Last Updated : 26 January 2024
The Padma Vibhushan Award is the second-highest Civilian Award of the Republic of India.
Padma Vibhushan Award is given for “Exceptional and Distinguished Service”, without distinction of Race, Occupation, Position, or Sex.
Foreigners, Non-Resident Indians (NRI), Overseas Citizens of India, and Persons of Indian Origin have been conferred Padma Vibhushan Award since its inception on 2nd January 1954.
Padma Vibhushan Award was given to 6 persons when it was first instituted in 1954, they are:
Satyendra Nath Bose
Nandalal Bose
Zakir Husain
Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher
V. K. Krishna Menon
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck
Before we get into the list of the Padma Vibhushan Award, let us first look at some of the interesting facts.
Facts About Padma Vibhushan Award
The Padma Vibhushan Award recipients are announced every year on Republic Day i.e. 26th of January.
The recipients are registered in “The Gazette of India “, a Public Journal and an authorized legal document of the Government of India.
As of 2024, none of the conferments of Padma Vibhushan have been revoked or restored.
The recommendations of recipients are received between 1st May and 15th September of every year, which is then submitted to the Padma Awards Committee, constituted by the Prime Minister.
When Padma Vibhushan Award was instituted in 1954 it was classified as “Pahela Varg” (Class I).
Padma Vibhushan Award was not awarded in 1958, 1961, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997.
Padma Vibhushan Medal is made from Bronze, and the decoration is circular-shaped 44 mm in diameter, and 3.2 mm thick.
A lotus flower is embossed on the center of the medal and the text “Padma” written in Devanagari script is placed above and the text “Vibhushan” is placed below the lotus.
The highest number of recipients of this award was in the year 1999, a total of 14 individuals were awarded.
As of 2024, Padma Vibhushan Award has been bestowed on 336 individuals.
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 67 2 Civil Service 54 3 Literature & Education 42 4 Medicine 15 5 Public Affairs 78 6 Science & Engineering 37 7 Social Work 19 8 Sports 4 9 Trade & Industry 12 10 Others 8 Total 336
2024 Padma Award Recipients At A Glance
For the year 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 category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 9 Posthumous awardees.
✝ Indicates A Posthumous Honour
Padma Vibhushan Award (2020–2029)
2024 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Vyjayantimala Bali Art Tamil Nadu 2 Konidela Chiranjeevi Art Andhra Pradesh 3 M Venkaiah Naidu Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 4 Bindeshwar Pathak ✝ Social Work Bihar 5 Padma Subrahmanyam Art Tamil Nadu
2023 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Balkrishna Doshi ✝ Others [Architecture] Gujarat 2 Zakir Hussain Art Maharashtra 3 S. M. Krishna Public Affairs Karnataka 4 Dilip Mahalanabis ✝ Medicine West Bengal 5 Srinivas Varadhan Science & Engineering United States 6 Mulayam Singh Yadav ✝ Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh
2022 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Prabha Atre Art Maharashtra 2 Radheyshyam Khemka ✝ Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh 3 Bipin Rawat ✝ Civil Service Uttarakhand 4 Kalyan Singh ✝ Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh
2021 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 S. P. Balasubramaniam✝ Arts Andhra Pradesh 2 B. B. Lal Others Delhi 3 Maulana Wahiduddin Khan Others Delhi 4 Belle Monappa Hegde Medicine Karnataka 5 Sudarshan Sahoo Arts Odisha 6 Shinzo Abe Public Affairs Japan 7 Narinder Singh Kapany ✝ Science & Engineering United States
2020 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 George Fernandes✝ Public Affairs Bihar 2 Arun Jaitley✝ Public Affairs Delhi 3 Sushma Swaraj ✝ Public Affairs Delhi 4 Vishwesha Teertha ✝ Others Karnataka 5 M.C. Mary Kom Sports Manipur 6 Chhannulal Mishra Arts Uttar Pradesh 7 Anerood Jugnauth Public Affairs Mauritius
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Padma Vibhushan Award (2010–2019)
2019 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Teejan Bai Arts Chhattisgarh 2 Anil Manibhai Naik Trade & Industry Maharashtra 3 Balwant Moreshwar Purandare Arts Maharashtra 4 Ismaïl Omar Guelleh Public Affairs Djibouti
2018 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 P. Parameswaran Literature & Education Kerala 2 Ghulam Mustafa Khan Arts Maharashtra 3 Ilaiyaraaja Arts Tamil Nadu
