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Padma Shri Awardees (1990-1999)
Padma Shri Awardees (1990-1999)

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List of Padma Shri Awardees (1990-1999)

Year

Name

Field

State

Country

1990

Allu Rama Lingaiah

Art

Andhra Pradesh

India

1990

Asgari Bai

Art

Madhya Pradesh

India

1990

Balwantrai Bhatt

Art

Uttar Pradesh

India

1990

Bishamber Khanna

Art

Delhi

India

1990

Diwaliben Punjabhai Bhil

Art

Gujarat

India

1990

G. Aravindan

Art

Kerala

India

1990

Gulab Bai

Art

Uttar Pradesh

India

1990

Jagdish Chandra Mittal

Art

Andhra Pradesh

India

1990

Kamal Haasan

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

1990

Kanak Rele

Art

Maharashtra

India

1990

Kapila Vatsyayan

Art

Delhi

India

1990

Krishen Khanna

Art

Delhi

India

1990

Leela Samson

Art

Delhi

India

1990

Madhavi Mudgal

Art

Delhi

India

1990

Madurai Ponnusamy Sethuraman Natesan

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

1990

Maharajapuram Santhanam

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

1990

Mohan Agashe

Art

Maharashtra

India

1990

Om Puri

Art

Maharashtra

India

1990

Prabha Atre

Art

Maharashtra

India

1990

Raj Bisaria

Art

Uttar Pradesh

India

1990

S. M. Ganapathy

Art

Andhra Pradesh

India

1990

Tarun Majumdar

Art

West Bengal

India

1990

Achyut Madhav Gokhale

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1990

Chavaly Srinivasa Sastry

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1990

Anjan Kumar Banerji

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

1990

Ashim Dasgupta

Literature & Education

West Bengal

India

1990

Barjinder Singh

Literature & Education

Himachal Pradesh

India

1990

Behram Contractor

Literature & Education

Maharashtra

India

1990

Dagdu Maruti Pawar

Literature & Education

Maharashtra

India

1990

Gopi Chand Narang

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1990

Guru Aribam Surchand Sharma

Literature & Education

Manipur

India

1990

Kanhiyalal Prabhakar Mishra

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

1990

M. Aram

Literature & Education

Tamil Nadu

India

1990

Madhav Yeshwant Gadkari

Literature & Education

Maharashtra

India

1990

Nilmani Phookan

Literature & Education

Assam

India

1990

Radha Mohan Gadanayak

Literature & Education

Odisha

India

1990

Ram Nath Shastri

Literature & Education

Jammu & Kashmir

India

1990

Sharad Joshi

Literature & Education

Maharashtra

India

1990

Shyam Singh Shashi

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1990

Vijay Kumar Chopra

Literature & Education

Punjab

India

1990

Yashpal Jain

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1990

Anutosh Datta

Medicine

West Bengal

India

1990

Ashok Chimanlal Shroff

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

1990

M. G. Deo

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

1990

Mallappa Krishna Bhargava

Medicine

Karnataka

India

1990

N. H. Antia

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

1990

P. K. Rajagopalan

Medicine

Tamil Nadu

India

1990

Shanmugam Kameshwaran

Medicine

Tamil Nadu

India

1990

Shriniwas

Medicine

Delhi

India

1990

Gisela Bonn

Others

Germany

1990

Inder Sharma

Others

Delhi

India

1990

Rajinder Singh

Others

Himachal Pradesh

India

1990

Appasaheb Pawar

Science & Engineering

Maharashtra

India

1990

Jatish Chandra Bhattacharyya

Science & Engineering

West Bengal

India

1990

Laurie Baker

Science & Engineering

Kerala

India

1990

M. R. Kurup

Science & Engineering

Kerala

India

1990

Ram Narain Agarwal

Science & Engineering

Andhra Pradesh

India

1990

Anna Hazare

Social Work

Maharashtra

India

1990

Ishwarbhai Jivaram Patel

Social Work

Gujarat

India

1990

Renana Jhabvala

Social Work

Gujarat

India

1990

Silverine Swer

