delhi
3	Jag Parvesh Chandra	Public Affairs	Delhi
4	Krishnamurthy Santhanam	Science & Engineering	Delhi
5	George Joseph	Science & Engineering	Gujarat
6	D. C. Kizhakemuri^✝	Literature & Education	Kerala
7	Shivmangal Singh Suman	Literature & Education	Madhya Pradesh
8	Anil Kakodkar	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
9	Ashok Kumar	Arts	Maharashtra
10	Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
11	Jacob Cherian	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
12	S. S. Badrinath	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
13	Ram Kinkar Upadhyay	Others	Uttar Pradesh
14	Vidya Niwas Mishra	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh

1998

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Bhisham Sahni	Literature & Education	Delhi
2	H. K. Dua	Literature & Education	Delhi
3	Hemlata Gupta	Medicine	Delhi
4	Laxmi Mall Singhvi	Public Affairs	Delhi
5	Panangipalli Venugopal	Medicine	Delhi
6	Rajendra Singh Paroda	Science & Engineering	Delhi
7	Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
8	U. R. Ananthamurthy	Literature & Education	Karnataka
9	Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
10	G. Madhavan Nair	Science & Engineering	Kerala
11	K. M. Mathew	Literature & Education	Kerala
12	Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon	Public Affairs	Madhya Pradesh
13	G. B. Parulkar	Medicine	Maharashtra
14	Satyapal Dang	Public Affairs	Punjab
15	Maligali Ram Krishna Girinath	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
16	Vempati Chinna Satyam	Arts	Tamil Nadu
17	V. M. Tarkunde	Public Affairs	Uttar Pradesh
18	Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya	Literature & Education	West Bengal

1992

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Adusumalli Radha Krishna	Arts	Andhra Pradesh
2	C. Narayana Reddy	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
3	Kongara Jaggaiah	Arts	Andhra Pradesh
4	Vavilala Gopalakrishnayya	Public Affairs	Andhra Pradesh
5	Bijoy Chandra Bhagavati	Public Affairs	Assam
6	Syed Abdul Malik	Literature & Education	Assam
7	Brihaspati Dev Triguna	Medicine	Delhi
8	Debu Chaudhuri	Arts	Delhi
9	Gursaran Talwar	Medicine	Delhi
10	Hakim Abdul Hameed	Medicine	Delhi
11	Sonal Mansingh	Arts	Delhi
12	Triloki Nath Khoshoo	Science & Engineering	Delhi
13	Virendra Dayal	Civil Service	Delhi
14	Dalsukh Dahyabhai Malvania	Literature & Education	Gujarat
15	Mrinalini Sarabhai	Arts	Gujarat
16	B. Saroja Devi	Arts	Karnataka
17	Girish Karnad	Arts	Karnataka
18	K. Venkatalakshamma	Arts	Karnataka
19	Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
20	Anna Hazare	Social Work	Maharashtra
21	C. R. Vyas	Arts	Maharashtra
22	Hariprasad Chaurasia	Arts	Maharashtra
23	Hasmukhbhai Parekh	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
24	Naushad	Arts	Maharashtra
25	Ramachandra Datatraya Lele	Medicine	Maharashtra
26	Setu Madhavrao Pagdi	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
27	Talat Mahmood	Arts	Maharashtra
28	Khem Singh Gill	Science & Engineering	Punjab
29	M. Sarada Menon	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
30	Ranjan Roy Daniel	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
31	T. N. Krishnan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
32	Thayil John Cherian	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
33	Goro Koyama	Others	Japan

1991

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Prathap C. Reddy	Medicine	Andhra Pradesh
2	Bindeshwar Pathak	Social Work	Bihar
3	Amjad Ali Khan	Arts	Delhi
4	Ebrahim Alkazi	Arts	Delhi
5	Fali Sam Nariman	Public Affairs	Delhi
6	Kapil Dev	Sports	Delhi
7	Lala Amarnath	Sports	Delhi
8	Manubhai Pancholi	Public Affairs	Gujarat
9	Basavaraj Rajguru	Arts	Karnataka
10	D. B. Deodhar	Sports	Maharashtra
11	Dilip Kumar	Arts	Maharashtra
12	Narayan Shridhar Bendre	Arts	Maharashtra
13	Ram Narayan	Arts	Maharashtra
14	Shakuntala Paranjpye	Social Work	Maharashtra
15	Shyam Benegal	Arts	Maharashtra
16	Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj)	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
17	Jiwan Singh Umranangal	Public Affairs	Punjab
18	Narayan Singh Manaklao	Social Work	Rajasthan
19	Kuthur Ramakrishnan Srinivasan	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
20	Muthu Krishna Mani	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
21	Ale Ahmad Suroor	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
22	Samta Prasad	Arts	Uttar Pradesh
23	Amala Shankar	Science & Engineering	West Bengal
24	Leslie Denis Swindale	Science & Engineering	New Zealand

