Padma Vibhushan, after Bharat Ratna the highest, is the second-highest civilian award of the Republic of India. Padma Vibhushan is given for “exceptional and distinguished service”, without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex. This prize was instituted on 02.01.1954 and classified as “Pahela Warg” (Class I). Later, on 15.01.1955, the award was reclassified as Padma Vibhushan. The award is not given to the employees of public sector undertakings, excluding doctors and scientists.
Padma Vibhushan (The 2nd Highest Civilian Award)
Who Can Send Recommendations for Padma Vibhushan Award?
All the state and the union territory governments, Ministries of the Govt of India, the Bharat Ratna and previous Padma Vibhushan award recipients, the Institutes of Excellence, Ministers, Chief Ministers and the Governors of State, and the Members of Parliament may send the recommendations for the upcoming Padma Vibhushan prize. Padma Awards Committee, constituted by the Prime Minister of India, accept these recommendations. Names of award recipients are announced on Republic Day. The award is conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which is held at Rashtrapati Bhawan (President House) usually around March/ April every year.
Specifications Of Padma Vibhushan Award
The Padma Vibhushan medal is a circular-shaped bronze toned medallion 44 mm in diameter and 3.2 mm thick. The centrally placed pattern made of outer lines of a square of 30 mm side is embossed with a knob carved within each of the outer angles of pattern. A raised circular space of 27 mm in diameter is placed at the centre. A centrally located lotus flower is embossed on the obverse side of the medal. The text “Padma” written in Devanagari script is placed above and the text “Vibhushan” is placed below the lotus. The National Emblem of India is also placed in the centre of the reverse side with the national motto of India, “Satyameva Jayate”, in Devanagari Script, inscribed on the lower edge. The rim, edges, and all embossing on either side is of white gold with the text “Padma Vibhushan” of silver gilt. The medal is suspended by a pink ribbon of 32 mm width.
Latest List Of Padma Vibhushan Award 2018 Recipients
Download latest list of Padma Vibhushan award 2018 recipients. As well as the names of previous years’ medalists and recipients are also listed here.
№ | NAME | FIELD | STATE |
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1. | Shri Ilaiya Raaja | Art-Music | Tamil Nadu |
2. | Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan | Art-Music | Maharashtra |
3. | Shri P. Parameswaran | Literature and Education | Kerala |
Padma Vibhushan Award Recipients List (All Years)
YEAR | NAME | FIELD | STATE |
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2017 | Murli Manohar Joshi | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh |
2017 | Sunder Lal Patwa | Public Affairs | Madhya Pradesh |
2017 | Sharad Pawar | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
2016 | V. K. Aatre | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
2016 | Dhirubhai Ambani | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
2016 | Girija Devi | Arts | West Bengal |
2016 | Avinash Dixit | Literature & Education | — |
2016 | Jagmohan | Public Affairs | Delhi |
2016 | Yamini Krishnamurthy | Arts | Delhi |
2016 | Rajinikanth | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
2016 | Ramoji Rao | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
2016 | Sri Sri Ravi Shankar | Others | Karnataka |
2016 | V. Shanta | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
2015 | L. K. Advani | Public Affairs | Gujarat |
2015 | Amitabh Bachchan | Arts | Maharashtra |
2015 | Parkash Singh Badal | Public Affairs | Punjab |
2015 | Veerendra Heggade | Social Work | Karnataka |
2015 | Dilip Kumar | Arts | Maharashtra |
2015 | Rambhadracharya | Others | Uttar Pradesh |
2015 | M. R. Srinivasan | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
2015 | Kottayan Katankot Venugopal | Public Affairs | Delhi |
2015 | Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan | Trade & Industry | — |
2014 | B. K. S. Iyengar | Others | Maharashtra |
2014 | Raghunath Anant Mashelkar | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
