Award Recipients At A Glance
| No. | Field | No. Of Recipients |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arts | 246 |
| 2 | Civil Service | 138 |
| 3 | Literature & Education | 297 |
| 4 | Medicine | 128 |
| 5 | Public Affairs | 99 |
| 6 | Science & Engineering | 155 |
| 7 | Social Work | 91 |
| 8 | Sports | 32 |
| 9 | Trade & Industry | 86 |
| 10 | Others | 25 |
| Total | 1297 |
| ✝ Indicates A Posthumous Honour *In Duo case, the Award is counted as one |
Padma Bhushan Award (2020–2029)
2022
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ghulam Nabi Azad | Public Affairs | Jammu and Kashmir |
| 2 | Victor Banerjee | Art | West Bengal |
| 3 | Gurmeet Bawa✝ | Art | Punjab |
| 4 | Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
| 5 | Natarajan Chandrasekaran | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 6 | Krishna Ella & Suchitra Ella* |
Trade & Industry | Telangana |
| 7 | Madhur Jaffery | Others-Culinary | United States |
| 8 | Devendra Jhajharia | Sports | Rajasthan |
| 9 | Rashid Khan | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 10 | Rajiv Mehrishi | Civil Service | Rajasthan |
| 11 | Satya Narayana Nadella | Trade & Industry | United States |
| 12 | Sundararajan Pichai | Trade & Industry | United States |
| 13 | Cyrus Poonawalla | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 14 | Sanjaya Rajaram✝ | Science & Engineering | Mexico |
| 15 | Pratibha Ray | Literature & Education | Odisha |
| 16 | Swami Sachidanand | Literature & Education | Gujarat |
| 17 | Vashishth Tripathi | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
2021
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tarun Gogoi✝ | Public Affairs | Assam |
| 2 | Ram Vilas Paswan✝ | Public Affairs | Bihar |
| 3 | Keshubhai Patel✝ | Public Affairs | Gujarat |
| 4 | Tarlochan Singh | Public Affairs | Haryana |
| 5 | Chandrashekhara Kambara | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 6 | Krishnan Nair S. Chithra | Arts | Kerala |
| 7 | Sumitra Mahajan | Public Affairs | Madhya Pradesh |
| 8 | Rajnikant Devidas Shroff | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Kalbe Sadiq✝ | Others | Uttar Pradesh |
| 10 | Nripendra Misra | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh |
2020
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manohar Parrikar✝ | Public Affairs | Goa |
| 2 | Balkrishna V. Doshi | Others | Gujarat |
| 3 | Muzaffar Hussain Baig | Public Affairs | Jammu & Kashmir |
| 4 | Sri M. Mumtaz Ali | Others | Kerala |
| 5 | N. R. Madhava Menon✝ | Public Affairs | Kerala |
| 6 | Tsering Landol | Medicine | Ladakh |
| 7 | Anand Mahindra | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 8 | S. C. Jamir | Public Affairs | Nagaland |
| 9 | Manoj Das | Literature & Education | Puducherry |
| 10 | P. V. Sindhu | Sports | Telangana |
| 11 | Krishnammal Jagannathan | Social Work | Tamil Nadu |
| 12 | Venu Srinivasan | Trade & Industry | Tamil Nadu |
| 13 | Anil Prakash Joshi | Social Work | Uttarakhand |
| 14 | Ajoy Chakrabarty | Arts | West Bengal |
| 15 | Syed Muazzem Ali✝ | Public Affairs | Bangladesh |
| 16 | Jagdish Sheth | Literature & Education | United States |
Padma Bhushan Award (2010–2019)
2019
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hukmdev Narayan Yadav | Public Affairs | Bihar |
| 2 | Kuldip Nayar | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 3 | Mahashay Dharampal Gulati | Trade & Industry | Delhi |
| 4 | V. K. Shunglu | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 5 | Darshan Lal Jain | Social Work | Haryana |
| 6 | Kariya Munda | Public Affairs | Jharkhand |
| 7 | Mohanlal | Arts | Kerala |
| 8 | Nambi Narayanan | Science & Engineering | Kerala |
| 9 | Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 10 | Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa | Public Affairs | Punjab |
| 11 | Bachendri Pal | Sports | Uttarakhand |
| 12 | Budhaditya Mukherjee | Arts | West Bengal |
| 13 | Pravin Gordhan | Public Affairs | South Africa |
| 14 | John T. Chambers | Trade & Industry | United States |
2018
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sharda Sinha | Arts | Bihar |
| 2 | Laxman Pai | Arts | Goa |
| 3 | Mahendra Singh Dhoni | Sports | Jharkhand |
| 4 | Pankaj Advani | Sports | Karnataka |
| 5 | Philipose Mar Chrysostom | Others | Kerala |
| 6 | Arvind Parikh | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 7 | Ramachandran Nagaswamy | Others | Tamil Nadu |
| 8 | Alexander Kadakin✝ | Public Affairs | Russia |
| 9 | Ved Prakash Nanda | Literature & Education | United States |
2017
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Niranjanananda Saraswati | Others | Bihar |
| 2 | Ratnasundarsuri | Others | Gujarat |
| 3 | Tehemton Erach Udwadia | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 4 | Vishwa Mohan Bhatt | Arts | Rajasthan |
| 5 | Cho Ramaswamy✝ | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 6 | Deviprasad Dwivedi | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 7 | Maha Chakri Sirindhorn | Literature & Education | Thailand |
2016
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A. V. Rama Rao | Science & Engineering | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| 3 | Indu Jain | Trade & Industry | Delhi |
| 4 | Vinod Rai | Civil Service | Kerala |
| 5 | Anupam Kher | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 6 | Hafeez Contractor | Others | Maharashtra |
| 7 | N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 8 | Tejomayananda | Others | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Udit Narayan | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 10 | Heisnam Kanhailal | Arts | Manipur |
| 11 | Barjinder Singh Hamdard | Literature & Education | Punjab |
| 12 | D. Nageshwar Reddy | Medicine | Telangana |
| 13 | Saina Nehwal | Sports | Telangana |
| 14 | Sania Mirza | Sports | Telangana |
| 15 | Dayananda Saraswati✝ | Others | Uttarakhand |
| 16 | Ram V. Sutar | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| 17 | Ravindra Chandra Bhargava | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh |
| 18 | Pallonji Mistry | Trade & Industry | Ireland |
| 19 | Robert Blackwill | Public Affairs | United States |
2015
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jahnu Barua | Arts | Assam |
| 2 | Ambrish Mithal | Medicine | Delhi |
| 3 | Ashok Seth | Medicine | Delhi |
| 4 | Harish Salve | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 5 | Rajat Sharma | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 6 | Satpal Singh | Sports | Delhi |
| 7 | Subhash C. Kashyap | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 8 | Swapan Dasgupta | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 9 | Khadg Singh Valdiya | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 10 | Shivakumara Swami | Others | Karnataka |
| 11 | Gokulotsavji Maharaj | Arts | Madhya Pradesh |
| 12 | Vijay Bhatkar | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 13 | N. Gopalaswami | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu |
| 14 | Sudha Ragunathan | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 15 | Satyamitranand Giri | Others | Uttar Pradesh |
| 16 | Saichiro Misumi | Public Affairs | Japan |
| 17 | Bill Gates | Social Work | United States |
| 18 | David Frawley | Literature & Education | United States |
| 19 | Manjul Bhargava | Science & Engineering | United States |
| 20 | Melinda Gates | Social Work | United States |
2014
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anumolu Ramakrishna✝ | Science & Engineering | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Pullela Gopichand | Sports | Andhra Pradesh |
| 3 | Anita Desai | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 4 | Dalveer Bhandari | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 5 | Mrityunjay Athreya | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 6 | Neelam Kler | Medicine | Delhi |
| 7 | Thirumalachari Ramasami | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 8 | Vijayendra Nath Kaul | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 9 | Vinod Prakash Sharma | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 10 | Dhirubhai Thaker | Literature & Education | Gujarat |
| 11 | Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh | Arts | Gujarat |
| 12 | K. Radhakrishnan | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 13 | Madappa Mahadevappa | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 14 | Padmanabhan Balaram | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 15 | Begum Parveen Sultana | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 16 | Jyeshtharaj Joshi | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 17 | Leander Paes | Sports | Maharashtra |
| 18 | Kamal Haasan | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 19 | T. H. Vinayakram | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 20 | Vairamuthu | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 21 | Ruskin Bond | Literature & Education | Uttarakhand |
| 22 | Anisuzzaman | Literature & Education | Bangladesh |
| 23 | Lloyd Rudolph | Literature & Education | United States |
| 24 | Susanne Hoeber Rudolph | Literature & Education | United States |
2013
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | D. Ramanaidu | Arts | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | A. Sivathanu Pillai | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 3 | Maharaj Kishan Bhan | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 4 | Saroja Vaidyanathan | Arts | Delhi |
| 5 | Sharmila Tagore | Arts | Delhi |
| 6 | V. K. Saraswat | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 7 | B. N. Suresh | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 8 | Rahul Dravid | Sports | Karnataka |
| 9 | Hemendra Singh Panwar | Civil Service | Madhya Pradesh |
| 10 | Adi Godrej | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Kanak Rele | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 12 | Mangesh Padgaonkar | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 13 | Nandkishore Shamrao Laud | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 14 | Rajesh Khanna✝ | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 15 | Shivajirao Girdhar Patil | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 16 | Mary Kom | Sports | Manipur |
| 17 | Jaspal Bhatti✝ | Arts | Punjab |
| 18 | Ramamurthy Thyagarajan | Trade & Industry | Tamil Nadu |
| 19 | Ashoke Sen | Science & Engineering | Uttar Pradesh |
| 20 | Abdul Rashid Khan | Arts | West Bengal |
| 21 | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | Literature & Education | United States |
| 22 | Jogesh Pati | Science & Engineering | United States |
| 23 | Satya N. Atluri | Science & Engineering | United States |
2012
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jatin Das | Arts | Delhi |
| 2 | Mira Nair | Arts | Delhi |
| 3 | Devi Shetty | Medicine | Karnataka |
| 4 | N. Vittal | Civil Service | Kerala |
