Padma Awards 2025: Full list of Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awardees

Padma Awards 2025: The Padma Awards are given in three categories: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.

Updated on: Jan 26, 2025, 07:09:19 IST

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Padma Awards 2025: The Central government on Saturday announced the recipients of the coveted Padma Awards.

Padma Awards 2025: (From left to right) Bollywood singer Arijit Singh, folk singer Sharda Sinha and cricketer R Ashwin. (File)

The Padma Awards are one of India's highest civilian honours, announced annually on the eve of Republic Day.

The awards are given in three categories: Padma Vibhushan (for exceptional and distinguished service), Padma Bhushan (distinguished service of higher order) and Padma Shri (distinguished service).

The award seeks to recognize achievements in all fields of activity or disciplines involving an element of public service. The Padma Awards are conferred on the recommendations made by the Padma Awards Committee, which is constituted by the prime minister every year.

This year, the government has awarded 7 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri awards. The President confers these awards at a ceremonial function held at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, usually in March or April every year.

Here's a full list of Padma Award winners:

Padma Vibhushan

Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy
Justice (Retd.) Jagdish Singh Khehar
Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia
Lakshminarayana Subramaniam
MT Vasudevan Nair (Posthumous)
Osamu Suzuki (Posthumous)
Sharda Sinha (Posthumous)

Padma Bhushan

A Surya Prakash
Anant Nag
Bibek Debroy (Posthumous)
Jatin Goswami
Jose Chacko Periappuram
Kailash Nath Dikshit
Manohar Joshi (Posthumous)
Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti
Nandamuri Balakrishna
PR Sreejesh
Pankaj Patel
Pankaj Udhas (Posthumous)
Rambahadur Rai
Sadhvi Ritambhara
S Ajith Kumar
Shekhar Kapur
Shobana Chandrakumar
Sushil Kumar Modi (Posthumous)
Vinod Dham

Padma Shri

Advaita Charan Gadanayak
Achyut Ramchandra Palav
Ajay V Bhatt
Anil Kumar Boro
Arijit Singh
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Arunoday Saha
Arvind Sharma
Ashok Kumar Mahapatra
Ashok Laxman Saraf
Ashutosh Sharma
Ashwini Bhide Deshpande
Baijnath Maharaj
Barry Godfray John
Begam Batool
Bharat Gupt
Bheru Singh Chouhan
Bhim Singh Bhavesh
Bhimawa Doddabalappa Shiilekyathara
Budhendra Kumar Jain
C S Vaidyanathan
Chaitram Deochand Pawar
Chandrakant Sheth (Posthumous)
Chandrakant Sompura
Chetan E Chitnis
David R Syiemlieh
Durga Charan Ranbir
Farooq Ahmad Mir
Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid
Gita Upadhyay
Gokul Chandra Das
Guruvayur Dorai
Harchandan Singh Bhatty
Hariman Sharma
Harjinder Singh Srinagar Wale
Harvinder Singh
Hassan Raghu
Hemant Kumar
Hriday Narayan Dixit
Hugh and Colleen Gantzer (Posthumous)
Inivalappil Mani Vijayan
Jagadish Joshila
Jaspinder Narula
Jonas Masetti
Joynacharan Bathari
Jumde Yomgam Gamlin
K. Damodaran
K L Krishna
K Omanakutty Amma
Kishore Kunal (Posthumous)
L Hangthing
Lakshmipathy Ramasubbaiyer
Lalit Kumar Mangotra
Lama Lobzang (Posthumous)
Libia Lobo Sardesai
M D Srinivas
Madugula Nagaphani Sarma
Mahabir Nayak
Mamata Shankar
Manda Krishna Madiga
Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli
Miriyala Apparao (Posthumous)
Nagendra Nath Roy
Narayan (Bhulai Bhai) (Posthumous)
Naren Gurung
Neerja Bhatla
Nirmala Devi
Nitin Nohria
Onkar Singh Pahwa
P Datchanamoorthy
Pandi Ram Mandavi
Parmar Lavjibhai Nagjibhai
Pawan Goenka
Prashanth Prakash
Pratibha Satpathy
Purisai Kannappa Sambandan
R Ashwin
R G Chandramogan
Radha Bahin Bhatt
Radhakrishnan Devasenapathy
Ramdarash Mishra
Ranendra Bhanu Majumdar
Ratan Kumar Parimoo
Reba Kanta Mahanta
Renthlei Lalrawna
Ricky Gyan Kej
Sajjan Bhajanka
Sally Holkar
Sant Ram Deswal
Satyapal Singh
Seeni Viswanathan
Sethuraman Panchanathan
Sheikha Shaikha Ali Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Sheen Kaaf Nizam (Shiv Kishan Bissa)
Shyam Bihari Agrawal
Soniya Nityanand
Stephen Knapp
Subhash Khetulal Sharma
Suresh Harilal Soni
Surinder Kumar Vasal
Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik Maharaj)
Syed Ainu Hasan
Tejendra Narayan Majumdar
Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi
Tushar Durgeshbhai Shukla
Vadiraj Raghavendracharya Panchamukhi
Vasudeo Kamath
Velu Assaan
Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar
Vijay Nityanand Surishwar Ji Maharaj
Vijayalakshmi Deshamane
Vilas Dangre
Vinayak Lohani

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