2017 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Udupi Ramachandra Rao Science & Engineering Karnataka 2 K. J. Yesudas Arts Kerala 3 Sunder Lal Patwa✝ Public Affairs Madhya Pradesh 4 Sharad Pawar Public Affairs Maharashtra 5 P. A. Sangma✝ Public Affairs Meghalaya 6 Jaggi Vasudev Others Tamil Nadu 7 Murli Manohar Joshi Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh
2016 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Jagmohan Public Affairs Delhi 2 Yamini Krishnamurthy Arts Delhi 3 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Science & Engineering Karnataka 4 V. K. Aatre Others Karnataka 5 Dhirubhai Ambani✝ Trade & Industry Maharashtra 6 Rajinikanth Arts Tamil Nadu 7 V. Shanta Medicine Tamil Nadu 8 Ramoji Rao Literature & Education Telangana 9 Girija Devi Arts West Bengal 10 Avinash Dixit Literature & Education United States
2015 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Kottayan Katankot Venugopal Public Affairs Delhi 2 L. K. Advani Public Affairs Gujarat 3 Veerendra Heggade Social Work Karnataka 4 Amitabh Bachchan Arts Maharashtra 5 Dilip Kumar Arts Maharashtra 6 Parkash Singh Badal Public Affairs Punjab 7 M. R. Srinivasan Science & Engineering Tamil Nadu 8 Rambhadracharya Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh 9 Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan Social Work United Kingdom
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2014 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 B. K. S. Iyengar Others Maharashtra 2 Raghunath Anant Mashelkar Science & Engineering Maharashtra
2013 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 S. H. Raza Arts Delhi 2 Roddam Narasimha Science & Engineering Karnataka 3 Raghunath Mohapatra Arts Odisha 4 Yash Pal Science & Engineering Uttar Pradesh
2012 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Bhupen Hazarika✝ Arts Assam 2 T. V. Rajeswar Civil Service Delhi 3 Mario Miranda✝ Arts Goa 4 K. G. Subramanyan Arts Gujarat 5 Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti Medicine Maharashtra
2011 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Akkineni Nageswara Rao Arts Andhra Pradesh 2 Palle Rama Rao Science & Engineering Andhra Pradesh 3 Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai Public Affairs Delhi 4 Brajesh Mishra Civil Service Delhi 5 K. Parasaran Public Affairs Delhi 6 Kapila Vatsyayan Arts Delhi 7 Montek Singh Ahluwalia Public Affairs Delhi 8 Homai Vyarawalla Arts Gujarat 9 Azim Premji Trade & Industry Karnataka 10 O. N. V. Kurup Literature & Education Kerala 11 Vijay Kelkar Public Affairs Maharashtra 12 Sitakant Mahapatra Literature & Education Odisha
2010 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Y. Venugopal Reddy Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 2 Ebrahim Alkazi Arts Delhi 3 Zohra Sehgal Arts Delhi 4 Prathap C. Reddy Trade & Industry Tamil Nadu 5 Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman Arts Tamil Nadu 6 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Science & Engineering United Kingdom
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Padma Vibhushan Award (2000–2009)
2009 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 G. Madhavan Nair Science & Engineering Karnataka 2 Anil Kakodkar Science & Engineering Maharashtra 3 Ashok Sekhar Ganguly Trade & Industry Maharashtra 4 Chandrika Prasad Srivastava Civil Service Maharashtra 5 Jasbir Singh Bajaj Medicine Punjab 6 Sunderlal Bahuguna Others Uttarakhand 7 Govind Narain Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh 8 Purshotam Lal Medicine Uttar Pradesh 9 D. P. Chattopadhyaya Literature & Education West Bengal 10 Sister Nirmala Social Work West Bengal
2008 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 E. Sreedharan Science & Engineering Delhi 2 P. N. Dhar Public Affairs Delhi 3 Pranab Mukherjee Public Affairs Delhi 4 Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi Trade & Industry Delhi 5 Rajendra K. Pachauri Science & Engineering Delhi 6 N. R. Narayana Murthy Trade & Industry Karnataka 7 Asha Bhosle Arts Maharashtra 8 Ratan Tata Trade & Industry Maharashtra 9 Sachin Tendulkar Sports Maharashtra 10 Viswanathan Anand Sports Tamil Nadu 11 Adarsh Sein Anand Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh 12 Edmund Hillary ✝ Sports New Zealand 13 Lakshmi Mittal Trade & Industry United Kingdom