| 5 | Balasubramanian Muthuraman | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 6 | Dharmendra | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 7 | M. S. Raghunathan | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 8 | N. H. Wadia | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 9 | S. B. Mujumdar | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 10 | S. N. Goenka | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Shabana Azmi | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 12 | Shashikumar Chitre | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 13 | Suresh H. Advani | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 14 | M. S. Gopalakrishnan | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 15 | M. V. Subbiah | Trade & Industry | Tamil Nadu |
| 16 | T. V. Gopalakrishnan | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 17 | Mata Prasad | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh |
| 18 | Buddhadev Das Gupta | Arts | West Bengal |
| 19 | Khaled Choudhury | Arts | West Bengal |
| 20 | Ronen Sen | Civil Service | West Bengal |
| 21 | P. Chandrasekhara Rao | Public Affairs | Germany |
| 22 | George Yeo | Public Affairs | Singapore |
| 23 | Anish Kapoor | Arts | United Kingdom |
| 24 | Homi K. Bhabha | Literature & Education | United Kingdom |
| 25 | Arvind Panagariya | Literature & Education | United States |
| 26 | José Pereira | Literature & Education | United States |
| 27 | Sunil Janah | Arts | United States |
| 28 | Vidya Dehejia | Literature & Education | United States |
2011
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gunupati Venkata Krishna Reddy | Trade & Industry | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Kallam Anji Reddy | Trade & Industry | Andhra Pradesh |
| 3 | Ajai Chowdhry | Trade & Industry | Delhi |
| 4 | Analjit Singh | Trade & Industry | Delhi |
| 5 | Arpita Singh | Arts | Delhi |
| 6 | Shyam Saran | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 7 | Surendra Singh | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 8 | Dashrath Patel✝ | Arts | Gujarat |
| 9 | Krishen Khanna | Arts | Haryana |
| 10 | Rajendra Singh Pawar | Trade & Industry | Haryana |
| 11 | Kris Gopalakrishnan | Trade & Industry | Karnataka |
| 12 | R. K. Srikantan | Arts | Karnataka |
| 13 | Ramdas Pai | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 14 | T. J. S. George | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 15 | Madavoor Vasudevan Nair | Arts | Kerala |
| 16 | Raghavan Thirumulpad✝ | Medicine | Kerala |
| 17 | M. N. Buch | Civil Service | Madhya Pradesh |
| 18 | Chanda Kochhar | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 19 | Keki Byramjee Grant✝ | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 20 | Mohammed Zahur Khayyam | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 21 | Rajashree Birla | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 22 | Satyadev Dubey | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 23 | Shashi Kapoor | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 24 | Shobhana Ranade | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 25 | Waheeda Rehman | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 26 | C. V. Chandrasekhar | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 27 | S. P. Balasubrahmanyam | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 28 | S. Ramachandran | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 29 | Dwijen Mukhopadhyay | Arts | West Bengal |
| 30 | Shankha Ghosh | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 31 | Yogesh Chander Deveshwar | Trade & Industry | West Bengal |
2010
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana | Arts | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Abhijit Sen | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 3 | B. K. Chaturvedi | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 4 | Bipan Chandra | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 5 | G. P. Chopra | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 6 | Jagdish Chandra Kapur | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 7 | Kushal Pal Singh | Trade & Industry | Delhi |
| 8 | Mohammad Amin | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 9 | Moosa Raza | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 10 | Noshir M. Shroff | Medicine | Delhi |
| 11 | Ram Kumar | Arts | Delhi |
| 12 | Satya Paul Agarwal | Medicine | Delhi |
| 13 | Satya Vrat Shastri | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 14 | Kumudini Lakhia | Arts | Gujarat |
| 15 | Madhusudan Dhaky | Arts | Gujarat |
| 16 | Mallika Sarabhai | Arts | Gujarat |
| 17 | Balagangadharanatha Swamiji | Social Work | Karnataka |
| 18 | Belle Monappa Hegde | Medicine | Karnataka |
| 19 | Puttaraj Gawai | Arts | Karnataka |
| 20 | E. T. Narayanan Mooss | Medicine | Kerala |
| 21 | Kuzhur Narayana Marar | Arts | Kerala |
| 22 | P. K. Warrier | Medicine | Kerala |
| 23 | Aamir Khan | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 24 | Akbar Padamsee | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 25 | Balasaheb Vikhe Patil | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 26 | C. P. Krishnan Nair | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 27 | P. R. Dubhashi | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
| 28 | Ramakanta Panda | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 29 | Shrinivas Khale | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 30 | Sultan Khan | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 31 | S. P. Oswal | Trade & Industry | Punjab |
| 32 | Anil Bordia | Literature & Education | Rajasthan |
| 33 | A. R. Rahman | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 34 | Ilaiyaraaja | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 35 | Narayanan Vaghul | Trade & Industry | Tamil Nadu |
| 36 | Chhannulal Mishra | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| 37 | Bikash Sinha | Science & Engineering | West Bengal |
| 38 | Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
| 39 | M. S. Banga | Trade & Industry | United Kingdom |
| 40 | Arogyaswami Paulraj | Science & Engineering | United States |
| 41 | Fareed Zakaria | Literature & Education | United States |
| 42 | Sant Singh Chatwal | Public Affairs | United States |
| 43 | Tan Chung | Literature & Education | United States |
Padma Bhushan Award (2000–2009)
2009
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | G. Krishna | Arts | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Brijendra Kumar Rao | Medicine | Delhi |
| 3 | Devendra Triguna | Medicine | Delhi |
| 4 | Gurdip Singh Randhawa | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 5 | Isher Judge Ahluwalia | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 6 | Kirit Parikh | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 7 | Kunwar Narayan | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 8 | Sam Pitroda | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 9 | Satish Nambiar | Others | Delhi |
| 10 | Shekhar Gupta | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 11 | R. C. Mehta | Arts | Gujarat |
| 12 | S. K. Misra | Civil Service | Haryana |
| 13 | Ramachandra Guha | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 14 | A. Sreedhara Menon | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 15 | A. M. Naik | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 16 | Nagnath Naikwadi | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 17 | Shamshad Begum | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 18 | Inderjit Kaur Barthakur | Public Affairs | Meghalaya |
| 19 | Abhinav Bindra | Sports | Punjab |
| 20 | C. S. Seshadri | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 21 | Jayakanthan | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 22 | Sarojini Varadappan | Social Work | Tamil Nadu |
| 23 | Shanta Dhananjayan | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 24 | V. Ganapati Sthapati | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 25 | V. P. Dhananjayan | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 26 | Sarvagya Singh Katiyar | Science & Engineering | Uttar Pradesh |
| 27 | Minoru Hara | Literature & Education | Japan |
| 28 | Khalid Hameed | Medicine | United Kingdom |
| 29 | Bhakta B. Rath | Science & Engineering | United States |
| 30 | C. K. Prahalad | Literature & Education | United States |
| 31 | Thomas Kailath | Science & Engineering | United States |
2008
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | B. N. Goswamy | Literature & Education | Chandigarh |
| 2 | Jagjit Singh Chopra | Medicine | Chandigarh |
| 3 | Amarnath Sehgal✝ | Arts | Delhi |
| 4 | Asad Ali Khan | Arts | Delhi |
| 5 | Asis Datta | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 6 | Chandrashekhar Dasgupta | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 7 | Jasdev Singh | Others | Delhi |
| 8 | K. Padmanabhaiah | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 9 | Nirmal Kumar Ganguly | Medicine | Delhi |
| 10 | Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar | Arts | Delhi |
| 11 | Shayama Chona | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 12 | Sukh Dev | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 13 | Suresh Kumar Neotia | Trade & Industry | Delhi |
| 14 | Sushil Kumar Saxena | Arts | Delhi |
| 15 | Ravindra Kelekar | Literature & Education | Goa |
| 16 | T. K. Oommen | Literature & Education | Haryana |
| 17 | Mian Bashir Ahmed | Public Affairs | Jammu & Kashmir |
| 18 | V. Ramachandran | Civil Service | Kerala |
| 19 | Baba Kalyani | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 20 | K. V. Kamath | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 21 | Vasant Gowarikar | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 22 | Inderjit Kaur Barthakur | Social Work | Punjab |
| 23 | D. R. Mehta | Social Work | Rajasthan |
| 24 | P. Susheela | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 25 | Shiv Nadar | Trade & Industry | Tamil Nadu |
| 26 | Sri Lal Sukla | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 27 | Ji Xianlin | Literature & Education | China |
| 28 | Dominique Lapierre | Social Work | France |
| 29 | Yuli Vorontsov✝ | Public Affairs | Russia |
| 30 | Meghnad Desai | Public Affairs | United Kingdom |
| 31 | Kaushik Basu | Literature & Education | United States |
| 32 | Padma Desai | Literature & Education | United States |
| 33 | S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan | Literature & Education | United States |
| 34 | Sunita Williams | Others | United States |
| 35 | Vikram Pandit | Trade & Industry | United States |
2007
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chandra Prasad Saikia✝ | Literature & Education | Assam |
| 2 | Gurcharan Singh Kalkat | Science & Engineering | Chandigarh |
| 3 | Manju Sharma | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 4 | Prithipal Singh Maini | Medicine | Delhi |
| 5 | Rajan Misra | Arts | Delhi |
| 6 | Sajan Misra | Arts | Delhi |
| 7 | Shiv Kumar Sarin | Medicine | Delhi |
| 8 | Sunil Mittal | Trade & Industry | Delhi |
| 9 | V. Mohini Giri | Social Work | Delhi |
