Padma Awards 2025: Check complete list of Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri recipients

Padma Awards announced on Republic Day! Find out which personalities received Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri.  Posthumous honors for Sharda Sinha, Osamu Suzuki, and others. See the full list here.

On the eve of the 76th Republic Day, the Padma Awards have been announced. 139 people are to be honored with the Padma Awards this time. This includes 7 distinguished individuals receiving the Padma Vibhushan and 19 receiving the Padma Bhushan. At the same time, 113 people will be honored with the Padma Shri for their distinguished contributions. Among the Padma Vibhushan recipients are the famous Bhojpuri singer, the late Sharda Sinha, and renowned businessman Osamu Suzuki of Japan. Both will receive this honor posthumously. The Padma Bhushan list includes journalist A Surya Prakash, Ram Bahadur Rai, ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas, former hockey captain PR Sreejesh, Sadhvi Ritambhara, former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi, Shekhar Kapur, and others.

See who received Padma Vibhushan...

• Dr. D Nageshwar Reddy of Telangana in the Medical field
• Retired Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar of Chandigarh in Public Affairs
• Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia of Gujarat in the field of Art
• Lakshminarayana Subramaniam of Karnataka in the field of Art
• MT Vasudevan Nair of Kerala (posthumously) in the field of Literature and Education
• Osamu Suzuki of Japan (posthumously) in the field of Trade and Industry
• Sharda Sinha of Bihar (posthumously) in the field of Art

List of Padma Bhushan recipients

• A Surya Prakash Literature and Education Karnataka
• Anant Nag Art Karnataka
• Bibek Debroy (Posthumous) Literature and Education Delhi
• Jatin Goswami Art Assam
• Jose Chacko Periappuram Medicine Kerala
• Kailash Nath Dikshit Archaeology Delhi
• Manohar Joshi (Posthumous) Public Affairs Maharashtra
• Nalli Kuppuswami Chetty Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu
• Nandamuri Balakrishna Art Andhra Pradesh
• PR Sreejesh Sports Kerala
• Pankaj Patel Trade and Industry Gujarat
• Pankaj Udhas (Posthumous) Art Maharashtra
• Ram Bahadur Rai Literature and Education UP
• Sadhvi Ritambhara Social Work UP
• S Ajit Kumar Art Tamil Nadu
• Shekhar Kapur Art Maharashtra
• Shobana Chandrakumar Art Tamil Nadu
• Sushil Kumar Modi Public Affairs Bihar
• Vinod Dham Science and Engineering USA

List of Padma Shri recipients

• Advaita Charan Gadanayak 
• Achyut Ramchandra Palav 
• Ajay V Bhatt 
• Anil Kumar Boro 
• Arijit Singh 
• Arundhati Bhattacharya 
• Arunoday Saha 
• Arvind Sharma 
• Ashok Kumar Mahapatra 
• Ashok Laxman Saraf 
• Ashutosh Sharma 
• Ashwini Bhide Deshpande 
• Baijnath Maharaj 
• Barry Godfray John 
• Begam Batool 
• Bharat Gupt 
• Bheru Singh Chouhan 
• Bhim Singh Bhavesh 
• Bhimawa Doddabalappa Shiilekyathara 
• Budhendra Kumar Jain 
• C S Vaidyanathan 
• Chaitram Deochand Pawar
• Chandrakant Sompura 
• Chetan E Chitnis 
• David R Syiemlieh 
• Durga Charan Ranbir 
• Farooq Ahmad Mir 
• Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid 
• Gita Upadhyay 
• Gokul Chandra Das 
• Guruvayur Dorai 
• Harchandan Singh Bhatty 
• Hariman Sharma 
• Harjinder Singh Srinagar Wale 
• Harvinder Singh 
• Hassan Raghu 
• Hemant Kumar 
• Hriday Narayan Dixit 
• Hugh and Colleen Gantzer (Posthumous) 
• Inivalappil Mani Vijayan 
• Jagadish Joshila 
• Jaspinder Narula 
• Jonas Masetti 
• Joynacharan Bathari 
• Jumde Yomgam Gamlin
• K. Damodaran 
• KL Krishna 
• K Omanakutty Amma 
• Kishore Kunal (Posthumous) 
• L Hangthing 
• Lakshmipathy Ramasubbaiyer 
• Lalit Kumar Mangotra 
• Lama Lobzang (Posthumous) 
• Libia Lobo Sardesai 
• MD Srinivas 
• Madugula Nagaphani Sarma 
• Mahabir Nayak 
• Mamata Shankar 
• Manda Krishna Madiga 
• Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli 
• Miriyala Apparao 
• Nagendra Nath Roy 
• Narayan (Bhulai Bhai) 
• Naren Gurung 
• Neerja Bhatla 
• Nirmala Devi 
• Nitin Nohria 
• Onkar Singh Pahwa
• P Datchanamoorthy 
• Pandi Ram Mandavi 
• Parmar Lavjibhai Nagjibhai 
• Pawan Goenka 
• Prashanth Prakash 
• Pratibha Satpathy 
• Purisai Kannappa Sambandan 
• R Ashwin 
• R G Chandramogan 
• Radha Bahin Bhatt 
• Radhakrishnan Devasenapathy 
• Ramdarash Mishra 
• Ranendra Bhanu Majumdar 
• Ratan Kumar Parimoo 
• Reba Kanta Mahanta 
• Renthlei Lalrawna 
• Ricky Gyan Kej 
• Sajjan Bhajanka 
• Sally Holkar 
• Sant Ram Deswal 
• Satyapal Singh 
• Seeni Viswanathan
• Sethuraman Panchanathan 
• Sheikha Shaikha Ali Al-Jaber Al-Sabah 
• Sheen Kaaf Nizam (Shiv Kishan Bissa) 
• Shyam Bihari Agrawal 
• Suresh Harilal Soni 
• Soniya Nityanand 
• Stephen Knapp 
• Subhash Khetulal Sharma 
• Surinder Kumar Vasal 
• Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik Maharaj) 
• Syed Ainu Hasan 
• Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi 
• Tejendra Narayan Majumdar 
• Tushar Durgeshbhai Shukla 
• Vadiraj Raghavendracharya Panchamukhi 
• Vasudeo Kamath 
• Velu Assaan 
• Vijay Nityanand Surishwar Ji Maharaj 
• Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar 
• Vijayalakshmi Deshamane 
• Vilas Dangre 
• Vinayak Lohani

See the full list here: