Padma Awards 2025
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Padma Awards 2025: On the eve of Republic Day, the Central government on Saturday announced the recipients of the coveted Padma Awards, one of India’s highest civilian honours.

While the awards are given in three categories: Padma Vibhushan (for exceptional and distinguished service), Padma Bhushan (distinguished service of higher order) and Padma Shri (distinguished service), the award seeks to recognize achievements in all fields of activity or disciplines involving an element of public service. 

It should be mentioned that the Padma Awards are conferred on the recommendations made by the Padma Awards Committee, which is constituted by the prime minister every year.

This year, the government has awarded 7 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri awards. Every year, the President confers these awards at a ceremonial function held at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, usually in March or April. 

Here’s a full list of Padma Award winners:

Padma Vibhushan

Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy

Justice (Retd.) Jagdish Singh Khehar

Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia

Lakshminarayana Subramaniam

MT Vasudevan Nair (Posthumous)

Osamu Suzuki (Posthumous)

Sharda Sinha (Posthumous)

Padma Bhushan

A Surya Prakash

Anant Nag

Bibek Debroy (Posthumous)

Jatin Goswami

Jose Chacko Periappuram

Kailash Nath Dikshit

Manohar Joshi (Posthumous)

Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti

Nandamuri Balakrishna

PR Sreejesh

Pankaj Patel

Pankaj Udhas (Posthumous)

Rambahadur Rai

Sadhvi Ritambhara

S Ajith Kumar

Shekhar Kapur

Shobana Chandrakumar

Sushil Kumar Modi (Posthumous)

Vinod Dham

Padma Shri

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 Sheth (Posthumous)

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

K L Krishna

K Omanakutty Amma

Kishore Kunal (Posthumous)

L Hangthing

Lakshmipathy Ramasubbaiyer

Lalit Kumar Mangotra

Lama Lobzang (Posthumous)

Libia Lobo Sardesai

M D Srinivas

Madugula Nagaphani Sarma

Mahabir Nayak

Mamata Shankar

Manda Krishna Madiga

Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli

Miriyala Apparao (Posthumous)

Nagendra Nath Roy

Narayan (Bhulai Bhai) (Posthumous)

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

Soniya Nityanand

Stephen Knapp

Subhash Khetulal Sharma

Suresh Harilal Soni

Surinder Kumar Vasal

Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik Maharaj)

Syed Ainu Hasan

Tejendra Narayan Majumdar

Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi

Tushar Durgeshbhai Shukla

Vadiraj Raghavendracharya Panchamukhi

Vasudeo Kamath

Velu Assaan

Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar

Vijay Nityanand Surishwar Ji Maharaj

Vijayalakshmi Deshamane

Vilas Dangre

Vinayak Lohani