| 10 | Gabriel Chiramel | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 11 | K. T. Thomas | Public Affairs | Kerala |
| 12 | Kavalam Narayana Panicker | Arts | Kerala |
| 13 | Ramankutty Nair | Arts | Kerala |
| 14 | Jamshed Jiji Irani | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 15 | Javed Akhtar | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 16 | Shriram Sharma | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 17 | Tyeb Mehta | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 18 | L. Z. Sailo | Literature & Education | Mizoram |
| 19 | N. Mahalingam | Trade & Industry | Tamil Nadu |
| 20 | Gopaldas Neeraj | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 21 | Saroj Ghose | Science & Engineering | West Bengal |
| 22 | Somnath Hore✝ | Arts | West Bengal |
| 23 | Syed Mohammad Sharfuddin Quadri | Medicine | West Bengal |
| 24 | Osamu Suzuki | Trade & Industry | Japan |
| 25 | Syed Haider Raza | Arts | France |
| 26 | Ela Gandhi | Public Affairs | South Africa |
| 27 | Bhikhu Parekh | Literature & Education | United Kingdom |
| 28 | Tapan Raychaudhuri | Literature & Education | United Kingdom |
| 29 | Indra Nooyi | Trade & Industry | United States |
| 30 | Jeffrey Sachs | Literature & Education | United States |
| 31 | T. N. Srinivasan | Literature & Education | United States |
| 32 | Vilayanur S. Ramachandran | Science & Engineering | United States |
2006
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chiranjeevi | Arts | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Hira Lall Sibal | Public Affairs | Chandigarh |
| 3 | K. K. Talwar | Medicine | Chandigarh |
| 4 | Dinesh Nandini Dalmia | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 5 | Lokesh Chandra | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 6 | Sabri Khan | Arts | Delhi |
| 7 | Shanno Khurana | Arts | Delhi |
| 8 | Shashi Bhushan | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 9 | K. G. Subramanyan | Arts | Gujarat |
| 10 | Jasjit Singh | Others | Haryana |
| 11 | Kamleshwar | Literature & Education | Haryana |
| 12 | Tarun Das | Trade & Industry | Haryana |
| 13 | Devaki Jain | Social Work | Karnataka |
| 14 | K. P. P. Nambiar | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 15 | N. S. Ramaswamy | Social Work | Karnataka |
| 16 | Nandan Nilekani | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 17 | P. S. Appu | Civil Service | Karnataka |
| 18 | M. V. Pylee | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 19 | Ramakanta Rath | Literature & Education | Odisha |
| 20 | A. K. Hangal | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 21 | Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 22 | Deepak Parekh | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 23 | Gunter Kruger✝ | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 24 | Madhav Gadgil | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 25 | Sai Paranjpye | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 26 | Subramaniam Ramadorai | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 27 | Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 28 | Vijaypat Singhania | Sports | Maharashtra |
| 29 | Vijay Shankar Vyas | Literature & Education | Rajasthan |
| 30 | Jaiveer Agarwal | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 31 | P. Leela✝ | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 32 | V. Shanta | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 33 | Billy Arjan Singh | Others | Uttar Pradesh |
| 34 | Pavani Parameswara Rao | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh |
| 35 | Ganga Prasad Birla | Social Work | West Bengal |
| 36 | Dušan Zbavitel | Literature & Education | Czech Republic |
| 37 | Grigory Bongard-Levin | Literature & Education | Russia |
2005
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K. I. Varaprasad Reddy | Science & Engineering | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | A. Ramachandran | Arts | Delhi |
| 3 | Andre Beteille | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 4 | Anil Kohli | Medicine | Delhi |
| 5 | Brijmohan Lall Munjal | Trade & Industry | Delhi |
| 6 | Girish Chandra Saxena | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 7 | Hari Mohan | Medicine | Delhi |
| 8 | K. Srinath Reddy | Medicine | Delhi |
| 9 | Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 10 | Syed Mir Qasim✝ | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 11 | Tarlochan Singh Kler | Medicine | Delhi |
| 12 | V. S. Ramamurthy | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 13 | William Mark Tully | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 14 | Sardar Anjum | Literature & Education | Haryana |
| 15 | Balraj Puri | Literature & Education | Jammu & Kashmir |
| 16 | Azim Premji | Trade & Industry | Karnataka |
| 17 | Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 18 | Manna Dey | Arts | Karnataka |
| 19 | Narasimhiah Seshagiri | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 20 | Tumkur Ramaiya Satishchandran | Civil Service | Karnataka |
| 21 | M. T. Vasudevan Nair | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 22 | Yash Chopra | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 23 | Yusuf Hamied | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 24 | Mrinal Miri | Literature & Education | Meghalaya |
| 25 | G. V. Iyer Ramakrishna | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu |
| 26 | Chandi Prasad Bhatt | Others | Uttarakhand |
| 27 | Irfan Habib | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 28 | Qurratulain Hyder | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
2004
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chennamaneni Hanumantha Rao | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Thiruvengadam Lakshman Sankar | Civil Service | Andhra Pradesh |
| 3 | Bijoy Nandan Shahi | Medicine | Delhi |
| 4 | Gopi Chand Narang | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 5 | Vishnu Prabhakar | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 6 | Poornima Arvind Pakvasa | Social Work | Gujarat |
| 7 | Govindarajan Padmanaban | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 8 | Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Gulzar | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 10 | Madhav Vittal Kamath | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Sardara Singh Johl | Science & Engineering | Punjab |
| 12 | Komal Kothari | Arts | Rajasthan |
| 13 | Alarmel Valli | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 14 | Krishna Srinivas | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 15 | T. N. Seshagopalan | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 16 | Thoppil Varghese Antony | Civil service | Tamil Nadu |
| 17 | N. Rajam | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| 18 | Soumitra Chatterjee | Arts | West Bengal |
| 19 | Yoshiro Mori | Public Affairs | Japan |
2003
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teejan Bai | Arts | Chhattisgarh |
| 2 | Bagicha Singh Minhas | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 3 | Coluthur Gopalan | Medicine | Delhi |
| 4 | Hari Shankar Singhania | Trade & Industry | Delhi |
| 5 | Parasaran Kesava Iyengar | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 6 | Prabhu Chawla | Others | Delhi |
| 7 | Ram Badan Singh | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 8 | Ramesh Kumar | Medicine | Delhi |
| 9 | Swapna Sundari | Arts | Delhi |
| 10 | T. V. R. Shenoy | Others | Delhi |
| 11 | Shri Krishna Joshi | Science & Engineering | Haryana |
| 12 | Arcot Ramachandran | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 13 | Rajinder Kumar | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 14 | Ammannur Madhava Chakyar | Arts | Kerala |
| 15 | O. V. Vijayan | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 16 | Jagjit Singh | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 17 | Jamshyd Godrej | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 18 | Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 19 | Naseeruddin Shah | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 20 | Sitakant Mahapatra | Literature & Education | Odisha |
| 21 | B. Rajam Iyer | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 22 | Madurai N. Krishnan | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 23 | Narayanan Srinivasan | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 24 | P. S. Narayanaswamy | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 25 | Padma Subrahmanyam | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 26 | T. V. Sankaranarayanan | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 27 | Trichur V. Ramachandran | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 28 | Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 29 | Purshotam Lal | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh |
| 30 | Subhash Mukhopadhyay | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 31 | Herbert Fischer | Public Affairs | Germany |
| 32 | Herbert Alexandrovich Yefremov | Science & Engineering | Russia |
2002
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | H. P. S. Ahluwalia | Social Work | Delhi |
| 2 | Kottayan Katankot Venugopal | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 3 | Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 4 | Nirmal Verma | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 5 | Mario Miranda | Literature & Education | Goa |
| 6 | K. J. Yesudas | Arts | Kerala |
| 7 | Ramanujam Varatharaja Perumal | Science & Engineering | Kerala |
| 8 | Habib Tanvir | Arts | Madhya Pradesh |
| 9 | B. K. S. Iyengar | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 10 | Chandu Borde | Sports | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Faquir Chand Kohli | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 12 | Henning Holck-Larsen | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 13 | Ismail Merchant | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 14 | Prabha Atre | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 15 | Pravinchandra Varjivan Gandhi | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 16 | Shobha Gurtu | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 17 | Zakir Hussain | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 18 | Jagat Singh Mehta | Civil Service | Rajasthan |
| 19 | Natesan Rangabashyam | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 20 | V. C. Kulandaiswamy | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 21 | Eugene Chelyshev | Literature & Education | Russia |
| 22 | Gury Marchuk | Science & Engineering | Russia |
| 23 | Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharyya | Public Affairs | United Kingdom |
| 24 | Frank Pallone | Public Affairs | United States |
| 25 | Gary Ackerman | Public Affairs | United States |
2001
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bhupathiraju Vissam Raju | Trade & Industry | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Boyi Bhimanna | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| 3 | Palle Rama Rao | Science & Engineering | Andhra Pradesh |
