Padma Bhushan

 

Padma Bhushan
Award Information
Type	Civilian
Category	General
Instituted	1954
First Awarded	1954
Last Awarded	2006
Awarded by	Govt. of India
Award Rank
Padma Vibhushan ← Padma Bhushan → Padma Shri

The Padma Bhushan is an Indian civilian decoration established on January 2, 1954 by the President of India. It stands third in the hierarchy of civilian awards, after the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan, but comes before the Padma Sri. It is awarded to recognize distinguished service of a high order to the nation, in any field.

List of Awardees

As of 1-June-2007, 968 people have received the award. The list of awardess can be found at http://india.gov.in/myindia/padmabhushan_awards_list1.php

2006

Name	Field	State
AK Hangal	Art	Maharashtra
Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan	Art	Maharashtra
Deepak Parekh	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
Devaki Jain	Social Work	Karnataka
Dinesh Nandini Dalmia	Literature and Education	Delhi
Dusan Zbavitel	Literature and Education	Czech Republic
Ganga Prasad Birla	Social Work	West Bengal
Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan	Art	Maharashtra
Gregory Maximovich Bongard-Levin	Literature and Education	Russia
Gunter Kruger (Posthumous)	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
Shri Hira Lall Sibal	Public Affairs	Chandigarh
Jaiveer Agarwal	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
Air Commodore Jasjit Singh	Defence Services	Haryana
KG Subramanyam	Art	West Bengal
Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena	Literature and Education	Delhi
Kewal Kishan Talwar	Medicine	Chandigarh
Konidela Sivasankar Vara Prasad(Chiranjeevi)	Art,Social Work	Andhra Pradesh
KPP Nambiar	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
Lokesh Chandra	Literature and Education	Delhi
Madhav Gadgil	Science and Engineering	Maharashtra
MV Pylee	Literature and Education	Kerala
N S Ramaswamy[1]	Social Work	Karnataka
Nandan M Nilekani	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
P Leela (Posthumous)	Art	Tamil Nadu
PP Rao	Public Affairs	Uttar Pradesh
PS Appu	Civil Service	Karnataka
Ramakanta Rath	Literature and Education	Orissa
S Ramadorai	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
Ustad Sabri Khan	Art	Delhi
Sai Paranjpye	Art	Maharashtra
Shanno Khurana	Art	Delhi
Shashi Bhushan	Public Affairs	Delhi
Tarun Das	Trade and Industry	Haryana
V Shanta	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
Vijay Shankar Vyas	Literature and Education	Rajasthan
Vijaypat Singhania	Sports	Maharashtra
Aslam Anwar	technology	Tamil Nadu

2005

Name	Field	State
A Ramachandran	Art	Delhi
Dr. Andre Beteille	Literature and Education	Delhi;
Dr. Anil Kohli	Medicine	Delhi
Azim Premji	Trade and Industry	Karnataka
Balraj Puri	Literature and Education	Jammu & Kashmir
Dr. Brijmohan Lall Munjal	Trade and Industry	Delhi
Chandi Prasad Bhatt	Social Work	Uttarakhand
G.V. Ramakrishna	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu
Girish Chandra Saxena	Civil Service	Delhi
Dr. Hari Mohan	Medicine	Delhi
Prof. Irfan Habib	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
Prof. K. Srinath Reddy	Medicine	Delhi
Kiran Majumdar Shaw	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
M.T. Vasudevan Nair	Art	Kerala
Mrinal Miri	Journalism	Meghalaya
Dr. Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri	Trade and Industry	Delhi
Dr. Narasimhiah Seshagiri	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
Probodh Chandra Dey alias Manna Dey	Art	Maharashtra
Qurratulain Hyder	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
S.R. Sankaran	Civil Service	Andhra Pradesh;
Dr. Sardar Anjum	Literature and Education	Haryana
Late Syed Mir Qasim (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Jammu and Kashmir
T.R. Satish Chandran	Civil Service	Karnataka
Dr. Tarlochan Singh Kler	Medicine	Delhi
Prof. Valangiman Subramanian Ramamurthy	Science and Engineering	Delhi
Varaprasad K. Reddy	Science and Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
William Mark Tully	Journalism	United Kingdom
Yash Chopra	Art	Maharashtra
Dr. Yusuf Khwaja Hamied	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra

2004

1. Alarmel Valli, dancer
2. Lt. Gen. Bijoy Nandan Shahi, Indian Army, Physician
3. Hanumantha Rao, Telugu writer
4. Madurai T. N. Seshagopalan, Carnatic vocalist
5. Dr. N. Rajam, violinist
6. Poornima Arvind Pakvasa, social worker (Gujarat)
7. Justice Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari
8. Gopi Chand Narang
9. Krishna Srinivas
10. Vishnu Prabhakar
11. Komal Kothari, musician
12. Govindarajan Padmanabhan, scientist
13. Sardara Singh Johl, scientist
14. Sankar
15. Antony
16. Yoshiro Mori, former Japanese PM
17. Soumitra Chatterjee, Bengali film director and actor
18. M V Kamath, journalist

