About Padma Vibhushan
Padma Vibhushan Award has been given the second highest position among all the Indian civilian awards. The award is presented by the Government of India to recognize notable services of Indian citizens in any field, including services rendered by government servants. The award is presented by the President of India. The award can also be given posthumously. The award consists of a medal and a citation.
History of Padma Vibhushan Award
Padma Vibhushan Award was established by a Presidential decree on 2nd of January, 1954. The award was originally established as the "Pahela Varg" or "First Class" of the three classes of "Padma" awards. Since 1954, a total of 300 people have received the award. After 1954, the award was being given every year, except for a short period from 13th of July, 1977 to 26th of January, 1980, when it was suspended due to unfortunate circumstances. Also, no award was given between the years 1992 and 1998. 
Design of Padma Vibhushan Award
As per the original design, Padma Vibhushan Award was a circular gold medal, with a diameter of about 1-3/8 inches. A lotus flower was inscribed in the center of the medal, with the term "Padma Vibhushan" written above. There was also a lotus wreath below. A state emblem with "Desh Seva" or "National Service" was written above on the reverse side of the medal. However, the design was changed within a year after its inception on 8th of January, 1955. The view behind the change was the removal of class structure. The new design of the Padma Vibhushan Award was amended on 30th of August, 1955 to make a miniature badge of the award. The award was further redesigned on 26th of January, 1957. In the year 1957, the badge was altered to burnished bronze and was embossed in white gold.
Presently, the award is a circular toned bronze badge, with a diameter of 1-3/16 inch. It has geometrical patterns. There is a lotus flower embossed in the center of the badge, with four major petals in white gold. Above and below the lotus flower, the term "Padma Vibhushan" is written in silver gilt. On the reverse side of the badge, the national emblem along with the motto is inscribed below in white gold. Padma Vibhushan Awardees hang the badge from a ring and wear it with a ribbon that is medium pink in color. The female recipients of the award wear the badge with a bow fashioned from the ribbon.
Padma Vibhushan Awardees
In the very first year of its inception, a total of 6 extremely talented people received the Padma Vibhushan Award. These people were Satyendra Nath Bose, Nandalal Bose, Zakir Husain, Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, V. K. Krishna Menon and Jigme Dorji Wangchuk. In 2009, a total of 10 people received the award. Murli Manohar Joshi, Sharad Pawar, Udupi Ramachandra Rao, and Jaggi Vasudev are some of the Padma Vibhushan Awardees for the year 2017.
List of Padma Vibhushan Awardees
|
Year |
Name |
Field |
State |
Country |
|
1954 |
Nand Lal Bose |
Art |
West Bengal |
India |
|
1954 |
Dr. Satyendra Nath Bose |
Literature & Education |
West Bengal |
India |
|
1954 |
Dr. Zakir Hussain |
Public Affairs |
Andhra Pradesh |
India |
|
1954 |
Shri Balasaheb Gangadhar
Kher |
Public Affairs |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1954 |
Shri Jigme Dorji Wangchuk |
Public Affairs |
Bihar |
India |
|
1954 |
Shri V. K. Krishna Menon |
Public Affairs |
Kerala |
India |
|
1955 |
Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve |
Literature & Education |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1955 |
J.R.D. Tata |
Trade & Industry |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1956 |
Chandulal Madhavlal
Trivedi |
Public Affairs |
Madhya Pradesh |
India |
|
1956 |
Fazal Ali |
Public Affairs |
Bihar |
India |
|
1956 |
Jankibai Bajaj |
Social Work |
Madhya Pradesh |
India |
|
1957 |
Motilal Chimanlal Setalvad |
Law and Public affairs |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1957 |
Shriprakash |
Public Affairs |
Andhra Pradesh |
India |
|
1957 |
Ghanshyam Das Birla |
Trade & Industry |
Rajasthan |
India |
|
1959 |
John Matthai |
Literature & Education |
Kerala |
