Padma Vibhushan List of awardees – Padma Vibhushan is the second highest civilian award in the Republic of India. It consists of a medal and a citation and is awarded by the President of India.
Padma Vibhushan is the second highest civilian award in the Republic of India. It consists of a medal and a citation and is awarded by the President of India.
Padma Vibhushan Type – Civilion Category – National Instituted – 1954 First awarded – 1954 Last awarded – 2017 Awarded by – Government of India |
Padma Vibhushan List of awardees
Year |
Recipient |
Field |
Country / State / City |
1954 |
Satyendra Nath Bose | Science & Engineering |
India |
1954 |
Zakir Hussain | Public Affairs | |
1954 |
Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher | Public Affairs | |
1954 |
Jigme Dorji Wangchuk | Public Affairs |
Bhutan |
1954 |
Nand Lal Bose | Arts |
India |
1954 |
V. K. Krishna Menon | Public Affairs | |
1955 |
Dhondo Keshav Karve | Literature & Education | |
1955 |
J. R. D. Tata | Trade & Industry | |
1956 |
Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi | Public Affairs | |
1956 |
Fazal Ali | Public Affairs | |
1956 |
Jankibai Bajaj | Social Work | |
1957 |
Ghanshyam Das Birla | Trade & Industry | |
1957 |
Motilal Chimanlal Setalvad | Law and Public affairs | |
1957 |
Shriprakash | Public Affairs | |
1959 |
John Matthai | Literature & Education | |
1959 |
Radhabinod Pal | Public Affairs | |
1959 |
Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta | Social Work | |
1960 |
Naryana Raghvan Pillai | Public Affairs | |
1962 |
H. Varda Raja Iyengar | Civil Service | |
1962 |
Padmaja Naidu | Public Affairs | |
1962 |
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit | Civil Service | |
1963 |
A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar | Medicine | |
1963 |
Suniti Kumar Chatterji | Literature & Education | |
1963 |
Hari Vinayak Pataskar | Public Affairs | |
1964 |
Gopinath Kaviraj | Literature & Education | |
1964 |
Acharya Kalelkar | Literature & Education | |
1965 |
Arjan Singh | Military Service | |
1965 |
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri | Military Service | |
1965 |
Mehdi Nawaz Jung | Public Affairs | |
1966 |
Valerian Gracias | Social Work | |
1967 |
Bhola Nath Jha | Civil Service | |
1967 |
Chandra Kisan Daphtary | Public Affairs | |
1967 |
Hafix Mohammed Ibrahim | Civil Service | |
1967 |
Pattadakal Venkanna R Rao | Civil Service | |
1968 |
Madhav Shrihari Aney | Public Affairs | |
1968 |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | Science & Engineering |
United States |
1968 |
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis | Statistical Science |
India |
1968 |
K. Vaidyanatha Kalyana Sundaram | Public Affairs | |
1968 |
Kripal Singh | Civil Service | |
1969 |
Hargobind Khorana | Science & Engineering |
United States |
1969 |
Mohan Sinha Mehta | Civil Service |
India |
1969 |
Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi | Civil Service | |
1969 |
Ghananand Pande | Civil Service | |
1969 |
Rajeshwar Dayal | Civil Service | |
1970 |
Binay Ranjan Sen | Civil Service | |
1970 |
Tara Chand | Literature & Education | |
1970 |
Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam | Civil Service | |
1970 |
Suranjan Das | Civil Service | |
1970 |
Harbaksh Singh | Military Service | |
1970 |
A. Rameswami Mudaliar | Civil Service | |
1970 |
Anthony Lancelot Dias | Public Affairs | |
1971 |
Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar | Medicine | |
1971 |
Balaram Sivaraman | Civil Service | |
1971 |
Bimala Prasad Chaliha | Civil Service | |
1971 |
Uday Shankar | Arts | |
1971 |
Sumati Morarjee | Civil Service | |
1971 |
Allauddin Khan | Arts | |
1972 |
S. M. Nanda | Military Service | |
1972 |
Pratap Chandra Lal | Military Service | |
1972 |
Aditya Nath Jha | Public Affairs | |
1972 |
Jivraj Narayan Mehta | Public Affairs | |
1972 |
P. Balacharya Gajendragadkar | Public Affairs | |
1972 |
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai | Science & Engineering | |
1972 |
Sam Manekshaw | Military Service | |
1972 |
Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq | Public Affairs | |
1972 |
Hormasji Maneckji Seervai | Law and Public affairs | |
1973 |
Daulat Singh Kothari | Science & Engineering | |
1973 |
Nagendra Singh | Public Affairs | |
1973 |
T. Swaminathan | Civil Service | |
1973 |
U. N. Dhebar | Social Work | |
1973 |
Basanti Devi | Civil Service | |
1973 |
Nellie Sengupta | Social Work | |
1974 |
V. Kasturi Ranga Varadaraja Rao | Civil Service | |
1974 |
Benode Behari Mukherjee | Arts | |
1974 |
Harish Chandra Sarin | Civil Service | |
1974 |
Niren De | Law and Public Affairs | |
1975 |
Basanti Dulal Nag Chaudhuri | Literature & Education | |
1975 |
Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh | Public Affairs | |
1975 |
Durgabai Deshmukh | Social Work | |
1975 |
Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey | Literature & Education | |
1975 |
Raja Ramanna | Science & Engineering | |
1975 |
Homi Nusserwanji Sethna | Civil Service | |
1975 |
M. S. Subbulakshmi | Arts | |
1975 |
Mary Clubwala Jadhav | Social Work | |
1976 |
Bashir Hussain Zaidi | Literature & Education | |
1976 |
Kalpathi Ramakrishna Ramanathan | Science & Engineering | |
1976 |
Kalu Lal Shrimali | Literature & Education | |
1976 |
Giani Gurmukh Singh Mussafir | Literature & Education | |
1976 |
Keshava Shankar Pillai | Arts | |
1976 |
Salim Moizuddin Ali Abdul | Science & Engineering | |
1976 |
Satyajit Ray | Arts | |
1977 |
Om Prakash Mehra | Military Service | |
1977 |
Ajudhia Nath Khosla | Civil Service | |
1977 |
Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee | Public Affairs | |
1977 |
Ali Yavar Jung | Public Affairs | |
1977 |
Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh | Literature & Education | |
1977 |
T. Balasaraswati | Arts | |
1980 |
Rai Krishnadasa | Civil Service | |
1980 |
Bismillah Khan | Arts | |
1981 |
Satish Dhawan | Science & Engineering | |
1981 |
Ravi Shankar | Arts | |
1982 |
Mira Behn | Social Work |
United Kingdom |
1985 |
C. N. R. Rao | Science & Engineering |
India |
1985 |
Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon | Civil Service | |
1986 |
Autar Singh Paintal | Medicine | |
1986 |
Birju Maharaj | Arts | |
1986 |
Baba Amte | Social Work | |
1987 |
Benjamin Peary Pal | Science & Engineering | |
1987 |
Manmohan Singh | Civil Service | |
1987 |
Arun Shridhar Vaidya | Military Service | |
1987 |
Kamladevi Chattopadhyay | Social Work | |
1988 |
Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa | Literature & Education | |
1988 |
Mirza Hameedullah Beg | Law and Public Affairs | |
1988 |
Mahadevi Verma | Literature & Education | |
1989 |
M. S. Swaminathan | Science & Engineering | |
1989 |
Umashankar Dikshit | Public Affairs | |
1989 |
Ali Akbar Khan | Arts | |
1990 |
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Science & Engineering | |
1990 |
Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer | Arts | |
1990 |
Vallmpadugai Srinivasa Raghavan Arunachalam | Science & Engineering | |
1990 |
Bhabatosh Dutta | Literature & Education | |
1990 |
Kumar Gandharva | Arts | |
1990 |
Triloki Nath Chaturvedi | Civil Service | |
1991 |
Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel | Science & Engineering | |
1991 |
M. Balamuralikrishna | Arts | |
1991 |
Hirendranath Mukherjee | Public Affairs | |
1991 |
N. G. Ranga | Public Affairs | |
1991 |
Rajaram Shastri | Literature & Education | |
1991 |
Gulzari Lal Nanda | Public Affairs | |
1991 |
Khusro Faramurz Rustamji | Civil Service | |
1991 |
M. F. Husain | Arts | |
1992 |
Mallikarjun Mansur | Arts | |
1992 |
V. Shantaram | Arts | |
1992 |
Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati | Medicine | |
1992 |
Lakshmanshastri Joshi | Literature & Education | |
1992 |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Public Affairs | |
1992 |
Govinddas Shroff | Literature & Education | |
1992 |
Kaloji Narayana Rao | Arts | |
1992 |
Ravi Narayan Reddy | Public Affairs | |
1992 |
Sardar Swaran Singh | Public Affairs | |
1992 |
Aruna Asaf Ali | Public Affairs | |
1998 |
Lakshmi Sahgal | Public Affairs | |
1998 |
Usha Mehta | Social Work | |