1990

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Rajanikant Arole	Social Work	Maharashtra
2	Arun Shourie	Literature & Education	Delhi
3	Bimal Kumar Bachhawat	Science & Engineering	Delhi
4	Inder Mohan	Social Work	Delhi
5	Mohammad Khalilullah	Medicine	Delhi
6	C. D. Narasimhaiah	Literature & Education	Karnataka
7	M. S. Valiathan	Medicine	Kerala
8	B. K. Goyal	Medicine	Maharashtra
9	Jasraj	Arts	Maharashtra
10	M. R. Srinivasan	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
11	M. S. Narasimhan	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
12	Nikhil Ghosh	Arts	Maharashtra
13	Purushottam Laxman Deshpande	Arts	Maharashtra
14	R. N. Malhotra	Civil Service	Maharashtra
15	Sumant Moolgaokar	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
16	Trilochan Pradhan	Literature & Education	Odisha
17	N. Ram	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
18	Sattaiyappa Dhandapani Desikar	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
19	Kunwar Singh Negi	Literature & Education	Uttarakhand
20	Hirendranath Mukherjee	Literature & Education	West Bengal
21	Sukumar Sen	Literature & Education	West Bengal
22	Bimal Krishna Matilal	Literature & Education	United Kingdom
23	Julius Silverman	Public Affairs	United Kingdom
24	L. K. Doraiswamy	Science & Engineering	United States

Padma Bhushan Award (1980–1989)

1989

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Ashesh Prasad Mitra	Science & Engineering	Delhi
2	Girilal Jain	Literature & Education	Delhi
3	Narinder Singh Randhawa	Science & Engineering	Delhi
4	Prakash Narain Tandon	Medicine	Delhi
5	Russi Mody	Trade & Industry	Jharkhand
6	Anna Rajam Malhotra	Civil Service	Maharashtra
7	Banoo Jehangir Coyaji	Medicine	Maharashtra
8	Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar	Arts	Maharashtra
9	Lakshman Singh	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
10	Suresh Shankar Nadkarni	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
11	M. V. Mathur	Science & Engineering	Rajasthan
12	Girija Devi	Arts	Uttar Pradesh
13	Yoshio Sakurauchi	Public Affairs	Japan
14	Fenner Brockway	Public Affairs	United Kingdom

1988

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Akkineni Nageswara Rao	Arts	Andhra Pradesh
2	Pratury Trirumala Rao	Medicine	Andhra Pradesh
3	Ram Prakash Bambah	Science & Engineering	Chandigarh
4	Abid Hussain	Civil Service	Delhi
5	Bal Ram Nanda	Literature & Education	Delhi
6	Kartar Singh Duggal	Literature & Education	Delhi
7	Kushok Bakula	Public Affairs	Delhi
8	Ashok Sekhar Ganguly	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
9	B. V. Sreekantan	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
10	Shreyans Prasad Jain	Social Work	Maharashtra
11	Kelucharan Mohapatra	Arts	Orissa
12	Satya Pal Wahi	Trade & Industry	Uttar Pradesh
13	Renuka Ray	Public Affairs	West Bengal

1987

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Laxmi Prasad Sihare	Civil Service	Delhi
2	Mohammad Yunus	Civil Service	Delhi
3	Srinivasa Anandaram	Civil Service	Delhi
4	Roddam Narasimha	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
5	Nalapat Balamani Amma	Literature & Education	Kerala
6	Farokh Udwadia	Medicine	Maharashtra
7	Julio Ribeiro	Civil Service	Maharashtra
8	Kishori Amonkar	Arts	Maharashtra
9	Man Mohan Sharma	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
10	R. D. Pradhan	Civil Service	Maharashtra
11	Annada Shankar Ray	Literature & Education	West Bengal
12	Nikhil Banerjee	Arts	West Bengal

1986

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Pushpa Mittra Bhargava	Medicine	Andhra Pradesh
2	Badri Nath Tandon	Medicine	Delhi
3	Manohar Lal Chibber	Civil Service	Delhi
4	Martand Singh	Public Affairs	Delhi
5	Rajeev Sethi	Civil Service	Delhi
6	V. S. R. Arunachalam	Civil Service	Delhi
7	Venkataraman Krishnamurthy	Civil Service	Delhi
8	Ela Bhatt	Social Work	Gujarat
9	C. Venkataraman Sundaram	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
10	Ram Krishna Trivedi	Public Affairs	Uttar Pradesh
11	Nasir Aminuddin Daggar	Arts	West Bengal
12	Gulshan Lal Tandon	Civil Service	West Bengal
13	Jean Riboud	Public Affairs	France
14	Sidney Dillon Ripley	Science & Engineering	United States

1985

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
2	Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon	Civil Service	Delhi
3	Rais Ahmed	Literature & Education	Delhi
4	Srinivasan Varadarajan	Civil Service	Delhi
5	Surinder Singh Gill	Civil Service	Delhi
6	Virender Lal Chopra	Science & Engineering	Delhi
7	Eknath Vasant Chitnis	Science & Engineering	Gujarat
8	Sivaraj Ramseshan	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
9	Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai	Literature & Education	Kerala
10	Bhalchandra Udgaonkar	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
11	Bhimsen Joshi	Arts	Maharashtra
12	Tribhuvandas Luhar (Sundaram)	Literature & Education	Puducherry
13	Gurbachan Singh Talib	Literature & Education	Punjab
14	Amarjit Singh	Civil Service	Rajasthan
15	Gopala Ramanujam	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
16	Kalanidhi Narayanan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
17	Durga Das Basu	Public Affairs	West Bengal
18	Sadat Abul Masud	Public Affairs	West Bengal
19	Santidev Ghosh	Arts	West Bengal
20	Shiba P. Chatterjee	Literature & Education	West Bengal
21	Bernard Peters	Science & Engineering	Denmark

