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The Padma Vibhushan Award

The Padma Vibhushan Award
24th of March 2025

Attributing the Greatness with India's Second Largest Civilian Honor, Padma Vibhushan Award

Introduction:

The Padma Vibhushan is among the three Padma Awards, India's highest civilian honor. The award recognizes achievement in any field, including art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, commerce and industry, medicine, literature and education, civil service, and sports. An individual can be nominated for the Padma Awards only if their activities involve an element of public service. Nominations are open to the public and self-nominations are also permitted. Invitations for nominations are sent to all state and union territory governments in India, all federal government ministries and departments, various institutions of excellence in the country, and Bharat Ratna and Padma Bhushan awardees. Nominations are submitted between May and September every year.

Table of Contents:

  • What is the Padma Vibhushan Award?

  • History of The Padma Vibhushan Award

  • Criteria and Selection Process

  • Design and Medal

  • Number of award recipients by year

  • Number of Padma Vibhushan recipients by field over 12 years

  • Number of award recipients by year

  • Name of awardees by year and field

 

  • What is the Padma Vibhushan Award?

The Padma Vibhushan is India's second-highest civilian award after the Bharat Ratna. The award was instituted in 1954 to recognize exceptional and distinguished service in various fields including art, literature, science, public affairs, sports, medicine, social service, and civic service in India. It is a symbol of appreciation in India for individuals who have made significant contributions to the country's development and global reputation.

  • History of Padma Vibhushan Award:

The Government of India introduced the Padma Vibhushan in 1954, along with the Bharat Ratna and Padma Bhushan. The Padma Vibhushan had three categories, which were awarded in 1955: Padma Shri - for distinguished service; Padma Bhushan - for distinguished service of the highest order; and Padma Vibhushan - for exceptional and distinguished service. In 1978, the government of Prime Minister Morarji Desai alleged that the awards did not comply with Article 18 (abolition of titles) of the Constitution of India. Which states, "No title shall be conferred by the State except for military or academic distinction." This led to the suspension of the Padma awards, including the Bharat Ratna, twice. The awards were reinstated in January 1980 after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi returned to power. The awards were then suspended again from 1992 to 1997. The constitutional validity of the awards was questioned in the case, citing Article 18. But the Supreme Court ruled that the Bharat Ratna and Padma awards are not titles as defined in Article 18 of the Constitution of India, but national ones.

  • Criteria and Selection Process:

The Padma Vibhushan Award is given to government employees for distinguished and distinguished service in any field. However, it does not include posts under international organizations. The selection process for this award is done by following these steps:

  • Nomination: Any Indian or non-Indian citizen can be nominated. The general public, Central/State Governments, and previous awardees can submit nominations for this award.

  • Screening: The Padma Awards Committee, constituted by the Prime Minister, selects and shortlists the candidates.

  • Approval: The final list is then approved by the President of India.

  • Announcement: The award is announced every year on 26 January (Republic Day).

  • Design and Medal:

The Padma Vibhushan medal is made of intricate details:

  • Shape: The medal is circular and made of bronze.

  • Distinctive features:

  1. The medal features a lotus flower with the inscription "Padma Vibhushan" in Devanagari script.

  2. The national emblem of India is displayed below with the inscription "Satyameva Jayate".

  • Preparation: Every year, at a formal ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, the recipients are honored with a certificate and medal by the President.

  • Cash award: This award is a special honorary award with no monetary benefit attached.

     

  • Number of award recipients by year:

Year

Number

1954–1959

17

1960–1969

27

1970–1979

53

1980–1989

20

1990–1999

42

2000–2009

86

2010–2019

62

2020–2025

31

 

  • Number of Padma Vibhushan recipients by field over 12 years: 

Field

Number

Arts

67

Civil Service

53

Literature & Education

43

Medicine

16

Public Affairs

79

Science & Engineering

37

Social Work

18

Sports

4

Trade & Industry

13

Others

8

 

  • Number of award recipients by year:

Year

Number of Total Awardees

1954-59

17

1960-69

27

1970-79

53

1980-89

20

1990-99

42

2000-2009

86

2010-19

62

2020-29

31

 

  • Name of awardees by year and field:

     

  • Year: 1954                 

  • Science & Engineering - Satyendra Nath Bose, West Bengal.         

