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Padma Bhushan Awardee in Sports
Padma Bhushan Awardees were some of the most successful people in their respective fields.

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List of Padma Bhushan Awardee in Sports

List of Padma Bhushan Awardee in Sports

Year

Name

State

Country

1956

Cottari Kankaiyah Nayudu

Tamil Nadu

India

1956

Dhyan Chand

Punjab

India

1958

Vijaya Anand

Uttar Pradesh

India

1959

Tenzing Norgay Sherpa

West Bengal

India

1965

Mohan Singh Kohli

Delhi

India

1965

Nawang Gombu

West Bengal

India

1965

Sonam Gyatso

Sikkim

India

1967

Mihir Kumar Sen

West Bengal

India

1967

Ramanathan Krishnan

Tamil Nadu

India

1973

Vinoo Himatlal Mankand

Gujarat

India

1980

Shri Sunil Manohar Gavaskar

Maharashtra

India

1983

Raja Bhalendra Singh

Delhi

India

1984

Michael Ferreira

Maharashtra

India

1991

Dinkar Balwant Deodhar

Maharashtra

India

1991

Kapil Dev Nikhanj

Delhi

India

1991

Lala Amarnath

Delhi

India

2001

Viswanathan Anand

Tamil Nadu

India

2002

Chandu Borde

Maharashtra

India

2006

Vijaypat Singhania

Maharashtra

India

2009

Abhinav Bindra

Punjab

India

2013

Mary Kom

Manipur

India

2013

Rahul Dravid

Karnataka

India

2014

Leander Paes

Maharashtra

India

2014

Pullela Gopichand

Andhra Pradesh

India

2015

Satpal Singh

Delhi

India

2016

Saina Nehwal

Haryana

India

2016

Sania Mirza

Telangana

India

2018

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Jharkhand

India

2018

Pankaj Advani

Karnataka

India

2019

Bachendri Pal

Uttarakhand

India

2020

P. V. Sindhu

Telangana

India

2022

Devendra Jhajharia

Rajasthan

India

2025

P. R. Sreejesh

Kerala

India


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