1984

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Kotha Satchidananda Murthy	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
2	Sripada Pinakapani	Arts	Andhra Pradesh
3	Kanwar Natwar Singh	Civil Service	Delhi
4	Hosur Narasimhaiah	Literature & Education	Karnataka
5	B. C. Sanyal	Arts	Madhya Pradesh
6	Michael Ferreira	Sports	Maharashtra
7	Obaid Siddiqi	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
8	Vijay Tendulkar	Arts	Maharashtra
9	Ganda Singh	Literature & Education	Punjab
10	Sivaji Ganesan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
11	Baldev Upadhyaya	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
12	Ishwari Prasad	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
13	Narayan Chaturvedi	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
14	Archana Sharma	Medicine	West Bengal
15	Jnan Prakash Ghosh	Arts	West Bengal
16	Marie Seton	Literature & Education	United Kingdom
17	Horace Alexander	Literature & Education	United States

1983

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Benudhar Sharma	Literature & Education	Assam
2	Adi M. Sethna	Civil Service	Delhi
3	Arun Kumar Sharma	Science & Engineering	Delhi
4	Bhalindra Singh	Sports	Delhi
5	Nagendra	Literature & Education	Delhi
6	Suraj Parkash Malhotra	Civil Service	Delhi
7	Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala	Civil Service	Goa
8	Doraiswamy Iyengar	Arts	Karnataka
9	Rajkumar	Arts	Karnataka
10	K. Sankaran Nair	Civil Service	Kerala
11	Prem Nazir	Arts	Kerala
12	K. G. Ramanathan	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
13	Umrao Singh	Civil Service	Punjab
14	V. G. Jog	Arts	West Bengal
15	Subodh Chandra Sengupta	Literature & Education	West Bengal
16	Richard Attenborough	Arts	United Kingdom
17	Swraj Paul	Social Work	United Kingdom

1982

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Gottipati Brahmaiah	Social Work	Andhra Pradesh
2	Ajit Ram Verma	Science & Engineering	Delhi
3	Atam Prakash	Medicine	Delhi
4	Grace Louise McCann Morley	Science & Engineering	Delhi
5	Jasbir Singh Bajaj	Medicine	Delhi
6	Syed Zahoor Qasim	Civil Service	Delhi
7	Jal Minocher Mehta	Medicine	Maharashtra
8	Kamal Ranadive	Medicine	Maharashtra
9	Khadim Hussain Khan	Arts	Maharashtra
10	Rani Gaidinliu	Social Work	Nagaland
11	Jhabarmal Sharma	Literature & Education	Rajasthan
12	Arnee Sreenivasan Ramakrishnan	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
13	Sundaram Balachander	Arts	Tamil Nadu
14	P. N. Pattabhirama Sastri	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
15	Stella Kramrisch	Literature & Education	United States

1981

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Makhala Jha	Social Work	Bihar
2	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	Civil Service	Delhi
3	Avabai Bomanji Wadia	Social Work	Maharashtra
4	Prafulla Desai	Medicine	Maharashtra
5	Gopinath Mohanty	Literature & Education	Orissa
6	Vainu Bappu	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
7	Amritlal Nagar	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
8	Mrinal Sen	Arts	West Bengal
9	Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyaya	Civil Service	West Bengal

1980

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Sunil Gavaskar	Sports	Maharashtra

Padma Bhushan Award (1970–1979)

1977

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Perugu Siva Reddy	Medicine	Andhra Pradesh
2	Prithvi Singh Azad	Public Affairs	Chandigarh
3	Chackachanveedu Krishnan Nair	Social Work	Delhi
4	Gopinath Aman	Literature & Education	Delhi
5	Jagmohan	Civil Service	Delhi
6	Yousuf Hussain Khan	Literature & Education	Delhi
7	Yudhvir Singh	Social Work	Delhi
8	Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
9	Kumar Gandharva	Arts	Madhya Pradesh
10	K. S. Narayanaswamy	Arts	Maharashtra
11	Paramsukh J. Pandya	Arts	Maharashtra
12	Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
13	T. P. Meenakshisundaram	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
14	Annapurna Ravi Shankar	Arts	Uttar Pradesh
15	Kailas Nath Kaul	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
16	Phulrenu Guha	Social Work	West Bengal
17	Harish Chandra	Literature & Education	United States

1976

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Devulapalli Krishnasastri	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
2	Zehra Ali Yavar Jung	Social Work	Andhra Pradesh
3	Nabakanta Barua	Literature & Education	Assam
4	Calambur Sivaramamurti	Civil Service	Delhi
5	Shri Ram Mehta	Civil Service	Delhi
6	Mallikarjun Mansur	Arts	Karnataka
7	Udupi Ramachandra Rao	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
8	Harivansh Rai Bachchan	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
9	Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
10	Naoroji Pirojsha Godrej	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
11	Yash Pal	Science & Engineering	Punjab
12	Bhogilal Pandya	Social Work	Rajasthan
13	Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
14	Malcolm Adiseshiah	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu
15	Devendra Sen	Civil Service	West Bengal
16	E. C. George Sudarshan	Literature & Education	United States

1975

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay	Literature & Education	Bihar
2	Raj Kumar Khanna	Civil Service	Delhi
3	Ronald Carlton Vivian Piadade Noronha	Civil Service	Madhya Pradesh
4	Darab Jehangir Jussawala	Medicine	Maharashtra
5	Madhav Sadashiv Gore	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
6	P. Ardeshir Narielwala	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
7	P. Krishnagopala Iyengar	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
8	Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
9	Kirpal Singh Narang	Literature & Education	Punjab
10	Ratan Shastri	Social Work	Rajasthan
11	Pancheti Koteswaram	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu
12	Begum Akhtar^✝	Arts	Uttar Pradesh
13	Asima Chatterjee	Science & Engineering	West Bengal
14	Pratul Chandra Gupta	Literature & Education	West Bengal
15	Dilbagh Singh Athwal	Science & Engineering	United States

