Padma Vibhushan Awards Winners List: from 1954 to 2018 | Important for RRB, SSC, IBPS exams

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About Padma Vibhushan Awards

Padma Vibhushan Awards is second  highest civilian Award after Bharat Ratna (Bharat Ratna is highest civilian Award) in India. And highest in all Padma Awards, announced annually on the eve of Republic Day. The Padma 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).
  Now, Today we are discussing about Padma Vibhushan awards and their Winners. The Padma Awards are conferred on the recommendations made by the Padma Awards Committee, which is constituted by the Prime Minister every year. The nomination process is open to the public. Even self-nomination can be made.
Padma Awards, which were instituted in the year 1954, is announced every year. But Some interruption(s) during the years 1978 and 1979 and 1993 to 1997.

Padma Vibhushan Awards 2018

1. Shri Ilaiyaraaja, Art-Music (Tamil Nadu)
2. Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Art-Music (Maharashtra)
3. Shri P. Parameswaran, Literature and Education (Kerala)

Padma Vibhushan Awards 2017

1) Sharad Pawar, Public Affairs
2) Murli Manohar Joshi, Public Affairs
3) P.A. Sangma (posthumous), Public Affairs
4) Sunder Lal Patwah (posthumous), Public Affairs
5) K.J.Yesudas, Art-Music
6) Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Others-Spiritualism
7) Udipi Ramachandra Rao, Science & Engineering

Fields for Padma Vibhushan Awards Nomination

1) Art (includes Music, Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Cinema, Theatre etc.)
2) Social work (includes social service, charitable service, contribution in community projects etc.)
3) Public Affairs (includes Law, Public Life, Politics etc.)
4) Science & Engineering (includes Space Engineering, Nuclear Science, Information Technology, Research & Development in Science & its allied subjects etc.)
5) Trade & Industry (includes Banking, Economic Activities, Management, Promotion of Tourism, Business etc.)
6)Medicine (includes medical research, distinction/specialization in Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Sidhha, Allopathy, Naturopathy etc.)
7) Literature & Education (includes Journalism, Teaching, Book composing, Literature, Poetry, Promotion of education, Promotion of literacy, Education Reforms etc.)
8) Civil Service (includes distinction/excellence in administration etc. by Government Servants)
9) Sports (includes popular Sports, Athletics, Adventure, Mountaineering, promotion of sports, Yoga etc.)
10) Others (fields not covered above and may include propagation of Indian Culture, protection of Human Rights, Wild Life protection/conservation etc.)