2013 | Raghunath Mohapatra | Arts | Odisha |
2013 | Roddam Narasimha | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
2013 | Yash Pal | Science & Engineering | Uttar Pradesh |
2013 | S. H. Raza | Arts | Delhi |
2012 | Bhupen Hazarika | Arts | Assam |
2012 | Mario Miranda | Arts | Goa |
2012 | T. V. Rajeswar | Civil Service | Delhi |
2012 | Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti | Medicine | Maharashtra |
2012 | K. G. Subramanyan | Arts | Gujarat |
2011 | Montek Singh Ahluwalia | Public Affairs | Delhi |
2011 | Vijay Kelkar | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
2011 | Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai | Public Affairs | Delhi |
2011 | O. N. V. Kurup | Literature & Education | Kerala |
2011 | Sitakant Mahapatra | Literature & Education | Odisha |
2011 | Brajesh Mishra | Civil Service | Delhi |
2011 | K. Parasaran | Public Affairs | Delhi |
2011 | Azim Premji | Trade & Industry | Karnataka |
2011 | Palle Rama Rao | Science & Engineering | Andhra Pradesh |
2011 | Akkineni Nageswara Rao | Arts | Andhra Pradesh |
2011 | Kapila Vatsyayan | Arts | Delhi |
2011 | Homai Vyarawalla | Arts | Gujarat |
2010 | Ebrahim Alkazi | Arts | Delhi |
2010 | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | Science & Engineering | — |
2010 | Prathap C. Reddy | Trade & Industry | Tamil Nadu |
2010 | Y. Venugopal Reddy | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
2010 | Zohra Sehgal | Arts | Delhi |
2010 | Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
2009 | Sunderlal Bahuguna | Others | Uttarakhand |
2009 | Jasbir Singh Bajaj | Medicine | Punjab |
2009 | D. P. Chattopadhyaya | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
2009 | Ashok Sekhar Ganguly | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
2009 | Sister Nirmala | Social Work | West Bengal |
2009 | Anil Kakodkar | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
2009 | Purshotam Lal | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh |
2009 | G. Madhavan Nair | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
2009 | Govind Narain | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh |
2009 | Chandrika Prasad Srivastava | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
2008 | Adarsh Sein Anand | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh |
2008 | Viswanathan Anand | Sports | Tamil Nadu |
2008 | Asha Bhosle | Arts | Maharashtra |
2008 | P. N. Dhar | Civil Service | Delhi |
2008 | Edmund Hillary | Sports | — |
2008 | Lakshmi Mittal | Trade & Industry | — |
2008 | Pranab Mukherjee | Public Affairs | Delhi |
2008 | N. R. Narayana Murthy | Trade & Industry | Karnataka |
2008 | Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi | Trade & Industry | Delhi |
2008 | Rajendra K. Pachauri | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
2008 | E. Sreedharan | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
2008 | Ratan Tata | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
2008 | Sachin Tendulkar | Sports | Maharashtra |
2007 | P. N. Bhagwati | Public Affairs | Delhi |
2007 | Naresh Chandra | Civil Service | Delhi |
2007 | Raja Chelliah | Public Affairs | Tamil Nadu |
2007 | V. Krishnamurthy | Civil Service | Delhi |
2007 | Fali Sam Nariman | Public Affairs | Delhi |
2007 | Raja Rao | Literature & Education | — |
2007 | Balu Sankaran | Medicine | Delhi |
2007 | Khushwant Singh | Literature & Education | Delhi |
2007 | George Sudarshan | Science & Engineering | — |
2007 | Narinder Nath Vohra | Civil Service | Haryana |
2006 | Norman Borlaug | Science & Engineering | — |
2006 | Charles Correa | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
2006 | Nirmala Deshpande | Social Work | Delhi |
2006 | Mahasweta Devi | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
2006 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Arts | Kerala |
2006 | V. N. Khare | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh |
2006 | C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu |
2006 | Obaid Siddiqi | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
2006 | Prakash Narain Tandon | Medicine | Delhi |
2005 | Milon K. Banerji | Public Affairs | Delhi |
2005 | Mohan Dharia | Social Work | Maharashtra |
2005 | Jyotindra Nath Dixit | Civil Service | Delhi |
