List of Padma Vibhushan award recipients

The Padma Vibhushan is the second highest civilian award of the Republic of India. Instituted on 2 January 1954,[1] the award is given for the "exceptional and distinguished service", without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex. The Padma Vibhushan award recipients are announced every year on Republic Day and registered in The Gazette of India—a publication released weekly by the Department of Publication, Ministry of Urban Development used for official government notices.[2] The conferral of the award is not considered official without its publication in the Gazette. Recipients whose awards have been revoked or restored, both of which require the authority of the President, are also registered in the Gazette and are required to surrender their medals when their names are struck from the register.[3] As of 2020, none of the conferments of Padma Vibhushan have been revoked or restored. The recommendations are received from all the state and the union territory governments, the Ministries of the Government, the Bharat Ratna and previous Padma Vibhushan award recipients, the Institutes of Excellence, the Ministers, the Chief Ministers and the Governors of State, and the Members of Parliament including private individuals. The recommendations received during 1 May and 15 September of every year are submitted to the Padma Awards Committee, constituted by the Prime Minister. The committee recommendations are later submitted to the Prime Minister and the President for the further approval.[2]

Padma Vibhushan
Padma Vibhushan medal suspended by a ribbon
TypeNational Civilian
CountryIndia
Presented by

Government of India
Ribbon
ObverseA centrally located lotus flower is embossed and the text "Padma" written in Devanagari script is placed above and the text "Vibhushan" is placed below the lotus.
ReverseA platinum Emblem of India placed in the centre with the national motto of India, "Satyameva Jayate" (Truth alone triumphs) in Devanagari Script
Established1954
First awarded1954
Last awarded2021
Total321
Precedence
Next (higher) Bharat Ratna
Next (lower) Padma Bhushan

When instituted in 1954, the Padma Vibhushan was classified as "Pahela Varg" (Class I) under the three-tier Padma Vibhushan awards; preceded by the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award,[4] and followed by "Dusra Varg" (Class II), and "Tisra Varg" (Class III).[1] On 15 January 1955, the Padma Vibhushan was reclassified into three different awards; the Padma Vibhushan, the highest of the three, followed by the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Shri. The criteria includes "exceptional and distinguished service in any field including service rendered by Government servants" but excluding those working with the Public sector undertakings with the exception of doctors and scientists. The 1954 statutes did not allow posthumous awards but this was subsequently modified in the January 1955 statute.[2][3] The award, along with other personal civil honours, was briefly suspended twice in its history;[5] for the first time in July 1977 when Morarji Desai was sworn in as the fourth Prime Minister.[6][7] The suspension was rescinded on 25 January 1980, after Indira Gandhi became the Prime Minister.[8] The civilian awards were suspended again in mid-1992, when two Public-Interest Litigations were filed in the High Courts questioning the civilian awards being "Titles" per an interpretation of Article 18 (1) of the Constitution.[5][lower-alpha 1] The awards were reintroduced by the Supreme Court in December 1995, following the conclusion of the litigation.[10]

