Padma awards full list: MS Dhoni, music composer Illaiyaraja among recipients

Ace men’s singles shuttler Kidambi Srikanth won the Padma Shri alongside India’s first Paralympic gold medalist, Murlikant Petkar.

Prominent citizens from each of the 10 Asean members are among the 16 foreigners who will be awarded the prestigious Padma Shri awards this year on January 26. Heads of states and governments of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) members are currently visiting India for the Indo-Asean summit and will attend the Republic Day functions.

MS Dhoni holds a press conference in Kolkata. (HT FILE PHOTO)

Also, noted music composer Illaiyaraja, Hindutava thinker Parameswaran Parameswaran and former Team India captain MS Dhoni are among the 85 people chosen for the prestigious awards in 2018.

Among the awardees, 16 are from the category of foreigners, non-resident Indians and three people will be getting the award posthumously.

Noted Hindustani classical singer Ghulam Mustafa Khan was honoured with the Padma Vibhushan. Cueist Pankaj Advani, former Russian Ambassador to India late Alexander Kadakin, Hindustani classical musician Arvind Parikh, Tamil Nadu-based archaeologist Ramachandran Nagaswamy and Goan artist Laxman Pai were among nine prominent personalities who were honoured with the Padma Bhushan.

Padma Vibhushan
Sl. No	Name	Field	State
1.	Shri Illaiyaraja	Art-Music	Tamil Nadu
2.	Shri Ghulam Mustafa Khan	Art-Music	Maharashtra
3.	Shri Parameswaran Parameswaran	Literature and Education	Kerala
Padma Bhushan
Sl. No	Name	Field	State
4.	Shri Pankaj Advani	Sports- Billiards/ Snooker	Karnataka
5.	Shri Philipose Mar Chrysostom	Others- Spiritualism	Kerala
6.	Shri Mahendra Singh Dhoni	Sports- Cricket	Jharkhand
7.	Shri Alexander Kadakin (Foreigner/ Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Russia
8.	Shri Ramachandran Nagaswamy	Others- Archaeology	Tamil Nadu
9.	Shri Ved Prakash Nanda (OCI)	Literature and Education	USA
10.	Shri Laxman Pai	Art- Painting	Goa
11.	Shri Arvind Parikh	Art- Music	Maharashtra
12.	Ms. Sharda Sinha	Art- Music	Bihar
Padma Shri
Sl. No	Name	Field	State
13.	Shri Abhay Bang (Duo) Ms. Rani Bang (Duo)	Medicine	Maharashtra
14.	Shri Damodar Ganesh Bapat	Social Work	Chhattisgarh
15.	Shri Prafulla Govinda Baruah	Literature and Education- Journalism	Assam
16.	Shri Mohan Swaroop Bhatia	Art- Folk Music	Uttar Pradesh
17.	Shri Sudhanshu Biswas	Social Work	West Bengal
18.	Ms. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu	Sports- Weightlifting	Manipur
19.	Shri Pandit Shyamlal Chaturvedi	Literature and Education- Journalism	Chhattisgarh
20.	Shri Jose Ma Joey Concepcion III (Foreigner)	Trade & Industry	Philippines
21.	Ms. Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi	Art- Weaving	Manipur
22.	Shri Somdev Devvarman	Sports- Tennis	Tripura
23.	Shri Yeshi Dhoden	Medicine	Himachal Pradesh
24.	Shri Arup Kumar Dutta	Literature and Education	Assam
25.	Shri Doddarange Gowda	Art- Lyrics	Karnataka
26.	Shri Arvind Gupta	Literature and Education	Maharashtra
27.	Shri Digamber Hansda	Literature and Education	Jharkhand
28.	Shri Ramli Bin Ibrahim (Foreigner)	Art- Dance	Malaysia
29.	Shri Anwar Jalalpuri (Posthumous)	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
30.	Shri Piyong Temjen Jamir	Literature and Education	Nagaland
31.	Ms. Sitavva Joddati	Social Work	Karnataka