Social Work

Meghalaya

India

1990

Chandraprabha Aitwal

Sports

Uttar Pradesh

India

1990

Gulshan Rai

Sports

Maharashtra

India

1990

Jaman Lal Sharma

Sports

Uttar Pradesh

India

1990

Pradip Kumar Banerjee

Sports

West Bengal

India

1990

Premchand Degra

Sports

Punjab

India

1990

Taranath Narayan Shenoy

Sports

Maharashtra

India

1990

B. V. Rao

Trade & Industry

Andhra Pradesh

India

1990

Mohammad Swaleh Ansari

Trade & Industry

Uttar Pradesh

India

1991

Alarmel Valli

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

1991

Bharath Gopi

Art

Kerala

India

1991

Ghulam Mustafa Khan

Art

Maharashtra

India

1991

Gurcharan Singh

Art

Punjab

India

1991

Hafeez Ahmed Khan

Art

Delhi

India

1991

Maharaj Krishan Kumar

Art

Delhi

India

1991

Mani Narayan

Art

Maharashtra

India

1991

Manu Parekh

Art

Delhi

India

1991

Pratima Barua Pandey

Art

Assam

India

1991

R. S. Narayan Singh Deo

Art

Bihar

India

1991

Ranbir Singh Bisht

Art

Uttar Pradesh

India

1991

Shanno Khurana

Art

Delhi

India

1991

Sharda Sinha

Art

Bihar

India

1991

Shivkumar Sharma

Art

Maharashtra

India

1991

Ashok Kumar Patel

Civil Service

Jammu & Kashmir

India

1991

Mehmood-ur Rehman

Civil Service

Jammu & Kashmir

India

1991

Prakash Singh

Civil Service

Uttar Pradesh

India

1991

Ram Ganpati

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1991

B. K. S. Iyengar

Literature & Education

Karnataka

India

1991

Bharat Bhushan

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

1991

Gopaldas Neeraj

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

1991

Kapil Deva Dvivedi

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

1991

Keshav Malik

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1991

Madan Lal Madhu

Literature & Education

Russia

1991

Namdeo Dhondo Mahanor

Literature & Education

Maharashtra

India

1991

P. T. Narasimhachar

Literature & Education

Karnataka

India

1991

R. K. Lelhluna

Literature & Education

Mizoram

India

1991

Ramanarayan Upadhyaya

Literature & Education

Madhya Pradesh

India

1991

Rameshwar Singh Kashyap

Literature & Education

Bihar

India

1991

Sardar Anjum

Literature & Education

Punjab

India

1991

Satish Chandra Kakati

Literature & Education

Assam

India

1991

Shadi Lal Dhawan

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1991

Shareefunnisa Begum Ansari

Literature & Education

Andhra Pradesh

India

1991

Shila Jhunjhunwala

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1991

Surendra Y. Mohanty

Literature & Education

Odisha

India

1991

Syed Hassan

Literature & Education

Bihar

India

1991

Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte

Literature & Education

Maharashtra

India

1991

G. N. Malviya

Medicine

Uttar Pradesh

India

1991

Jagdish Prasad

Medicine

Delhi

India

1991

Jai Pal Singh

Medicine

Haryana

India

1991

K. M. Cherian

Medicine

Tamil Nadu

India

1991

M. M. S. Ahuja

Medicine

Delhi

India

1991

M. N. Passey

Medicine

Delhi

India

1991

Mahendra Kumar Goel

Medicine

Uttar Pradesh

India

1991

Naresh Trehan

Medicine

Delhi

India

1991

P. B. Buckshey

Medicine

Delhi

India

1991

Ravinder Kumar Bali

Medicine

Delhi

India

1991

Rustom Phiroze Soonawala

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

1991

S. C. Munshi

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

1991

Shiela Mehra

Medicine

Delhi

India

1991

Sneh Bhargava

Medicine

Delhi

India

1991

Babulal Patodi

Public Affairs

Madhya Pradesh

India

1991

Hari Govindrao Vartak

Public Affairs

Maharashtra

India

1991

A. V. Rama Rao

Science & Engineering

Andhra Pradesh

India

1991

B. L. Deekshatulu

Science & Engineering

Andhra Pradesh

India

1991

Bangalore Puttaiya Radhakrishna

Science & Engineering

Karnataka

India

1991

Ganeshan Venkataraman

Science & Engineering

