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.
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)
1 Shri Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy Medicine Telangana
2 Justice (Retd.) Shri Jagdish Singh, Khehar Public Affairs Chandigarh
3 Smt. Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia Art Gujarat
4 Shri Lakshminarayana Subramaniam Art Karnataka
5 Shri M. T. Vasudevan Nair, (Posthumous) Literature and Education Kerala
6 Shri Osamu Suzuki (Posthumous) Trade and Industry Japan
7 Smt. Sharda Sinha (Posthumous) Art Bihar
Padma Bhushan (19)
8 Shri A Surya Prakash Literature and Education – Journalism Karnataka
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
20 Shri Rambahadur Rai Literature and Education – Journalism Uttar Pradesh
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
25 Shri Sushil Kumar Modi (Posthumous) Public Affairs Bihar
26 Shri Vinod Dham Science and Engineering United States of America
Padma Shri (113)
27 Shri Adwaita Charan Gadanayak Art Odisha
28 Shri Achyut Ramchandra Palav Art Maharashtra
29 Shri Ajay V Bhatt Science and Engineering United States of 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
45 Smt. Bhimavva Doddabalappa Shillekyathara Art Karnataka
46 Shri Budhendra Kumar Jain Medicine Madhya Pradesh
47 Shri CS Vaidyanathan Public Affairs NCT Delhi
48 Shri Chaitram Deochand Pawar Social Work Maharashtra
49 Shri Chandrakant Sheth (Posthumous) Literature and Education Gujarat
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
54 Shri Farooq Ahmad Mir Art Jammu And 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 Bhatti Art Madhya Pradesh
60 Shri Hariman Sharma Others – Agriculture Himachal Pradesh
61 Shri Harjinder Singh Srinagar Wale Art Punjab
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
66 Shri Hugh and Colleen Gantzer (Posthumous) (Duo)* Literature and Education – Journalism Uttarakhand
67 Shri Inivalappil Mani Vijayan Sports Kerala
68 Shri Jagadish Joshila Literature and Education Madhya Pradesh
69 Smt. Jaspinder Narula Art 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
78 Shri Lakshmipathy Ramasubbaiyer Literature and Education – Journalism Tamil Nadu
79 Shri Lalit Kumar Mangotra Literature and Education Jammu And 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
86 Shri Manda Krishna Madiga Public Affairs Telangana
87 Shri Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli Literature and Education Maharashtra
88 Shri Miriyala Apparao (Posthumous) Art Andhra Pradesh
89 Shri Nagendra Nath Roy Literature and Education West Bengal
90 Shri Narayan (Bhulai Bhai) (Posthumous) Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh
91 Shri Naren Gurung Art Sikkim
92 Smt. Neerja Bhatla Medicine NCT Delhi
93 Smt. Nirmala Devi Art Bihar
94 Shri Nitin Nohria Literature and Education United States of 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
106 Shri Radhakrishnan Devasenapathy Art Tamil Nadu
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
118 Shri Sethuraman Panchanathan Science and Engineering United States of America
119 Smt. Sheikha Shaikha Ali Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Medicine Kuwait
120 Shri Sheen Kaaf Nizam (Shiv Kishan Bissa) Literature and Education Rajasthan
121 Shri Shyam Bihari Agrawal Art Uttar Pradesh
122 Smt. Soniya Nityanand Medicine Uttar Pradesh
123 Shri Stephen Knapp Literature and Education United States of America
124 Shri Subhash Khetulal Sharma Others – Agriculture Maharashtra
125 Shri Suresh Harilal Soni Social Work Gujarat
126 Shri Surinder Kumar Vasal Science and Engineering Delhi
127 Shri Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik Maharaj) Others – Spiritualism West Bengal
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
132 Shri Vadiraj Raghavendracharya Panchamukhi Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh
133 Shri Vasudeo Kamath Art Maharashtra
134 Shri Velu Aasaan Art Tamil Nadu
135 Shri Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar Art Karnataka
136 Shri Vijay Nityanand Surishwar Ji Maharaj Others – Spiritualism Bihar
137 Smt. Vijayalakshmi Deshamane Medicine Karnataka
138 Shri Vilas Dangre Medicine Maharashtra
139 Shri Vinayak Lohani Social Work West Bengal
Published – January 25, 2025 09:50 pm IST