1974

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	John Richardson	Social Work	Andaman & Nicobar Islands
2	Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy	Arts	Andhra Pradesh
3	Habib Rahman	Science & Engineering	Delhi
4	Sukhlal Sanghvi	Literature & Education	Gujarat
5	Arunachala Sreenivasan	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
6	D. V. Gundappa	Literature & Education	Karnataka
7	Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia	Civil Service	Maharashtra
8	Jayant Pandurang Naik	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
9	Mogubai Kurdikar	Arts	Maharashtra
10	Moti Chandra	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
11	Vasant Shankar Huzurbazar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
12	Khushwant Singh	Literature & Education	Punjab
13	Raman Viswanathan	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
14	Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
15	Ram Kumar Caroli	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
16	Thakur Jaideva Singh	Science & Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
17	Bhupati Mohan Sen	Literature & Education	West Bengal
18	Chintamoni Kar	Arts	West Bengal
19	Dhirendra Nath Ganguly	Arts	West Bengal
20	Camille Bulcke	Literature & Education	Belgium
21	Alice Boner	Arts	Italy

1973

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Harindranath Chattopadhyay	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
2	Vennelakanti Raghavaiah	Social Work	Andhra Pradesh
3	M. F. Husain	Arts	Delhi
4	Vinoo Mankad	Sports	Gujarat
5	Ramakant Maheshwar Muzumdar	Civil Service	Karnataka
6	C. Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar	Arts	Kerala
7	K. Sukumaran	Literature & Education	Kerala
8	Pothan Joseph	Literature & Education	Kerala
9	Krishnarao Shankar Pandit	Arts	Madhya Pradesh
10	Gosasp Maneckji Sorabji Captain	Social Work	Maharashtra
11	N. R. Malkani	Social Work	Rajasthan
12	M. A. Muthiah Chettiar	Trade & Industry	Tamil Nadu
13	Raja Ramanna	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
14	Banarsidas Chaturvedi	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
15	Pitambar Pant	Civil Service	Uttar Pradesh
16	Sudhir Krishna Mukherjee	Civil Service	West Bengal
17	Om P. Bahl	Science & Engineering	United States

1972

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Ayyagari Sambasiva Rao	Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
2	Syed Husain Zaheer	Trade & Industry	Andhra Pradesh
3	Birendranath Sircar	Arts	Bihar
4	Pran Nath Chhutani	Literature & Education	Chandigarh
5	Sirtaj Singh Sahi	Civil Service	Chandigarh
6	Baldev Singh	Medicine	Delhi
7	Bharat Ram	Trade & Industry	Delhi
8	Jagjit Singh Aurora	Civil Service	Delhi
9	Krishnaswami Swaminathan	Literature & Education	Delhi
10	Kunhiraman Palat Candeth	Civil Service	Delhi
11	M. B. Ramachandra Rao	Science & Engineering	Delhi
12	Maheshwar Dayal	Social Work	Delhi
13	N. G. Krishna Murti	Civil Service	Delhi
14	Surinder Singh Bedi	Civil Service	Delhi
15	Minoo Merwan Engineer	Civil Service	Gujarat
16	Tapishwar Narain Raina	Civil Service	Jammu & Kashmir
17	Adya Rangacharya	Literature & Education	Karnataka
18	Gopal Gurunath Bewoor	Civil Service	Karnataka
19	Mohd. Hayath	Civil Service	Karnataka
20	T. A. Pai	Civil Service	Karnataka
21	Yashodhara Dasappa	Social Work	Karnataka
22	L. A. Krishna Iyer	Science & Engineering	Kerala
23	Khusro Faramurz Rustamji	Civil Service	Madhya Pradesh
24	Amrut V. Mody	Civil Service	Maharashtra
25	Bal Dattatreya Tilak	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
26	Bhalchandra Nilkanth Purandare	Medicine	Maharashtra
27	Dattatraya Yeshwant Phadke	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
28	Gulestan Rustom Billimoria	Social Work	Maharashtra
29	Inderjit Singh Gill	Civil Service	Maharashtra
30	Kayalath Pothen Philip	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
31	Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani	Medicine	Maharashtra
32	Madhavrao Bagal	Social Work	Maharashtra
33	Shantilal C. Sheth	Medicine	Maharashtra
34	Vinayakrao Patwardhan	Arts	Maharashtra
35	Ashwini Kumar	Civil Service	Punjab
36	Hari Chand Dewan	Civil Service	Punjab
37	Khem Karan Singh	Civil Service	Punjab
38	Mohinder Singh Randhawa	Science & Engineering	Punjab
39	Pran Nath Luthra	Civil Service	Punjab
40	Sagat Singh	Civil Service	Punjab
41	Sartaj Singh	Civil Service	Punjab
42	Sourendra Nath Kohli	Civil Service	Punjab
43	M. S. Swaminathan	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
44	Nilakanta Krishnan	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu
45	Papanasam Sivan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
46	Jai Krishna	Civil Service	Uttar Pradesh
47	Benoy Bhushan Ghosh	Civil Service	West Bengal
48	Ram Narayan Chakravarti	Science & Engineering	West Bengal
49	Sujoy B. Roy	Medicine	West Bengal
50	Chandrika Prasad Srivastava	Civil Service	United Kingdom