India |
|
1959 |
Radhabinod Pal |
Public Affairs |
West Bengal |
India |
|
1959 |
Gaganvihari Lallubhai
Mehta |
Social Work |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1960 |
Naryana Raghvan Pillai |
Public Affairs |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
1962 |
H. Varda Raja Iyengar |
Civil Service |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
1962 |
Vijayalakshmi Pandit |
Civil Service |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
1962 |
Padmaja Naidu |
Public Affairs |
Andhra Pradesh |
India |
|
1963 |
Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterji |
Literature & Education |
West Bengal |
India |
|
1963 |
Dr. Arcot Lakshman Swami
Mudaliar |
Medicine |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
1963 |
Hari Vinayak Pataskar |
Public Affairs |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1964 |
Acharya Kalelkar |
Literature & Education |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1964 |
Pt. Gopinath Kaviraj |
Literature & Education |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
1965 |
Arjan Singh |
Civil Service |
Delhi |
India |
|
1965 |
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri |
Civil Service |
West Bengal |
India |
|
1965 |
Mehdi Nawaz Jung |
Public Affairs |
Andhra Pradesh |
India |
|
1966 |
Valerian Cardinal Gracias |
Social Work |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1967 |
Bhola Nath Jha |
Civil Service |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
1967 |
Hafix Mohammed Ibrahim |
Civil Service |
Andhra Pradesh |
India |
|
1967 |
Pattadakal Venkanna R Rao |
Civil Service |
Andhra Pradesh |
India |
|
1967 |
Chandra Kisan Daphtary |
Public Affairs |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1968 |
Kripal Singh |
Civil Service |
Delhi |
India |
|
1968 |
K. Vaidyanatha Kalyana
Sundaram |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
1968 |
Mahadev Srihari Ane |
Public Affairs |
Madhya Pradesh |
India |
|
1968 |
Dr. Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar |
Science & Engineering |
Illinois |
USA |
|
1968 |
Prasanta Chandra
Mahalanobis |
Statistical Science |
Delhi |
India |
|
1969 |
Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi |
Civil Service |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1969 |
Ghananand Pande |
Civil Service |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
1969 |
Mohan Sinha Mehta |
Civil Service |
Rajasthan |
India |
|
1969 |
Rajeshwar Dayal |
Civil Service |
Delhi |
India |
|
1969 |
Hargobind Khorana |
Science & Engineering |
Massachusetts |
USA |
|
1970 |
A. Rameswami Mudaliar |
Civil Service |
Andhra Pradesh |
India |
|
1970 |
Binay Ranjan Sen |
Civil Service |
West Bengal |
India |
|
1970 |
Group. Captain. Suranjan
Das |
Civil Service |
West Bengal |
India |
|
1970 |
Paramasiva Prabhakar
Kumaramangalam |
Civil Service |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
1970 |
Dr Tara Chand |
Literature & Education |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
1970 |
Lt. General Harbaksh Singh |
Military Service |
Punjab |
India |
|
1970 |
Anthony Lancelot Dias |
Public Affairs |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1971 |
Uday Shankar |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1971 |
Ustad Allauddin Khan |
Art |
West Bengal |
India |
|
1971 |
Balaram Sivaraman |
Civil Service |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
1971 |
Bimal Prasad Chaliha |
Civil Service |
Assam |
India |
|
1971 |
Sumati Morarjee |
Civil Service |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1971 |
Dr. Vithal Nagesh
Shirodkar |
Medicine |
Goa |
India |
|
1972 |
Pratap Chandra Lal |
Civil Service |
Punjab |
India |
|
1972 |
S. M. Nanda |
Civil Service |
Delhi |
India |
|
1972 |
Hormasji Maneckji Seervai |
Law and Public affairs |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1972 |
Sam Manekshaw |
Military Service |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
1972 |
Aditya Nath Jha |
Public Affairs |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
1972 |
Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq |
Public Affairs |
