In the year 1985, a total number of 21 people from different fields received the Padma Bhushan Award from the Government of India. The award is considered as one of the most prestigious and honourable civilian awards in India and is being presented by the Government of India since 1954. The award is mainly given to those people, who have shown extraordinary performances and achieved great feats in their respective fields. The people from India and also from abroad can win this award. The 1985 Padma Bhushan Awardees were some of the best people in their respective fields, during that time and considered so, till today as well.
An elaborated list of the 1985 Padma Bhushan Awardees is given below:
| Name | Field | State | Country |
| Bhimsen Joshi | Arts | Maharashtra | India |
| Santideb Ghosh | Arts | West Bengal | India |
| Kalanidhi Narayanan | Arts | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Amarjit Singh | Civil Service | Rajasthan | India |
| Srinivasan Varadarajan | Civil Service | Delhi | India |
| Gurbaksh Singh | Civil Service | Delhi | India |
| Surinder Singh Gill | Civil Service | Delhi | India |
| Gurbachan Singh Talib | Literature & Education | Punjab | India |
| Rais Ahmed | Literature & Education | Delhi | India |
| Shiba Prasad Chatterjee | Literature & Education | West Bengal | India |
| T. Purushottamdas Luhar Sudaram | Literature & Education | Puducherry | India |
| Thakazi Shivasankara Pillai | Literature & Education | Kerala | India |
| Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh | India |
| Durga Das Basu | Public Affairs | West Bengal | India |
| Justice Sadat Abul Masud | Public Affairs | West Bengal | India |
| Bernard Peters | Science & Engineering | - | Denmark |
| Bhalchandra Udgaonkar | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra | India |
| Eknath Vasant Chitnis | Science & Engineering | Gujarat | India |
| Sivaraj Ramaseshan | Science & Engineering | Karnataka | India |
| Virender Lal Chopra | Science & Engineering | Delhi | India |
| Gopala Ramanujam | Social Work | Tamil Nadu | India |