The recipients receive a Sanad (certificate) signed by the President and a medal with no monetary grant associated with the award.[2] The decoration is a circular-shaped toned bronze medallion 1 3⁄4 inches (44 mm) in diameter and 1⁄8 inch (3.2 mm) thick. The centrally placed pattern made of outer lines of a square of 1 3⁄16 inches (30 mm) side is embossed with a knob embossed within each of the outer angles of the pattern. A raised circular space of diameter 1 1⁄16 inches (27 mm) is placed at the centre of the decoration. A centrally located lotus flower is embossed on the obverse side of the medal and the text "Padma" written in Devanagari script is placed above and the text "Vibhushan" is placed below the lotus. The Emblem of India is placed in the centre of the reverse side with the national motto, "Satyameva Jayate" (Truth alone triumphs) in Devanagari Script, inscribed on the lower edge. The rim, the edges and all embossing on either side is of white gold with the text "Padma Vibhushan" of silver gilt. The medal is suspended by a pink riband 1 1⁄4 inches (32 mm) in width.[3] It is ranked fourth in the order of precedence of wearing of medals and decorations.[11]

The first recipients of the Padma Vibhushan were Satyendra Nath Bose, Nandalal Bose, Zakir Husain, Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, V. K. Krishna Menon, and Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, who were honoured in 1954. As of 2020, the award has been bestowed on 314 individuals, including seventeen posthumous and twenty-one non-citizen recipients.[12] Some of the recipients have refused or returned their awards; P. N. Haksar,[lower-alpha 2] Vilayat Khan,[lower-alpha 3] E. M. S. Namboodiripad,[lower-alpha 4] Swami Ranganathananda,[lower-alpha 5] and Manikonda Chalapathi Rau refused the award; the family members of Lakshmi Chand Jain (2011) and Sharad Anantrao Joshi (2016) declined their posthumous conferments,[lower-alpha 6][lower-alpha 7] and 1986 recipient Baba Amte and 2015 recipient Parkash Singh Badal returned theirs honour in 1991 and 2020 respectively.[21][lower-alpha 8][22][lower-alpha 9] Most recently on 25 January 2021, the award has been bestowed upon seven recipients; Shinzo Abe, S. P. Balasubramaniam, Belle Monappa Hegde, Narinder Singh Kapany, Wahiduddin Khan, B. B. Lal and Sudarshan Sahoo.[12]

Recipients


Awarded in 1954, Satyendra Nath Bose is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, providing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.[23]
1959 recipient John Mathai was country's first Railway Minister and later served as Finance Minister.[24]
The Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh is the first and the only five-star rank officer with the Indian Air Force. Singh was conferred Padma Vibhushan in 1965.[25][26]
1971 recipient Sumati Morarjee was the first woman in the world to head an organisation of ship owners ("Indian National Steamship Owners Association") and was later elected as the vice-president of the "World Shipping Federation".[27]
Uday Shankar was a dancer known for his frequent collaboration with a Russian Ballet dancer Anna Pavlova and was awarded with the honour in 1971.[28]
Awarded in 1972, Sam Manekshaw (left), often known as "Sam Bahadur" ("Sam the Brave"), was the first Field Marshal of the country and also of the Indian Army.[26][29]
Vikram Sarabhai, widely considered as the "Father of Indian space program", was one of the founders and first chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation. Sarabhai was awarded posthumously in 1972.[30]
Awarded in 1975, C. D. Deshmukh is the first Indian Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and later served as Finance Minister of India (1950–57).[24][31]
1986 recipient Birju Maharaj is an exponent of Kalka-Bindadin gharana of Kathak dance.[32]