Padma Vibhushan Awards Winners List: from 1954 to 2016

Year
Recipient
Field
State
1954
Satyendra Nath Bose
Literature & Education
West Bengal
1954
Nandalal Bose
Arts
West Bengal
1954
Zakir Husain
Public Affairs
Andhra Pradesh
1954
Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher
Public Affairs
Maharashtra
1954
V. K. Krishna Menon
Public Affairs
Kerala
1954
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck
Public Affairs
 – 
1955
Dhondo Keshav Karve
Literature & Education
Maharashtra
1955
J. R. D. Tata
Trade & Industry
Maharashtra
1956
Fazal Ali
Public Affairs
Bihar
1956
Jankibai Bajaj
Social Work
Madhya Pradesh
1956
Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
Public Affairs
Madhya Pradesh
1957
Ghanshyam Das Birla
Trade & Industry
Rajashtan
1957
Sri Prakasa
Public Affairs
Andhra Pradesh
1957
M. C. Setalvad
Public Affairs
Maharashtra
1959
John Mathai
Literature & Education
Kerala
1959
Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta
Social Work
Maharashtra
1959
Radhabinod Pal
Public Affairs
West Bengal
1960
Naryana Raghvan Pillai
Public Affairs
Tamil Nadu
1962
H. V. R. Iyengar
Civil Service
Tamil Nadu
1962
Padmaja Naidu
Public Affairs
Andhra Pradesh
1962
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Civil Service
Uttar Pradesh
1963
Suniti Kumar Chatterji
Literature & Education
West Bengal
1963
A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar
Medicine
Tamil Nadu
1963
Hari Vinayak Pataskar
Public Affairs
Maharashtra
1964
Acharya Kakasaheb Kalelkar
Literature & Education
Maharashtra
1964
Gopinath Kaviraj
Literature & Education
Uttar Pradesh
1965
Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri
Civil Service
West Bengal
1965
Mehdi Nawaz Jung
Public Affairs
Andhra Pradesh
1965
Arjan Singh
Civil Service
Delhi
1966
Valerian Gracias
Social Work
Maharashtra
1967
Chandra Kisan Daphtary
Public Affairs
Maharashtra
1967
Hafiz Mohamad Ibrahim
Civil Service
Andhra Pradesh
1967
Bhola Nath Jha
Civil Service
Uttar Pradesh
1967
Pattadakal Venkanna R Rao
Civil Service
Andhra Pradesh
1968
Madhav Shrihari Aney
Public Affairs
Madhya Pradesh
1968
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Science & Engineering
 – 
1968
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Literature & Education
Delhi
1968
Kirpal Singh
Civil Service
Delhi
1968
Kalyan Sundaram
Public Affairs
Delhi
1969
Rajeshwar Dayal
Civil Service
Delhi
1969
Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi
Civil Service
Maharashtra
1969
Har Gobind Khorana
Science & Engineering
 – 
1969
Mohan Sinha Mehta
Civil Service
Rajashtan
1969
Ghananand Pande
Civil Service
Uttar Pradesh
1970
Tara Chand
Literature & Education
Uttar Pradesh
1970
Suranjan Das
Civil Service
West Bengal
1970
Anthony Lancelot Dias
Public Affairs
Maharashtra
1970
P. Prabhakar Kumaramangalam
Civil Service
Tamil Nadu
1970
A. Ramasamy Mudaliar
Civil Service
Andhra Pradesh
1970
Binay Ranjan Sen
Civil Service
West Bengal
1970
Harbaksh Singh
Civil Service
Punjab
1971
Bimala Prasad Chaliha
Civil Service
Assam
1971
Allauddin Khan
Arts
West Bengal
1971
Sumati Morarjee
Civil Service
Maharashtra
1971
Uday Shankar
Arts
Maharashtra
1971
Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar
Medicine
Goa
1971
Balaram Sivaraman
Civil Service
Tamil Nadu
1972
P. Balacharya Gajendragadkar
Public Affairs
Maharashtra
1972
Aditya Nath Jha
Public Affairs
Uttar Pradesh
1972
Pratap Chandra Lal
Civil Service
Punjab
1972
Sam Manekshaw
Civil Service
Tamil Nadu
1972
Jivraj Narayan Mehta
Public Affairs
Maharashtra
1972
Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda
Civil Service
Delhi
1972
Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq
Public Affairs
Jammu & Kashmir
1972
Vikram Sarabhai
Science & Engineering
Gujarat
1972