1998 |
Nani Ardeshir Palkhivala | Law and Public Affairs | |
1998 |
Walter Sisulu | Public Affairs |
South Africa |
1999 |
Rajagopala Chidambaram | Science & Engineering |
India |
1999 |
Sarvepalli Gopal | Literature & Education | |
1999 |
Verghese Kurien | Science & Engineering | |
1999 |
Hans Raj Khanna | Public Affairs | |
1999 |
V. R. Krishna Iyer | Law and Public Affairs | |
1999 |
Lata Mangeshkar | Arts | |
1999 |
Bhimsen Joshi | Arts | |
1999 |
Braj Kumar Nehru | Civil Service | |
1999 |
Dharma Vira | Civil Service | |
1999 |
Lallan Prasad Singh | Civil Service | |
1999 |
Nana Deshmukh | Social Work | |
1999 |
Pandurang Shastri Athavale | Social Work | |
1999 |
Satish Gujral | Arts | |
1999 |
D. K. Pattammal | Arts | |
2000 |
Krishen Behari Lall | Civil Service | |
2000 |
Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan | Science & Engineering | |
2000 |
Manohar Singh Gill | Civil Service | |
2000 |
Kelucharan Mohapatra | Arts | |
2000 |
Hari Prasad Chaurasia | Arts | |
2000 |
Jasraj | Arts | |
2000 |
Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati | Literature & Education | |
2000 |
Kakkadan Nandanath Raj | Literature & Education | |
2000 |
Bhairab Dutt Pande | Civil Service | |
2000 |
Maidavolu Narasimham | Trade & Industry | |
2000 |
R. K. Narayan | Literature & Education | |
2000 |
Sikander Bakht | Public Affairs | |
2000 |
Tarlok Singh | Civil Service | |
2001 |
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao | Science & Engineering |
United States |
2001 |
Chakravarthi Vijayaraghava Narasimhan | Civil Service |
India |
2001 |
Shivkumar Sharma | Arts | |
2001 |
Man Mohan Sharma | Science & Engineering | |
2001 |
Amjad Ali Khan | Arts | |
2001 |
Benjamin Arthur Gilman | Public Affairs |
United States |
2001 |
Hosei Norota | Public Affairs |
Japan |
2001 |
Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Arts |
India |
2001 |
John Kenneth Galbraith | Literature & Education |
United States |
2001 |
Kotha Satchidanda Murthy | Literature & Education |
India |
2001 |
Zubin Mehta | Arts | |
2002 |
Chakravthi Rangarajan | Literature & Education | |
2002 |
Gangubai Hangal | Arts | |
2002 |
Kishan Maharaj | Arts | |
2002 |
Soli Jehangir Sorabjee | Law | |
2002 |
Kishori Amonkar | Arts | |
2003 |
Bal Ram Nanda | Literature & Education | |
2003 |
Kazi Lhendup Dorji Kangsarpa | Public Affairs | |
2003 |
Sonal Mansingh | Arts | |
2003 |
Bhrihaspati Dev Triguna | Medicine | |
2004 |
Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah | Law and Public Affairs | |
2004 |
Amrita Pritam | Literature & Education | |
2004 |
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar | Science & Engineering | |
2005 |
B. K. Goyal | Medicine | |
2005 |
Karan Singh | Public Affairs | |
2005 |
Mohan Dharia | Social Work | |
2005 |
Ram Narayan | Arts | |
2005 |
Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valiathan | Medicine | |
2005 |
Jyotindra Nath Dixit | Civil Service | |
2005 |
Milon Kumar Banerji | Law and Public Affairs | |
2005 |
R. K. Laxman | Arts | |
2006 |
Norman E. Borlaug | Science & Engineering |
United States |
2006 |
V. N. Khare | Law and Public Affairs |
India |
2006 |
Mahasveta Devi | Literature & Education | |
2006 |
Nirmala Deshpande | Social Work | |
2006 |
Obaid Siddiqui | Science & Engineering | |
2006 |
Prakash Narain Tandon | Medicine | |
2006 |
Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Arts | |
2006 |
C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao | Civil Service | |
2006 |
Charles Correa | Science & Engineering | |
2007 |
Raja Jesudoss Chelliah | Public Affairs | |
2007 |
Venkataraman Krishnamurthy | Civil Service | |
2007 |
Balu Sankaran | Medicine | |
2007 |
Fali Sam Nariman | Law and Public Affairs | |
2007 |
Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati | Law and Public Affairs | |
2007 |
Khushwant Singh | Literature & Education | |
2007 |
Raja Rao | Literature & Education |
United States |
2007 |
N. N. Vohra | Civil Service |
India |
2007 |
Naresh Chandra | Civil Service | |
2007 |
Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan | Science & Engineering |
