In the year 1998, 19 people from different fields received the prestigious Padma Bhushan Award from the Government of India. The Government of India has been presenting the award on a regular basis since the year 1954 and the main objective is to recognise extraordinary talents in various sectors. The Padma Bhushan Award is ranked third amongst all the civilian awards presented in India, just behind the Bharat Ratna Award and the Padma Vibhushan Award. The winners of this award get special honour from the people of all parts of the Indian society. The people from India and also from abroad can get the award for their achievements in their respective fields.
A detailed list of the 1998 Padma Bhushan Awardees is given below:
| Name | Field | State | Country |
| Vempati Chinna Satyam | Arts | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Bhisham Sahni | Literature & Education | Delhi | India |
| Udupi Rajagopalachar Ananthamurthy | Literature & Education | Karnataka | India |
| Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya | Literature & Education | West Bengal | India |
| Hari Krishan Dua | Literature & Education | Delhi | India |
| K. M. Mathew | Literature & Education | Kerala | India |
| Gurukumar Balachandra Parulkar | Medicine | Maharashtra | India |
| Hem Lata Gupta | Medicine | Delhi | India |
| Maligali Ram Krishna Girinath | Medicine | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Panagipalli Venugopal | Medicine | Delhi | India |
| Colonel Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon | Public Affairs | Madhya Pradesh | India |
| Laxmi Mall Singhvi | Public Affairs | Delhi | India |
| Satyapal Dang | Public Affairs | Punjab | India |
| Vithal Mahadev Tarkunde | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh | India |
| Rajendra Singh Paroda | Science & Engineering | Delhi | India |
| Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar | Science & Engineering | Karnataka | India |
| Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman | Science & Engineering | Karnataka | India |
| Anil Kakodkar | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra | India |
| G. Madhavan Nair | Science & Engineering | Kerala | India |