1971

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Bishnupada Mukhopadhyaya	Medicine	Bihar
2	Parmeshwari Lal Verma	Civil Service	Chandigarh
3	Suraj Bhan	Literature & Education	Chandigarh
4	Jainendra Kumar Jain	Literature & Education	Delhi
5	Kasturi Lal Vij	Civil Service	Delhi
6	Madan Mohan Singh	Medicine	Delhi
7	Mungtu Ram Jaipuria	Social Work	Delhi
8	Jaishankar Bhojak	Arts	Gujarat
9	Gangubai Hangal	Arts	Karnataka
10	Satish Dhawan	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
11	Kandathil Mammen Cherian	Literature & Education	Kerala
12	P. Kalathil Kunju Kurup	Arts	Kerala
13	Manibhai J. Patel	Trade & Industry	Madhya Pradesh
14	Santosh Kumar Mukerji	Medicine	Madhya Pradesh
15	Veni Shankar Jha	Literature & Education	Madhya Pradesh
16	A. Vithal alias Dhananjay Keer	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
17	Amir Khan	Arts	Maharashtra
18	Bhalchandra Digambar Garware	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
19	Devchand Chhaganlal Shah	Social Work	Maharashtra
20	Krishnarao Phulambrikar	Arts	Maharashtra
21	R. K. Laxman	Arts	Maharashtra
22	Ramrao Deshmukh	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
23	Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta	Medicine	Maharashtra
24	Kalindi Charan Panigrahi	Literature & Education	Odisha
25	Raj Kapoor	Arts	Punjab
26	Gokulbhai Bhatt	Social Work	Rajasthan
27	D. K. Pattammal	Arts	Tamil Nadu
28	Musiri Subramania Iyer	Arts	Tamil Nadu
29	N. Ramaswami Ayyar	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
30	P Tiruvillvamalai Seshan M. Iyer	Arts	Tamil Nadu
31	Pichu Sambamoorthi	Arts	Tamil Nadu
32	Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
33	Vulimiri Ramalingaswami	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
34	Bhagwati Charan Verma	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
35	Nissar Hussain Khan	Arts	Uttar Pradesh
36	Ved Rattan Mohan	Trade & Industry	Uttar Pradesh
37	Jogesh Chandra De	Trade & Industry	West Bengal
38	Kedar Nath Mookerjee	Trade & Industry	West Bengal
39	Monindra Nath Chakravarti	Civil Service	West Bengal
40	Suresh Chandra Roy	Trade & Industry	West Bengal
41	Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme	Science & Engineering	Italy

1970

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Gainedi A. Narasimha Rao	Civil Service	Andhra Pradesh
2	Gurram Jashuva	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
3	M. R. Brahmam	Civil Service	Andhra Pradesh
4	Syed Abdul Latif	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
5	Viswanatha Satyanarayana	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
6	Birendra Nath Ganguli	Literature & Education	Delhi
7	Prem Nath Wahi	Civil Service	Delhi
8	Ratan Lal Joshi	Literature & Education	Delhi
9	Surrendar Saini	Social Work	Delhi
10	Lala Hansraj Gupta	Public Affairs	Haryana
11	Bhagwantrao Mandloi	Public Affairs	Madhya Pradesh
12	Anant alias Annasaheb Sahasrabuddhe	Social Work	Maharashtra
13	Hirabai Barodekar	Arts	Maharashtra
14	N. M. Wagle	Civil Service	Maharashtra
15	Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar	Social Work	Maharashtra
16	Purushottam Kashinath Kelkar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
17	Yashpal	Literature & Education	Punjab
18	Krishnaswami Ramiah	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
19	Kumari Kamala	Arts	Tamil Nadu
20	M. S. Krishnan	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
21	T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
22	Ahmed Jan Thirakwa	Arts	Uttar Pradesh
23	Mahesh Prasad Mehray	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
24	Amiya Chakravarty	Literature & Education	West Bengal
25	Buddhadeb Bose	Literature & Education	West Bengal
26	Ramkinkar Baij	Arts	West Bengal
27	Sombhu Mitra	Arts	West Bengal
28	Vivekananda Mukhopadhyaya	Literature & Education	West Bengal

Padma Bhushan Award (1960–1969)

1969

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Haroon Khan Sherwani	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
2	Raman Madhavan Nair	Literature & Education	Chandigarh
3	Krishna Ramchand Kriplani	Literature & Education	Delhi
4	Rahim-ud-in Khan Dagar	Arts	Delhi
5	Kasturbhai Lalbhai	Trade & Industry	Gujarat
6	Vitthal Laxman Phadke	Social Work	Gujarat
7	V. K. Narayana Menon	Science & Engineering	Kerala
8	Kesarbai Kerkar	Arts	Maharashtra
9	Keshavrao Krishnarao Datey	Medicine	Maharashtra
10	Krishna Chandar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
11	Lata Mangeshkar	Arts	Maharashtra
12	Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
13	Nanasaheb Parulekar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
14	Naval Tata	Social Work	Maharashtra
15	Prafulla Kumar Sen	Medicine	Maharashtra
16	Vallabhadas Vithaldas Shah	Medicine	Maharashtra
17	Vithalbhai Jhaveri	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
18	Yashwant Dinkar Pendharkar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
19	Prithviraj Kapoor	Arts	Punjab
20	Kasturiswami Sreenivasan	Trade & Industry	Tamil Nadu
21	S. S. Vasan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
22	Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer	Arts	Tamil Nadu
23	Samad Yar Khan Saghar Nizami	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
24	Adinath Lahiri	Science & Engineering	West Bengal
25	Keshav Prasad Goenka	Trade & Industry	West Bengal
26	Niharranjan Ray	Literature & Education	West Bengal
27	Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay	Literature & Education	West Bengal
28	Gobind Behari Lal	Literature & Education	United States
29	Raja Rao	Literature & Education	United States