Hormasji Maneckji Seervai
Literature & Education
Maharashtra
1973
Basanti Dev
Civil Service
West Bengal
1973
U. N. Dhebar
Social Work
Gujarat
1973
Daulat Singh Kothari
Science & Engineering
Delhi
1973
Nellie Sengupta
Social Work
West Bengal
1973
Nagendra Singh
Public Affairs
Rajashtan
1973
Thirumalraya Swaminathan
Civil Service
Tamil Nadu
1974
Niren De
Public Affairs
West Bengal
1974
Benode Behari Mukherjee
Arts
Uttarakhand
1974
V. K. R. V. Rao
Civil Service
Karnataka
1974
Harish Chandra Sarin
Civil Service
Delhi
1975
C. D. Deshmukh
Public Affairs
Andhra Pradesh
1975
Durgabai Deshmukh
Social Work
Maharashtra
1975
Mary Clubwala Jadhav
Social Work
Tamil Nadu
1975
Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri
Literature & Education
West Bengal
1975
Raja Ramanna
Science & Engineering
Karnataka
1975
Homi Nusserwanji Sethna
Civil Service
Maharashtra
1975
M. S. Subbulakshmi
Arts
Tamil Nadu
1975
Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey
Literature & Education
Maharashtra
1976
Salim Ali
Science & Engineering
Uttar Pradesh
1976
Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir
Literature & Education
Punjab
1976
K. Shankar Pillai
Arts
Delhi
1976
K. R. Ramanathan
Science & Engineering
Kerala
1976
Satyajit Ray
Arts
West Bengal
1976
Kalu Lal Shrimali
Literature & Education
Uttar Pradesh
1976
Bashir Hussain Zaidi
Literature & Education
Delhi
1977
T. Balasaraswati
Arts
Tamil Nadu
1977
Ali Yavar Jung
Public Affairs
Andhra Pradesh
1977
Ajudhia Nath Khosla
Civil Service
Delhi
1977
Om Prakash Mehra
Civil Service
Punjab
1977
Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee
Public Affairs
West Bengal
1977
Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
Literature & Education
Delhi
1980
Bismillah Khan
Arts
Uttar Pradesh
1980
Rai Krishnadasa
Civil Service
Uttar Pradesh
1981
Satish Dhawan
Science & Engineering
Karnataka
1981
Ravi Shankar
Arts
Uttar Pradesh
1982
Mira Behn
Social Work
 – 
1985
C. N. R. Rao
Science & Engineering
Tamil Nadu
1985
M. G. K. Menon
Civil Service
Kerala
1986
Baba Amte
Social Work
Maharashtra
1986
Birju Maharaj
Arts
Delhi
1986
Autar Singh Paintal
Medicine
Delhi
1987
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
Social Work
Karnataka
1987
Benjamin Peary Pal
Science & Engineering
Punjab
1987
Manmohan Singh
Civil Service
Delhi
1987
Arun Shridhar Vaidya
Civil Service
Maharashtra
1988
Mirza Hameedullah Beg
Public Affairs
Delhi
1988
Kuvempu
Literature & Education
Karnataka
1988
Mahadevi Varma
Literature & Education
Uttar Pradesh
1989
Uma Shankar Dikshit
Public Affairs
Uttar Pradesh
1989
Ali Akbar Khan
Arts
West Bengal
1989
M. S. Swaminathan
Science & Engineering
Delhi
1990
V. S. R. Arunachalam
Literature & Education
Delhi
1990
Triloki Nath Chaturvedi
Civil Service
Karnataka
1990
Bhabatosh Datta
Literature & Education
West Bengal
1990
Kumar Gandharva
Arts
Madhya Pradesh
1990
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Science & Engineering
Tamil Nadu
1990
Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
Arts
Tamil Nadu
1991
M. Balamuralikrishna
Arts
Tamil Nadu
1991
M. F. Husain
Arts
Maharashtra
1991
Hirendranath Mukherjee
Public Affairs
West Bengal
1991
Gulzarilal Nanda
Public Affairs
Gujarat
1991
I. G. Patel
Science & Engineering
Gujarat
1991
N. G. Ranga
Public Affairs
Andhra Pradesh
1991
Khusro Faramurz Rustamji
Civil Service
Maharashtra
1991
Rajaram Shastri
Literature & Education
Uttar Pradesh
1992
Aruna Asaf Ali
Public Affairs
Delhi
1992
Lakshman Shastri Joshi
Literature & Education
Maharashtra
1992
Mallikarjun Mansur
Arts
Karnataka
1992
S. I. Padmavati
Medicine
Delhi
1992
Kaloji Narayana Rao
Arts
Andhra Pradesh
1992
Ravi Narayana Reddy
Public Affairs
Andhra Pradesh
1992
V. Shantaram
Arts
Maharashtra
1992
Govindbhai Shroff
