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Dated the 25th January, 2025

Padma Awards - one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in
three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards
are given in various disciplines / fields of activities, viz.- art, social work, public affairs,
science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil
service, etc. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma
Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service
in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.

2. These Awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which
are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March / April every year. For the year 2025,
the President has approved conferment of 139 Padma Awards including 1 duo case (in a duo
case, the Award is counted as one) as per list below. The list comprises 7 Padma Vibhushan,
19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri Awards. 23 of the awardees are women and the list
also includes 10 persons from the category of Foreigners / NRI / PIO / OCI and 13 Posthumous
awardees.

Padma Vibhushan (7)

SN Name Field State / Country

1 Shri Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy Medicine Telangana

Justice (Retd.) Shri Jagdish Singh

2 Public Affairs Chandigarh
Khehar

3 Smt. Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia Art Gujarat

Shri Lakshminarayana
4 Art Karnataka
Subramaniam
Shri M. T. Vasudevan Nair
5 Literature and Education Kerala
(Posthumous)
Shri Osamu Suzuki
6 Trade and Industry Japan
(Posthumous)
Smt. Sharda Sinha
7 Art Bihar
(Posthumous)
 Padma Bhushan (19)

SN Name Field State / Country

Literature and Education -

8 Shri A Surya Prakash Karnataka
Journalism

9 Shri Anant Nag Art Karnataka

10 Shri Bibek Debroy (Posthumous) Literature and Education NCT Delhi

11 Shri Jatin Goswami Art Assam

12 Shri Jose Chacko Periappuram Medicine Kerala

13 Shri Kailash Nath Dikshit Others - Archaeology NCT Delhi

14 Shri Manohar Joshi (Posthumous) Public Affairs Maharashtra

15 Shri Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu

16 Shri Nandamuri Balakrishna Art Andhra Pradesh

17 Shri P R Sreejesh Sports Kerala

18 Shri Pankaj Patel Trade and Industry Gujarat

19 Shri Pankaj Udhas (Posthumous) Art Maharashtra

Literature and Education -

20 Shri Rambahadur Rai Uttar Pradesh
Journalism

21 Sadhvi Ritambhara Social Work Uttar Pradesh

22 Shri S Ajith Kumar Art Tamil Nadu

23 Shri Shekhar Kapur Art Maharashtra

24 Ms. Shobana Chandrakumar Art Tamil Nadu

Shri Sushil Kumar Modi

25 Public Affairs Bihar
(Posthumous)
United States of
26 Shri Vinod Dham Science and Engineering
America
 Padma Shri (113)