Jammu and Kashmir |
India |
|
1972 |
Jivraj N. Mehta |
Public Affairs |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1972 |
P. Balacharya
Gajendragadkar |
Public Affairs |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1972 |
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai |
Science & Engineering |
Gujarat |
India |
|
1973 |
Basanti Devi |
Civil Service |
West Bengal |
India |
|
1973 |
Tirumalrao Swaminathan |
Civil Service |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
1973 |
Nagendra Singh |
Public Affairs |
Rajasthan |
India |
|
1973 |
Daulat Singh Kothari |
Science & Engineering |
Delhi |
India |
|
1973 |
Nellie Sengupta |
Social Work |
West Bengal |
India |
|
1973 |
U. N. Dhebar |
Social Work |
Gujarat |
India |
|
1974 |
Benode Behari Mukherjee |
Art |
West Bengal |
India |
|
1974 |
Harish Chandra Sarin |
Civil Service |
Delhi |
India |
|
1974 |
V. Kasturi Ranga Varadarja
Rao |
Civil Service |
Karnataka |
India |
|
1974 |
Niren De |
Law and Public affairs |
West Bengal |
India |
|
1975 |
M.S. Subbulakshmi |
Art |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
1975 |
Homi Nusserwanji Sethna |
Civil Service |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1975 |
Basanti Dulal Nag
Chaudhuri |
Literature & Education |
West Bengal |
India |
|
1975 |
Premlila Vithaldas
Thackersey |
Literature & Education |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1975 |
Chintaman Dwarkanath
Deshmukh |
Public Affairs |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1975 |
Raja Ramanna |
Science & Engineering |
Karnataka |
India |
|
1975 |
Durgabai Deshmukh |
Social Work |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1975 |
Mary Clubwala Jadhav |
Social Work |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
1976 |
Keshava Shankar Pillai |
Art |
Delhi |
India |
|
1976 |
Satyajit Ray |
Art |
West Bengal |
India |
|
1976 |
Col. Bashir Hussain Zaidi |
Literature & Education |
Delhi |
India |
|
1976 |
Giani Gurmukh Singh
Mussafir |
Literature & Education |
Punjab |
India |
|
1976 |
Kalu Lal Shrimali |
Literature & Education |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
1976 |
Dr. Kalpathi Ramakrishna
Ramanathan |
Science & Engineering |
Kerala |
India |
|
1976 |
Salim Moizuddin Ali Abdul |
Science & Engineering |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
1977 |
T. Balasaraswati |
Art |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
1977 |
Ajudhia Nath Khosla |
Civil Service |
Delhi |
India |
|
1977 |
Om Prakash Mehra |
Civil Service |
Punjab |
India |
|
1977 |
Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan
Singh |
Literature & Education |
Delhi |
India |
|
1977 |
Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee |
Public Affairs |
West Bengal |
India |
|
1977 |
Ali Yavar Jung |
Public Affairs |
Andhra Pradesh |
India |
|
1980 |
Ustad Bismillah Khan |
Art |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
1980 |
Rai Krishnadasa |
Civil Service |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
1981 |
Dr. Satish Dhawan |
Science & Engineering |
Karnataka |
India |
|
1981 |
Shri Ravi Shankar |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1982 |
Dr. Mallikarjun Bheemarayappa
Mansur |
Art |
Karnataka |
India |
|
1982 |
Dr. Shantaram Rajaram
Vankudre Alias Dr.V.Shantaram |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1982 |
Kaloji Narayana Rao |
Art |
Andhra Pradesh |
India |
|
1982 |
Govinddas Shroff |
Literature & Education |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1982 |
Pandit Lakshmanshastri
Joshi |
Literature & Education |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1982 |
Dr. Sivaramakrishna Iyer
Padmavati |
Medicine |
Delhi |
India |
|
1982 |
Aruna Asaf Ali |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
1982 |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
1982 |
Ravi Narayan Reddy |
Public Affairs |
Andhra Pradesh |
India |
|
1982 |
Sardar Swaran Singh |
Public Affairs |
Punjab |
India |
|
1985 |
Prof. Mambillikalathil
Govind Kumar Menon |
Civil Service |
Kerala |
India |
|
1985 |
Prof. Chintamani Nagesa
Ramachandra Rao |