Literature & Education
Maharashtra
1992
Swaran Singh
Public Affairs
Punjab
1992
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Public Affairs
Delhi
1998
Usha Mehta
Social Work
Maharashtra
1998
Nanabhoy Palkhivala
Public Affairs
Maharashtra
1998
Lakshmi Sahgal
Public Affairs
Uttar Pradesh
1998
Walter Sisulu
Public Affairs
 – 
1999
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Social Work
Maharashtra
1999
Rajagopala Chidambaram
Science & Engineering
Maharashtra
1999
Nanaji Deshmukh
Social Work
Delhi
1999
Sarvepalli Gopal
Literature & Education
Tamil Nadu
1999
Satish Gujral
Arts
Delhi
1999
V. R. Krishna Iyer
Public Affairs
Kerala
1999
Bhimsen Joshi
Arts
Maharashtra
1999
Hans Raj Khanna
Public Affairs
Delhi
1999
Verghese Kurien
Science & Engineering
Gujarat
1999
Lata Mangeshkar
Arts
Maharashtra
1999
Braj Kumar Nehru
Civil Service
Himachal Pradesh
1999
D. K. Pattammal
Arts
Tamil Nadu
1999
Lallan Prasad Singh
Civil Service
Delhi
1999
Dharma Vira
Civil Service
Delhi
2000
Sikander Bakht
Public Affairs
Delhi
2000
Jagdish Bhagwati
Literature & Education
 – 
2000
Hariprasad Chaurasia
Arts
Maharashtra
2000
M. S. Gill
Civil Service
Delhi
2000
Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan
Science & Engineering
Karnataka
2000
K. B. Lall
Civil Service
Delhi
2000
Kelucharan Mohapatra
Arts
Odisha
2000
Jasraj Motiram
Arts
Maharashtra
2000
M. Narasimham
Trade & Industry
Andhra Pradesh
2000
R. K. Narayan
Literature & Education
Tamil Nadu
2000
Bhairab Dutt Pande
Civil Service
Uttarakhand
2000
K. N. Raj
Literature & Education
Kerala
2000
Tarlok Singh
Civil Service
Delhi
2001
John Kenneth Galbraith
Literature & Education
 – 
2001
Benjamin A. Gilman
Public Affairs
 – 
2001
Amjad Ali Khan
Arts
Delhi
2001
Zubin Mehta
Arts
 – 
2001
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Arts
Maharashtra
2001
Kotha Satchidanda Murthy
Literature & Education
Andhra Pradesh
2001
Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan
Civil Service
Tamil Nadu
2001
Hosei Norota
Public Affairs
 – 
2001
C. R. Rao
Science & Engineering
 – 
2001
Man Mohan Sharma
Science & Engineering
Maharashtra
2001
Shivkumar Sharma
Arts
Maharashtra
2002
Kishori Amonkar
Arts
Maharashtra
2002
Gangubai Hangal
Arts
Karnataka
2002
Kishan Maharaj
Arts
Uttar Pradesh
2002
C. Rangarajan
Literature & Education
Andhra Pradesh
2002
Soli Sorabjee
Public Affairs
Delhi
2003
Kazi Lhendup Dorjee
Public Affairs
West Bengal
2003
Sonal Mansingh
Arts
Delhi
2003
Bal Ram Nanda
Literature & Education
Delhi
2003
Brihaspati Dev Triguna
Medicine
Delhi
2004
Jayant Narlikar
Science & Engineering
Maharashtra
2004
Amrita Pritam
Literature & Education
Delhi
2004
M. N. Venkatachaliah
Public Affairs
Karnataka
2005
Milon K. Banerji
Public Affairs
Delhi
2005
Mohan Dharia
Social Work
Maharashtra
2005
Jyotindra Nath Dixit
Civil Service
Delhi
2005
B. K. Goyal
Medicine
Maharashtra
2005
R. K. Laxman
Arts
Maharashtra
2005
Ram Narayan
Arts
Maharashtra
2005
Karan Singh
Public Affairs
Delhi
2005
M. S. Valiathan
Medicine
Karnataka
2006
Norman Borlaug
Science & Engineering
 – 
2006
Charles Correa
Science & Engineering
Maharashtra
2006
Nirmala Deshpande
Social Work
Delhi
2006
Mahasweta Devi
Literature & Education
West Bengal
2006
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Arts
Kerala
2006
V. N. Khare
Public Affairs
Uttar Pradesh
2006
C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao
Civil Service
Tamil Nadu
2006
Obaid Siddiqi
Science & Engineering
Karnataka
2006
Prakash Narain Tandon
Medicine
Delhi
2007
P. N. Bhagwati
Public Affairs
Delhi
2007
Naresh Chandra
Civil Service
Delhi
2007
Raja Chelliah
Public Affairs
Tamil Nadu
2007
V. Krishnamurthy
Civil Service
Delhi
2007
Fali Sam Nariman
Public Affairs
Delhi
2007
Raja Rao
Literature & Education