  • Arts - Nandalal Bose, West Bengal.

  • Public Affairs - Zakir Husain, Andhra Pradesh.

  • Public Affairs - B. G. Kher, Maharashtra.

  • Public Affairs – 

  1. V. K. Krishna Menon, Kerala.

  2. Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Bhutan.       

  • Year: 1955                 

  • Literature & Education - Dhondo Keshav Karve, Maharashtra.

  • Trade & Industry - J. R. D. Tata, Maharashtra.

  • Public Affairs - Fazl Ali, Bihar.                      

  • Year: 1956                 

  • Social Work - Janaki Devi Bajaj, Madhya Pradesh.

  • Public Affairs - Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi, Madhya Pradesh.                   

  • Year: 1957                   

  • Trade & Industry - Ghanshyam Das Birla, Rajasthan.

  • Public Affairs – 

  1. Sri Prakasa, Uttar Pradesh.

  2. M. C. Setalvad, Maharashtra. 

  • Year: 1958 

No awards.

  • Year: 1959                  

  • Literature & Education - John Matthai, Kerala.

  • Social Work - Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta, Maharashtra.

  • Public Affairs - Radhabinod Pal, West Bengal.                                      

  • Year: 1960                 

  • Public Affairs - Narayana Raghvan Pillai, Tamil Nadu.

  • Year: 1961 

          No awards

  • Year: 1962                 

  • Civil Service - H. V. R. Iyengar, Tamil Nadu.

  • Public Affairs - Padmaja Naidu, Andhra Pradesh.

  • Civil Service - Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Uttar Pradesh.         

  • Year: 1963                 

  • Literature & Education - Suniti Kumar Chatterji, West Bengal.

  • Medicine - A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar, Tamil Nadu.

  • Public Affairs - Hari Vinayak Pataskar, Maharashtra.         

  • Year: 1964                 

  • Literature & Education – 

  1. Acharya Kakasaheb Kalelkar, Maharashtra.

  2. Gopinath Kaviraj, Uttar Pradesh.

  • Civil Service - General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri, West Bengal.                       

  • Year: 1965                 

  • Public Affairs - Mehdi Nawaz Jung, Telangana.

  • Civil Service - Marshal of the Air Force, Arjan Singh (DFC), Delhi.                 

  • Year: 1966                 

  • Social Work - Valerian Gracias, Maharashtra.

  • Public Affairs - C. K. Daphtary, Maharashtra.

  • Year: 1967                 

  • Civil Service – 

  1. Hafiz Mohamad Ibrahim, Andhra Pradesh.

  2. Bhola Nath Jha, Uttar Pradesh.

  3. P. V. R. Rao, Andhra Pradesh.

  • Public Affairs - Madhav Shrihari Aney, Madhya Pradesh.

  • Year: 1968

  • Science & Engineering - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, United States.

  • Literature & Education - Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Delhi.

  • Civil Service - Kirpal Singh, Delhi.

  • Public Affairs - Kalyan Sundaram, Delhi.

  • Year: 1969                 

  • Civil Service – 

  1. Rajeshwar Dayal, Delhi.

  2. Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi, Maharashtra.

  3. Mohan Sinha Mehta, Rajasthan.

  4. Ghananand Pande, Uttar Pradesh

  • Literature & Education - Har Gobind Khorana, United States.

  • Year: 1970                 

  • Literature & Education - Tara Chand, Uttar Pradesh

  • Civil Service – 

  1. Group Captain, Suranjan Das, West Bengal.

  2. General, Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam DSO MBE, Tamil Nadu. 

  3. Ramasamy Mudaliar, Andhra Pradesh. 

  4. Binay Ranjan Sen, West Bengal. 

  5. Lieutenant General, Harbaksh Singh, Punjab

  • Public Affairs - Anthony Lancelot Dias, Maharashtra

  • Year: 1971 

  • Civil Service – 

  1. Bimala Prasad Chaliha, Assam. 

  2. Sumati Morarjee, Maharashtra. 

  3. B. Sivaraman, Tamil Nadu. 

  4. P. Balacharya Gajendragadkar, Maharashtra.

  • Arts – 

  1. Allauddin Khan, West Bengal. 

  2. Uday Shankar, Maharashtra.

  • Medicine - Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar, Goa.

  • Year: 1972                 

  • Civil Service – 

  1. Aditya Nath Jha, Uttar Pradesh. 

  2. Air Chief Marshal, Pratap Chandra Lal (DFC), Punjab. 

  3. Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw (MC), Tamil Nadu. 

  4. Admiral, Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda (PVSM) (AVSM), Delhi.

  • Public Affairs – 

  1. Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Maharashtra.

  2. Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq, Jammu and Kashmir.

  • Science & Engineering - Vikram Sarabhai, Gujarat. 

  • Literature & Education - Hormasji Maneckji Seervai, Maharashtra.

  • Year: 1973 

  • Civil Service – 

  1. Basanti Devi, West Bengal. 

  2. Thirumalraya Swaminathan, Tamil Nadu

  • Social Work - U. N. Dhebar, Gujarat.

  • Science & Engineering - Daulat Singh Kothari, Delhi.

  • Social Work - Nellie Sengupta, West Bengal.

  • Public Affairs - Nagendra Singh, Rajasthan.

  • Year: 1974                                 

  • Public Affairs - Niren De, West Bengal.

  • Arts - Benode Behari Mukherjee, West Bengal.  

  • Civil Service – 

  1. K. R. V. Rao, Karnataka. 

  2. Harish Chandra Sarin, Delhi.

  • Year: 1975                 

  • Public Affairs - C. D. Deshmukh, Maharashtra

  • Social Work-  

  1. Durgabai Deshmukh, Andhra Pradesh

  2. Mary Clubwala Jadhav, Tamil Nadu

  • Literature & Education -               

  1. Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri, West Bengal.

  2. Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey, Maharashtra.

  • Science & Engineering - Raja Ramanna, Karnataka

  • Civil Service - Homi Nusserwanji Sethna, Maharashtra.

  • Arts - M. S. Subbulakshmi, Tamil Nadu.

  • Year: 1976 

  • Science & Engineering - 

  1. Salim Ali, Uttar Pradesh

  2. K. R. Ramanathan, Kerala

  • Literature & Education: - 

  1. Gurmukh Singh Musafir, Punjab

  2. Kalu Lal Shrimali, Uttar Pradesh

  3. Bashir Hussain Zaidi, Delhi

  • Arts - 

  1. K. Shankar Pillai, Delhi

  2. Satyajit Ray, West Bengal

  • Year: 1977                 

  • Arts - T. Balasaraswati, Tamil Nadu

  • Public Affairs – 

  1. Ali Yavar Jung, Andhra Pradesh

  2. Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee, West Bengal

  • Civil Service - 

  1. Ajudhia Nath Khosla, Delhi

  2. Air Chief Marshal, Om Prakash Mehra (PVSM), Punjab

  • Literature & Education - Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh, Delhi

  • Year: 1978-1979         

                    (Awards suspended)

  • Year: 1980                   

  • Arts - Bismillah Khan, Uttar Pradesh

  • Civil Service - Rai Krishnadasa, Uttar Pradesh

  • Year: 1981                 

  • Science & Engineering - Atish Dhawan, Karnataka

  • Arts - Ravi Shankar, Uttar Pradesh

  • Year: 1982                 

  • Social Work - Mirabehn, United Kingdom

  • Year: 1983-1984 

                    (No awards)