2005 | B. K. Goyal | Medicine | Maharashtra |
2005 | R. K. Laxman | Arts | Maharashtra |
2005 | Ram Narayan | Arts | Maharashtra |
2005 | Karan Singh | Public Affairs | Delhi |
2005 | M. S. Valiathan | Medicine | Karnataka |
2004 | Jayant Narlikar | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
2004 | Amrita Pritam | Literature & Education | Delhi |
2004 | M. N. Venkatachaliah | Public Affairs | Karnataka |
2003 | Kazi Lhendup Dorjee | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
2003 | Sonal Mansingh | Arts | Delhi |
2003 | Bal Ram Nanda | Literature & Education | Delhi |
2003 | Brihaspati Dev Triguna | Medicine | Delhi |
2002 | Kishori Amonkar | Arts | Maharashtra |
2002 | Gangubai Hangal | Arts | Karnataka |
2002 | Kishan Maharaj | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
2002 | C. Rangarajan | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
2002 | Soli Sorabjee | Public Affairs | Delhi |
2001 | John Kenneth Galbraith | Literature & Education | — |
2001 | Benjamin A. Gilman | Public Affairs | — |
2001 | Amjad Ali Khan | Arts | Delhi |
2001 | Zubin Mehta | Arts | — |
2001 | Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Arts | Maharashtra |
2001 | Kotha Satchidanda Murthy | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
2001 | Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu |
2001 | Hosei Norota | Public Affairs | — |
2001 | C. R. Rao | Science & Engineering | — |
2001 | Man Mohan Sharma | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
2001 | Shivkumar Sharma | Arts | Maharashtra |
2000 | Sikander Bakht | Public Affairs | Delhi |
2000 | Jagdish Bhagwati | Literature & Education | — |
2000 | Hariprasad Chaurasia | Arts | Maharashtra |
2000 | M. S. Gill | Civil Service | Delhi |
2000 | Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
2000 | K. B. Lall | Civil Service | Delhi |
2000 | Kelucharan Mohapatra | Arts | Odisha |
2000 | Jasraj Motiram | Arts | Maharashtra |
2000 | M. Narasimham | Trade & Industry | Andhra Pradesh |
2000 | R. K. Narayan | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
2000 | Bhairab Dutt Pande | Civil Service | Uttarakhand |
2000 | K. N. Raj | Literature & Education | Kerala |
2000 | Tarlok Singh | Civil Service | Delhi |
1999 | Pandurang Shastri Athavale | Social Work | Maharashtra |
1999 | Rajagopala Chidambaram | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
1999 | Nanaji Deshmukh | Social Work | Delhi |
1999 | Sarvepalli Gopal | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
1999 | Satish Gujral | Arts | Delhi |
1999 | V. R. Krishna Iyer | Public Affairs | Kerala |
1999 | Bhimsen Joshi | Arts | Maharashtra |
1999 | Hans Raj Khanna | Public Affairs | Delhi |
1999 | Verghese Kurien | Science & Engineering | Gujarat |
1999 | Lata Mangeshkar | Arts | Maharashtra |
1999 | Braj Kumar Nehru | Civil Service | Himachal Pradesh |
1999 | D. K. Pattammal | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
1999 | Lallan Prasad Singh | Civil Service | Delhi |
1999 | Dharma Vira | Civil Service | Delhi |
1998 | Usha Mehta | Social Work | Maharashtra |
1998 | Nanabhoy Palkhivala | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
1998 | Lakshmi Sahgal | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh |
1998 | Walter Sisulu | Public Affairs | — |
1992 | Aruna Asaf Ali | Public Affairs | Delhi |
1992 | Lakshman Shastri Joshi | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
1992 | Mallikarjun Mansur | Arts | Karnataka |
1992 | S. I. Padmavati | Medicine | Delhi |
1992 | Kaloji Narayana Rao | Arts | Andhra Pradesh |
1992 | Ravi Narayana Reddy | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
1992 | V. Shantaram | Arts | Maharashtra |
1992 | Govindbhai Shroff | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
1992 | Swaran Singh | Public Affairs | Punjab |
1992 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Public Affairs | Delhi |
1991 | M. Balamuralikrishna | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
1991 | M. F. Husain | Arts | Maharashtra |
1991 | Hirendranath Mukherjee | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
1991 | Gulzarilal Nanda | Public Affairs | Gujarat |
1991 | I. G. Patel | Science & Engineering | Gujarat |