2003

Name	Field	State
Umayalpuram K.Sivaraman	Arts (Mridangam)	Tamil Nadu
Teejan Bai	Arts	Chhattisgarh
Naseeruddin Shah	Acting (Bollywood)	Delhi
Hari Shankar Singhania	Trade and Industry	Delhi
Parasaran Kesavan	Law	Tamil Nadu
Narayanan Srinivasan	Science and engineering	Chennai

2002

1. Frank Pallone, American Congressman
2. Gary Ackerman, American Congressman
3. K. J. Yesudas, Carnatic Vocalist
4. N. Rangabhashyam, medical expert
5. Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia, everest hero
6. H.H. Larsen, industrialist
7. Mario De Miranda, cartoonist
8. B.K.S. Iyengar, yoga teacher
9. Faquir Chand Kohli, IT pioneer
10. Jagat Singh Mehta, diplomat
11. Nirmal Verma, writer
12. Dr. Prabha Atre, Vocalist, Music Teacher
13. Ramanujam Varatharaja Perumal, aeronautical scientist
14. Shobha Viswanath Gurtu, vocalist
15. Yevgeni Petrovich Chelyshev, Indologist from Russia
16. Zakir Hussain - tabla player
17. Ismail Merchant : Art (Cinema)
18. Habib Tanvir : Art (theatre)

2001

1. Amitabh Bachchan, Actor [1]

2000

1. Rajnikanth, Actor
2. Viswanathan Anand, Sports

1999

1. Dr.Jacob Cherian, Social Service
2. Lata Mangeshkar, vocalist
3. Anil Kakodkar, Atomic Energy Commission Scientist

1998

1. Bhisham Sahni, writer
2. Vempati Chinna Satyam, Kuchipudi dance

1992

1. Girish Karnad, Playwright
2. Dr.R.D. Lele, Medicine
3. Triloki Nath Khoshoo, Secretary of Environment Indian government, Botanist

1991

1. Prathap C. Reddy, doctor
2. Kapil Dev,cricketer

1990

Name	Field	State
Trilochan Pradhan	Science	Orissa

Drs. Rajanikant and Mabelle Arole, Jamkhed, Maharashtra - Founders and Directors, Comprehensive Rural Health Project

1989

1. Banoo Jehangir Coyaji, doctor

1987

1. R.D. Pradhan, civil servant, bureaucrat

1985

1. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Hindustani vocalist
2. Shree Rajeev Sethi}, Design and Art Adviser

1984

1. Horace Alexander, English Quaker, pacifist, mediator and ornithologist
2. Sivaji Ganesan, Tamil film actor
3. K. Natwar Singh Minister of External affairs

1983

1. Dr. Rajkumar, film Kannada actor, singer
2. Lord Swaraj Paul

1982

1. Dr. Grace Morley, Founder of India's National Museum
2. Dr. Stella Kramrisch, Art Historian

1981

1. Mrinal Sen, film director

1974

1. Dr. D. V. Gundappa, Philosopher and Kannada writer
2. Dr. Arunachala Sreenivasan, Biochemist and Food Scientist/Technologist
3. Father Camille Bulcke, Belgian Jesuit, Hindi Scholar, Author of the English-Hindi Dictionary

1973

1. Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, classical musician

1972

1. Dr. Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani, ENT Surgeon
2. Mr Chandrika Prasad Srivastava, Civil Servant

1969

1. Surashri Kesarbai Kerkar, Hindustani vocalist
2. Haroon Khan Sherwani, Historian

1968

1. Lieutenant General Sam Manekshaw, Indian Army, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Army Command (Later went on to attain the rank of Field Marshal, and Chief of Army Staff. Was awarded Padma Vibhushan in 1972)
2. Waman Bapuji Metre, Petroleum Geologist
3. Prabhu Lal Bhatnagar, Mathematician

1967

1. Mihir Sen, record-setting swimmer

1965

1. Lieutenant General Joginder Singh Dhillon celebrated Indian and Sikh military war hero.
2. Mohammad Mujeeb writer.

1961

1. Shri Vindhyeshwari Prasad Varma, Speaker, Bihar Legislative Assembly. Public Affairs. Bihar.

1959

1. Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar', eminent poet in Hindi known specially for his nationalist strain and forceful invocations to humans and humanity.

1958

1. Kuvempu, Kannada poet

1954

1. M. Ganapati(Mahadeva Iyer Ganapati), Engineer, Administrator and Planner.
2. Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet

References

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