1968

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Mamidipudi Venkatarangayya	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
2	Manikonda Chalapathi Rau	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
3	Sarda Prasad Varma	Civil Service	Bihar
4	C. R. Rao	Science & Engineering	Delhi
5	M. G. K. Menon	Medicine	Delhi
6	Shamaprasad Rupshanker Vasavada	Social Work	Gujarat
7	K. Shivaram Karanth	Literature & Education	Karnataka
8	Murugappa Channaveerappa Modi	Medicine	Karnataka
9	Prabhu Lal Bhatnagar	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
10	G. Sankara Kurup	Literature & Education	Kerala
11	Mansukhlal Atmaram Master	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
12	Mary Clubwala Jadhav	Social Work	Maharashtra
13	Sam Manekshaw	Civil Service	Maharashtra
14	Shripad Damodar Satwalekar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
15	Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
16	Waman Bapuji Metre	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
17	Radhanath Rath	Literature & Education	Odisha
18	Benjamin Peary Pal	Science & Engineering	Punjab
19	Brahm Prakash	Science & Engineering	Punjab
20	Gopalan Narasimhan	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
21	Mariadas Ruthnaswamy	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
22	Periyasaamy Thooran	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
23	Acharya Vishva Bandhu	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
24	Bismillah Khan	Arts	Uttar Pradesh
25	Gujarmal Modi	Trade & Industry	Uttar Pradesh
26	Raghupati Sahay	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
27	Sudhir Ranjan Sengupta	Literature & Education	West Bengal
28	Jyotish Chandra Ray	Medicine	West Bengal

1967

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	M. L. Vasanthakumari	Arts	Andhra Pradesh
2	Krishna Kanta Handique	Literature & Education	Assam
3	Akshay Kumar Jain	Literature & Education	Delhi
4	B. Shiva Rao	Literature & Education	Delhi
5	Pupul Jayakar	Social Work	Delhi
6	S. I. Padmavati	Medicine	Delhi
7	Kalyanji Vithalbhai Mehta	Literature & Education	Gujarat
8	D. C. Pavate	Literature & Education	Karnataka
9	Datto Vaman Potdar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
10	Kaikhushru Ruttonji Shroff	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
11	Mulk Raj Anand	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
12	Vasantrao Bandoji Patil	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
13	D. P. Kohli	Civil Service	Punjab
14	Tulsi Das	Medicine	Punjab
15	C. Kottieth Lakshmanan	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
16	Ramanathan Krishnan	Sports	Tamil Nadu
17	T. M. Ponnambalam Mahadevan	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
18	Tara Cherian	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
19	Khwaja Ghulam Saiyidain	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
20	Ravi Shankar	Arts	Uttar Pradesh
21	Mulk Raj Chopra	Civil Service	Uttarakhand
22	Ali Akbar Khan	Arts	West Bengal
23	Ashok Kumar Sarkar	Literature & Education	West Bengal
24	Mihir Sen	Sports	West Bengal

1966

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	K. Shankar Pillai	Arts	Delhi
2	Puliyur Krishnaswamy Duraiswami	Medicine	Delhi
3	Verghese Kurien	Trade & Industry	Gujarat
4	Vikram Sarabhai	Science & Engineering	Gujarat
5	K. P. Kesava Menon	Public Affairs	Kerala
6	Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai	Social Work	Kerala
7	Vinayak Sitaram Sarwate	Literature & Education	Madhya Pradesh
8	Babubhai Maneklal Chinai	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
9	Homi Sethna	Civil Service	Maharashtra
10	Jodh Singh	Literature & Education	Punjab
11	T. S. Ramaswami Aiyer	Public Affairs	Tamil Nadu
12	Haribhau Upadhyaya	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
13	Bhabani Charan Mukharji	Civil Service	West Bengal
14	Zubin Mehta	Arts	Canada

1965

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Akbar Ali Khan	Public Affairs	Andhra Pradesh
2	Harbaksh Singh	Civil Service	Delhi
3	Mohammad Mujeeb	Literature & Education	Delhi
4	Mohan Singh Kohli	Sports	Delhi
5	Appasaheb Patwardhan	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
6	Bhalchandra Babaji Dikshit	Medicine	Maharashtra
7	Jayant Narlikar	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
8	Narasinh Narayan Godbole	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
9	P. O. Dunn	Civil Service	Maharashtra
10	Shantanu Lakshman Kirloskar	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
11	Joginder Singh Dhillon	Civil Service	Punjab
12	Kashmir Singh Katoch	Civil Service	Punjab
13	Pratap Chandra Lal	Civil Service	Punjab
14	Manikya Lal Verma	Social Work	Rajasthan
15	Sonam Gyatso	Sports	Sikkim
16	K. R. Ramanathan	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
17	Krishnaswami Balasubramania Iyer	Public Affairs	Tamil Nadu
18	Ramaswamy Rajaram	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu
19	Shiv Sharma	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
20	Vrindavan Lal Verma	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
21	Jogesh Chandra Banerjee	Medicine	West Bengal
22	Nawang Gombu	Sports	West Bengal
23	Santu Shahaney	Civil Service	West Bengal
24	Satyajit Ray	Arts	West Bengal
25	Triguna Sen	Literature & Education	West Bengal

