The third highest civilian award in India, the Padma Bhushan Award is given by the Government of India, every year since 1954. The award is presented to those rare people, who have excelled in their respective fields and the award is actually like recognition to their achievements. In the fourth year of the Padma Bhushan Award, a number of 16 people from different fields received it.
A detailed list of the 1957 Padma Bhushan Awardees is given below:
| Name | Field | State | Country |
| Abid Hussain | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh | India |
| Hazari Prasad Dwivedi | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh | India |
| K. Covilagam Kutti Ettan Raja | Civil Service | Kerala | India |
| R. Allagappa Chettair | Social Work | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Radha Kumud Mookherjee | Public Affairs | West Bengal | India |
| Shikan Lal Atreya | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh | India |
| Siddheshwar Verma | Literature & Education | Chandigarh | India |
| Shrikrishna N. Ratanjankar | Arts | Uttar Pradesh | India |
| Bosi Sen | Science & Engineering | West Bengal | India |
| Govind Sakharam Sardesai | Literature & Education | Maharashtra | India |
| K.A. Nilakanta Sastri | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Shyamanandan Sahaya | Literature & Education | Bihar | India |
| Andal Venkatasuba Rao | Social Work | Andhra Pradesh | India |
| Lakshmi Nandan Menon | Public Affairs | Kerala | India |
| T. Balasaraswathy | Arts | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Ustad Mushtaq Hussain Khan | Arts | Madhya Pradesh | India |