SN Name Field State / Country

27 Shri Adwaita Charan Gadanayak Art Odisha

28 Shri Achyut Ramchandra Palav Art Maharashtra

United States of
29 Shri Ajay V Bhatt Science and Engineering
America

30 Shri Anil Kumar Boro Literature and Education Assam

31 Shri Arijit Singh Art West Bengal

32 Smt. Arundhati Bhattacharya Trade and Industry Maharashtra

33 Shri Arunoday Saha Literature and Education Tripura

34 Shri Arvind Sharma Literature and Education Canada

35 Shri Ashok Kumar Mahapatra Medicine Odisha

36 Shri Ashok Laxman Saraf Art Maharashtra

37 Shri Ashutosh Sharma Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh

38 Smt. Ashwini Bhide Deshpande Art Maharashtra

39 Shri Baijnath Maharaj Others - Spiritualism Rajasthan

40 Shri Barry Godfray John Art NCT Delhi

41 Smt. Begam Batool Art Rajasthan

42 Shri Bharat Gupt Art NCT Delhi

43 Shri Bheru Singh Chouhan Art Madhya Pradesh

44 Shri Bhim Singh Bhavesh Social Work Bihar

Smt. Bhimavva Doddabalappa

45 Art Karnataka
Shillekyathara
SN Name Field State / Country

46 Shri Budhendra Kumar Jain Medicine Madhya Pradesh

47 Shri C S Vaidyanathan Public Affairs NCT Delhi

48 Shri Chaitram Deochand Pawar Social Work Maharashtra

Shri Chandrakant Sheth

49 Literature and Education Gujarat
(Posthumous)

50 Shri Chandrakant Sompura Others - Architecture Gujarat

51 Shri Chetan E Chitnis Science and Engineering France

52 Shri David R Syiemlieh Literature and Education Meghalaya

53 Shri Durga Charan Ranbir Art Odisha

Jammu And
54 Shri Farooq Ahmad Mir Art
Kashmir

55 Shri Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh

56 Smt. Gita Upadhyay Literature and Education Assam

57 Shri Gokul Chandra Das Art West Bengal

58 Shri Guruvayur Dorai Art Tamil Nadu

59 Shri Harchandan Singh Bhatty Art Madhya Pradesh

60 Shri Hariman Sharma Others - Agriculture Himachal Pradesh

Shri Harjinder Singh Srinagar

61 Art Punjab
Wale

62 Shri Harvinder Singh Sports Haryana

63 Shri Hassan Raghu Art Karnataka

64 Shri Hemant Kumar Medicine Bihar

65 Shri Hriday Narayan Dixit Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh

SN Name Field State / Country

Shri Hugh and Colleen Gantzer Literature and Education -

66 Uttarakhand
(Posthumous) (Duo)* Journalism

67 Shri Inivalappil Mani Vijayan Sports Kerala

68 Shri Jagadish Joshila Literature and Education Madhya Pradesh

Art
69 Smt. Jaspinder Narula Maharashtra

70 Shri Jonas Masetti Others - Spiritualism Brazil

71 Shri Joynacharan Bathari Art Assam

72 Smt. Jumde Yomgam Gamlin Social Work Arunachal Pradesh

73 Shri K. Damodaran Others - Culinary Tamil Nadu

74 Shri K L Krishna Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh

75 Smt. K Omanakutty Amma Art Kerala

76 Shri Kishore Kunal (Posthumous) Civil Service Bihar

77 Shri L Hangthing Others - Agriculture Nagaland

Shri Lakshmipathy Literature and Education -

78 Tamil Nadu
Ramasubbaiyer Journalism
Jammu And
79 Shri Lalit Kumar Mangotra Literature and Education
Kashmir

80 Shri Lama Lobzang (Posthumous) Others - Spiritualism Ladakh

81 Smt. Libia Lobo Sardesai Social Work Goa

82 Shri M D Srinivas Science and Engineering Tamil Nadu

83 Shri Madugula Nagaphani Sarma Art Andhra Pradesh

84 Shri Mahabir Nayak Art Jharkhand

85 Smt. Mamata Shankar Art West Bengal

SN Name Field State / Country

86 Shri Manda Krishna Madiga Public Affairs Telangana

Shri Maruti Bhujangrao

87 Literature and Education Maharashtra
Chitampalli
Shri Miriyala Apparao
88 Art Andhra Pradesh
(Posthumous)

89 Shri Nagendra Nath Roy Literature and Education West Bengal

Shri Narayan (Bhulai Bhai)

90 Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh
(Posthumous)

91 Shri Naren Gurung Art Sikkim

92 Smt. Neerja Bhatla Medicine NCT Delhi

93 Smt. Nirmala Devi Art Bihar

United States of
94 Shri Nitin Nohria Literature and Education
America

95 Shri Onkar Singh Pahwa Trade and Industry Punjab

96 Shri P Datchanamoorthy Art Puducherry

97 Shri Pandi Ram Mandavi Art Chhattisgarh

98 Shri Parmar Lavjibhai Nagjibhai Art Gujarat

99 Shri Pawan Goenka Trade and Industry West Bengal

100 Shri Prashanth Prakash Trade and Industry Karnataka

101 Smt. Pratibha Satpathy Literature and Education Odisha

102 Shri Purisai Kannappa Sambandan Art Tamil Nadu

103 Shri R Ashwin Sports Tamil Nadu

104 Shri R G Chandramogan Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu

105 Smt. Radha Bahin Bhatt Social Work Uttarakhand

SN Name Field State / Country

Shri Radhakrishnan
106 Art Tamil Nadu
Devasenapathy

107 Shri Ramdarash Mishra Literature and Education NCT Delhi

108 Shri Ranendra Bhanu Majumdar Art Maharashtra

109 Shri Ratan Kumar Parimoo Art Gujarat

110 Shri Reba Kanta Mahanta Art Assam

111 Shri Renthlei Lalrawna Literature and Education Mizoram

112 Shri Ricky Gyan Kej Art Karnataka

113 Shri Sajjan Bhajanka Trade and Industry West Bengal

114 Smt. Sally Holkar Trade and Industry Madhya Pradesh

115 Shri Sant Ram Deswal Literature and Education Haryana

116 Shri Satyapal Singh Sports Uttar Pradesh

117 Shri Seeni Viswanathan Literature and Education Tamil Nadu

United States of
118 Shri Sethuraman Panchanathan Science and Engineering
America
Smt. Sheikha Shaikha Ali Al-Jaber
119 Medicine Kuwait
Al-Sabah
Shri Sheen Kaaf Nizam (Shiv
120 Literature and Education Rajasthan
Kishan Bissa)

121 Shri Shyam Bihari Agrawal Art Uttar Pradesh

Medicine
122 Smt. Soniya Nityanand Uttar Pradesh

United States of
123 Shri Stephen Knapp Literature and Education
America

124 Shri Subhash Khetulal Sharma Others - Agriculture Maharashtra

125 Shri Suresh Harilal Soni Social Work Gujarat

 SN Name Field State / Country

126 Shri Surinder Kumar Vasal Science and Engineering Delhi

Shri Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik

127 Others - Spiritualism West Bengal
Maharaj)

128 Shri Syed Ainul Hasan Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh

129 Shri Tejendra Narayan Majumdar Art West Bengal

130 Smt. Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi Art Manipur

131 Shri Tushar Durgeshbhai Shukla Literature and Education Gujarat

Shri Vadiraj Raghawendracharya

132 Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh
Panchamukhi

133 Shri Vasudeo Kamath Art Maharashtra

134 Shri Velu Aasaan Art Tamil Nadu

135 Shri Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar Art Karnataka

Shri Vijay Nityanand Surishwar Ji

136 Others - Spiritualism Bihar
Maharaj

137 Smt. Vijayalakshmi Deshamane Medicine Karnataka

138 Shri Vilas Dangre Medicine Maharashtra

139 Shri Vinayak Lohani Social Work West Bengal

Note: * In Duo case, the Award is counted as one.

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