List of 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 | 
 
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                    