Padma Bhushan Awardees in Public Affairs

Year

Name

State

Country

1954

Maharaj Kr. Palden T Namgyal

Punjab

India

1954

V.L. Mehta

Gujarat

India

1956

Nawab Zain Yar Jung

Andhra Pradesh

India

1956

Pushpavati Janardenrai Mehta

Maharashtra

India

1957

Lakshmi Nandan Menon

Kerala

India

1957

Radha Kumud Mookherjee

West Bengal

India

1958

Rao Raja Hanut Singh

Rajasthan

India

1959

Bhargavram Vithal Warerkar

Maharashtra

India

1960

Ayyadevara Kaleswara Rao

Andhra Pradesh

India

1960

Nilkantha Das

Orissa

India

1961

Vindhyeshwari Prasad Varma

Bihar

India

1962

Mithan Jamshed Lam

Maharashtra

India

1962

Moturi Satyanarayana

Tamil Nadu

India

1962

Sudhindra Nath Mukherjee

West Bengal

India

1963

Raman Lal Gokal Das Saraiya

Maharashtra

India

1964

Kunji Lal Dubey

Madhya Pradesh

India

1964

Nuruddin Ahmed

Delhi

India

1965

Akbar Ali Khan

Andhra Pradesh

India

1965

Ca A. Putwardhan Dhundirao

Maharashtra

India

1965

Krishnaswami Balasubramanai Iyer

Tamil Nadu

India

1966

K.P. Kesava Manon

Kerala

India

1966

T.S. Ramaswami Aiyer

Tamil Nadu

India

1967

Kaikhushru Ruttonji P. Shroff

Maharashtra

India

1968

Mansukhlal Atmaram Master

Maharashtra

India

1970

Bhagwantrao Annabhau Mandloi

Madhya Pradesh

India

1970

Hans Raj Gupta

Haryana

India

1977

Baba Prithivi Singh Azad

Chandigarh

India

1985

Durga Das Basu

West Bengal

India

1985

Justice Sadat Abul Masud

West Bengal

India

1986

Jean Ribound

-

France

1986

Martand Singh

Delhi

India

1986

Ram Krishna Trivedi

Uttar Pradesh

India

1988

Kushok Bakula

Delhi

India

1988

Renuka Ray

West Bengal

India

1989

Lakshman Singh

Maharashtra

India

1989

Late Lord Fenner Brockway

-

UK

1989

Yosho Sakurauchi

-

Japan

1990

Julius Silverman

-

UK

1991

Fali Sam Nariman

Delhi

India

1991

Jeevan Singh Umranangal

Punjab

India

1991

Manubhai Rajaram Pancholi

Gujarat

India

1992

Bijoy Chandra Bhagavati

Assam

India

1992

Bijoy Chandra Bhagawati

Assam

India

1992

Vavilala Gopalakrishnaya

Andhra Pradesh

India

1992

Vavilala Gopalakrishnayya

Andhra Pradesh

India

1998

Justice (Shri) Vithal Mahadev Tarkunde

Uttar Pradesh

India

1998

Shri Satyapal Dang

Punjab

India

1998

Col. Gurbakhsh Singh Dhillon

Madhya Pradesh

India

1998

Dr. Laxmi Mall Singhvi

Delhi

India

1999

Shri Jag Parvesh Chandra

Delhi

India

2000

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Delhi

India

2001

Ashok Desai

Delhi

India

2001

Swadesh Chatterjee

-

USA

2002

Kottayan Katankot Venugopal

Delhi

India

2002

Shri Frank Pallone

-

USA

2002

Shri Gary Ackerman

-

USA

2002

Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharyya

-

UK

2003

Herbert Fischer

-

Germany

2003

Parasaran Kesava Iyengar

Delhi

India

2004

Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari

Maharashtra

India

2004

Yoshiro Mori

-

Japan

2005

Syed Mir Qasim

Delhi

India

2006

Hira Lall Sibal

Chandigarh

India

2006

P. P. Rao

Uttar Pradesh

India

2006

Shashi Bhushan

Delhi

India

2007

Ela Gandhi

-

South Africa

2007

Justice K. T. Thomas

Kerala

India

2008

Meghnad Desai

-

UK

2008

Mian Bashir Ahmed

Jammu and Kashmir

India

2008

Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov

Moscow

Russia

2009

Inderjit Kaur Barthakur

Meghalaya

India

2009

Kirit Shantilal Parikh

Delhi

India

2010

Abhijit Sen

Delhi

India

2010

Sailesh Kumar Bandyopadhyay

West Bengal

India

2010

Sant Singh Chatwal

-

USA

2012

George Yong-Boon Yeo

Singapore

2012

Patibandla Chandrasekhar Rao

Germany

2013

Shivajirao Girdhar Patil

Maharashtra

India

2014

Dalveer Bhandari

Delhi

India

2015

Harish Salve

Delhi

India

2015

Saichiro Misumi

Japan

2015

Subhash C. Kashyap

Delhi

India

2016

Ravindra Chandra Bhargava

Uttar Pradesh

India

2016

Robert Blackwill

USA

2018

Alexander Kadakin

Russia

2019

Hukmdev Narayan Yadav

Bihar

India

2019

Kariya Munda

Jharkhand

India

2019

Pravin Gordhan

South Africa

2019

Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa

Punjab

India

2020

Manohar Parrikar

Goa

India

2020

Muzaffar Hussain Baig

Jammu and Kashmir

India

2020

N. R. Madhava Menon

Kerala

India

2020

S. C. Jamir

Nagaland

India

2020

Sumitra Mahajan

Madhya Pradesh

India

2020

Syed Muazzem Ali

Bangladesh

2021

Keshubhai Patel

Gujarat

India

2021

Ram Vilas Paswan

Bihar

India

2021

Tarlochan Singh

Haryana

India

2021

Tarun Gogoi

Assam

India

2022

Ghulam Nabi Azad

Jammu and Kashmir

India

2024

Fathima Beevi

Kerala

India

2024

O. Rajagopal

Kerala

India

2024

Ram Naik

Maharashtra

India

2024

Satyabrata Mookherjee

West Bengal

India

2025

Manohar Joshi

Maharashtra

India

2025

Sushil Kumar Modi

Bihar

India