1964

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Mohd. Abdul Hai	Medicine	Bihar
2	Nuruddin Ahmed	Public Affairs	Delhi
3	Bhola Nath Mullik	Civil Service	Delhi
4	Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel	Social Work	Gujarat
5	R. K. Narayan	Literature & Education	Karnataka
6	Jacob Chandy	Medicine	Kerala
7	Dara Nusserwanji Khurody	Trade & Industry	Madhya Pradesh
8	Kunji Lal Dubey	Public Affairs	Madhya Pradesh
9	Chintaman Govind Pandit	Medicine	Maharashtra
10	N. S. Rajhans (Bal Gandharva)	Arts	Maharashtra
11	Khushwant Lal Wig	Medicine	Punjab
12	T. Narayanayajwa Ramachandran	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
13	Anukul Chandra Mukherjee	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
14	Sheikh Abdullah	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
15	Anil Bandhu Guha	Civil Service	West Bengal
16	Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee	Science & Engineering	West Bengal
17	Rafiuddin Ahmed	Medicine	West Bengal
18	Tushar Kanti Ghosh	Literature & Education	West Bengal

1963

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Omeo Kumar Das	Social Work	Assam
2	Kanuri Lakshmana Rao	Civil Service	Delhi
3	M. L. Soni	Medicine	Delhi
4	Makhanlal Chaturvedi	Literature & Education	Madhya Pradesh
5	Ramanlal Gokaldas Saraiya	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
6	Narendra Nath Bery	Medicine	Punjab
7	Sardar Harnarain Singh	Civil Service	Punjab
8	T. R. Seshadri	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
9	Badri Nath Prasad	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
10	Rahul Sankrityayan	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
11	Ramkumar Verma	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
12	Nitish Chandra Laharry	Social Work	West Bengal

1962

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Mahankali Seetharama Rao	Medicine	Andhra Pradesh
2	Sitaram Seksaria	Social Work	Assam
3	Dukhan Ram	Medicine	Bihar
4	Raghunath Saran	Medicine	Bihar
5	Raja Radhika Raman Sinha	Literature & Education	Bihar
6	Daulat Singh Kothari	Civil Service	Delhi
7	Gyanesh Chandra Chatterjee	Literature & Education	Delhi
8	Ramaswamy Duraiswamy Ayyar	Medicine	Delhi
9	Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee	Literature & Education	Jammu & Kashmir
10	Bade Ghulam Ali Khan	Arts	Maharashtra
11	Jal R. Patel	Medicine	Maharashtra
12	Mithan Jamshed Lam	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
13	Narayan Sitaram Phadke	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
14	Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
15	Tarabai Modak	Social Work	Maharashtra
16	Prem Chandra Dhanda	Medicine	Punjab
17	Tarlok Singh	Civil Service	Punjab
18	Moturi Satyanarayana	Public Affairs	Tamil Nadu
19	T. S. Soundram	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
20	V. Raghavan	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
21	Jafar Ali Khan	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
22	Niaz Fatehpuri	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
23	Radhakamal Mukerjee	Science & Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
24	Santosh Kumar Sen	Medicine	West Bengal
25	Sisir Kumar Mitra	Literature & Education	West Bengal
26	Sudhansu Sobhan Maitra	Medicine	West Bengal
27	Sudhindra Nath Mukerjee	Public Affairs	West Bengal

1961

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Bindeshwari Prasad Verma	Public Affairs	Bihar
2	Niranjan Das Gulhati	Civil Service	Delhi
3	Seth Govind Das	Literature & Education	Madhya Pradesh
4	Ardeshir Ruttonji Wadia	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
5	K. Venkataraman	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
6	Rustomji Bomanji Billimoria	Medicine	Maharashtra
7	L. Venkatakrishna Iyer	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu
8	Bhagwan Sahay	Civil Service	Uttar Pradesh
9	Rai Krishnadas	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
10	Sumitranandan Pant	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
11	Tridib Nath Banerjee	Medicine	West Bengal
12	Svetoslav Roerich	Arts	Russia
13	Verrier Elwin	Science & Engineering	United Kingdom

1960

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Ayyadevara Kaleswara Rao	Public Affairs	Andhra Pradesh
2	Acharya Shivpujan Sahay	Literature & Education	Bihar
3	Bal Krishna Sharma Naveen	Literature & Education	Delhi
4	Hafiz Ali Khan	Arts	Madhya Pradesh
5	Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar	Medicine	Maharashtra
6	Nilakantha Das	Public Affairs	Orissa
7	Rajeshwar Shastri Dravid	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
8	Haridas Siddhanta Bagish	Literature & Education	West Bengal
9	Kazi Nazrul Islam	Literature & Education	West Bengal
10	Rabindra Nath Chaudhuri	Medicine	West Bengal

Padma Bhushan Award (1954–1959)