1991 | N. G. Ranga | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
1991 | Khusro Faramurz Rustamji | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
1991 | Rajaram Shastri | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
1990 | V. S. R. Arunachalam | Literature & Education | Delhi |
1990 | Triloki Nath Chaturvedi | Civil Service | Karnataka |
1990 | Bhabatosh Datta | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
1990 | Kumar Gandharva | Arts | Madhya Pradesh |
1990 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
1990 | Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
1989 | Uma Shankar Dikshit | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh |
1989 | Ali Akbar Khan | Arts | West Bengal |
1989 | M. S. Swaminathan | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
1988 | Mirza Hameedullah Beg | Public Affairs | Delhi |
1988 | Kuvempu | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
1988 | Mahadevi Varma | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
1987 | Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay | Social Work | Karnataka |
1987 | Benjamin Peary Pal | Science & Engineering | Punjab |
1987 | Manmohan Singh | Civil Service | Delhi |
1987 | Arun Shridhar Vaidya | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
1986 | Baba Amte | Social Work | Maharashtra |
1986 | Birju Maharaj | Arts | Delhi |
1986 | Autar Singh Paintal | Medicine | Delhi |
1985 | C. N. R. Rao | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
1985 | M. G. K. Menon | Civil Service | Kerala |
1982 | Mira Behn | Social Work | — |
1981 | Satish Dhawan | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
1981 | Ravi Shankar | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
1980 | Bismillah Khan | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
1980 | Rai Krishnadasa | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh |
1977 | T. Balasaraswati | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
1977 | Ali Yavar Jung | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
1977 | Ajudhia Nath Khosla | Civil Service | Delhi |
1977 | Om Prakash Mehra | Civil Service | Punjab |
1977 | Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
1977 | Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh | Literature & Education | Delhi |
1976 | Salim Ali | Science & Engineering | Uttar Pradesh |
1976 | Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir | Literature & Education | Punjab |
1976 | K. Shankar Pillai | Arts | Delhi |
1976 | K. R. Ramanathan | Science & Engineering | Kerala |
1976 | Satyajit Ray | Arts | West Bengal |
1976 | Kalu Lal Shrimali | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
1976 | Bashir Hussain Zaidi | Literature & Education | Delhi |
1975 | C. D. Deshmukh | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
1975 | Durgabai Deshmukh | Social Work | Maharashtra |
1975 | Mary Clubwala Jadhav | Social Work | Tamil Nadu |
1975 | Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
1975 | Raja Ramanna | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
1975 | Homi Nusserwanji Sethna | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
1975 | M. S. Subbulakshmi | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
1975 | Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
1974 | Niren De | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
1974 | Benode Behari Mukherjee | Arts | Uttarakhand |
1974 | V. K. R. V. Rao | Civil Service | Karnataka |
1974 | Harish Chandra Sarin | Civil Service | Delhi |
1973 | Basanti Devi | Civil Service | West Bengal |
1973 | U. N. Dhebar | Social Work | Gujarat |
1973 | Daulat Singh Kothari | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
1973 | Nellie Sengupta | Social Work | West Bengal |
1973 | Nagendra Singh | Public Affairs | Rajasthan |
1973 | Thirumalraya Swaminathan | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu |
1972 | P. Balacharya Gajendragadkar | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
1972 | Aditya Nath Jha | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh |
1972 | Pratap Chandra Lal | Civil Service | Punjab |
1972 | Sam Manekshaw | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu |
1972 | Jivraj Narayan Mehta | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