Manmohan Singh is an economist who served as the Chief Economic Advisor (1972–76), Governor of Reserve Bank of India (1982–85), Finance Minister of India (1991–96), and later as the Prime Minister of India (2004–14). The Padma Vibhushan was bestowed upon Singh in 1987.[24][33][34]
Awarded in 1989, M. S. Swaminathan, often called as the "Father of Green Revolution", is known for this contribution to Green Revolution in India through the development of high-yielding varieties of wheat.[35]
1991 recipient M. F. Husain was a painter and is often called as the "Picasso of India".[36]
V. R. Krishna Iyer was a former Supreme Court judge (1973–80) and is noted to have "humanised the law" through his judgements. Iyer received the conferment in 1999.[37]
Awarded in 1999, Verghese Kurien, widely known as the "Father of the White Revolution", was the chief architect of Operation Flood, making India as one of the largest milk producer in the world.[38]
A recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, country's highest award in cinema, film director Adoor Gopalakrishnan is credited with pioneering the new wave cinema movement in Malayalam cinema. Gopalakrishnan was awarded with the Padma Vibhushan in 2006.[39]
Awarded in 2008, Khushwant Singh was a writer and journalist; and was a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from 1980 to 1986.[40]
2008 recipient Viswanathan Anand is country's first chess Grandmaster and five times winner of World Chess Championship.[41]
Awarded in 2008, Edmund Hillary (left) was one of the first two individuals known to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which he accomplished with Tenzing Norgay (right) on 29 May 1953.[42]
A nuclear scientist and former Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Anil Kakodkar is known for his contribution in the design and construction of Dhruva, India's largest research reactor. Kakodkar received the conferment in 2009.[43]
Malayalam litterateur O. N. V. Kurup is a recipient of Jnanpith Award, country's highest literary honour. He was awarded with the Padma Vibhushan in 2011.[44]
2014 recipient B. K. S. Iyengar was a yoga exponent and creator of dynamic yoga style, Iyengar Yoga.[45]
Awarded in 2015, "Tragedy King" Dilip Kumar debuted as an actor in Jwar Bhata (1944) and acted in more than 60 Hindi films in a career that spanned over six decades.[46]
Awarded in 2016, Hindustani classical vocalist Girija Devi is a disciple of Benares gharana, an Indian classical musical school. She is widely known for the thumri genre of singing.[47]
Award recipients by year[12]
Year Number of recipients
1954–1959
17
1960–1969
27
1970–1979
53
1980–1989
20
1990–1999
42
2000–2009
86
2010–2019
62
2020–2029
14
Award recipients by field[12]
Field Number of recipients
Arts
62
Civil Service
53
Literature & Education
41
Medicine
14
Others
7
Public Affairs
74
Science & Engineering
36
Social Work
18
Sports
4
Trade & Industry
12
Key
   # Indicates a posthumous honour
List of Padma Vibhushan recipients, showing the year, field, and state/country[12]
Year Recipient Field State
1954 Satyendra Nath Bose Science West Bengal
1954 Nandalal Bose ArtsWest Bengal
1954 Zakir Husain Public AffairsAndhra Pradesh
1954 Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher Public AffairsMaharashtra
1954 V. K. Krishna Menon Public AffairsKerala
1954 Jigme Dorji Wangchuck Public AffairsBhutan[upper-alpha 1]
1955 Dhondo Keshav Karve Literature & EducationMaharashtra
1955 J. R. D. Tata Trade & IndustryMaharashtra
1956 Fazal Ali Public AffairsBihar
1956 Jankibai Bajaj Social WorkMadhya Pradesh
1956 Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi Public AffairsMadhya Pradesh
1957 Ghanshyam Das Birla Trade & IndustryRajasthan
1957 Sri Prakasa Public AffairsAndhra Pradesh
1957 M. C. Setalvad Public AffairsMaharashtra
1959 John Mathai Literature & EducationKerala
