The Padma Bhushan Award is always considered as one of the most prestigious and honourable civilian awards in India. The award is presented by the Government of India on a regular basis since the year 1954. It is presented to those, who have made significant contributions to their respective fields. The Government of India actually recognises their extraordinary talents and appreciates their achievements through this award. The people from India and also from abroad receive this award. 32 people won the Padma Bhushan Award in the year 2003 and all of them are considered as jewels in their respective fields.
A list of the 2003 Padma Bhushan Awardees is given below:
Name | Field | State | Country |
Padma Subrahmanyam | Arts | Tamil Nadu | India |
Ammannur Madhava Chakyar | Arts | Kerala | India |
Balasubramania Rajam Iyer | Arts | Tamil Nadu | India |
Jagjit Singh | Arts | Maharashtra | India |
Madurai Narayanan Krishnan | Arts | Tamil Nadu | India |
Naseeruddin Shah | Arts | Maharashtra | India |
Puliyur Subramaniam Narayanaswam | Arts | Tamil Nadu | India |
Tiruvalangadu Vembu Iyer Sankaranarayanan | Arts | Tamil Nadu | India |
Trichur Vaidyanatha Ramachandran | Arts | Tamil Nadu | India |
Umayalpuram Kasiviswanatha Sivaraman | Arts | Tamil Nadu | India |
Swapnasundari | Arts | Delhi | India |
Teejan Bai | Arts | Chhattisgarh | India |
Name | Field | State | Country |
Name | Field | State | Country |
Sitakant Mahapatra | Literature & Education | Orissa | India |
Ottupulakkal Velukkuty Vijayan | Literature & Education | Kerala | India |
Subhash Mukhopadhyay (poet) | Literature & Education | West Bengal | India |
Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti | Medicine | Maharashtra | India |
Purshotam Lal | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh | India |
Ramesh Kumar | Medicine | Delhi | India |
Coluthur Gopalan | Medicine | Delhi | India |
Prabhu Chawla | Others | Delhi | India |
Thaliyadiparambil Vittappa Ramachandra Shenoy | Others | Delhi | India |
Herbert Fischer | Public Affairs | - | Germany |
Parasaran Kesava Iyengar | Public Affairs | Delhi | India |
Arcot Ramachandran | Science & Engineering | Karnataka | India |
Herbert Alexandrovich Yefremov | Science & Engineering | - | Russia |
Krishna Joshi | Science & Engineering | Haryana | India |
Bagicha Singh Minhas | Science & Engineering | Delhi | India |
Rajinder Kumar | Science & Engineering | Karnataka | India |
Narayanan Srinivasan | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu | India |
Ram Badan Singh | Science & Engineering | Delhi | India |
Hari Shankar Singhania | Trade & Industry | Delhi | India |
Jamshyd Naoroji Godrej | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra | India |