Science & Engineering |
Tamilnadu |
India |
|
1986 |
Shri Birju Maharaj |
Art |
Delhi |
India |
|
1986 |
Prof. Autar Singh Paintal |
Medicine |
Delhi |
India |
|
1986 |
Shri Murlidhar Devidas
Alias Baba Amte |
Social Work |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1987 |
Dr. Manmohan Singh |
Civil Service |
Delhi |
India |
|
1987 |
Late. (Gen.) Arun Shridhar
Vaidya |
Civil Service |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1987 |
Dr. Benjamin Peary Pal |
Science & Engineering |
Delhi |
India |
|
1987 |
Smt. Kamaladevi
Chattopadhyay |
Social Work |
Karnataka |
India |
|
1988 |
Dr. Kuppali Venkatappagowda
Puttappa |
Literature & Education |
Karnataka |
India |
|
1988 |
Smt. Mahadevi Varma
(Posthumous) |
Literature & Education |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
1988 |
Shri Justice Mirza
Hameedullah Beg |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
1989 |
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan |
Art |
West Bengal |
India |
|
1989 |
Shri Umashankar Dikshit |
Public Affairs |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
1989 |
Dr. Monkombu Sambasivan
Swaminathan |
Science & Engineering |
Delhi |
India |
|
1990 |
Dr. Sammangudi
Radhakrishnier Srinivasier |
Art |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
1990 |
Shri Shivputra Sindhram
Komkali Alias Kumar Gandharv |
Art |
Madhya Pradesh |
India |
|
1990 |
Prof. Bhabatosh Datta |
Literature & Education |
West Bengal |
India |
|
1990 |
Shri Triloki Nath
Chaturvedi |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
1990 |
Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen
Abdul Kalam |
Science & Engineering |
Telangana |
India |
|
1990 |
Dr. Vallampadugai
Srinivasa Raghavan Arunchalam |
Science & Engineering |
Delhi |
India |
|
1991 |
M.F. Husain |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1991 |
Mangalampalli Balamurali
Krishna |
Art |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
1991 |
Khusro Faramurz Rustamji |
Civil Service |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1991 |
Rajaram Shastri |
Literature & Education |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
1991 |
Gulzari Lal Nanda |
Public Affairs |
Gujarat |
India |
|
1991 |
Hirendra Nath Mukherjee |
Public Affairs |
West Bengal |
India |
|
1991 |
N. G. Ranga |
Public Affairs |
Andhra Pradesh |
India |
|
1991 |
Indraprasad Gordhanbhai
Patel |
Science & Engineering |
Gujarat |
India |
|
1992 |
Dr. Shantaram Rajaram
Vankudre Alias Dr. V. Shantaram (Posthumous) |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1992 |
Shri Kaloji Narayana Rao |
Art |
Telangana |
India |
|
1992 |
Shri Govinddas Mannulal
Shroff |
Literature & Education |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1992 |
Shri Laxmanshastri Balaji
Joshi |
Literature & Education |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1992 |
Dr.(Kum.) Sivaramakrishna
Iyer Padmavati |
Medicine |
Delhi |
India |
|
1992 |
Sardar Swaran Singh |
Public Affairs |
Punjab |
India |
|
1992 |
Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
1992 |
Shri Ravi Narayan Reddy
(Posthumous) |
Public Affairs |
Telangana |
India |
|
1992 |
Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
1998 |
Nani Ardeshir Palkhivala |
Law and Public affairs |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1998 |
Lakshmi Sahgal |
Public Affairs |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
1998 |
Walter Sisulu |
Public Affairs |
|
South Africa |
|
1998 |
Usha Mehta |
Social Work |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1999 |
Damal Krishnaswamy
Pattammal |
Art |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
1999 |
Kumari Lata Mangeshkar |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
1999 |
Pandit Bhimsen Joshi |
Art |
Karnataka |
India |
|
1999 |
Satish Gujral |
Art |
Delhi |
India |
|
1999 |
Dharma Vira |
Civil Service |
Delhi |
India |
|
1999 |
Shri Braj Kumar Nehru |
Civil Service |
Himachal Pradesh |
India |
|
1999 |
Shri Lallan Prasad Singh |
Civil Service |
Delhi |
India |
|
1999 |
Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer |
Law and Public affairs |
Kerala |