1959 Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta Social WorkMaharashtra
1959 Radhabinod Pal Public AffairsWest Bengal
1960 Naryana Raghvan Pillai Public AffairsTamil Nadu
1962 H. V. R. Iyengar Civil ServiceTamil Nadu
1962 Padmaja Naidu Public AffairsAndhra Pradesh
1962 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Civil ServiceUttar Pradesh
1963 Suniti Kumar Chatterji Literature & EducationWest Bengal
1963 A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar MedicineTamil Nadu
1963 Hari Vinayak Pataskar Public AffairsMaharashtra
1964 Acharya Kakasaheb Kalelkar Literature & EducationMaharashtra
1964 Gopinath Kaviraj Literature & EducationUttar Pradesh
1965 Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri Civil ServiceWest Bengal
1965 Mehdi Nawaz Jung Public AffairsAndhra Pradesh
1965 Arjan Singh Civil ServiceDelhi
1966 Valerian Gracias Social WorkMaharashtra
1967 Chandra Kisan Daphtary Public AffairsMaharashtra
1967 Hafiz Mohamad Ibrahim Civil ServiceAndhra Pradesh
1967 Bhola Nath Jha Civil ServiceUttar Pradesh
1967 P. V. R. Rao Civil ServiceAndhra Pradesh
1968 Madhav Shrihari Aney Public AffairsMadhya Pradesh
1968 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Science & Engineering—[upper-alpha 2]
1968 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Literature & EducationDelhi
1968 Kirpal Singh Civil ServiceDelhi
1968 Kalyan Sundaram Public AffairsDelhi
1969 Rajeshwar Dayal Civil ServiceDelhi
1969 Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi Civil ServiceMaharashtra
1969 Har Gobind Khorana Science & Engineering—[upper-alpha 2]
1969 Mohan Sinha Mehta Civil ServiceRajasthan
1969 Ghananand Pande Civil ServiceUttar Pradesh
1970 Tara Chand Literature & EducationUttar Pradesh
1970 Suranjan Das Civil ServiceWest Bengal
1970 Anthony Lancelot Dias Public AffairsMaharashtra
1970 P. Prabhakar Kumaramangalam Civil ServiceTamil Nadu
1970 A. Ramasamy Mudaliar Civil ServiceAndhra Pradesh
1970 Binay Ranjan Sen Civil ServiceWest Bengal
1970 Harbaksh Singh Civil ServicePunjab
1971 Bimala Prasad Chaliha Civil ServiceAssam
1971 Allauddin Khan ArtsWest Bengal
1971 Sumati Morarjee Civil ServiceMaharashtra
1971 Uday Shankar ArtsMaharashtra
1971 Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar MedicineGoa
1971 B. Sivaraman Civil ServiceTamil Nadu
1972 P. Balacharya Gajendragadkar Public AffairsMaharashtra
1972 Aditya Nath Jha# Public AffairsUttar Pradesh
1972 Pratap Chandra Lal Civil ServicePunjab
1972 Sam Manekshaw Civil ServiceTamil Nadu
1972 Jivraj Narayan Mehta Public AffairsMaharashtra
1972 Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda Civil ServiceDelhi
1972 Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq[lower-roman 1]# Public AffairsJammu and Kashmir
1972 Vikram Sarabhai[lower-roman 2]# Science & EngineeringGujarat
1972 Hormasji Maneckji Seervai Literature & EducationMaharashtra
1973 Basanti Devi Civil ServiceWest Bengal
1973 U. N. Dhebar Social WorkGujarat
1973 Daulat Singh Kothari Science & EngineeringDelhi
1973 Nellie Sengupta Social WorkWest Bengal
1973 Nagendra Singh Public AffairsRajasthan
1973 Thirumalraya Swaminathan Civil ServiceTamil Nadu
1974 Niren De Public AffairsWest Bengal
1974 Benode Behari Mukherjee ArtsWest Bengal
1974 V. K. R. V. Rao Civil ServiceKarnataka
1974 Harish Chandra Sarin Civil ServiceDelhi
1975 C. D. Deshmukh Public AffairsAndhra Pradesh
1975 Durgabai Deshmukh Social WorkMaharashtra
1975 Mary Clubwala Jadhav Social WorkTamil Nadu
1975 Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri Literature & EducationWest Bengal
1975 Raja Ramanna Science & EngineeringKarnataka
1975 Homi Nusserwanji Sethna Civil ServiceMaharashtra
1975 M. S. Subbulakshmi ArtsTamil Nadu
1975 Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey Literature & EducationMaharashtra
1976 Salim Ali Science & EngineeringUttar Pradesh