2007 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Balu Sankaran Medicine Delhi 2 Fali Sam Nariman Public Affairs Delhi 3 Khushwant Singh Literature & Education Delhi 4 Naresh Chandra Civil Service Delhi 5 P. N. Bhagwati Public Affairs Delhi 6 V. Krishnamurthy Civil Service Delhi 7 Narinder Nath Vohra Civil Service Haryana 8 Raja Chelliah Public Affairs Tamil Nadu 9 George Sudarshan Science & Engineering United States 10 Raja Rao ✝ Literature & Education United States
2006 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Nirmala Deshpande Social Work Delhi 2 Prakash Narain Tandon Medicine Delhi 3 Obaid Siddiqi Science & Engineering Karnataka 4 Adoor Gopalakrishnan Arts Kerala 5 Charles Correa Science & Engineering Maharashtra 6 C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao Civil Service Tamil Nadu 7 V. N. Khare Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh 8 Mahasweta Devi Literature & Education West Bengal 9 Norman Borlaug Science & Engineering United States
2005 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Jyotindra Nath Dixit✝ Civil Service Delhi 2 Karan Singh Public Affairs Delhi 3 M. S. Valiathan Medicine Delhi 4 Milon K. Banerji Public Affairs Delhi 5 B. K. Goyal Medicine Maharashtra 6 Mohan Dharia Social Work Maharashtra 7 R. K. Laxman Arts Maharashtra 8 Ram Narayan Arts Maharashtra
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2004 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Amrita Pritam Literature & Education Delhi 2 M. N. Venkatachaliah Public Affairs Karnataka 3 Jayant Narlikar Science & Engineering Maharashtra
2003 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Bal Ram Nanda Literature & Education Delhi 2 Brihaspati Dev Triguna Medicine Delhi 3 Sonal Mansingh Arts Delhi 4 Kazi Lhendup Dorjee Public Affairs West Bengal
2002 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 C. Rangarajan Literature & Education Andhra Pradesh 2 Soli Sorabjee Public Affairs Delhi 3 Gangubai Hangal Arts Karnataka 4 Kishori Amonkar Arts Maharashtra 5 Kishan Maharaj Arts Uttar Pradesh
2001 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Kotha Satchidanda Murthy Literature & Education Andhra Pradesh 2 Amjad Ali Khan Arts Delhi 3 Hrishikesh Mukherjee Arts Maharashtra 4 Man Mohan Sharma Science & Engineering Maharashtra 5 Shivkumar Sharma Arts Maharashtra 6 Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan Civil Service Tamil Nadu 7 Benjamin A. Gilman Public Affairs United States 8 C. R. Rao Science & Engineering United States 9 John Kenneth Galbraith Literature & Education United States 10 Zubin Mehta Arts United States 11 Hosei Norota Public Affairs Japan
2000 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 M. Narasimham Trade & Industry Andhra Pradesh 2 K. B. Lall Civil Service Delhi 3 M. S. Gill Civil Service Delhi 4 Sikander Bakht Public Affairs Delhi 5 Tarlok Singh Civil Service Delhi 6 Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan Science & Engineering Karnataka 7 K. N. Raj Literature & Education Kerala 8 Hariprasad Chaurasia Arts Maharashtra 9 Jasraj Motiram Arts Maharashtra 10 Kelucharan Mohapatra Arts Odisha 11 R. K. Narayan Literature & Education Tamil Nadu 12 B. D. Pande Civil Service Uttar Pradesh 13 Jagdish Bhagwati Literature & Education United States
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Padma Vibhushan Award (1990–1999)
1999 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Dharma Vira Civil Service Delhi 2 Hans Raj Khanna Public Affairs Delhi 3 Lallan Prasad Singh ✝ Civil Service Delhi 4 Nanaji Deshmukh Social Work Delhi 5 Satish Gujral Arts Delhi 6 Verghese Kurien Science & Engineering Gujarat 7 Braj Kumar Nehru Civil Service Himachal Pradesh 8 V. R. Krishna Iyer Public Affairs Kerala 9 Bhimsen Joshi Arts Maharashtra 10 Lata Mangeshkar Arts Maharashtra 11 Pandurang Shastri Athavale Social Work Maharashtra 12 Rajagopala Chidambaram Science & Engineering Maharashtra 13 D. K. Pattammal Arts Tamil Nadu 14 Sarvepalli Gopal Literature & Education Tamil Nadu
1998 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Nanabhoy Palkhivala Public Affairs Maharashtra 2 Usha Mehta Social Work Maharashtra 3 Lakshmi Sahgal Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh 4 Walter Sisulu Public Affairs South Africa
1992 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Kaloji Narayana Rao Arts Andhra Pradesh 2 Ravi Narayana Reddy Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 3 Aruna Asaf Ali Public Affairs Delhi 4 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Public Affairs Delhi 5 S. I. Padmavati Medicine Delhi 6 Mallikarjun Mansur Arts Karnataka 7 Govinddas Mannulal Shroff Literature & Education Maharashtra 8 Lakshman Shastri Joshi Literature & Education Maharashtra 9 V. Shantaram Arts Maharashtra 10 Swaran Singh Public Affairs Punjab