Andhra Pradesh

India

1991

Govindarajan Padmanaban

Science & Engineering

Karnataka

India

1991

Krishna Joshi

Science & Engineering

Haryana

India

1991

Narinder Kumar Gupta

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

1991

Raghunath Anant Mashelkar

Science & Engineering

Maharashtra

India

1991

Rakesh Bakshi

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

1991

Bimal Prashad Jain

Social Work

Delhi

India

1991

Chiranjilal Gograj Joshi

Social Work

Maharashtra

India

1991

D. Y. Patil

Social Work

Maharashtra

India

1991

Dhera Ram Shah

Social Work

Delhi

India

1991

Dinabandhu Banerjee

Social Work

West Bengal

India

1991

Jagdish Kashibhai Patel

Social Work

Gujarat

India

1991

Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti

Social Work

Maharashtra

India

1991

Rudraradhya Muddu Basavaradhya

Social Work

Karnataka

India

1991

Shreekrishna Mahadeo Beharay

Social Work

Maharashtra

India

1991

Sundaram Ramakrishnan

Social Work

Maharashtra

India

1991

T. G. K. Menon

Social Work

Madhya Pradesh

India

1991

Venkatesan Padmanabhan

Social Work

Tamil Nadu

India

1991

Vimla Dang

Social Work

Punjab

India

1991

Selma D' Silva

Sports

Maharashtra

India

1991

Sonam Paljor

Sports

Uttarakhand

India

1991

Ujwala Patil

Sports

Maharashtra

India

1991

Hosagrahar Chandrashekhariah Visvesvaraya

Trade & Industry

Delhi

India

1991

Neelkantha Anneppa Kalyani

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India

1991

Padamanur Ananda Rau

Trade & Industry

Tamil Nadu

India

1991

Ramesh Gelli

Trade & Industry

Karnataka

India

1991

Vasantrao S. Dempo

Trade & Industry

Goa

India

1992

Anandji Virji Shah

Art

Maharashtra

India

1992

Asha Parekh

Art

Maharashtra

India

1992

Bhagaban Sahu

Art

Odisha

India

1992

Biren De

Art

Delhi

India

1992

Chitra Visweswaran

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

1992

Chittu Tudu

Art

Bihar

India

1992

Jaya Bachchan

Art

Maharashtra

India

1992

K. Viswanath

Art

Andhra Pradesh

India

1992

Kalyanji Virji Shah

Art

Maharashtra

India

1992

Madurai N. Krishnan

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

1992

Manoj Kumar

Art

Maharashtra

India

1992

Meera Mukherjee

Art

West Bengal

India

1992

Muthu Muthiah Sthapathi

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

1992

Nataraja Ramakrishna

Art

Andhra Pradesh

India

1992

Pankaj Charan Das

Art

Odisha

India

1992

Sabri Khan

Art

Delhi

India

1992

Srirangam Gopalaratnam

Art

Andhra Pradesh

India

1992

Sundari K. Shridharani

Art

Delhi

India

1992

Sunita Kohli

Art

Delhi

India

1992

Tadepalli Venkanna

Art

Andhra Pradesh

India

1992

Tapan Sinha

Art

West Bengal

India

1992

Inderjit Kaur Barthakur

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1992

J. N. Saksena

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1992

M. K. Narayanan

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1992

Oudh Narayan Shrivastava

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1992

B. K. Thapar

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1992

Esther Abraham Solomon

Literature & Education

Gujarat

India

1992

Gulabdas Broker

Literature & Education

Maharashtra

India

1992

Krishna Chaithanya

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1992

Laxmi Narayan Dubey

Literature & Education

Madhya Pradesh

India

1992

M. Kirti Singh

Literature & Education

Manipur

India

1992

Mark Tully

Literature & Education

UK

1992

Mushtaq Ahmed

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1992

Nilkanth Yeshwant Khadilkar

Literature & Education

Maharashtra

India

1992

Nisith Ranjan Ray

Literature & Education

West Bengal

India

1992

Rajammal P. Devadas

Literature & Education

Tamil Nadu

India

1992

Ram Sarup Lugani

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1992