United States |
2007 |
Viswanathan Anand | Sports |
India |
2007 |
Rajendra K. Pachauri | Environmentalism | |
2008 |
N. R. Narayana Murthy | Information Technology | |
2008 |
E. Sreedharan | Delhi Metro | |
2008 |
Lakshmi Niwas Mittal | Industry | |
2008 |
Adarsh Sein Anand | Public Affairs | |
2008 |
P. N. Dhar | Civil Service | |
2008 |
P. R. S. Oberoi | Trade | |
2008 |
Asha Bhosle | Arts | |
2008 |
Edmund Hillary | Mountaineering |
New Zealand |
2008 |
Ratan Tata | Industry |
India |
2008 |
Pranab Mukherjee | Public affairs | |
2008 |
Sachin Tendulkar | Sports | |
2009 |
Chandrika Prasad Srivastava | Civil Service | |
2009 |
Sunderlal Bahuguna | Environmental Conservation | |
2009 |
D. P. Chattopadhyaya | Literature & Education | |
2009 |
Jasbir Singh Bajaj | Medicine | |
2009 |
Purshotam Lal | Medicine | |
2009 |
Govind Narain | Public Affairs | |
2009 |
Anil Kakodkar | Science & Engineering | |
2009 |
Dr. G. Madhavan Nair | Science & Engineering | |
2009 |
Sister Nirmala | Social Work | |
2009 |
A. S. Ganguly | Trade & Industry | |
2010 |
Ebrahim Alkazi | Arts | |
2010 |
Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman | Arts | |
2010 |
Zohra Sehgal | Arts | |
2010 |
Y. Venugopal Reddy | Law and Public affairs | |
2010 |
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | Science & Engineering |
United Kingdom |
2010 |
Prathap C. Reddy | Trade & Industry |
India |
2011 |
Akkineni Nageshwara Rao | Arts | |
2011 |
Kapila Vatsyayan | Arts | |
2011 |
Homai Vyarawalla | Arts | |
2011 |
Parasaran Kesava Iyenger | Public Affairs | |
2011 |
AR Kidwai | Public Affairs | |
2011 |
Vijay Kelkar | Public Affairs | |
2011 |
Montek Singh Ahluwalia | Public Affairs | |
2011 |
Palle Rama Rao | Science | |
2011 |
Amjad Ali Khan | Arts | |
2011 |
Azim Premji | Trade and Industry | |
2011 |
Brajesh Mishra | Civil Service | |
2011 |
Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup | Literature | |
2011 |
Sitakant Mahapatra | Literature | |
2011 |
Lakshmi Chand Jain | Public Affairs | |
2012 |
K. G. Subramanyan | Arts | |
2012 |
Mario Miranda | Arts | |
2012 |
Bhupen Hazarika | Arts | |
2012 |
Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti | Medicine | |
2012 |
T. V. Rajeswar | Civil Service | |
2013 |
Yash Pal | Science & Engineering | |
2013 |
Roddam Narasimha | Science & Engineering | |
2013 |
Raghunath Mohapatra | Arts | |
2013 |
Syed Haider Raza | Arts | |
2014 |
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar | Science & Engineering | |
2014 |
B. K. S. Iyengar | Yoga | |
2015 |
Lal Krishna Advani | Public Affairs | |
2015 |
M. R. Srinivasan | Science & Engineering | |
2015 |
Parkash Singh Badal | Public Affairs | |
2015 |
Kottayan Katankot Venugopal | Public Affairs | |
2015 |
Dilip Kumar | Art | |
2015 |
Amitabh Bachchan | Art | |
2015 |
Veerendra Heggade | Social Work | |
2015 |
Rambhadracharya | Other | |
2015 |
Aga Khan IV | Trade and Industry |
France / United Kingdom |
2016 |
Ms. Yamini Krishnamurthi | Art-Classical dance |
Delhi |
2016 |
Shri Rajinikanth | Art-Cinema |
Tamil Nadu |
2016 |
Girija Devi | Art-Classical Vocal |
West Bengal |
2016 |
Shri Ramoji Rao | Literature & Education-Journalism |
Andhra Pradesh |
2016 |
Dr. Viswanathan Shanta | Medicine-Oncology |
Tamil Nadu |
2016 |
Shri Shri Ravi Shankar | Others-Spiritualism |
Karnataka |
2016 |
Shri Jagmohan | Public Affairs |
Delhi |
2016 |
Dr. Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre | Science & Engineering |
Karnataka |
2016 |
Shri Avinash Dixit (Foreigner) | Literature & Education |
USA |
2016 |
Late Shri Dhiru Bhai Ambani (Posthumous) | Trade & Industry |
Maharashtra |
2017 |
Murli Manohar Joshi | Public Affairs |
Uttar Pradesh |
2017 |
Sunder Lal Patwa | Public Affairs |
Madhya Pradesh |
2017 |
Sharad Pawar | Public Affairs |
Maharashtra |
2017 |
Udupi Ramachandra Rao | Science & Engineering |
Karnataka |
2017 |
P. A. Sangma | Public Affairs |
Meghalaya |
2017 |
Jaggi Vasudev | Others |
Tamil Nadu |
2017 |
K. J. Yesudas | Arts |
Kerala |
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