1976 Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir Literature & EducationPunjab
1976 K. Shankar Pillai ArtsDelhi
1976 K. R. Ramanathan Science & EngineeringKerala
1976 Satyajit Ray ArtsWest Bengal
1976 Kalu Lal Shrimali Literature & EducationUttar Pradesh
1976 Bashir Hussain Zaidi Literature & EducationDelhi
1977 T. Balasaraswati ArtsTamil Nadu
1977 Ali Yavar Jung Public AffairsAndhra Pradesh
1977 Ajudhia Nath Khosla Civil ServiceDelhi
1977 Om Prakash Mehra Civil ServicePunjab
1977 Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee Public AffairsWest Bengal
1977 Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh Literature & EducationDelhi
1980 Bismillah Khan ArtsUttar Pradesh
1980 Rai Krishnadasa Civil ServiceUttar Pradesh
1981 Satish Dhawan Science & EngineeringKarnataka
1981 Ravi Shankar ArtsUttar Pradesh
1982 Mira Behn Social Work—[upper-alpha 3]
1985 C. N. R. Rao Science & EngineeringKarnataka
1985 M. G. K. Menon Civil ServiceKerala
1986 Baba Amte[lower-alpha 8] Social WorkMaharashtra
1986 Birju Maharaj ArtsDelhi
1986 Autar Singh Paintal MedicineDelhi
1987 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Social WorkKarnataka
1987 Benjamin Peary Pal Science & EngineeringPunjab
1987 Manmohan Singh Civil ServiceDelhi
1987 Arun Shridhar Vaidya[lower-roman 3]# Civil ServiceMaharashtra
1988 Mirza Hameedullah Beg Public AffairsDelhi
1988 Kuvempu Literature & EducationKarnataka
1988 Mahadevi Varma Literature & EducationUttar Pradesh
1989 Uma Shankar Dikshit Public AffairsUttar Pradesh
1989 Ali Akbar Khan ArtsWest Bengal
1989 M. S. Swaminathan Science & EngineeringTamil Nadu
1990 V. S. R. Arunachalam Literature & EducationDelhi
1990 Triloki Nath Chaturvedi Civil ServiceKarnataka
1990 Bhabatosh Datta Literature & EducationWest Bengal
1990 Kumar Gandharva ArtsMadhya Pradesh
1990 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Science & EngineeringTamil Nadu
1990 Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer ArtsTamil Nadu
1991 M. Balamuralikrishna ArtsTamil Nadu
1991 M. F. Husain ArtsMaharashtra
1991 Hirendranath Mukherjee Public AffairsWest Bengal
1991 Gulzarilal Nanda Public AffairsGujarat
1991 I. G. Patel Science & EngineeringGujarat
1991 N. G. Ranga Public AffairsAndhra Pradesh
1991 Khusro Faramurz Rustamji Civil ServiceMaharashtra
1991 Rajaram Shastri Literature & EducationUttar Pradesh
1992 Aruna Asaf Ali Public AffairsDelhi
1992 Lakshman Shastri Joshi Literature & EducationMaharashtra
1992 Mallikarjun Mansur ArtsKarnataka
1992 S. I. Padmavati MedicineDelhi
1992 Kaloji Narayana Rao ArtsAndhra Pradesh
1992 Ravi Narayana Reddy Public AffairsAndhra Pradesh
1992 V. Shantaram ArtsMaharashtra
1992 Govinddas Mannulal Shroff Literature & EducationMaharashtra
1992 Swaran Singh Public AffairsPunjab
1992 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Public AffairsDelhi
1998 Usha Mehta Social WorkMaharashtra
1998 Nanabhoy Palkhivala Public AffairsMaharashtra
1998 Lakshmi Sahgal Public AffairsUttar Pradesh
1998 Walter Sisulu Public Affairs—[upper-alpha 4]
1999 Pandurang Shastri Athavale Social WorkMaharashtra
1999 Rajagopala Chidambaram Science & EngineeringMaharashtra
1999 Nanaji Deshmukh Social WorkDelhi
1999 Sarvepalli Gopal Literature & EducationTamil Nadu
1999 Satish Gujral ArtsDelhi
1999 V. R. Krishna Iyer Public AffairsKerala
1999 Bhimsen Joshi ArtsMaharashtra
1999 Hans Raj Khanna Public AffairsDelhi
1999 Verghese Kurien Science & EngineeringGujarat
1999 Lata Mangeshkar ArtsMaharashtra
1999 Braj Kumar Nehru Civil ServiceHimachal Pradesh
1999 D. K. Pattammal ArtsTamil Nadu
1999 Lallan Prasad Singh[lower-roman 4]# Civil ServiceDelhi
1999 Dharma Vira Civil ServiceDelhi
2000 Sikander Bakht Public AffairsDelhi
2000 Jagdish Bhagwati Literature & Education—[upper-alpha 2]
2000 Hariprasad Chaurasia ArtsMaharashtra