1972 | Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda | Civil Service | Delhi |
1972 | Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq | Public Affairs | Jammu & Kashmir |
1972 | Vikram Sarabhai | Science & Engineering | Gujarat |
1972 | Hormasji Maneckji Seervai | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
1971 | Bimala Prasad Chaliha | Civil Service | Assam |
1971 | Allauddin Khan | Arts | West Bengal |
1971 | Sumati Morarjee | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
1971 | Uday Shankar | Arts | Maharashtra |
1971 | Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar | Medicine | Goa |
1971 | B. Sivaraman | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu |
1970 | Tara Chand | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
1970 | Suranjan Das | Civil Service | West Bengal |
1970 | Anthony Lancelot Dias | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
1970 | P. Prabhakar Kumaramangalam | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu |
1970 | A. Ramasamy Mudaliar | Civil Service | Andhra Pradesh |
1970 | Binay Ranjan Sen | Civil Service | West Bengal |
1970 | Harbaksh Singh | Civil Service | Punjab |
1969 | Rajeshwar Dayal | Civil Service | Delhi |
1969 | Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
1969 | Har Gobind Khorana | Science & Engineering | — |
1969 | Mohan Sinha Mehta | Civil Service | Rajasthan |
1969 | Ghananand Pande | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh |
1968 | Madhav Shrihari Aney | Public Affairs | Madhya Pradesh |
1968 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | Science & Engineering | — |
1968 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis | Literature & Education | Delhi |
1968 | Kirpal Singh | Civil Service | Delhi |
1968 | Kalyan Sundaram | Public Affairs | Delhi |
1967 | Chandra Kisan Daphtary | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
1967 | Hafiz Mohamad Ibrahim | Civil Service | Andhra Pradesh |
1967 | Bhola Nath Jha | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh |
1967 | P. V. R. Rao | Civil Service | Andhra Pradesh |
1966 | Valerian Gracias | Social Work | Maharashtra |
1965 | Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri | Civil Service | West Bengal |
1965 | Mehdi Nawaz Jung | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
1965 | Arjan Singh | Civil Service | Delhi |
1964 | Acharya Kakasaheb Kalelkar | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
1964 | Gopinath Kaviraj | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
1963 | Suniti Kumar Chatterji | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
1963 | A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
1963 | Hari Vinayak Pataskar | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
1962 | H. V. R. Iyengar | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu |
1962 | Padmaja Naidu | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
1962 | Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh |
1960 | Naryana Raghvan Pillai | Public Affairs | Tamil Nadu |
1959 | John Mathai | Literature & Education | Kerala |
1959 | Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta | Social Work | Maharashtra |
1959 | Radhabinod Pal | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
1957 | Ghanshyam Das Birla | Trade & Industry | Rajasthan |
1957 | Sri Prakasa | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
1957 | M. C. Setalvad | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
1956 | Fazal Ali | Public Affairs | Bihar |
1956 | Jankibai Bajaj | Social Work | Madhya Pradesh |
1956 | Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi | Public Affairs | Madhya Pradesh |
1955 | Dhondo Keshav Karve | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
1955 | J. R. D. Tata | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
1954 | Jigme Dorji Wangchuck | Public Affairs | — |
1954 | V. K. Krishna Menon | Public Affairs | Kerala |
1954 | Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
1954 | Zakir Husain | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
1954 | Nandalal Bose | Arts | West Bengal |
1954 | Satyendra Nath Bose | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
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