| 4 | Shiv K. Kumar | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| 5 | Bhupen Hazarika | Arts | Assam |
| 6 | Aroon Purie | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 7 | Ashok Desai | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 8 | Kum Uma Sharma | Arts | Delhi |
| 9 | Mohan Singh Oberoi | Trade & Industry | Delhi |
| 10 | Naresh Kumar Trehan | Medicine | Delhi |
| 11 | Rajendra K. Pachauri | Others | Delhi |
| 12 | Yamini Krishnamurthy | Arts | Delhi |
| 13 | Amrita Patel | Trade & Industry | Gujarat |
| 14 | L. Subramaniam | Arts | Karnataka |
| 15 | Karimpumannil Mathai George | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 16 | Raghunath Mohapatra | Arts | Odisha |
| 17 | Abdul Karim Parekh | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 18 | Amitabh Bachchan | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 19 | B. R. Barwale | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 20 | Balasaheb Bharde | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 21 | Baldev Raj Chopra | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 22 | Dev Anand | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 23 | Pran | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 24 | Rahul Bajaj | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 25 | Sundaram Ramakrishnan | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 26 | Bhanumathi Ramakrishna | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 27 | Lalgudi Jayaraman | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 28 | Viswanathan Anand | Sports | Tamil Nadu |
| 29 | Arun Netravali | Science & Engineering | United States |
| 30 | Chitranjan Singh Ranawat | Medicine | United States |
| 31 | Raj Reddy | Science & Engineering | United States |
| 32 | Swadesh Chatterjee | Public Affairs | United States |
2000
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ram Narain Agarwal | Science & Engineering | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Anil Kumar Agarwal | Others | Delhi |
| 3 | B. B. Lal | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 4 | H. Y. Sharada Prasad | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 5 | Pavaguda V. Indiresan | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 6 | Radha Reddy | Arts | Delhi |
| 7 | Raja Reddy | Arts | Delhi |
| 8 | Raghunath Anant Mashelkar | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 9 | Sharan Rani Backliwal | Arts | Delhi |
| 10 | Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 11 | Wahiduddin Khan | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 12 | Harbans Singh Wasir | Medicine | Haryana |
| 13 | Pakkiriswamy Chandra Sekharan | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 14 | Veerendra Heggade | Social Work | Karnataka |
| 15 | S. Srinivasan✝ | Science & Engineering | Kerala |
| 16 | Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya✝ | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 17 | Ratan Tata | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 18 | Rajinikanth | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 19 | Begum Aizaz Rasul | Social Work | Uttar Pradesh |
| 20 | Kalyan Dev | Social Work | Uttar Pradesh |
Padma Bhushan Award (1990–1999)
1999
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pushpalata Das | Social Work | Assam |
| 2 | H. D. Shourie | Social Work | Delhi |
| 3 | Jag Parvesh Chandra | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 4 | Krishnamurthy Santhanam | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 5 | George Joseph | Science & Engineering | Gujarat |
| 6 | D. C. Kizhakemuri✝ | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 7 | Shivmangal Singh Suman | Literature & Education | Madhya Pradesh |
| 8 | Anil Kakodkar | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Ashok Kumar | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 10 | Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Jacob Cherian | Social Work | Tamil Nadu |
| 12 | S. S. Badrinath | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 13 | Ram Kinkar Upadhyay | Others | Uttar Pradesh |
| 14 | Vidya Niwas Mishra | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
1998
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bhisham Sahni | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 2 | H. K. Dua | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 3 | Hemlata Gupta | Medicine | Delhi |
| 4 | Laxmi Mall Singhvi | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 5 | Panangipalli Venugopal | Medicine | Delhi |
| 6 | Rajendra Singh Paroda | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 7 | Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 8 | U. R. Ananthamurthy | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 9 | Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 10 | G. Madhavan Nair | Science & Engineering | Kerala |
| 11 | K. M. Mathew | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 12 | Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon | Public Affairs | Madhya Pradesh |
| 13 | G. B. Parulkar | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 14 | Satyapal Dang | Public Affairs | Punjab |
| 15 | Maligali Ram Krishna Girinath | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 16 | Vempati Chinna Satyam | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 17 | V. M. Tarkunde | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh |
| 18 | Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
1992
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adusumalli Radha Krishna | Arts | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | C. Narayana Reddy | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| 3 | Kongara Jaggaiah | Arts | Andhra Pradesh |
| 4 | Vavilala Gopalakrishnayya | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
| 5 | Bijoy Chandra Bhagavati | Public Affairs | Assam |
| 6 | Syed Abdul Malik | Literature & Education | Assam |
| 7 | Brihaspati Dev Triguna | Medicine | Delhi |
| 8 | Debu Chaudhuri | Arts | Delhi |
| 9 | Gursaran Talwar | Medicine | Delhi |
| 10 | Hakim Abdul Hameed | Medicine | Delhi |
| 11 | Sonal Mansingh | Arts | Delhi |
| 12 | Triloki Nath Khoshoo | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 13 | Virendra Dayal | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 14 | Dalsukh Dahyabhai Malvania | Literature & Education | Gujarat |
| 15 | Mrinalini Sarabhai | Arts | Gujarat |
| 16 | B. Saroja Devi | Arts | Karnataka |
| 17 | Girish Karnad | Arts | Karnataka |
| 18 | K. Venkatalakshamma | Arts | Karnataka |
| 19 | Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 20 | Anna Hazare | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 21 | C. R. Vyas | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 22 | Hariprasad Chaurasia | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 23 | Hasmukhbhai Parekh | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 24 | Naushad | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 25 | Ramachandra Datatraya Lele | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 26 | Setu Madhavrao Pagdi | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 27 | Talat Mahmood | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 28 | Khem Singh Gill | Science & Engineering | Punjab |
| 29 | M. Sarada Menon | Social Work | Tamil Nadu |
| 30 | Ranjan Roy Daniel | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 31 | T. N. Krishnan | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 32 | Thayil John Cherian | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 33 | Goro Koyama | Others | Japan |
1991
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prathap C. Reddy | Medicine | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Bindeshwar Pathak | Social Work | Bihar |
| 3 | Amjad Ali Khan | Arts | Delhi |
| 4 | Ebrahim Alkazi | Arts | Delhi |
| 5 | Fali Sam Nariman | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 6 | Kapil Dev | Sports | Delhi |
| 7 | Lala Amarnath | Sports | Delhi |
| 8 | Manubhai Pancholi | Public Affairs | Gujarat |
| 9 | Basavaraj Rajguru | Arts | Karnataka |
| 10 | D. B. Deodhar | Sports | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Dilip Kumar | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 12 | Narayan Shridhar Bendre | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 13 | Ram Narayan | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 14 | Shakuntala Paranjpye | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 15 | Shyam Benegal | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 16 | Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) |
Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 17 | Jiwan Singh Umranangal | Public Affairs | Punjab |
| 18 | Narayan Singh Manaklao | Social Work | Rajasthan |
| 19 | Kuthur Ramakrishnan Srinivasan | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 20 | Muthu Krishna Mani | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 21 | Ale Ahmad Suroor | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 22 | Samta Prasad | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| 23 | Amala Shankar | Science & Engineering | West Bengal |
| 24 | Leslie Denis Swindale | Science & Engineering | New Zealand |
1990
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rajanikant Arole | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 2 | Arun Shourie | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 3 | Bimal Kumar Bachhawat | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 4 | Inder Mohan | Social Work | Delhi |
| 5 | Mohammad Khalilullah | Medicine | Delhi |
| 6 | C. D. Narasimhaiah | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 7 | M. S. Valiathan | Medicine | Kerala |
| 8 | B. K. Goyal | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Jasraj | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 10 | M. R. Srinivasan | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 11 | M. S. Narasimhan | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 12 | Nikhil Ghosh | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 13 | Purushottam Laxman Deshpande | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 14 | R. N. Malhotra | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
| 15 | Sumant Moolgaokar | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 16 | Trilochan Pradhan | Literature & Education | Odisha |
| 17 | N. Ram | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 18 | Sattaiyappa Dhandapani Desikar | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 19 | Kunwar Singh Negi | Literature & Education | Uttarakhand |
| 20 | Hirendranath Mukherjee | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 21 | Sukumar Sen | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 22 | Bimal Krishna Matilal | Literature & Education | United Kingdom |
| 23 | Julius Silverman | Public Affairs | United Kingdom |
| 24 | L. K. Doraiswamy | Science & Engineering | United States |
Padma Bhushan Award (1980–1989)
1989
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ashesh Prasad Mitra | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 2 | Girilal Jain | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 3 | Narinder Singh Randhawa | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 4 | Prakash Narain Tandon | Medicine | Delhi |
| 5 | Russi Mody | Trade & Industry | Jharkhand |
| 6 | Anna Rajam Malhotra | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
| 7 | Banoo Jehangir Coyaji | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 8 | Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Lakshman Singh | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 10 | Suresh Shankar Nadkarni | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 11 | M. V. Mathur | Science & Engineering | Rajasthan |
| 12 | Girija Devi | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| 13 | Yoshio Sakurauchi | Public Affairs | Japan |
| 14 | Fenner Brockway | Public Affairs | United Kingdom |
1988
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akkineni Nageswara Rao | Arts | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Pratury Trirumala Rao | Medicine | Andhra Pradesh |
| 3 | Ram Prakash Bambah | Science & Engineering | Chandigarh |
| 4 | Abid Hussain | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 5 | Bal Ram Nanda | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 6 | Kartar Singh Duggal | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 7 | Kushok Bakula | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 8 | Ashok Sekhar Ganguly | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 9 | B. V. Sreekantan | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 10 | Shreyans Prasad Jain | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Kelucharan Mohapatra | Arts | Orissa |
| 12 | Satya Pal Wahi | Trade & Industry | Uttar Pradesh |
| 13 | Renuka Ray | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
1987
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laxmi Prasad Sihare | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 2 | Mohammad Yunus | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 3 | Srinivasa Anandaram | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 4 | Roddam Narasimha | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 5 | Nalapat Balamani Amma | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 6 | Farokh Udwadia | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 7 | Julio Ribeiro | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
| 8 | Kishori Amonkar | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Man Mohan Sharma | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 10 | R. D. Pradhan | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Annada Shankar Ray | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 12 | Nikhil Banerjee | Arts | West Bengal |
1986
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pushpa Mittra Bhargava | Medicine | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Badri Nath Tandon | Medicine | Delhi |
| 3 | Manohar Lal Chibber | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 4 | Martand Singh | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 5 | Rajeev Sethi | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 6 | V. S. R. Arunachalam | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 7 | Venkataraman Krishnamurthy | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 8 | Ela Bhatt | Social Work | Gujarat |
| 9 | C. Venkataraman Sundaram | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 10 | Ram Krishna Trivedi | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh |
| 11 | Nasir Aminuddin Daggar | Arts | West Bengal |
| 12 | Gulshan Lal Tandon | Civil Service | West Bengal |
| 13 | Jean Riboud | Public Affairs | France |
| 14 | Sidney Dillon Ripley | Science & Engineering | United States |
1985
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 3 | Rais Ahmed | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 4 | Srinivasan Varadarajan | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 5 | Surinder Singh Gill | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 6 | Virender Lal Chopra | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 7 | Eknath Vasant Chitnis | Science & Engineering | Gujarat |
| 8 | Sivaraj Ramseshan | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 9 | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 10 | Bhalchandra Udgaonkar | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Bhimsen Joshi | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 12 | Tribhuvandas Luhar (Sundaram) | Literature & Education | Puducherry |
| 13 | Gurbachan Singh Talib | Literature & Education | Punjab |
| 14 | Amarjit Singh | Civil Service | Rajasthan |
| 15 | Gopala Ramanujam | Social Work | Tamil Nadu |
| 16 | Kalanidhi Narayanan | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 17 | Durga Das Basu | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
| 18 | Sadat Abul Masud | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
| 19 | Santidev Ghosh | Arts | West Bengal |
| 20 | Shiba P. Chatterjee | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 21 | Bernard Peters | Science & Engineering | Denmark |
1984
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kotha Satchidananda Murthy | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Sripada Pinakapani | Arts | Andhra Pradesh |
| 3 | Kanwar Natwar Singh | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 4 | Hosur Narasimhaiah | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 5 | B. C. Sanyal | Arts | Madhya Pradesh |
| 6 | Michael Ferreira | Sports | Maharashtra |
| 7 | Obaid Siddiqi | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 8 | Vijay Tendulkar | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Ganda Singh | Literature & Education | Punjab |
| 10 | Sivaji Ganesan | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 11 | Baldev Upadhyaya | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 12 | Ishwari Prasad | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 13 | Narayan Chaturvedi | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 14 | Archana Sharma | Medicine | West Bengal |
| 15 | Jnan Prakash Ghosh | Arts | West Bengal |
| 16 | Marie Seton | Literature & Education | United Kingdom |
| 17 | Horace Alexander | Literature & Education | United States |
1983
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Benudhar Sharma | Literature & Education | Assam |
| 2 | Adi M. Sethna | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 3 | Arun Kumar Sharma | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 4 | Bhalindra Singh | Sports | Delhi |
| 5 | Nagendra | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 6 | Suraj Parkash Malhotra | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 7 | Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala | Civil Service | Goa |
| 8 | Doraiswamy Iyengar | Arts | Karnataka |
| 9 | Rajkumar | Arts | Karnataka |
| 10 | K. Sankaran Nair | Civil Service | Kerala |
| 11 | Prem Nazir | Arts | Kerala |
| 12 | K. G. Ramanathan | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 13 | Umrao Singh | Civil Service | Punjab |
| 14 | V. G. Jog | Arts | West Bengal |
| 15 | Subodh Chandra Sengupta | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 16 | Richard Attenborough | Arts | United Kingdom |
| 17 | Swraj Paul | Social Work | United Kingdom |
1982
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gottipati Brahmaiah | Social Work | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Ajit Ram Verma | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 3 | Atam Prakash | Medicine | Delhi |
| 4 | Grace Louise McCann Morley | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 5 | Jasbir Singh Bajaj | Medicine | Delhi |
| 6 | Syed Zahoor Qasim | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 7 | Jal Minocher Mehta | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 8 | Kamal Ranadive | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Khadim Hussain Khan | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 10 | Rani Gaidinliu | Social Work | Nagaland |
| 11 | Jhabarmal Sharma | Literature & Education | Rajasthan |
| 12 | Arnee Sreenivasan Ramakrishnan | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 13 | Sundaram Balachander | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 14 | P. N. Pattabhirama Sastri | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 15 | Stella Kramrisch | Literature & Education | United States |
1981
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Makhala Jha | Social Work | Bihar |
| 2 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 3 | Avabai Bomanji Wadia | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 4 | Prafulla Desai | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 5 | Gopinath Mohanty | Literature & Education | Orissa |
| 6 | Vainu Bappu | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 7 | Amritlal Nagar | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 8 | Mrinal Sen | Arts | West Bengal |
| 9 | Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyaya | Civil Service | West Bengal |
1980
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunil Gavaskar | Sports | Maharashtra |
Padma Bhushan Award (1970–1979)
1977
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perugu Siva Reddy | Medicine | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Prithvi Singh Azad | Public Affairs | Chandigarh |
| 3 | Chackachanveedu Krishnan Nair | Social Work | Delhi |
| 4 | Gopinath Aman | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 5 | Jagmohan | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 6 | Yousuf Hussain Khan | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 7 | Yudhvir Singh | Social Work | Delhi |
| 8 | Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 9 | Kumar Gandharva | Arts | Madhya Pradesh |
| 10 | K. S. Narayanaswamy | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Paramsukh J. Pandya | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 12 | Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 13 | T. P. Meenakshisundaram | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 14 | Annapurna Ravi Shankar | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| 15 | Kailas Nath Kaul | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 16 | Phulrenu Guha | Social Work | West Bengal |
| 17 | Harish Chandra | Literature & Education | United States |
1976
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Devulapalli Krishnasastri | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Zehra Ali Yavar Jung | Social Work | Andhra Pradesh |
| 3 | Nabakanta Barua | Literature & Education | Assam |
| 4 | Calambur Sivaramamurti | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 5 | Shri Ram Mehta | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 6 | Mallikarjun Mansur | Arts | Karnataka |
| 7 | Udupi Ramachandra Rao | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 8 | Harivansh Rai Bachchan | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 10 | Naoroji Pirojsha Godrej | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Yash Pal | Science & Engineering | Punjab |