India |
|
1999 |
Sarvepalli Gopal |
Literature & Education |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
1999 |
Justice Hans Raj Khanna |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
1999 |
Rajagopala Chidambaram |
Science & Engineering |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
1999 |
Verghese Kurien |
Science & Engineering |
Gujarat |
India |
|
1999 |
Nana Deshmukh |
Social Work |
Delhi |
India |
|
1999 |
Shri Pandurang Shastri
Athavale |
Social Work |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2000 |
Hari Prasad Chaurasia |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2000 |
Kelucharan Mohapatra |
Art |
Odisha |
India |
|
2000 |
Pandit Jasraj |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2000 |
Bhairab Dutt Pande |
Civil Service |
Uttarakhand |
India |
|
2000 |
Krishen Behari Lall |
Civil Service |
Delhi |
India |
|
2000 |
Manohar Singh Gill |
Civil Service |
Delhi |
India |
|
2000 |
Tarlok Singh |
Civil Service |
Delhi |
India |
|
2000 |
Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati |
Literature & Education |
Gujarat |
India |
|
2000 |
Kakkadan Nandanath Raj |
Literature & Education |
Kerala |
India |
|
2000 |
Rasipuram Krishnaswami
Narayan |
Literature & Education |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
2000 |
Sikander Bakht |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2000 |
Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan |
Science & Engineering |
Karnataka |
India |
|
2000 |
Maidavolu Narasmiham |
Trade & Industry |
Andhra Pradesh |
India |
|
2001 |
Amjad Ali Khan |
Art |
Delhi |
India |
|
2001 |
Hrishikesh Mukherjee |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2001 |
Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2001 |
Zubin Mehta |
Art |
|
USA |
|
2001 |
Dr. Chakravarthi
Vijayaraghava Narasimhan |
Civil Service |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
2001 |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
Literature & Education |
|
USA |
|
2001 |
Kotta Satchidananda Murty |
Literature & Education |
Andhra Pradesh |
India |
|
2001 |
Benjamin Arthur Gilman |
Public Affairs |
|
USA |
|
2001 |
Hosei Norota |
Public Affairs |
|
Japan |
|
2001 |
Dr. Calyampudi
Radhakrishna Rao |
Science & Engineering |
|
USA |
|
2001 |
Prof. Man Mohan Sharma |
Science & Engineering |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2002 |
Dr.(Smt.) Gangubai Hangal |
Art |
Karnataka |
India |
|
2002 |
Pandit Kishan Maharaj |
Art |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
2002 |
Smt. Kishori Amonkar |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2002 |
Shri Soli Jehangir
Sorabjee |
Law and Public affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2002 |
Dr. Chakravthi Rangarajan |
Literature & Education |
Andhra Pradesh |
India |
|
2003 |
Sonal Mansingh |
Art |
Delhi |
India |
|
2003 |
Bal Ram Nanda |
Literature & Education |
Delhi |
India |
|
2003 |
Bhrihaspati Dev Triguna |
Medicine |
Delhi |
India |
|
2003 |
Kazi Lhendup Dorji
Kangsarpa |
Public Affairs |
West Bengal |
India |
|
2004 |
Justice Manepalli Narayana
Rao Venkatachaliah |
Law and Public affairs |
Karnataka |
India |
|
2004 |
Amrita Pritam |
Literature & Education |
Delhi |
India |
|
2004 |
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar |
Science & Engineering |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2005 |
Ram Narayan |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2005 |
Rasipuram Krishnaswamy
Laxman |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2005 |
Jyotindra Nath Dixit |
Civil Service |
Delhi |
India |
|
2005 |
Milon Kumar Banerji |
Law and Public affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2005 |
B. K.Goyal |
Medicine |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2005 |
Marthanda Varma Sankaran
Valiathan |
Medicine |
Karnataka |
India |
|
2005 |
Dr. Karan Singh |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2005 |
Mohan Dharia |
Social Work |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2006 |
Adoor Gopalakrishnan |
Art |
Kerala |
India |
|
2006 |
C.R. Krishnaswamy Rao |