1991 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 N. G. Ranga Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 2 Gulzarilal Nanda Public Affairs Gujarat 3 I. G. Patel Science & Engineering Gujarat 4 Khusro Faramurz Rustamji Civil Service Maharashtra 5 M. F. Husain Arts Maharashtra 6 M. Balamuralikrishna Arts Tamil Nadu 7 Rajaram Shastri Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh 8 Hirendranath Mukherjee Public Affairs West Bengal
1990 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 V. S. R. Arunachalam Literature & Education Delhi 2 Triloki Nath Chaturvedi Civil Service Karnataka 3 Kumar Gandharva Arts Madhya Pradesh 4 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Science & Engineering Tamil Nadu 5 Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer Arts Tamil Nadu 6 Bhabatosh Datta Literature & Education West Bengal
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Padma Vibhushan Award (1980–1989)
1989 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 M. S. Swaminathan Science & Engineering Tamil Nadu 2 Uma Shankar Dikshit Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh 3 Ali Akbar Khan Arts West Bengal
1988 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Mirza Hameedullah Beg Public Affairs Delhi 2 Kuvempu Literature & Education Karnataka 3 Mahadevi Varma Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh
1987 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Manmohan Singh Civil Service Delhi 2 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Social Work Karnataka 3 Arun Shridhar Vaidya ✝ Civil Service Maharashtra 4 Benjamin Peary Pal Science & Engineering Punjab
1986 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Autar Singh Paintal Medicine Delhi 2 Birju Maharaj Arts Delhi 3 Baba Amte Social Work Maharashtra
1985 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 C. N. R. Rao Science & Engineering Karnataka 2 M. G. K. Menon Civil Service Kerala
1982 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Mira Behn Social Work United Kingdom
1981 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Satish Dhawan Science & Engineering Karnataka 2 Ravi Shankar Arts Uttar Pradesh
1980 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Bismillah Khan Arts Uttar Pradesh 2 Rai Krishnadasa Civil Service Uttar Pradesh
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Padma Vibhushan Award (1970–1979)
1977 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Ali Yavar Jung Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 2 Ajudhia Nath Khosla Civil Service Delhi 3 Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh Literature & Education Delhi 4 Om Prakash Mehra Civil Service Punjab 5 T. Balasaraswati Arts Tamil Nadu 6 Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee Public Affairs West Bengal
1976 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Bashir Hussain Zaidi Literature & Education Delhi 2 K. Shankar Pillai Arts Delhi 3 K. R. Ramanathan Science & Engineering Kerala 4 Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir Literature & Education Punjab 5 Kalu Lal Shrimali Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh 6 Salim Ali Science & Engineering Uttar Pradesh 7 Satyajit Ray Arts West Bengal
1975 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 C. D. Deshmukh Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 2 Raja Ramanna Science & Engineering Karnataka 3 Durgabai Deshmukh Social Work Maharashtra 4 Homi Nusserwanji Sethna Civil Service Maharashtra 5 Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey Literature & Education Maharashtra 6 M. S. Subbulakshmi Arts Tamil Nadu 7 Mary Clubwala Jadhav Social Work Tamil Nadu 8 Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri Literature & Education West Bengal
1974 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Harish Chandra Sarin Civil Service Delhi 2 V. K. R. V. Rao Civil Service Karnataka 3 Niren De Public Affairs West Bengal 4 Benode Behari Mukherjee Arts West Bengal
1973 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Daulat Singh Kothari Science & Engineering Delhi 2 U. N. Dhebar Social Work Gujarat 3 Nagendra Singh Public Affairs Rajasthan 4 Thirumalraya Swaminathan Civil Service Tamil Nadu 5 Basanti Devi Civil Service West Bengal 6 Nellie Sengupta Social Work West Bengal