| 12 | Bhogilal Pandya | Social Work | Rajasthan |
| 13 | Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 14 | Malcolm Adiseshiah | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu |
| 15 | Devendra Sen | Civil Service | West Bengal |
| 16 | E. C. George Sudarshan | Literature & Education | United States |
1975
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay | Literature & Education | Bihar |
| 2 | Raj Kumar Khanna | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 3 | Ronald Carlton Vivian Piadade Noronha | Civil Service | Madhya Pradesh |
| 4 | Darab Jehangir Jussawala | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 5 | Madhav Sadashiv Gore | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 6 | P. Ardeshir Narielwala | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 7 | P. Krishnagopala Iyengar | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 8 | Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Kirpal Singh Narang | Literature & Education | Punjab |
| 10 | Ratan Shastri | Social Work | Rajasthan |
| 11 | Pancheti Koteswaram | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu |
| 12 | Begum Akhtar✝ | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| 13 | Asima Chatterjee | Science & Engineering | West Bengal |
| 14 | Pratul Chandra Gupta | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 15 | Dilbagh Singh Athwal | Science & Engineering | United States |
1974
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Richardson | Social Work | Andaman & Nicobar Islands |
| 2 | Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy | Arts | Andhra Pradesh |
| 3 | Habib Rahman | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 4 | Sukhlal Sanghvi | Literature & Education | Gujarat |
| 5 | Arunachala Sreenivasan | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 6 | D. V. Gundappa | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 7 | Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
| 8 | Jayant Pandurang Naik | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Mogubai Kurdikar | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 10 | Moti Chandra | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Vasant Shankar Huzurbazar | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 12 | Khushwant Singh | Literature & Education | Punjab |
| 13 | Raman Viswanathan | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 14 | Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 15 | Ram Kumar Caroli | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh |
| 16 | Thakur Jaideva Singh | Science & Engineering | Uttar Pradesh |
| 17 | Bhupati Mohan Sen | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 18 | Chintamoni Kar | Arts | West Bengal |
| 19 | Dhirendra Nath Ganguly | Arts | West Bengal |
| 20 | Camille Bulcke | Literature & Education | Belgium |
| 21 | Alice Boner | Arts | Italy |
1973
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harindranath Chattopadhyay | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Vennelakanti Raghavaiah | Social Work | Andhra Pradesh |
| 3 | M. F. Husain | Arts | Delhi |
| 4 | Vinoo Mankad | Sports | Gujarat |
| 5 | Ramakant Maheshwar Muzumdar | Civil Service | Karnataka |
| 6 | C. Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar | Arts | Kerala |
| 7 | K. Sukumaran | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 8 | Pothan Joseph | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 9 | Krishnarao Shankar Pandit | Arts | Madhya Pradesh |
| 10 | Gosasp Maneckji Sorabji Captain | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 11 | N. R. Malkani | Social Work | Rajasthan |
| 12 | M. A. Muthiah Chettiar | Trade & Industry | Tamil Nadu |
| 13 | Raja Ramanna | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 14 | Banarsidas Chaturvedi | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 15 | Pitambar Pant | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh |
| 16 | Sudhir Krishna Mukherjee | Civil Service | West Bengal |
| 17 | Om P. Bahl | Science & Engineering | United States |
1972
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ayyagari Sambasiva Rao | Science & Engineering | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Syed Husain Zaheer | Trade & Industry | Andhra Pradesh |
| 3 | Birendranath Sircar | Arts | Bihar |
| 4 | Pran Nath Chhutani | Literature & Education | Chandigarh |
| 5 | Sirtaj Singh Sahi | Civil Service | Chandigarh |
| 6 | Baldev Singh | Medicine | Delhi |
| 7 | Bharat Ram | Trade & Industry | Delhi |
| 8 | Jagjit Singh Aurora | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 9 | Krishnaswami Swaminathan | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 10 | Kunhiraman Palat Candeth | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 11 | M. B. Ramachandra Rao | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 12 | Maheshwar Dayal | Social Work | Delhi |
| 13 | N. G. Krishna Murti | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 14 | Surinder Singh Bedi | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 15 | Minoo Merwan Engineer | Civil Service | Gujarat |
| 16 | Tapishwar Narain Raina | Civil Service | Jammu & Kashmir |
| 17 | Adya Rangacharya | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 18 | Gopal Gurunath Bewoor | Civil Service | Karnataka |
| 19 | Mohd. Hayath | Civil Service | Karnataka |
| 20 | T. A. Pai | Civil Service | Karnataka |
| 21 | Yashodhara Dasappa | Social Work | Karnataka |
| 22 | L. A. Krishna Iyer | Science & Engineering | Kerala |
| 23 | Khusro Faramurz Rustamji | Civil Service | Madhya Pradesh |
| 24 | Amrut V. Mody | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
| 25 | Bal Dattatreya Tilak | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 26 | Bhalchandra Nilkanth Purandare | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 27 | Dattatraya Yeshwant Phadke | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 28 | Gulestan Rustom Billimoria | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 29 | Inderjit Singh Gill | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
| 30 | Kayalath Pothen Philip | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 31 | Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 32 | Madhavrao Bagal | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 33 | Shantilal C. Sheth | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 34 | Vinayakrao Patwardhan | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 35 | Ashwini Kumar | Civil Service | Punjab |
| 36 | Hari Chand Dewan | Civil Service | Punjab |
| 37 | Khem Karan Singh | Civil Service | Punjab |
| 38 | Mohinder Singh Randhawa | Science & Engineering | Punjab |
| 39 | Pran Nath Luthra | Civil Service | Punjab |
| 40 | Sagat Singh | Civil Service | Punjab |
| 41 | Sartaj Singh | Civil Service | Punjab |
| 42 | Sourendra Nath Kohli | Civil Service | Punjab |
| 43 | M. S. Swaminathan | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 44 | Nilakanta Krishnan | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu |
| 45 | Papanasam Sivan | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 46 | Jai Krishna | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh |
| 47 | Benoy Bhushan Ghosh | Civil Service | West Bengal |
| 48 | Ram Narayan Chakravarti | Science & Engineering | West Bengal |
| 49 | Sujoy B. Roy | Medicine | West Bengal |
| 50 | Chandrika Prasad Srivastava | Civil Service | United Kingdom |
1971
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bishnupada Mukhopadhyaya | Medicine | Bihar |
| 2 | Parmeshwari Lal Verma | Civil Service | Chandigarh |
| 3 | Suraj Bhan | Literature & Education | Chandigarh |
| 4 | Jainendra Kumar Jain | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 5 | Kasturi Lal Vij | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 6 | Madan Mohan Singh | Medicine | Delhi |
| 7 | Mungtu Ram Jaipuria | Social Work | Delhi |
| 8 | Jaishankar Bhojak | Arts | Gujarat |
| 9 | Gangubai Hangal | Arts | Karnataka |
| 10 | Satish Dhawan | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 11 | Kandathil Mammen Cherian | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 12 | P. Kalathil Kunju Kurup | Arts | Kerala |
| 13 | Manibhai J. Patel | Trade & Industry | Madhya Pradesh |
| 14 | Santosh Kumar Mukerji | Medicine | Madhya Pradesh |
| 15 | Veni Shankar Jha | Literature & Education | Madhya Pradesh |
| 16 | A. Vithal alias Dhananjay Keer | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 17 | Amir Khan | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 18 | Bhalchandra Digambar Garware | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 19 | Devchand Chhaganlal Shah | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 20 | Krishnarao Phulambrikar | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 21 | R. K. Laxman | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 22 | Ramrao Deshmukh | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 23 | Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 24 | Kalindi Charan Panigrahi | Literature & Education | Odisha |
| 25 | Raj Kapoor | Arts | Punjab |
| 26 | Gokulbhai Bhatt | Social Work | Rajasthan |
| 27 | D. K. Pattammal | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 28 | Musiri Subramania Iyer | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 29 | N. Ramaswami Ayyar | Social Work | Tamil Nadu |
| 30 | P Tiruvillvamalai Seshan M. Iyer | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 31 | Pichu Sambamoorthi | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 32 | Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 33 | Vulimiri Ramalingaswami | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 34 | Bhagwati Charan Verma | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 35 | Nissar Hussain Khan | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| 36 | Ved Rattan Mohan | Trade & Industry | Uttar Pradesh |
| 37 | Jogesh Chandra De | Trade & Industry | West Bengal |
| 38 | Kedar Nath Mookerjee | Trade & Industry | West Bengal |
| 39 | Monindra Nath Chakravarti | Civil Service | West Bengal |
| 40 | Suresh Chandra Roy | Trade & Industry | West Bengal |
| 41 | Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme | Science & Engineering | Italy |
1970
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gainedi A. Narasimha Rao | Civil Service | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Gurram Jashuva | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| 3 | M. R. Brahmam | Civil Service | Andhra Pradesh |
| 4 | Syed Abdul Latif | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| 5 | Viswanatha Satyanarayana | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| 6 | Birendra Nath Ganguli | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 7 | Prem Nath Wahi | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 8 | Ratan Lal Joshi | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 9 | Surrendar Saini | Social Work | Delhi |