 – 
2007
Balu Sankaran
Medicine
Delhi
2007
Khushwant Singh
Literature & Education
Delhi
2007
George Sudarshan
Science & Engineering
 – 
2007
Narinder Nath Vohra
Civil Service
Haryana
2008
Adarsh Sein Anand
Public Affairs
Uttar Pradesh
2008
Viswanathan Anand
Sports
Tamil Nadu
2008
Asha Bhosle
Arts
Maharashtra
2008
P. N. Dhar
Civil Service
Delhi
2008
Edmund Hillary
Sports
 – 
2008
Lakshmi Mittal
Trade & Industry
 – 
2008
Pranab Mukherjee
Public Affairs
Delhi
2008
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Trade & Industry
Karnataka
2008
Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi
Trade & Industry
Delhi
2008
Rajendra K. Pachauri
Science & Engineering
Delhi
2008
E. Sreedharan
Science & Engineering
Delhi
2008
Ratan Tata
Trade & Industry
Maharashtra
2008
Sachin Tendulkar
Sports
Maharashtra
2009
Sunderlal Bahuguna
Others
Uttarakhand
2009
Jasbir Singh Bajaj
Medicine
Punjab
2009
D. P. Chattopadhyaya
Literature & Education
West Bengal
2009
Ashok Sekhar Ganguly
Trade & Industry
Maharashtra
2009
Sister Nirmala
Social Work
West Bengal
2009
Anil Kakodkar
Science & Engineering
Maharashtra
2009
Purshotam Lal
Medicine
Uttar Pradesh
2009
G. Madhavan Nair
Science & Engineering
Karnataka
2009
Govind Narain
Public Affairs
Uttar Pradesh
2009
Chandrika Prasad Srivastava
Civil Service
Maharashtra
2010
Ebrahim Alkazi
Arts
Delhi
2010
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Science & Engineering
 – 
2010
Prathap C. Reddy
Trade & Industry
Tamil Nadu
2010
Y. Venugopal Reddy
Public Affairs
Andhra Pradesh
2010
Zohra Sehgal
Arts
Delhi
2010
Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
Arts
Tamil Nadu
2011
Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Public Affairs
Delhi
2011
Lakshmi Chand Jain
Public Affairs
Delhi
2011
Vijay Kelkar
Public Affairs
Maharashtra
2011
Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
Public Affairs
Delhi
2011
O. N. V. Kurup
Literature & Education
Kerala
2011
Sitakant Mahapatra
Literature & Education
Odisha
2011
Brajesh Mishra
Civil Service
Delhi
2011
K. Parasaran
Public Affairs
Delhi
2011
Azim Premji
Trade & Industry
Karnataka
2011
Palle Rama Rao
Science & Engineering
Andhra Pradesh
2011
Akkineni Nageswara Rao
Arts
Andhra Pradesh
2011
Kapila Vatsyayan
Arts
Delhi
2011
Homai Vyarawalla
Arts
Gujarat
2012
Bhupen Hazarika
Arts
Assam
2012
Mario Miranda
Arts
Goa
2012
T. V. Rajeswar
Civil Service
Delhi
2012
Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti
Medicine
Maharashtra
2012
K. G. Subramanyan
Arts
Gujarat
2013
Raghunath Mohapatra
Arts
Odisha
2013
Roddam Narasimha
Science & Engineering
Karnataka
2013
Yash Pal
Science & Engineering
Uttar Pradesh
2013
S. H. Raza
Arts
Delhi
2014
B. K. S. Iyengar
Others
Maharashtra
2014
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
Science & Engineering
Maharashtra
2015
L. K. Advani
Public Affairs
Gujarat
2015
Amitabh Bachchan
Arts
Maharashtra
2015
Parkash Singh Badal
Public Affairs
Punjab
2015
Veerendra Heggade
Social Work
Karnataka
2015
Dilip Kumar
Arts
Maharashtra
2015
Rambhadracharya
Others
Uttar Pradesh
2015
M. R. Srinivasan
Science & Engineering
Tamil Nadu
2015
Kottayan Katankot Venugopal
Public Affairs
Delhi
2015
Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan
Trade & Industry
 – 
2016
V. K. Aatre
Science & Engineering
Karnataka
2016
Dhirubhai Amban
Trade & Industry
Maharashtra
2016
Girija Devi
Arts
West Bengal
2016
Avinash Dixit
Literature & Education
 – 
2016
Jagmohan
Public Affairs
Delhi
2016
Yamini Krishnamurthy
Arts
Delhi
2016
Rajinikanth
Arts
Tamil Nadu
2016
Ramoji Rao
Literature & Education
Andhra Pradesh
2016
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Others
Karnataka
2016
V. Shanta
Medicine
Tamil Nadu

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