2000 M. S. Gill Civil ServiceDelhi
2000 Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan Science & EngineeringKarnataka
2000 K. B. Lall Civil ServiceDelhi
2000 Kelucharan Mohapatra ArtsOdisha
2000 Jasraj Motiram ArtsMaharashtra
2000 M. Narasimham Trade & IndustryAndhra Pradesh
2000 R. K. Narayan Literature & EducationTamil Nadu
2000 B. D. Pande Civil ServiceUttar Pradesh
2000 K. N. Raj Literature & EducationKerala
2000 Tarlok Singh Civil ServiceDelhi
2001 John Kenneth Galbraith Literature & Education—[upper-alpha 2]
2001 Benjamin A. Gilman Public Affairs—[upper-alpha 2]
2001 Amjad Ali Khan ArtsDelhi
2001 Zubin Mehta Arts—[upper-alpha 2]
2001 Hrishikesh Mukherjee ArtsMaharashtra
2001 Kotha Satchidanda Murthy Literature & EducationAndhra Pradesh
2001 Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan Civil ServiceTamil Nadu
2001 Hosei Norota Public Affairs—[upper-alpha 5]
2001 C. R. Rao Science & Engineering—[upper-alpha 2]
2001 Man Mohan Sharma Science & EngineeringMaharashtra
2001 Shivkumar Sharma ArtsMaharashtra
2002 Kishori Amonkar ArtsMaharashtra
2002 Gangubai Hangal ArtsKarnataka
2002 Kishan Maharaj ArtsUttar Pradesh
2002 C. Rangarajan Literature & EducationAndhra Pradesh
2002 Soli Sorabjee Public AffairsDelhi
2003 Kazi Lhendup Dorjee Public AffairsWest Bengal
2003 Sonal Mansingh ArtsDelhi
2003 Bal Ram Nanda Literature & EducationDelhi
2003 Brihaspati Dev Triguna MedicineDelhi
2004 Jayant Narlikar Science & EngineeringMaharashtra
2004 Amrita Pritam Literature & EducationDelhi
2004 M. N. Venkatachaliah Public AffairsKarnataka
2005 Milon K. Banerji Public AffairsDelhi
2005 Mohan Dharia Social WorkMaharashtra
2005 Jyotindra Nath Dixit[lower-roman 5]# Civil ServiceDelhi
2005 B. K. Goyal MedicineMaharashtra
2005 R. K. Laxman ArtsMaharashtra
2005 Ram Narayan ArtsMaharashtra
2005 Karan Singh Public AffairsDelhi
2005 M. S. Valiathan MedicineDelhi
2006 Norman Borlaug Science & Engineering—[upper-alpha 2]
2006 Charles Correa Science & EngineeringMaharashtra
2006 Nirmala Deshpande Social WorkDelhi
2006 Mahasweta Devi Literature & EducationWest Bengal
2006 Adoor Gopalakrishnan ArtsKerala
2006 V. N. Khare Public AffairsUttar Pradesh
2006 C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao Civil ServiceTamil Nadu
2006 Obaid Siddiqi Science & EngineeringKarnataka
2006 Prakash Narain Tandon MedicineDelhi
2007 P. N. Bhagwati Public AffairsDelhi
2007 Naresh Chandra Civil ServiceDelhi
2007 Raja Chelliah Public AffairsTamil Nadu
2007 V. Krishnamurthy Civil ServiceDelhi
2007 Fali Sam Nariman Public AffairsDelhi
2007 Raja Rao[lower-roman 6]# Literature & Education—[upper-alpha 2]
2007 Balu Sankaran MedicineDelhi
2007 Khushwant Singh[lower-alpha 10] Literature & EducationDelhi
2007 George Sudarshan Science & Engineering—[upper-alpha 2]
2007 Narinder Nath Vohra Civil ServiceHaryana
2008 Adarsh Sein Anand Public AffairsUttar Pradesh
2008 Viswanathan Anand SportsTamil Nadu
2008 Asha Bhosle ArtsMaharashtra
2008 P. N. Dhar Public AffairsDelhi
2008 Edmund Hillary[lower-roman 7]# Sports—[upper-alpha 6]
2008 Lakshmi Mittal Trade & Industry—[upper-alpha 3]
2008 Pranab Mukherjee Public AffairsDelhi
2008 N. R. Narayana Murthy Trade & IndustryKarnataka
2008 Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi Trade & IndustryDelhi
2008 Rajendra K. Pachauri Science & EngineeringDelhi
2008 E. Sreedharan Science & EngineeringDelhi
2008 Ratan Tata Trade & IndustryMaharashtra
2008 Sachin Tendulkar SportsMaharashtra
2009 Sunderlal Bahuguna OthersUttarakhand
2009 Jasbir Singh Bajaj MedicinePunjab
2009 D. P. Chattopadhyaya Literature & EducationWest Bengal
2009 Ashok Sekhar Ganguly Trade & IndustryMaharashtra
2009 Sister Nirmala Social WorkWest Bengal
2009 Anil Kakodkar Science & EngineeringMaharashtra
2009 Purshotam Lal MedicineUttar Pradesh