  • Year: 1985 

  • Science & Engineering - C. N. R. Rao, Karnataka

  • Civil Service - M. G. K. Menon, Kerala      

  • Year: 1986                 

  • Social Work - Baba Amte, Maharashtra

  • Arts - Birju Maharaj, Delhi

  • Medicine - Autar Singh Paintal, Delhi

  • Year: 1987                 

  • Science & Technology - Benjamin Peary Pal, Punjab

  • Civil Service – 

  1. Manmohan Singh, Delhi

  2. General Arun Shridhar Vaidya (PVSM) (AVSM) (ADC), Maharashtra

  • Year: 1988                 

  • Public Affairs - Mirza Hameedullah Beg, Delhi

  • Literature & Education – 

  1. Kuvempu, Karnataka.

  2. Mahadevi Varma, Uttar Pradesh.

  • Year: 1989                 

  • Public Affairs - Uma Shankar Dikshit, Uttar Pradesh.

  • Arts - Ali Akbar Khan, West Bengal.

  • Science & Technology - M. S. Swaminathan, Tamil Nadu.

  • Year: 1990                 

  • Literature & Education - 

  1. V. S. R. Arunachalam, Delhi.

  2. Bhabatosh Datta, West Bengal.

  • Civil Service - Triloki Nath Chaturvedi, Karnataka.

  • Arts - Kumar Gandharva, Madhya Pradesh.

  • Science & Engineering - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Tamil Nadu.

  • Year: 1991                 

  • Arts – 

  1. Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Tamil Nadu.

  2. M. Balamuralikrishna, Tamil Nadu.

  3. M. F. Husain, Maharashtra.

  • Public Affairs – 

  1. Hirendranath Mukherjee, West Bengal.

  2. Gulzarilal Nanda, Gujarat.

  3. N. G. Ranga, Andhra Pradesh.

  • Science & Engineering - I. G. Patel, Gujarat.

  • Civil Service - Khusro Faramurz Rustamji, Maharashtra.

  • Literature & Education - Rajaram Shastri, Uttar Pradesh.

  • Year: 1992                 

  • Social Work - Aruna Asaf Ali, Delhi.

  • Literature & Education - Lakshman Shastri Joshi, Maharashtra.

  • Arts – 

  1. Mallikarjun Mansur, Karnataka.

  2. Kaloji Narayana Rao, Telangana.

  3. V. Shantaram, Maharashtra.

  • Medicine - S. I. Padmavati, Delhi.

  • Literature & Education - Govindbhai Shroff, Maharashtra.

  • Public Affairs – 

  1. Swaran Singh, Punjab.

  2. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Delhi.

  3. Ravi Narayana Reddy, Andhra Pradesh.

  • Year: 1993 to 1997

                              (Award was suspended)

  • Year: 1998                 

  • Social Work – 

  1. Usha Mehta, Maharashtra.

  2. Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Maharashtra.

  • Public Affairs - 

  1. Nanabhoy Palkhivala, Maharashtra.

  2. Lakshmi Sahgal, Uttar Pradesh.

  3. Walter Sisulu, South Africa.                          

  • Year: 1999                   

  • Science & Engineering - Rajagopala Chidambaram, Maharashtra.

  • Social Work - Nanaji Deshmukh, Delhi.

  • Literature & Education - Sarvepalli Gopal, Tamil Nadu.

  • Arts -     

  1. Satish Gujral, Delhi. 

  2. Bhimsen Joshi, Maharashtra.

  3. Lata Mangeshkar, Maharashtra.

  4. D. K. Pattammal, Tamil Nadu.

  • Public Affairs – 

  1. R. Krishna Iyer, Kerala.

  2. Hans Raj Khanna, Delhi.

  • Science & Technology - Verghese Kurien, Gujarat.

  • Civil Service – 

  1. Braj Kumar Nehru, Himachal Pradesh.

  2. Lallan Prasad Singh, Delhi.

  3. Dharma Vira, Delhi.

  • Year: 2000                 

  • Public Affairs - Sikander Bakht, Delhi.

  • Literature & Education – 

  1. Jagdish Bhagwati, United States.

  2. R. K. Narayan, Tamil Nadu.

  3. K. N. Raj, Kerala.

  • Arts – 

  1. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Maharashtra.