Saiyid Amir Hasan Abidi

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1992

Shovana Narayan

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1992

V. C. Kulandaiswamy

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1992

V. G. Bhide

Literature & Education

Maharashtra

India

1992

Vasant Shankar Kanetkar

Literature & Education

Maharashtra

India

1992

Amrit Tewari

Medicine

Chandigarh

India

1992

Anil Kohli

Medicine

Delhi

India

1992

Burjor Cavas Dastur

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

1992

Eledath Thaikkattu Neelakandan Mooss

Medicine

Kerala

India

1992

G. S. Venkataraman

Medicine

Tamil Nadu

India

1992

J. S. Mahashabde

Medicine

Madhya Pradesh

India

1992

Kameshwar Prasad

Medicine

Delhi

India

1992

Khalid Hameed

Medicine

UK

1992

Lovelin Kumar Gandhi

Medicine

Delhi

India

1992

Luis Jose De Souza

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

1992

Mahamaya Prasad Dubey

Medicine

Delhi

India

1992

Mathura Nath Bhattacharyya

Medicine

Assam

India

1992

P. V. A. Mohandas

Medicine

Tamil Nadu

India

1992

Ramesh Kumar

Medicine

Delhi

India

1992

Rathin Datta

Medicine

Tripura

India

1992

Usha Kehar Luthra

Medicine

Delhi

India

1992

Vijayakumar Swarupchand Shah

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

1992

Alfred Georg Wuerfel

Others

Delhi

India

1992

B. N. Mukherjee

Others

West Bengal

India

1992

Shanti Lal Jain

Others

Delhi

India

1992

Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan

Public Affairs

Maharashtra

India

1992

Maadari Bhagya Gautam

Public Affairs

Karnataka

India

1992

Vaman Balkrishna Naique Sardesai

Public Affairs

Goa

India

1992

Gjanardhana Puranik Narayana Rao

Science & Engineering

Bhutan

1992

Jagjit Singh Hara

Science & Engineering

Punjab

India

1992

Joseph Allen Stein

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

1992

Kailash Sankhala

Science & Engineering

Rajasthan

India

1992

Madhava Ashish

Science & Engineering

Uttar Pradesh

India

1992

Vinod Prakash Sharma

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

1992

Zal Sohrab Tarapore

Science & Engineering

Maharashtra

India

1992

C. Rokhuma

Social Work

Mizoram

India

1992

Dharam Pal Saini

Social Work

Madhya Pradesh

India

1992

Felisa Garbala

Social Work

Gujarat

India

1992

Mahipatrai Jadavji Shah

Social Work

Maharashtra

India

1992

Ramsing Fakiraji Bhanawat

Social Work

Maharashtra

India

1992

Shanthi Ranganathan

Social Work

Tamil Nadu

India

1992

Vidyaben Shah

Social Work

Delhi

India

1992

Ajit Pal Singh

Sports

Delhi

India

1992

Aspy Adajania

Sports

Maharashtra

India

1992

Hakam Singh

Sports

Delhi

India

1992

Sriram Singh

Sports

Delhi

India

1992

K. M. Mammen Mappillai

Trade & Industry

Tamil Nadu

India

1992

Lalchand Hirachand

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India

1992

Meenakshi Sargogi

Trade & Industry

West Bengal

India

1992

Rukmini Baburao Pawar

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India

1998

Dipali Barthakur

Art

Assam

India

1998

K. Ibomcha Sharma

Art

Manipur

India

1998

Kunja Bihari Meher

Art

Odisha

India

1998

Mammootty

Art

Kerala

India

1998

Shahir Krishnarao Sable

Art

Maharashtra

India

1998

U. Srinivas

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

1998

Zohra Sehgal

Art

Delhi

India

1998

Chewang Phunsog

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1998

Suryadevara Ramachandra Rao

Civil Service

Gujarat

India

1998

B. N. Goswamy

Literature & Education

Chandigarh

India

1998

Gurdial Singh

Literature & Education

Punjab

India

1998

Lalsangzuali Sailo

Literature & Education

Mizoram

India

1998

Narayan Gangaram Surve

Literature & Education

Maharashtra

India

1998

O. N. V. Kurup

Literature & Education

Kerala