2009 G. Madhavan Nair Science & EngineeringKarnataka
2009 Govind Narain Public AffairsUttar Pradesh
2009 Chandrika Prasad Srivastava Civil ServiceMaharashtra
2010 Ebrahim Alkazi ArtsDelhi
2010 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Science & Engineering—[upper-alpha 3]
2010 Prathap C. Reddy Trade & IndustryTamil Nadu
2010 Y. Venugopal Reddy Public AffairsAndhra Pradesh
2010 Zohra Sehgal ArtsDelhi
2010 Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman ArtsTamil Nadu
2011 Montek Singh Ahluwalia Public AffairsDelhi
2011 Vijay Kelkar Public AffairsMaharashtra
2011 Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai Public AffairsDelhi
2011 O. N. V. Kurup Literature & EducationKerala
2011 Sitakant Mahapatra Literature & EducationOdisha
2011 Brajesh Mishra Civil ServiceDelhi
2011 K. Parasaran Public AffairsDelhi
2011 Azim Premji Trade & IndustryKarnataka
2011 Palle Rama Rao Science & EngineeringAndhra Pradesh
2011 Akkineni Nageswara Rao ArtsAndhra Pradesh
2011 Kapila Vatsyayan ArtsDelhi
2011 Homai Vyarawalla ArtsGujarat
2012 Bhupen Hazarika[lower-roman 8]# ArtsAssam
2012 Mario Miranda[lower-roman 9]# ArtsGoa
2012 T. V. Rajeswar Civil ServiceDelhi
2012 Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti MedicineMaharashtra
2012 K. G. Subramanyan ArtsGujarat
2013 Raghunath Mohapatra ArtsOdisha
2013 Roddam Narasimha Science & EngineeringKarnataka
2013 Yash Pal Science & EngineeringUttar Pradesh
2013 S. H. Raza ArtsDelhi
2014 B. K. S. Iyengar OthersMaharashtra
2014 Raghunath Anant Mashelkar Science & EngineeringMaharashtra
2015 L. K. Advani Public AffairsGujarat
2015 Amitabh Bachchan ArtsMaharashtra
2015 Parkash Singh Badal Public AffairsPunjab
2015 Veerendra Heggade Social WorkKarnataka
2015 Dilip Kumar ArtsMaharashtra
2015 Rambhadracharya Literature & EducationUttar Pradesh
2015 M. R. Srinivasan Science & EngineeringTamil Nadu
2015 Kottayan Katankot Venugopal Public AffairsDelhi
2015 Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan Social Work—[upper-alpha 3][upper-alpha 7]
2016 V. K. Aatre Science & EngineeringKarnataka
2016 Dhirubhai Ambani[lower-roman 10]# Trade & IndustryMaharashtra
2016 Girija Devi ArtsWest Bengal
2016 Avinash Dixit Literature & Education—[upper-alpha 2]
2016 Jagmohan Public AffairsDelhi
2016 Yamini Krishnamurthy ArtsDelhi
2016 Rajinikanth ArtsTamil Nadu
2016 Ramoji Rao Literature & EducationTelangana
2016 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar[lower-alpha 11] OthersKarnataka
2016 V. Shanta MedicineTamil Nadu
2017 Murli Manohar Joshi Public AffairsUttar Pradesh
2017 Sunder Lal Patwa[lower-roman 11]# Public AffairsMadhya Pradesh
2017 Sharad Pawar Public AffairsMaharashtra
2017 Udupi Ramachandra Rao Science & EngineeringKarnataka
2017 P. A. Sangma[lower-roman 12]# Public AffairsMeghalaya
2017 Jaggi Vasudev OthersTamil Nadu
2017 K. J. Yesudas ArtsKerala
2018 Ilaiyaraaja ArtsTamil Nadu
2018 Ghulam Mustafa Khan ArtsMaharashtra
2018 P. Parameswaran Literature & EducationKerala
2019 Teejan Bai ArtsChhattisgarh
2019 Ismaïl Omar Guelleh Public Affairs—[upper-alpha 8]
2019 Anil Manibhai Naik Trade & IndustryMaharashtra
2019 Balwant Moreshwar Purandare ArtsMaharashtra
2020 George Fernandes[lower-roman 13]# Public AffairsBihar
2020 Arun Jaitley[lower-roman 14]# Public AffairsDelhi
2020 Anerood Jugnauth Public Affairs—[upper-alpha 9]
2020 Mary Kom SportsManipur
2020 Chhannulal Mishra ArtsUttar Pradesh
2020 Sushma Swaraj[lower-roman 15]# Public AffairsDelhi
2020 Vishwesha Teertha[lower-roman 16]# OthersKarnataka
2021 Shinzo Abe Public Affairs—[upper-alpha 5]
2021 S. P. Balasubramaniam[lower-roman 17]# ArtsTamil Nadu
2021 Belle Monappa Hegde MedicineKarnataka
2021 Narinder Singh Kapany[lower-roman 18]# Science and Engineering—[upper-alpha 2]
2021 Wahiduddin Khan OthersDelhi
2021 B. B. Lal OthersDelhi