Civil Service |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
2006 |
V. N. Khare |
Law and Public affairs |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
2006 |
Mahasveta Devi |
Literature & Education |
West Bengal |
India |
|
2006 |
Prakash Narain Tandon |
Medicine |
Delhi |
India |
|
2006 |
Charles Correa |
Science & Engineering |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2006 |
Dr. Norman E. Borlaug |
Science & Engineering |
Texas |
USA |
|
2006 |
Prof. Obaid Siddiqui |
Science & Engineering |
Karnataka |
India |
|
2006 |
Nirmala Deshpande |
Social Work |
Delhi |
India |
|
2007 |
N.N. Vohra |
Civil Service |
Haryana |
India |
|
2007 |
Naresh Chandra |
Civil Service |
Delhi |
India |
|
2007 |
Venkataraman Krishnamurthy |
Civil Service |
Delhi |
India |
|
2007 |
Fali Sam Nariman |
Law and Public affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2007 |
Justice Prafullachandra
Natwarlal Bhagwati |
Law and Public affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2007 |
Khushwant Singh |
Literature & Education |
Delhi |
India |
|
2007 |
Raja Rao |
Literature & Education |
Karnataka |
USA |
|
2007 |
Balu Sankaran |
Medicine |
Delhi |
India |
|
2007 |
Raja Jesudoss Chelliah |
Public Affairs |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
2007 |
Sudarshan Erinackal Chandy
George |
Science & Engineering |
Kerala |
USA |
|
2008 |
Ms. Asha Bhosle |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2008 |
Justice (Dr.) A. S. Anand |
Public Affairs |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
2008 |
Shri P.N. Dhar |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2008 |
Shri Pranab Mukherjee |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2008 |
Shri Pranab Mukherjee |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2008 |
Dr. Rajendra Kumar
Pachauri |
Science & Engineering |
Delhi |
India |
|
2008 |
Mr. Late Edmund Hillary |
Sports |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2008 |
Shri Sachin Ramesh
Tendulkar |
Sports |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2008 |
Shri Viswanathan Anand |
Sports |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
2008 |
Shri Lakshmi Narayan
Mittal |
Trade & Industry |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2008 |
Shri N.R. Narayana Murthy |
Trade & Industry |
Karnataka |
India |
|
2008 |
Shri P.R.S. Oberoi |
Trade & Industry |
Delhi |
India |
|
2008 |
Shri Ratan Naval Tata |
Trade & Industry |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2009 |
Dr. Chandrika Prasad
Srivastava |
Civil Service |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2009 |
Prof. D.P. Chattopadhyaya |
Literature & Education |
West Bengal |
India |
|
2009 |
Dr. Purshotam Lal |
Medicine |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
2009 |
Prof. Jasbir Singh Bajaj |
Medicine |
Punjab |
India |
|
2009 |
Shri Sunderlal Bahuguna |
Others |
Uttarakhand |
India |
|
2009 |
Justice Dr. A. S. Anand |
Public Affairs |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
2009 |
Shri Govind Narain |
Public Affairs |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
2009 |
Shri P.N. Dhar |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2009 |
Shri Pranab Mukherjee |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2009 |
Dr. Anil Kakodkar |
Science & Engineering |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2009 |
Dr. E. Sreedharan |
Science & Engineering |
Delhi |
India |
|
2009 |
Shri G. Madhavan Nair |
Science & Engineering |
Karnataka |
India |
|
2009 |
Mrs Sister Nirmala |
Social Work |
West Bengal |
India |
|
2009 |
Late Mr. Edmund Hillary
(Posthumous) |
Sports |
Delhi |
India |
|
2009 |
Dr. A.S. Ganguly |
Trade & Industry |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2009 |
Shri Lakshmi Narayan
Mittal |
Trade & Industry |
Punjab |
India |
|
2009 |
Shri N.R. Narayana Murthy |
Trade & Industry |
Karnataka |
India |
|
2009 |
Shri P.R.S. Oberoi |
Trade & Industry |
Delhi |
India |
|
2009 |
Shri Ratan Naval Tata |
Trade & Industry |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2010 |
Shri Ebrahim Alkazi |
Art |
Delhi |
India |
|
2010 |
Shri Umayalpuram K.