32.	Ms. Malti Joshi	Literature and Education	Madhya Pradesh
33.	Shri Manoj Joshi	Art- Acting	Maharashtra
34.	Shri Rameshwarlal Kabra	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
35.	Shri Pran Kishore Kaul	Art	Jammu and Kashmir
36.	Shri Bounlap Keokangna (Foreigner)	Others- Architecture	Laos
37.	Shri Vijay Kichlu	Art-Music	West Bengal
38.	Shri Tommy Koh (Foreigner)	Public Affairs	Singapore
39.	Ms. Lakshmikutty	Medicine- Traditional	Kerala
40.	Ms. Joyshree Goswami Mahanta	Literature and Education	Assam
41.	Shri Narayan Das Maharaj	Others- Spiritualism	Rajasthan
42.	Shri Pravakara Maharana	Art- Sculpture	Odisha
43.	Shri Hun Many (Foreigner)	Public Affairs	Cambodia
44.	Ms. Nouf Marwaai (Foreigner)	Others- Yoga	Saudi Arabia
45.	Shri Zaverilal Mehta	Literature and Education- Journalism	Gujarat
46.	Shri Krishna Bihari Mishra	Literature and Education	West Bengal
47.	Shri Sisir Purushottam Mishra	Art- Cinema	Maharashtra
48.	Ms. Subhasini Mistry	Social Work	West Bengal
49.	Shri Tomio Mizokami (Foreigner)	Literature and Education	Japan
50.	Shri Somdet Phra Maha Muniwong (Foreigner)	Others- Spiritualism	Thailand
51.	Shri Keshav Rao Musalgaonkar	Literature and Education	Madhya Pradesh
52.	Dr Thant Myint – U (Foreigner)	Public Affairs	Myanmar
53.	Ms. V Nanammal	Others- Yoga	Tamil Nadu
54.	Ms. Sulagitti Narasamma	Social Work	Karnataka
55.	Ms. Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan	Art- Folk Music	Tamil Nadu
56.	Shri I Nyoman Nuarta (Foreigner)	Art- Sculpture	Indonesia
57.	Shri Malai Haji Abdullah Bin Malai Haji Othman (Foreigner)	Social Work	Brunei Darussalam
58.	Shri Gobaradhan Panika	Art- Weaving	Odisha
59.	Shri Bhabani Charan Pattanaik	Public Affairs	Odisha
60.	Shri Murlikant Petkar	Sports-Swimming	Maharashtra
61.	Shri Habibullo Rajabov (Foreigner)	Literature and Education	Tajikistan
62.	Shri M R Rajagopal	Medicine-Palliative Care	Kerala
63.	Shri Sampat Ramteke (Posthumous)	Social Work	Maharashtra
64.	Shri Chandra Sekhar Rath	Literature and Education	Odisha
65.	Shri S S Rathore	Civil Service	Gujarat
66.	Shri Amitava Roy	Science and Engineering	West Bengal
67.	Shri Sanduk Ruit (Foreigner)	Medicine- Ophthalmology	Nepal
68.	Shri R Sathyanarayana	Art-Music	Karnataka
69.	Shri Pankaj M Shah	Medicine- Oncology	Gujarat
70.	Shri Bhajju Shyam	Art- Painting	Madhya Pradesh
71.	Shri Maharao Raghuveer Singh	Literature and Education	Rajasthan
72.	Shri Kidambi Srikanth	Sports- Badminton	Andhra Pradesh
73.	Shri Ibrahim Sutar	Art-Music	Karnataka
74.	Shri Siddeshwara Swamiji	Others- Spiritualism	Karnataka
75.	Ms. Lentina Ao Thakkar	Social Work	Nagaland
76.	Shri Vikram Chandra Thakur	Science and Engineering	Uttarakhand
77.	Shri Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Tharanathan (Duo) Shri Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Thyagarajan (Duo)	Art- Music	Karnataka
78.	Shri Nguyen Tien Thien (Foreigner)	Others- Spiritualism	Vietnam
79.	Shri Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
80.	Shri Rajagopalan Vasudevan	Science and Engineering	Tamil Nadu
81.	Shri Manas Bihari Verma	Science and Engineering	Bihar
82.	Shri Panatawane Gangadhar Vithobaji	Literature and Education	Maharashtra
83.	Shri Romulus Whitaker	Others- Wildlife Conservation	Tamil Nadu
84.	Shri Baba Yogendra	Art	Madhya Pradesh
85.	Shri A Zakia	Literature and Education	Mizoram