2021 Sudarshan Sahoo ArtOdisha

Explanatory notes
  1. Per Article 18 (1) of the Constitution of India: Abolition of titles, "no title, not being a military or academic distinction, shall be conferred by the State".[7][9]
  2. P. N. Haksar was offered the award in 1973 for, among other services, his crucial diplomatic role in brokering the Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation and the Shimla Agreement, but declined as "Accepting an award for work done somehow causes an inexplicable discomfort to me."[13]
  3. Vilayat Khan refused Padma Shri (1964), Padma Bhushan (1968), and Padma Vibhushan (2000) and stated that "the selection committees were incompetent to judge [his] music".[14][15]
  4. E. M. S. Namboodiripad, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from 1964) and the first Chief Minister of Kerala (1957-59, 1967-69), declined the award in 1992, as it went against his nature to accept a state honour.[16]
  5. Swami Ranganathananda declined the award in 2000 as it was conferred to him as an individual and not to the Ramakrishna Mission.[15][17]
  6. Lakshmi Chand Jain died on 14 November 2010, at the age of 84.[18] His family refused to accept the posthumous honour as Jain was against accepting state honours.[19]
  7. Sharad Anantrao Joshi's family refused to accept the posthumous honour as Joshi's work for good of farmers is not reflected in the Government policies for them.[20]
  8. In 1991, Baba Amte returned the award, along with the Padma Shri conferred in 1971, to protest against the treatment given to the tribals during the construction of Sardar Sarovar Dam.[50]
  9. In 2020, Parkash Singh Badal returned the award in solidarity with the farmers protest.
  10. Khushwant Singh was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award, in 1974; he returned the award in 1984 in protest against Operation Blue Star led by the Indian Army.[55]
  11. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar declined the award in 2015 and requested that "someone else should be given the honour".[60]
Non-citizen recipients
  1. Indicates a citizen of Bhutan
  2. Indicates a citizen of the United States
  3. Indicates a citizen of the United Kingdom
  4. Indicates a citizen of South Africa
  5. Indicates a citizen of Japan
  6. Indicates a citizen of New Zealand
  7. Indicates a citizen of France
  8. Indicates a citizen of Djibouti
  9. Indicates a citizen of Mauritius
Posthumous recipients
  1. Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq died on 12 December 1971, at the age of 59.[48]
  2. Vikram Sarabhai died on 30 December 1971, at the age of 52.[49]
  3. Arun Shridhar Vaidya was assassinated by Sikh extremists on 10 August 1986.[51]
  4. Lallan Prasad Singh died on 9 November 1998, at the age of 86.[52]
  5. Jyotindra Nath Dixit died on 3 January 2005, at the age of 68.[53]
  6. Raja Rao died on 8 July 2006, at the age of 97.[54]
  7. Edmund Hillary died on 11 January 2008, at the age of 88.[56]
  8. Bhupen Hazarika died on 5 November 2011, at the age of 85.[57]
  9. Mario Miranda died on 11 December 2011, at the age of 85.[58]
  10. Dhirubhai Ambani died on 6 July 2002, at the age of 69.[59]
  11. Sunder Lal Patwa died on 28 December 2016, at the age of 92.[61]
  12. P. A. Sangma died on 4 March 2016, at the age of 68.[62]
  13. George Fernandes died on 29 January 2019, at the age of 88.[63]
  14. Arun Jaitley died on 24 August 2019, at the age of 66.[64]
  15. Sushma Swaraj died on 6 August 2019, at the age of 67.[65]
  16. Vishwesha Teertha died on 29 December 2019, at the age of 88.[66]
  17. S. P. Balasubramaniam died on 25 September 2020, at the age of 74.[67]
  18. Narinder Singh Kapany died on 4 December 2020, at the age of 94.[68]

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