  2. Kelucharan Mohapatra, Odisha.

  3. Jasraj Motiram, Maharashtra.

  • Civil Service – 

  1. M. S. Gill, Delhi.

  2. K. B. Lall, Delhi.

  3. Bhairab Dutt Pande, Uttar Pradesh.

  4. Tarlok Singh, Delhi.

  • Science & Engineering - Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, Karnataka.

  • Trade & Industry - M. Narasimham, Andhra Pradesh.

  • Year: 2001                 

  • Literature & Education – 

  1. John Kenneth Galbraith, United States.

  2. K. Satchidananda Murty, Andhra Pradesh.

  • Public Affairs - Benjamin Gilman, United States.

  • Arts –

  1. Amjad Ali Khan, Delhi.

  2. Zubin Mehta, United States.

  3. Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Maharashtra

  4. Shivkumar Sharma, Maharashtra.               

  • Civil Service - Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, Tamil Nadu.

  • Public Affairs - Hosei Norota, Japan.

  • Science & Engineering -                 

  1. C. R. Rao, United States.

  2. Man Mohan Sharma, Maharashtra.

  • Year: 2002                 

  • Arts – 

  1. Kishori Amonkar, Maharashtra.

  2. Gangubai Hangal, Karnataka.

  3. Kishan Maharaj, Uttar Pradesh.

  • Literature & Education - C. Rangarajan, Tamil Nadu.

  • Public Affairs – Soli Sorabjee, Delhi.

  • Year: 2003                 

  • Public Affairs - Kazi Lhendup Dorjee, West Bengal.

  • Arts - Sonal Mansingh, Delhi.

  • Literature & Education - Bal Ram Nanda, Delhi.

  • Medicine - Brihaspati Dev Triguna, Delhi.

  • Year: 2004                 

  • Science & Engineering - Jayant Narlikar, Maharashtra.

  • Literature & Education - Amrita Pritam, Delhi.    

  • Public Affairs - M. N. Venkatachaliah, Karnataka.

  • Year: 2005                   

  • Public Affairs – 

  1. Milon K. Banerji, Delhi.

  2. Karan Singh, Delhi.

  • Social Work - Mohan Dharia, Maharashtra.          

  • Civil Service - Jyotindra Nath Dixit, Delhi.

  • Medicine – 

  1. B. K. Goyal, Maharashtra.

  2. M. S. Valiathan, Delhi.      

  • Arts – 

  1. R. K. Laxman, Maharashtra.

  2. Ram Narayan, Maharashtra.          

  • Year: 2006                 

  • Science & Engineering – 

  1. Norman Borlaug, United States.

  2. Charles Correa, Maharashtra.

  3. Obaid Siddiqi, Karnataka. 

  • Social Work - Nirmala Deshpande, Delhi.

  • Literature & Education - Mahasweta Devi, West Bengal.

  • Arts - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Kerala.

  • Public Affairs - V. N. Khare           Uttar Pradesh.

  • Civil Service - C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao Tamil Nadu.           

  • Medicine - Prakash Narain Tandon, Delhi.             

  • Year: 2007                 

  • Public Affairs – 

  1. P. N. Bhagwati, Delhi.

  2. Raja Chelliah, Tamil Nadu.

  3. Fali Sam Nariman, Delhi.

  • Civil Service – 

  1. Naresh Chandra, Delhi.

  2. V. Krishnamurthy, Delhi.

  • Literature & Education – 

  1. Raja Rao, United States.

  2. Khushwant Singh, Delhi.

  3. Narinder Nath Vohra, Haryana.

  • Medicine - Balu Sankaran, Delhi.

  • Science & Engineering - E. C. George Sudarshan, United States.  

  • Year: 2008 

  • Public Affairs - Adarsh Sein Anand, Uttar Pradesh.

  • Sports – 

  1. Viswanathan Anand, Tamil Nadu. 

  2. Edmund Hillary, New Zealand.

  3. Sachin Tendulkar, Maharashtra.

  • Arts - Asha Bhosle, Maharashtra.              