India

1998

Ranjit Roy Chaudhury

Medicine

Delhi

India

1998

Aditya Narayan Purohit

Science & Engineering

Uttarakhand

India

1998

Anil Kakodkar

Science & Engineering

Maharashtra

India

1998

Manmohan Attavar

Science & Engineering

Karnataka

India

1998

Pradhan Shambu Saran

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

1998

Priyambada Mohanty Hejmadi

Science & Engineering

Odisha

India

1998

V. K. Saraswat

Science & Engineering

Andhra Pradesh

India

1998

Antony Padiyara

Social Work

Kerala

India

1998

Kanta Tyagi

Social Work

Madhya Pradesh

India

1998

Leonarda Angela Casiraghi

Social Work

Karnataka

India

1998

Ralte Vanlawma

Social Work

Mizoram

India

1998

Shambu Nath Khajuria

Social Work

Jammu & Kashmir

India

1998

Shantha Sinha

Social Work

Andhra Pradesh

India

1998

Lila Ram

Sports

Haryana

India

1998

Pargat Singh

Sports

Punjab

India

1998

Ramesh Krishnan

Sports

Tamil Nadu

India

1998

Shiny Abraham

Sports

Kerala

India

1998

Naushad Ismail Padamsee

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India

1999

Jagmohan Sursagar

Art

Maharashtra

India

1999

Javed Akhtar

Art

Maharashtra

India

1999

Ram V. Sutar

Art

Uttar Pradesh

India

1999

Saryu Vinod Doshi

Art

Maharashtra

India

1999

Shobha Deepak Singh

Art

Delhi

India

1999

Sulochana Latkar

Art

Maharashtra

India

1999

Sumati Mutatkar

Art

Delhi

India

1999

Tsering Wangdus

Art

Jammu & Kashmir

India

1999

Bashir Badr

Literature & Education

Madhya Pradesh

India

1999

G. P. Chopra

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1999

Kanhaiya Lal Nandan

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1999

Namdeo Dhasal

Literature & Education

Maharashtra

India

1999

Rajkumar Jhalajit Singh

Literature & Education

Manipur

India

1999

Ruskin Bond

Literature & Education

Uttarakhand

India

1999

Satya Vrat Shastri

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1999

Shayama Chona

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1999

Balendu Prakash

Medicine

Uttarakhand

India

1999

Devendra Triguna

Medicine

Delhi

India

1999

K. A. Abraham

Medicine

Tamil Nadu

India

1999

P. K. Warrier

Medicine

Kerala

India

1999

Raj Bothra

Medicine

USA

1999

Rehmath Beegum Sailaniyoda

Medicine

Lakshadweep Islands

India

1999

Asis Datta

Science & Engineering

Uttar Pradesh

India

1999

Indira Nath

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

1999

M. S. Ramakumar

Science & Engineering

Maharashtra

India

1999

M. V. Rao

Science & Engineering

Andhra Pradesh

India

1999

S. K. Sikka

Science & Engineering

Haryana

India

1999

Virendra Singh Sethi

Science & Engineering

Chandigarh

India

1999

Acharya Ramamurti

Social Work

Bihar

India

1999

Natwar Thakkar

Social Work

Nagaland

India

1999

T. Sailo

Social Work

Mizoram

India

1999

Karnam Malleswari

Sports

Andhra Pradesh

India

1999

Sachin Tendulkar

Sports

Maharashtra

India

1999

Harshavardhan Neotia

Trade & Industry

West Bengal

India

 


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Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award in India and is given for the highest degree of service to the nation. The award was established by India’s first President, Rajendra Prasad. Apart from Indian citizens, Bharat Ratna award has been given to non-Indians and a naturalized Indian citizen.
Kirti Chakra
Kirti Chakra is awarded for conspicuous gallantry otherwise than in the face of the enemy. It is the second highest military honour awarded during peacetime in India. The decoration may be awarded posthumously.
Panchyat Samiti
Panchayat Samiti is the link between the district administration and the Gram Panchayat.
Padma Bhushan Awardees
Padma Bhushan Awardees are those people who have received Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award in India.