| 10 | Lala Hansraj Gupta | Public Affairs | Haryana |
| 11 | Bhagwantrao Mandloi | Public Affairs | Madhya Pradesh |
| 12 | Anant alias Annasaheb Sahasrabuddhe | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 13 | Hirabai Barodekar | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 14 | N. M. Wagle | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
| 15 | Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 16 | Purushottam Kashinath Kelkar | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 17 | Yashpal | Literature & Education | Punjab |
| 18 | Krishnaswami Ramiah | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 19 | Kumari Kamala | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 20 | M. S. Krishnan | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 21 | T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 22 | Ahmed Jan Thirakwa | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| 23 | Mahesh Prasad Mehray | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh |
| 24 | Amiya Chakravarty | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 25 | Buddhadeb Bose | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 26 | Ramkinkar Baij | Arts | West Bengal |
| 27 | Sombhu Mitra | Arts | West Bengal |
| 28 | Vivekananda Mukhopadhyaya | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
Padma Bhushan Award (1960–1969)
1969
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Haroon Khan Sherwani | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Raman Madhavan Nair | Literature & Education | Chandigarh |
| 3 | Krishna Ramchand Kriplani | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 4 | Rahim-ud-in Khan Dagar | Arts | Delhi |
| 5 | Kasturbhai Lalbhai | Trade & Industry | Gujarat |
| 6 | Vitthal Laxman Phadke | Social Work | Gujarat |
| 7 | V. K. Narayana Menon | Science & Engineering | Kerala |
| 8 | Kesarbai Kerkar | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Keshavrao Krishnarao Datey | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 10 | Krishna Chandar | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Lata Mangeshkar | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 12 | Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 13 | Nanasaheb Parulekar | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 14 | Naval Tata | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 15 | Prafulla Kumar Sen | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 16 | Vallabhadas Vithaldas Shah | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 17 | Vithalbhai Jhaveri | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 18 | Yashwant Dinkar Pendharkar | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 19 | Prithviraj Kapoor | Arts | Punjab |
| 20 | Kasturiswami Sreenivasan | Trade & Industry | Tamil Nadu |
| 21 | S. S. Vasan | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 22 | Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 23 | Samad Yar Khan Saghar Nizami | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 24 | Adinath Lahiri | Science & Engineering | West Bengal |
| 25 | Keshav Prasad Goenka | Trade & Industry | West Bengal |
| 26 | Niharranjan Ray | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 27 | Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 28 | Gobind Behari Lal | Literature & Education | United States |
| 29 | Raja Rao | Literature & Education | United States |
1968
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mamidipudi Venkatarangayya | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Manikonda Chalapathi Rau | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| 3 | Sarda Prasad Varma | Civil Service | Bihar |
| 4 | C. R. Rao | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 5 | M. G. K. Menon | Medicine | Delhi |
| 6 | Shamaprasad Rupshanker Vasavada | Social Work | Gujarat |
| 7 | K. Shivaram Karanth | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 8 | Murugappa Channaveerappa Modi | Medicine | Karnataka |
| 9 | Prabhu Lal Bhatnagar | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 10 | G. Sankara Kurup | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 11 | Mansukhlal Atmaram Master | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 12 | Mary Clubwala Jadhav | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 13 | Sam Manekshaw | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
| 14 | Shripad Damodar Satwalekar | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 15 | Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 16 | Waman Bapuji Metre | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 17 | Radhanath Rath | Literature & Education | Odisha |
| 18 | Benjamin Peary Pal | Science & Engineering | Punjab |
| 19 | Brahm Prakash | Science & Engineering | Punjab |
| 20 | Gopalan Narasimhan | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 21 | Mariadas Ruthnaswamy | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 22 | Periyasaamy Thooran | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 23 | Acharya Vishva Bandhu | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 24 | Bismillah Khan | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| 25 | Gujarmal Modi | Trade & Industry | Uttar Pradesh |
| 26 | Raghupati Sahay | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 27 | Sudhir Ranjan Sengupta | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 28 | Jyotish Chandra Ray | Medicine | West Bengal |
1967
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M. L. Vasanthakumari | Arts | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Krishna Kanta Handique | Literature & Education | Assam |
| 3 | Akshay Kumar Jain | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 4 | B. Shiva Rao | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 5 | Pupul Jayakar | Social Work | Delhi |
| 6 | S. I. Padmavati | Medicine | Delhi |
| 7 | Kalyanji Vithalbhai Mehta | Literature & Education | Gujarat |
| 8 | D. C. Pavate | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 9 | Datto Vaman Potdar | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 10 | Kaikhushru Ruttonji Shroff | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Mulk Raj Anand | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 12 | Vasantrao Bandoji Patil | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 13 | D. P. Kohli | Civil Service | Punjab |
| 14 | Tulsi Das | Medicine | Punjab |
| 15 | C. Kottieth Lakshmanan | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 16 | Ramanathan Krishnan | Sports | Tamil Nadu |
| 17 | T. M. Ponnambalam Mahadevan | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 18 | Tara Cherian | Social Work | Tamil Nadu |
| 19 | Khwaja Ghulam Saiyidain | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 20 | Ravi Shankar | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| 21 | Mulk Raj Chopra | Civil Service | Uttarakhand |
| 22 | Ali Akbar Khan | Arts | West Bengal |
| 23 | Ashok Kumar Sarkar | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 24 | Mihir Sen | Sports | West Bengal |
1966
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K. Shankar Pillai | Arts | Delhi |
| 2 | Puliyur Krishnaswamy Duraiswami | Medicine | Delhi |
| 3 | Verghese Kurien | Trade & Industry | Gujarat |
| 4 | Vikram Sarabhai | Science & Engineering | Gujarat |
| 5 | K. P. Kesava Menon | Public Affairs | Kerala |
| 6 | Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai | Social Work | Kerala |
| 7 | Vinayak Sitaram Sarwate | Literature & Education | Madhya Pradesh |
| 8 | Babubhai Maneklal Chinai | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Homi Sethna | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
| 10 | Jodh Singh | Literature & Education | Punjab |
| 11 | T. S. Ramaswami Aiyer | Public Affairs | Tamil Nadu |
| 12 | Haribhau Upadhyaya | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 13 | Bhabani Charan Mukharji | Civil Service | West Bengal |
| 14 | Zubin Mehta | Arts | Canada |
1965
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akbar Ali Khan | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Harbaksh Singh | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 3 | Mohammad Mujeeb | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 4 | Mohan Singh Kohli | Sports | Delhi |
| 5 | Appasaheb Patwardhan | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 6 | Bhalchandra Babaji Dikshit | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 7 | Jayant Narlikar | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 8 | Narasinh Narayan Godbole | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 9 | P. O. Dunn | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
| 10 | Shantanu Lakshman Kirloskar | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Joginder Singh Dhillon | Civil Service | Punjab |
| 12 | Kashmir Singh Katoch | Civil Service | Punjab |
| 13 | Pratap Chandra Lal | Civil Service | Punjab |
| 14 | Manikya Lal Verma | Social Work | Rajasthan |
| 15 | Sonam Gyatso | Sports | Sikkim |
| 16 | K. R. Ramanathan | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 17 | Krishnaswami Balasubramania Iyer | Public Affairs | Tamil Nadu |
| 18 | Ramaswamy Rajaram | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu |
| 19 | Shiv Sharma | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh |
| 20 | Vrindavan Lal Verma | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 21 | Jogesh Chandra Banerjee | Medicine | West Bengal |
| 22 | Nawang Gombu | Sports | West Bengal |
| 23 | Santu Shahaney | Civil Service | West Bengal |
| 24 | Satyajit Ray | Arts | West Bengal |
| 25 | Triguna Sen | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
1964
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mohd. Abdul Hai | Medicine | Bihar |
| 2 | Nuruddin Ahmed | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 3 | Bhola Nath Mullik | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 4 | Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel | Social Work | Gujarat |
| 5 | R. K. Narayan | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 6 | Jacob Chandy | Medicine | Kerala |
| 7 | Dara Nusserwanji Khurody | Trade & Industry | Madhya Pradesh |
| 8 | Kunji Lal Dubey | Public Affairs | Madhya Pradesh |
| 9 | Chintaman Govind Pandit | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 10 | N. S. Rajhans (Bal Gandharva) | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Khushwant Lal Wig | Medicine | Punjab |
| 12 | T. Narayanayajwa Ramachandran | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 13 | Anukul Chandra Mukherjee | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 14 | Sheikh Abdullah | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 15 | Anil Bandhu Guha | Civil Service | West Bengal |
| 16 | Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee | Science & Engineering | West Bengal |
| 17 | Rafiuddin Ahmed | Medicine | West Bengal |
| 18 | Tushar Kanti Ghosh | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
1963