1972 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda Civil Service Delhi 2 Vikram Sarabhai ✝ Science & Engineering Gujarat 3 Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq ✝ Public Affairs Jammu and Kashmir 4 Hormasji Maneckji Seervai Literature & Education Maharashtra 5 Jivraj Narayan Mehta Public Affairs Maharashtra 6 P. Balacharya Gajendragadkar Public Affairs Maharashtra 7 Pratap Chandra Lal Civil Service Punjab 8 Sam Manekshaw Civil Service Tamil Nadu 9 Aditya Nath Jha ✝ Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh
1971 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Bimala Prasad Chaliha Civil Service Assam 2 Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar Medicine Goa 3 Sumati Morarjee Civil Service Maharashtra 4 Uday Shankar Arts Maharashtra 5 B. Sivaraman Civil Service Tamil Nadu 6 Allauddin Khan Arts West Bengal
1970 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 A. Ramasamy Mudaliar Civil Service Andhra Pradesh 2 Anthony Lancelot Dias Public Affairs Maharashtra 3 Harbaksh Singh Civil Service Punjab 4 P. Prabhakar Kumaramangalam Civil Service Tamil Nadu 5 Tara Chand Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh 6 Binay Ranjan Sen Civil Service West Bengal 7 Suranjan Das Civil Service West Bengal
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Padma Vibhushan Award (1960–1969)
1969 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Rajeshwar Dayal Civil Service Delhi 2 Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi Civil Service Maharashtra 3 Mohan Sinha Mehta Civil Service Rajasthan 4 Ghananand Pande Civil Service Uttar Pradesh 5 Har Gobind Khorana Science & Engineering United States
1968 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Literature & Education Delhi 2 Kirpal Singh Civil Service Delhi 3 Kalyan Sundaram Public Affairs Delhi 4 Madhav Shrihari Aney Public Affairs Madhya Pradesh 5 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Science & Engineering United States
1967 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Hafiz Mohamad Ibrahim Civil Service Andhra Pradesh 2 P. V. R. Rao Civil Service Andhra Pradesh 3 Chandra Kisan Daphtary Public Affairs Maharashtra 4 Bhola Nath Jha Civil Service Uttar Pradesh
1966 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Valerian Gracias Social Work Maharashtra
1965 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Mehdi Nawaz Jung Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 2 Arjan Singh Civil Service Delhi 3 Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri Civil Service West Bengal
1964 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Acharya Kakasaheb Kalelkar Literature & Education Maharashtra 2 Gopinath Kaviraj Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh
1963 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Hari Vinayak Pataskar Public Affairs Maharashtra 2 A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar Medicine Tamil Nadu 3 Suniti Kumar Chatterji Literature & Education West Bengal
1962 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Padmaja Naidu Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 2 H. V. R. Iyengar Civil Service Tamil Nadu 3 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Civil Service Uttar Pradesh
1960 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Narayana Raghvan Pillai Public Affairs Tamil Nadu
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Padma Vibhushan Award (1954–1959)
1959 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 John Mathai Literature & Education Kerala 2 Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta Social Work Maharashtra 3 Radhabinod Pal Public Affairs West Bengal
1957 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Sri Prakasa Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 2 M. C. Setalvad Public Affairs Maharashtra 3 Ghanshyam Das Birla Trade & Industry Rajasthan
1956 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Fazal Ali Public Affairs Bihar 2 Jankibai Bajaj Social Work Madhya Pradesh 3 Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi Public Affairs Madhya Pradesh
1955 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Dhondo Keshav Karve Literature & Education Maharashtra 2 J. R. D. Tata Trade & Industry Maharashtra
1954 No. Recipient Field State/Country 1 Zakir Husain Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 2 V. K. Krishna Menon Public Affairs Kerala 3 Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher Public Affairs Maharashtra 4 Satyendra Nath Bose Science & Engineering West Bengal 5 Nandalal Bose Arts West Bengal 6 Jigme Dorji Wangchuck Public Affairs Bhutan