1959

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Ghulam Yazdani	Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
2	Ramdhari Singh Dinkar	Literature & Education	Bihar
3	Kankanhalli Vasudevachary	Arts	Karnataka
4	Ali Yavar Jung	Civil Service	Maharashtra
5	Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
6	Bhaurao Patil	Social Work	Maharashtra
7	Dhanvanthi Rama Rau	Social Work	Maharashtra
8	Hansa Jivraj Mehta	Social Work	Maharashtra
9	Jal Gawashaw Paymaster	Medicine	Maharashtra
10	Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar	Arts	Tamil Nadu
11	Tiruppattur R. Venkatachala Murthi	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
12	Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta	Literature & Education	West Bengal
13	Sisir Kumar Bhaduri	Arts	West Bengal
14	Tenzing Norgay	Sports	West Bengal

1958

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Kamalendumati Shah	Social Work	Delhi
2	Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa	Literature & Education	Karnataka
3	Narayan Subarao Hardikar	Social Work	Karnataka
4	Arathil C. Narayanan Nambiar	Civil Service	Kerala
5	Kumar Padma Siva Shankara Menon	Civil Service	Kerala
6	Surya Narayan Vyas	Literature & Education	Madhya Pradesh
7	Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
8	Jeahangir Ghandy	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
9	Rustom Jal Vakil	Medicine	Maharashtra
10	Salim Ali	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
11	Poola Tirupati Raju	Literature & Education	Rajasthan
12	Rao Raja Hanut Singh	Public Affairs	Rajasthan
13	Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar	Arts	Tamil Nadu
14	Allauddin Khan	Arts	Uttar Pradesh
15	Vijaya Anand	Sports	Uttar Pradesh
16	D. P. Roy Choudhury	Arts	West Bengal

1957

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Andal Venkatasubba Rao	Social Work	Andhra Pradesh
2	Shyam Nandan Sahay	Literature & Education	Bihar
3	Siddheshwar Varma	Literature & Education	Chandigarh
4	K. Covilagam Kutti Ettan Raja	Civil Service	Kerala
5	Lakshmi Menon	Public Affairs	Kerala
6	Mushtaq Hussain Khan	Arts	Madhya Pradesh
7	Govind Sakharam Sardesai	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
8	Alagappa Chettiar	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
9	K. A. Nilakanta Sastri	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
10	T. Balasaraswati	Arts	Tamil Nadu
11	Abid Hussain	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
12	Bhikham Lal Atreya	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
13	Hazari Prasad Dwivedi	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
14	Shrikrishna N. Ratanjankar	Arts	Uttar Pradesh
15	Boshi Sen	Science & Engineering	West Bengal
16	Radha Kumud Mukherjee	Public Affairs	West Bengal

1956

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Nawab Zain Yar Jung	Public Affairs	Andhra Pradesh
2	Pushpavati Janardenrai Mehta	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
3	Dhyan Chand	Sports	Punjab
4	Kasturi Srinivasan	Literature & Education	Punjab
5	Vir Singh	Literature & Education	Punjab
6	Kanwar Sain	Civil Service	Rajasthan
7	Cottari Kankaiyah Nayudu	Sports	Tamil Nadu
8	Malur Srinivasa Thirumale Iyengar	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu
9	Muthulakshmi Reddi	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
10	Rukmini Devi Arundale	Arts	Tamil Nadu
11	Tiruvadi Sambasiva Venkataraman	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
12	Mahadevi Varma	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
13	Rajshekhar Basu	Literature & Education	West Bengal

1955

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Madapati Rao	Social Work	Andhra Pradesh
2	Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker	Literature & Education	Delhi
3	Vasant Ramji Khanolkar	Medicine	Maharashtra
4	Prana Krushna Parija	Literature & Education	Odisha
5	Fateh Chand Badhwar	Civil Service	Punjab
6	Sunder Das Khungar	Civil Service	Punjab
7	Attur Rangaswami Venkatachari	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu
8	Rameshwari Nehru	Social Work	Uttar Pradesh
9	Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay	Social Work	West Bengal
10	Lalit Mohan Banerjee	Medicine	West Bengal
11	Suniti Kumar Chatterji	Literature & Education	West Bengal
12	Surender Kumar Dey	Civil Service	United States

1954

No.	Recipient	Field	State/Country
1	Pandyala Satyanarayana Rau	Civil Service	Andhra Pradesh
2	Ajudhiya Nath Khosla	Science & Engineering	Delhi
3	Josh Malihabadi	Literature & Education	Delhi
4	Radha Krishan Gupta	Civil Service	Delhi
5	V. L. Mehta	Public Affairs	Gujarat
6	Kodandera Subayya Thimayya	Civil Service	Karnataka
7	V. Narahari Rao	Civil Service	Karnataka
8	Vallathol Narayana Menon	Literature & Education	Kerala
9	Homi Jehangir Bhabha	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
10	Mahadeva Iyer Ganapati	Civil Service	Odisha
11	Hussain Ahmad Madani	Literature & Education	Punjab
12	Maharaj Kr. Palden T Namgyal	Public Affairs	Punjab
13	R. R. Handa	Civil Service	Punjab
14	A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
15	Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
16	M. S. Subbulakshmi	Arts	Tamil Nadu
17	Amarnath Jha	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
18	Maithili Sharan Gupt	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
19	Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar	Science & Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
20	Satya Narayana Shastri	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
21	Jamini Roy	Arts	West Bengal
22	Jnan Chandra Ghosh	Science & Engineering	West Bengal
23	Sukumar Sen	Civil Service	West Bengal