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Omeo Kumar Das | Social Work | Assam |
| 2 | Kanuri Lakshmana Rao | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 3 | M. L. Soni | Medicine | Delhi |
| 4 | Makhanlal Chaturvedi | Literature & Education | Madhya Pradesh |
| 5 | Ramanlal Gokaldas Saraiya | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 6 | Narendra Nath Bery | Medicine | Punjab |
| 7 | Sardar Harnarain Singh | Civil Service | Punjab |
| 8 | T. R. Seshadri | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 9 | Badri Nath Prasad | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 10 | Rahul Sankrityayan | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 11 | Ramkumar Verma | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 12 | Nitish Chandra Laharry | Social Work | West Bengal |
1962
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mahankali Seetharama Rao | Medicine | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Sitaram Seksaria | Social Work | Assam |
| 3 | Dukhan Ram | Medicine | Bihar |
| 4 | Raghunath Saran | Medicine | Bihar |
| 5 | Raja Radhika Raman Sinha | Literature & Education | Bihar |
| 6 | Daulat Singh Kothari | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 7 | Gyanesh Chandra Chatterjee | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 8 | Ramaswamy Duraiswamy Ayyar | Medicine | Delhi |
| 9 | Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee | Literature & Education | Jammu & Kashmir |
| 10 | Bade Ghulam Ali Khan | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Jal R. Patel | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 12 | Mithan Jamshed Lam | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 13 | Narayan Sitaram Phadke | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 14 | Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 15 | Tarabai Modak | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 16 | Prem Chandra Dhanda | Medicine | Punjab |
| 17 | Tarlok Singh | Civil Service | Punjab |
| 18 | Moturi Satyanarayana | Public Affairs | Tamil Nadu |
| 19 | T. S. Soundram | Social Work | Tamil Nadu |
| 20 | V. Raghavan | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 21 | Jafar Ali Khan | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 22 | Niaz Fatehpuri | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 23 | Radhakamal Mukerjee | Science & Engineering | Uttar Pradesh |
| 24 | Santosh Kumar Sen | Medicine | West Bengal |
| 25 | Sisir Kumar Mitra | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 26 | Sudhansu Sobhan Maitra | Medicine | West Bengal |
| 27 | Sudhindra Nath Mukerjee | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
1961
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bindeshwari Prasad Verma | Public Affairs | Bihar |
| 2 | Niranjan Das Gulhati | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 3 | Seth Govind Das | Literature & Education | Madhya Pradesh |
| 4 | Ardeshir Ruttonji Wadia | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 5 | K. Venkataraman | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 6 | Rustomji Bomanji Billimoria | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 7 | L. Venkatakrishna Iyer | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu |
| 8 | Bhagwan Sahay | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh |
| 9 | Rai Krishnadas | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 10 | Sumitranandan Pant | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 11 | Tridib Nath Banerjee | Medicine | West Bengal |
| 12 | Svetoslav Roerich | Arts | Russia |
| 13 | Verrier Elwin | Science & Engineering | United Kingdom |
1960
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ayyadevara Kaleswara Rao | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Acharya Shivpujan Sahay | Literature & Education | Bihar |
| 3 | Bal Krishna Sharma Naveen | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 4 | Hafiz Ali Khan | Arts | Madhya Pradesh |
| 5 | Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 6 | Nilakantha Das | Public Affairs | Orissa |
| 7 | Rajeshwar Shastri Dravid | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 8 | Haridas Siddhanta Bagish | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 9 | Kazi Nazrul Islam | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 10 | Rabindra Nath Chaudhuri | Medicine | West Bengal |
Padma Bhushan Award (1954–1959)
1959
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ghulam Yazdani | Science & Engineering | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Ramdhari Singh Dinkar | Literature & Education | Bihar |
| 3 | Kankanhalli Vasudevachary | Arts | Karnataka |
| 4 | Ali Yavar Jung | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
| 5 | Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 6 | Bhaurao Patil | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 7 | Dhanvanthi Rama Rau | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 8 | Hansa Jivraj Mehta | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Jal Gawashaw Paymaster | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 10 | Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 11 | Tiruppattur R. Venkatachala Murthi | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 12 | Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 13 | Sisir Kumar Bhaduri | Arts | West Bengal |
| 14 | Tenzing Norgay | Sports | West Bengal |
1958
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kamalendumati Shah | Social Work | Delhi |
| 2 | Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 3 | Narayan Subarao Hardikar | Social Work | Karnataka |
| 4 | Arathil C. Narayanan Nambiar | Civil Service | Kerala |
| 5 | Kumar Padma Siva Shankara Menon | Civil Service | Kerala |
| 6 | Surya Narayan Vyas | Literature & Education | Madhya Pradesh |
| 7 | Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 8 | Jeahangir Ghandy | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Rustom Jal Vakil | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 10 | Salim Ali | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Poola Tirupati Raju | Literature & Education | Rajasthan |
| 12 | Rao Raja Hanut Singh | Public Affairs | Rajasthan |
| 13 | Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 14 | Allauddin Khan | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| 15 | Vijaya Anand | Sports | Uttar Pradesh |
| 16 | D. P. Roy Choudhury | Arts | West Bengal |
1957
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andal Venkatasubba Rao | Social Work | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Shyam Nandan Sahay | Literature & Education | Bihar |
| 3 | Siddheshwar Varma | Literature & Education | Chandigarh |
| 4 | K. Covilagam Kutti Ettan Raja | Civil Service | Kerala |
| 5 | Lakshmi Menon | Public Affairs | Kerala |
| 6 | Mushtaq Hussain Khan | Arts | Madhya Pradesh |
| 7 | Govind Sakharam Sardesai | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 8 | Alagappa Chettiar | Social Work | Tamil Nadu |
| 9 | K. A. Nilakanta Sastri | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 10 | T. Balasaraswati | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 11 | Abid Hussain | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 12 | Bhikham Lal Atreya | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 13 | Hazari Prasad Dwivedi | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 14 | Shrikrishna N. Ratanjankar | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| 15 | Boshi Sen | Science & Engineering | West Bengal |
| 16 | Radha Kumud Mukherjee | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
1956
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nawab Zain Yar Jung | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Pushpavati Janardenrai Mehta | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 3 | Dhyan Chand | Sports | Punjab |
| 4 | Kasturi Srinivasan | Literature & Education | Punjab |
| 5 | Vir Singh | Literature & Education | Punjab |
| 6 | Kanwar Sain | Civil Service | Rajasthan |
| 7 | Cottari Kankaiyah Nayudu | Sports | Tamil Nadu |
| 8 | Malur Srinivasa Thirumale Iyengar | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu |
| 9 | Muthulakshmi Reddi | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 10 | Rukmini Devi Arundale | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 11 | Tiruvadi Sambasiva Venkataraman | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 12 | Mahadevi Varma | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 13 | Rajshekhar Basu | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
1955
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Madapati Rao | Social Work | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 3 | Vasant Ramji Khanolkar | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 4 | Prana Krushna Parija | Literature & Education | Odisha |
| 5 | Fateh Chand Badhwar | Civil Service | Punjab |
| 6 | Sunder Das Khungar | Civil Service | Punjab |
| 7 | Attur Rangaswami Venkatachari | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu |
| 8 | Rameshwari Nehru | Social Work | Uttar Pradesh |
| 9 | Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay | Social Work | West Bengal |
| 10 | Lalit Mohan Banerjee | Medicine | West Bengal |
| 11 | Suniti Kumar Chatterji | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 12 | Surender Kumar Dey | Civil Service | United States |
1954
| No. | Recipient | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pandyala Satyanarayana Rau | Civil Service | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2 | Ajudhiya Nath Khosla | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 3 | Josh Malihabadi | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 4 | Radha Krishan Gupta | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 5 | V. L. Mehta | Public Affairs | Gujarat |
| 6 | Kodandera Subayya Thimayya | Civil Service | Karnataka |
| 7 | V. Narahari Rao | Civil Service | Karnataka |
| 8 | Vallathol Narayana Menon | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 9 | Homi Jehangir Bhabha | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 10 | Mahadeva Iyer Ganapati | Civil Service | Odisha |
| 11 | Hussain Ahmad Madani | Literature & Education | Punjab |
| 12 | Maharaj Kr. Palden T Namgyal | Public Affairs | Punjab |
| 13 | R. R. Handa | Civil Service | Punjab |
| 14 | A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 15 | Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 16 | M. S. Subbulakshmi | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 17 | Amarnath Jha | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 18 | Maithili Sharan Gupt | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 19 | Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar | Science & Engineering | Uttar Pradesh |
| 20 | Satya Narayana Shastri | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh |
| 21 | Jamini Roy | Arts | West Bengal |
| 22 | Jnan Chandra Ghosh | Science & Engineering | West Bengal |
| 23 | Sukumar Sen | Civil Service | West Bengal |