  • Trade & Industry – 

  1. Lakshmi Mittal, United Kingdom.

  2. N. R. Narayana Murthy    Karnataka.

  3. Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi, Delhi.

  4. Ratan Tata, Maharashtra

  • Public Affairs - Pranab Mukherjee, Delhi               

  • Science & Engineering - E. Sreedharan, Delhi

  • Year: 2009 

  • Public Affairs - Govind Narain, Uttar Pradesh      

  • Civil Service - Chandrika Prasad Srivastava, Maharashtra 

  • Medicine – 

  1. Jasbir Singh Bajaj, Punjab

  2. Purshotam Lal, Uttar Pradesh

  • Literature & Education - D. P. Chattopadhyaya, West Bengal

  • Trade & Industry - Ashok Sekhar Ganguly, Maharashtra

  • Social Work - Nirmala Joshi, West Bengal

  • Science & Engineering – 

  1. Anil Kakodkar, Maharashtra            

  2. G. Madhavan Nair, Karnataka

  • Others - Sunderlal Bahuguna, Uttarakhand

  • Year: 2010                 

  • Arts – 

  1. Ebrahim Alkazi, Delhi

  2. Zohra Sehgal, Delhi 

  3. Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, Tamil Nadu

  • Science & Technology - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, United Kingdom

  • Trade & Industry - Prathap C. Reddy, Andhra Pradesh

  • Public Affairs - Y. Venugopal Reddy, Andhra Pradesh

  • Year: 2011             

  • Public Affairs - 

  1. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Delhi.

  2. Vijay Kelkar, Maharashtra.

  3. Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai, Delhi.

  4. K. Parasaran, Delhi.

  • Literature & Education - 

  1. O. N. V. Kurup, Kerala.       

  2. Sitakant Mahapatra, Odisha.

  • Civil Service - Brajesh Mishra, Delhi.        

  • Trade & Industry - Azim Premji, Karnataka.

  • Science & Engineering - Palle Rama Rao, Andhra Pradesh.

  • Arts - 

  1. Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Andhra Pradesh.

  2. Kapila Vatsyayan, Delhi.

  3. Homai Vyarawalla, Gujarat.               

  • Year: 2012

  • Arts - 

  1. Bhupen Hazarika, Assam.

  2. Mario Miranda, Goa.

  3. K. G. Subramanyan, Gujarat.

  • Civil Service - T. V. Rajeswar, Delhi.

  • Medicine - Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti, Maharashtra.

  • Year: 2013                 

  • Arts - 

  1. Raghunath Mohapatra, Odisha.

  2. S. H. Raza, Delhi.

  • Science & Technology - 

  1. Roddam Narasimha, Karnataka.

  2. Yash Pal, Uttar Pradesh.

  • Year: 2014                 

  • Others - B. K. S. Iyengar, Maharashtra.

  • Science & Engineering - Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, Maharashtra.

  • Year: 2015                 

  • Public Affairs - 

  1. L. K. Advani, Gujarat.

  2. Parkash Singh Badal, Punjab.

  3. Kottayan Katankot Venugopal, Delhi.

  • Arts - 

  1. Amitabh Bachchan, Maharashtra.

  2. Dilip Kumar, Maharashtra.   

  • Social Work - 

  1. Veerendra Heggade, Karnataka.

  2. Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan, United Kingdom/ France.

  • Literature & Education - Rambhadracharya, Uttar Pradesh.

  • Science & Technology - M. R. Srinivasan, Tamil Nadu.      

  • Year: 2016                 

  • Science & Engineering - V. K. Aatre, Karnataka.

  • Trade & Industry - Dhirubhai Ambani, Maharashtra.

  • Arts - 

  1. Girija Devi, West Bengal.

  2. Yamini Krishnamurthy, Delhi.

  3. Rajinikanth, Tamil Nadu.

  • Literature & Education - Avinash Dixit, United States.                      

  • Public Affairs - 

  1. Jagmohan, Delhi.      

  2. Ramoji Rao, Andhra Pradesh.

  • Others - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Karnataka.

  • Medicine - V. Shanta, Tamil Nadu.            

