Padma Awards 2018: Full List Of Recipients

Padma awards:

Padma Awards were instituted in the year 1954. Except for brief interruptions during the years 1977 to 1980 and 1993 to 1997, these awards have been announced every year on Republic Day. The award is given in three categories, viz. Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri, in the decreasing order of importance.

• Padma Vibhushan for "exceptional and distinguished service". Padma Vibhushan is second highest civilian award in India.
• Padma Bhushan for "distinguished service of a high order". Padma Bhushan is third highest civilian award in India .
• Padma Shri is awarded for "distinguished service". Padma Shri is last and fourth highest civilian award in India.

The Padma award is just an honour. No cash allowance or any facility/benefit in terms of concession etc. in rail/air travel is attached to these awards. The award does not amount to a title and cannot be used as a suffix or prefix to the awardee’s name on letterheads, invitation cards, posters, books etc. In the case of any misuse, the awardee will forfeit the award.

• The decoration comprises a Sanad (Certificate) issued under the hand and seal of the President and a Medallion.
• The recipients are also given a replica of the medallion, which they can wear during any ceremonial/State functions etc., if they desire.
• A commemorative brochure giving out brief details in respect of each award winner is also released on the day of the investiture ceremony.

The President has approved the awards for 85 individuals, which includes 3 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan and 73 Padma Shri. Fourteen of the awardees are women and 3 persons have been awarded posthumously.

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SH Treat: The first recipients of the Bharat Ratna were politician C. Rajagopalachari, philosopher Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and scientist C. V. Raman, who were honoured in 1954. 

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Padma Vibhushan Awards (2nd highest civilian award):

S. No.	Recipient	Category
1.	Ilayaraja	Art (Music)
2.	Ghulam Mustafa Khan	Art (Music)
3.	Parameswaran Parameswaran	Literature & Education

Padma Bhushan Awards (3rd highest civilian award):

S. No.	Recipient	Category
1.	Pankaj Advani	Sport (Billiards/Snooker)
2.	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	Sports (Cricket)
3.	Alexander Kadakin (Foreigner/Posthumous)	Public Affairs
4.	Ved Prakash Nanda	Literature and Education
5.	Laxman Pai	Art (Painting)
6.	Arvind Parikh	Art (Painting)
7.	Sharda Sinha	Art (Painting)
8.	Philipose Mar Chrysostom	Others (Spiritualism)
9.	Ramachandran Nagaswamy	Others (Archaeology)

Padma Shri Awards:

S. No.	Recipient	Category
1.	Abhay Bang (Duo)	Medicine
2.	Damodar Ganesh Bapat	Social Work
3.	Prafulla Govinda Baruah	Literature and Education
4.	Mohan Swaroop Bhatia	Arts
5.	Sudhanshu Biswas	Social Work
6.	Saikhom Mirabai Chanu	Sports for Weightlifting
7.	Pandit Shyamlal Chaturvedi	Literature and Education
8.	Jose Ma Joey Concepcion III (Philippines)	Trade & Industry
9.	Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi	Art-Weaving
10.	Somdev Devvarman	Sports (Tennis)
11.	Yeshi Dhoden	Medicine
12.	Arup Kumar Dutta	Literature and Education
13.	Doddarange Gowda	Art (Lyrics)
14.	Arvind Gupta	Literature and Education
15.	Digamber Hansda	Literature and Education
16.	Ramli Bin Ibrahim (Foreigner)	Art-Dance
17.	Anwar Jalalpuri (Posthumous)	Literature and Education
18.	Piyong Temjen Jamir	Literature and Education
19.	Sitavva Joddati	Social Work
20	Malti Joshi	Literature and Education
21.	Manoj Joshi	Art (Acting)
22.	Rameshwarlal Kabra	Trade & Industry
23.	Pran Kishore Kaul	Art
24.	Bounlap Keokangna (Foreigner)	Architecture
25.	Vijay Kichlu	Art - Music
26.	Tommy Koh (Foreigner)	Public Affairs
27.	Lakshmikutty	Medicine-Traditional
28.	Joyshree Goswami Mahanta	Literature and Education
29.	Narayan Das Maharaj	Spiritualism
30.	Pravakara Maharana Art	Sculpture
31.	Hun Many (Foreigner)	Public Affairs
32.	Nouf Marwaai (Foreigner)	Yoga
33.	Zaverilal Mehta	Literature and Education-Journalism
34.	Krishna Bihari Mishra	Literature and Education
35.	Sisir Purushottam Mishra	Art - Cinema
36.	Subhasini Mistry	Social Work
37.	Tomio Mizokami (Foreigner)	Literature and Education
38.	Somdet Phra Maha Muniwong (Foreigner)	Spiritualism
39.	Keshav Rao Musalgaonkar	Literature and Education
40.	Dr Thant Myint – U (Foreigner)	Public Affairs
41.	V Nanammal	Yoga
42.	Sulagitti Narasamma	Social Work
43.	Ms Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan	Art-Folk Music
44.	I Nyoman Nuarta (Foreigner)	Art-Sculpture
45.	Shri Malai Haji Abdullah Bin Malai Haji Othman (Foreigner)	Social Work
46.	Shri Gobaradhan Panika	Art-Weaving
47.	Shri Bhabani Charan Pattanaik	Public Affairs
48.	Shri Murlikant Petkar	Sports-Swimming
49.	Shri Habibullo Rajabov (Foreigner)	Literature and Education
50.	Shri MR Rajagopal	Medicine-Palliative Care
51.	Shri Sampat Ramteke (Posthumous)	Social Work
52.	Shri Chandra Sekhar Rath	Literature and Education
53.	Shri SS Rathore	Civil Service
54.	Shri Amitava Roy	Science and Engineering
55.	Shri Sanduk Ruit (Foreigner)	Science and Engineering
56.	Shri R Sathyanarayana	Art-Music
57.	Shri Pankaj M Shah	Medicine (Oncology)
58.	Shri Bhajju Shyam	Art-Painting
59.	Shri Maharao Raghuveer Singh	Literature and Education
60.	Shri Kidambi Srikanth	Sports-Badminton
61.	Shri Ibrahim Sutar	Art-Music
62.	Shri Siddeshwara Swamiji	Others-Spiritualism
63.	Ms Lentina Ao Thakkar	Social Work
64.	Shri Vikram Chandra Thakur	Science and Engineering
65.	Shri Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Tharanathan with  Shri Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Thyagarajan	Art (Music)
66.	Shri Nguyen Tien Thien (Foreigner)	Spiritualism
67.	Shri Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi	Literature and Education
68	Shri Rajagopalan Vasudevan	Science and Engineering
69.	Shri Manas Bihari Verma	Science and Engineering
70.	Shri Panatawane Gangadhar Vithobaji	Literature and Education
71.	Shri Romulus Whitaker	Wildlife Conservation
72.	Shri Baba Yogendra	Art
73.	Shri A Zakia	Literature and Education