Sivaraman |
Art |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
2010 |
Smt. Zohra Segal |
Art |
Delhi |
India |
|
2010 |
Dr. Yaga Venugopal Reddy |
Public Affairs |
Andhra Pradesh |
India |
|
2010 |
Dr. Venkatraman
Ramakrishnan |
Science & Engineering |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
2010 |
Dr. Prathap Chandra Reddy |
Trade & Industry |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
2011 |
Dr. (Smt.) Kapila
Vatsyayan |
Art |
Delhi |
India |
|
2011 |
Dr. Akkineni Nageswara Rao |
Art |
Telangana |
India |
|
2011 |
Smt. Homai Vyarawalla |
Art |
Gujarat |
India |
|
2011 |
Shri Brajesh Chandra
Mishra |
Civil Service |
Delhi |
India |
|
2011 |
Dr. Sitakant Mahapatra |
Literature & Education |
Odisha |
India |
|
2011 |
Prof. O.N.V. Kurup |
Literature & Education |
Kerala |
India |
|
2011 |
Dr. Akhlaq Ur Rahman
Kidwai |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2011 |
Dr. Vijay Laxman Kelkar |
Public Affairs |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2011 |
Shri K Parasaran |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2011 |
Shri Montek Singh
Ahluwalia |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2011 |
Prof. Palle Rama Rao |
Science & Engineering |
Telangana |
India |
|
2011 |
Shri Azim Premji |
Trade & Industry |
Karnataka |
India |
|
2012 |
Dr. Bhupendra Kumar
Hazarika(Posthumous) |
Art |
Assam |
India |
|
2012 |
Prof. Kalpathi Ganapathi
Subramanyan |
Art |
Gujarat |
India |
|
2012 |
Shri Mario de Miranda
(Posthumous) |
Art |
Goa |
India |
|
2012 |
Shri T. V. Rajeswa |
Civil Service |
Delhi |
India |
|
2012 |
Dr. Kantilal Hastimal
Sancheti |
Medicine |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2013 |
Shri Raghunath Mohapatra |
Art |
Odisha |
India |
|
2013 |
Shri Sayed Haider Raza |
Art |
Delhi |
India |
|
2013 |
Prof. Roddam Narasimha |
Science & Engineering |
Karnataka |
India |
|
2013 |
Prof. Yash Pal |
Science & Engineering |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
2014 |
Shri Bellur Krishnamachar
Sundararaja Iyengar |
Others |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2014 |
Dr. Raghunath Anant
Mashelkar |
Science & Engineering |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2015 |
Shri Amitabh Bachchan |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2015 |
Shri Mohammed Yusuf Khan
alias Dilip Kumar |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2015 |
Shri Jagadguru Swami
Rambhadracharya |
Literature & Education |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
2015 |
Shri K.K. Venugopal |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2015 |
Shri Lal Kishinchand
Advani |
Public Affairs |
Gujarat |
India |
|
2015 |
Shri Sardar Parkash Singh
Badal |
Public Affairs |
Punjab |
India |
|
2015 |
Prof.i Malur Ramaswamy
Srinivasan |
Science & Engineering |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
2015 |
His Highness Prince Karim
Aga Khan |
Social Work |
|
France |
|
2015 |
Shri Dharmasthala
Veerendra Heggade |
Social Work |
Karnataka |
India |
|
2016 |
Dr. Girija Devi |
Art |
West Bengal |
India |
|
2016 |
Dr. Yamini Krishnamurti |
Art |
Delhi |
India |
|
2016 |
Shri Rajinikanth |
Art |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
2016 |
Shri Avinash Kamlakar
Dixit |
Literature & Education |
|
USA |
|
2016 |
Shri Ramoji Rao |
Literature & Education |
Telangana |
India |
|
2016 |
Dr. V. Shanta |
Medicine |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
2016 |
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
Others |
Karnataka |
India |
|
2016 |
Shri Jagmohan |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2016 |
Dr. Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre |
Science & Engineering |
Karnataka |
India |
|
2016 |
Shri Dhirubhai Hirachand
Ambani (Posthumous) |
Trade & Industry |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2017 |
Shri K J Yesudas |
Art |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
2017 |
Sadhguru Jagadish Vasudev |
Others |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
2017 |
Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi |
Public Affairs |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
2017 |
Shri Purno Agitok Sangma
(Posthumous) |
Public Affairs |
Meghalaya |
India |
|
2017 |
Shri Sharadchandra
Govindrao Pawar |
Public Affairs |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2017 |
Shri Sunder Lal Patwa
(Posthumous) |
Public Affairs |
Madhya Pradesh |
India |
|
2017 |
Prof. Udipi Ramachandra
Rao |
Science & Engineering |
Karnataka |
India |
|
2018 |
Shri Ilaiyaraaja |
Art |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
2018 |
Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2018 |
Shri P Parameswaran |
Literature & Education |
Kerala |
India |
|
2019 |
Dr.(Smt.)Teejan Bai |
Art |
Chhattisgarh |
India |
|
2019 |
His Excellency Shri Ismail
Omar Guelleh |
Art |
|
Djibouti |
|
2019 |
Shri Babasaheb alias
Balwant Moreshwar Purandare |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2019 |
Shri Anilkumar Manibhai
Naik |
Trade & Industry |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2020 |
Pandit Chhannulal Mishra |
Art |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
2020 |
Shri Shri Vishwesha
Theertha Swamiji (Posthumous) |
Others |
Karnataka |
India |
|
2020 |
Shri Arun Jaitley
(Posthumous) |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2020 |
Shri George Fernandes
(Posthumous) |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2020 |
Sir Anerood Jugnauth |
Public Affairs |
|
Mauritius |
|
2020 |
Smt. Sushma Swaraj
(Posthumous) |
Public Affairs |
Delhi |
India |
|
2020 |
Smt. Mangte Chungneijang
Mary Kom |
Sports |
Manipur |
India |
|
2021 |
Shri Sripathi
Panditharadhyula Balasubrahmanyam (Posthumous) |
Art |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
2021 |
Shri Sudarshan Sahoo |
Art |
Odisha |
India |
|
2021 |
Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde |
Medicine |
Karnataka |
India |
|
2021 |
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
(Posthumous) |
Others |
Delhi |
India |
|
2021 |
Prof. Braj Basi Lal |
Others |
Delhi |
India |
|
2021 |
Shri Shinzo Abe |
Public Affairs |
|
Japan |
|
2021 |
Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany
(Posthumous) |
Science & Engineering |
|
USA |
|
2022 |
Dr. Prabha Atre |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2022 |
General Bipin Rawat PVSM,
UYSM, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM (Posthumous) |
Civil Service |
Uttarakhand |
India |
|
2022 |
Shri Radhey Shyam Khemka
(Posthumous) |
Literature & Education |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
2022 |
Shri Kalyan Singh
(Posthumous) |
Public Affairs |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
2023 |
Shri Zakir Hussain |
Art |
Maharashtra |
India |
|
2023 |
Dr. Dilip Mahalanabis (Posthumous) |
Medicine |
West Bengal |
India |
|
2023 |
Prof. Balkrishna Doshi
(Posthumous) |
Others |
Gujarat |
India |
|
2023 |
Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav
(Posthumous) |
Public Affairs |
Uttar Pradesh |
India |
|
2023 |
Shri Somanahalli Mallaiah
Krishna |
Public Affairs |
Karnataka |
India |
|
2023 |
Shri S.R. Srinivasa
Varadhan |
Science & Engineering |
|
USA |
|
2024 |
Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam |
Art |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
2024 |
Dr. Vyjayantimala Bali |
Art |
Tamil Nadu |
India |
|
2024 |
Shri Konidela Chiranjeevi |
Art |
Andhra Pradesh |
India |
|
2024 |
Shri Muppavarapu Venkaiah
Naidu |
Public Affairs |
Andhra Pradesh |
India |
|
2024 |
Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak |
Social Work |
Bihar |
India |
|
2025 |
Shri Lakshminarayana
Subramaniam |
Art |
Karnataka |
India |
|
2025 |
Smt. Kumudini Rajnikant
Lakhia |
Art |
Gujarat |
India |
|
2025 |
Smt. Sharda Sinha
(Posthumous) |
Art |
Bihar |
India |
|
2025 |
Shri M. T. Vasudevan Nair
(Posthumous) |
Literature & Education |
Kerala |
India |
|
2025 |
Shri Duvvur Nageshwar
Reddy |
Medicine |
Telangana |
India |
|
2025 |
Shri Jagdish Singh Khehar |
Public Affairs |
Chandigarh |
India |
|
2025 |
Shri Osamu Suzuki
(Posthumous) |
Trade & Industry |
|
Japan |
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