  • Year: 2017                 

  • Public Affairs - 

  1. Murli Manohar Joshi, Uttar Pradesh.

  2. Sunder Lal Patwa, Madhya Pradesh.

  3. Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra.

  4. P. A. Sangma, Meghalaya.

  • Science & Engineering - Udupi Ramachandra Rao, Karnataka.                      

  • Arts - K. J. Yesudas, Kerala.

  • Others - Jaggi Vasudev, Tamil Nadu.

  • Year: 2018                 

  • Arts - 

  1. Ilaiyaraaja, Tamil Nadu.

  2. Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Maharashtra.

  • Literature & Education - P. Parameswaran, Kerala.           

  • Year: 2019                 

  • Arts - 

  1. Teejan Bai, Chhattisgarh.

  2. Balwant Moreshwar Purandare, Maharashtra.

  • Public Affairs - Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, Djibouti.

  • Trade & Industry - Anil Manibhai Naik, Maharashtra.       

  • Year: 2020                 

  • Public Affairs - 

  1. George Fernandes, Bihar.

  2. AffairsArun Jaitley, Delhi.

  3. Anerood Jugnauth, Mauritius.

  4. Sushma Swaraj, Delhi.

  • Sports- M. C. Mary Kom, Manipur.

  • Arts - Chhannulal Mishra, Uttar Pradesh.

  • Others - Vishwesha Teertha, Karnataka.

  • Year: 2021

  • Public Affairs - Shinzo Abe, Japan.

  • Arts - 

  1. S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Tamil Nadu.

  2. Sudarshan Sahoo, Odisha.                      

  • Medicine - Belle Monappa Hegde, Karnataka.

  • Science & Engineering - Narinder Singh Kapany, United States.

  • Others - 

  1. Wahiduddin Khan, Delhi.

  2. B. B. Lal, Delhi.

  • Year: 2022                 

  • Arts - Prabha Atre, Maharashtra.

  • Literature & Education - Radheshyam Khemka, Uttar Pradesh.

  • Civil Service - General Bipin Rawat (PVSM) (UYSM) (AVSM) (YSM) (SM) (VSM) (ADC), Uttarakhand.

  • Public Affairs - Kalyan Singh, Uttar Pradesh

  • Year: 2023                 

  • Arts - Zakir Hussain, Maharashtra.

  • Public Affairs - 

  1. S. M. Krishna, Karnataka.

  2. Mulayam Singh Yadav, Uttar Pradesh

  • Medicine - Dilip Mahalanabis, West Bengal.                         

  • Science & Engineering - S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, United States.

  • Others - Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, Gujarat.       

  • Year: 2024                 

  • Arts - 

  1. Vyjayanthimala, Tamil Nadu.

  2. Chiranjeevi, Andhra Pradesh.

  3. Padma Subrahmanyam, Tamil Nadu. 

  • Public Affairs - Venkaiah Naidu, Andhra Pradesh.

  • Social Work - Bindeshwar Pathak, Bihar. 

  • Year: 2025                 

  • Medicine - D. Nageshwara Reddy, Telangana

  • Public Affairs - Jagdish Singh Khehar, Chandigarh

  • Arts - 

  1. Kumudini Lakhia, Gujarat

  2. L. Subramaniam, Karnataka

  3. Sharda Sinha, Bihar

  • Literature & Education - M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Kerala

  • Trade & Industry - Osamu Suzuki, Japan.

 

Conclusion:

The Padma Vibhushan is the second-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, awarded "for exceptional and distinguished service" irrespective of caste, profession, rank, or gender. Recommendations for the award are submitted to the Padma Awards Committee constituted by the Prime Minister of India on 1 May and 15 September every year. The list is subsequently submitted to the Prime Minister and the President of India for approval, and the names of the awardees are announced on Republic Day. The 1954 Act did not allow posthumous awards, but the January 1955 Act amended this. The "Padma Vibhushan" award was suspended twice, from July 1977 to January 1980 and August 1992 to December 1995. However, some recipients have also declined their awards.