Padma Awards 2025: Padma Awards, the highest civilian awards of the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.
‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.
The full list of Padma Awards 2025 includes 23 women and ten awardees from the category of foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI. From Bibek Debroy (posthumous) to Pankaj Patel, the Chairman of Zydus Lifesciences, and singer Arijit Singh among others, the Padma Awards list includes a total of 139 names to honour civilians for their contributions.
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From 'Bihar Kokila' Sharda Sinha, who passed away last year, to Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy, the Padma Vibhushan Awardees list for 2025 has seven names.
S.No | Name | Category | State/Country |
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1 | Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy | Medicine | Telangana |
2 | Justice Jagdish Singh (Retd.) | Public Affairs | Chandigarh |
3 | Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia | Art | Gujarat |
4 | Lakhsminarayana Subramniyam | Art | Karnataka |
5 | M.T. Vasudevan Nair (posthumous) | Literature and Education | Kerala |
6 | Osamu Suzuki (posthumous) | Trade and Education | Japan |
7 | Sharda Sinha (posthumous) | Art | Bihar |
The Padma Bhushan Awardees list for 2025 includes 19 names, such as P R Sreejesh, Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti among others.
S.No | Name | Category | State/Country |
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1 | A Surya Prakash | Literature and Education (Journalism) | Kerala |
2 | Anant Nag | Art | Karnataka |
3 | Bibek Debroy (posthumous0 | Literature and Education | Delhi |
4 | Jatin Goswami | Art | Assam |
5 | Jose Chacko Periappuram | Medicine | Kerala |
6 | Kailash Nath Dikshit | Archaeology | Delhi |
7 | Manohar Joshi | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
8 | Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti | Trade and Industry | Tamil Nadu |
9 | Nandamuri Balakrishna | Art | Andhra Pradesh |
10 | P R Sreejesh | Sports | Kerala |
11 | Pankaj Udhas (posthumous) | Art | Maharashtra |
12 | Rambahadur Rai | Literature and Education (Journalism) | Uttar Pradesh |
13 | Sadhvi Ritambhara | Social work | Uttar Pradesh |
14 | S Ajith Kumar | Art | Tamil Nadu |
15 | Shekhar Kapur | Art | Maharashtra |
16 | Shobhana Chandrakumar | Art | Tamil Nadu |
17 | Sushil Kumar Modi (posthumous) | Public Affairs | Bihar |
18 | Vinod Dham | Science and Engineering | USA |
19 | Pankaj Patel | Trade and Industry | Gujarat |
From the first Indian Paralympic gold medal winner Harvinder Singh to Gokul Chandra Das, a dhak player from West Bengal who broke all cast- related barriers, the list of Padma Shri Awardees for 2025 includes 113 names.
S.No. | Name | Category | State/Country |
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1 | Adwaita Charan Gadanayak | Art | Odisha |
2 | Achyut Ramchandra Palat | Art | Maharashtra |
3 | Ajay V Bhatt | Science and Engineering | USA |
4 | Anil Kumar Boro | Literature and Education | Assam |
5 | Arijit Singh | Art | West Bengal |
6 | Arundhati Bhattacharya | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra |
7 | Arunoday Saha | Literature and Education | Tripura |
8 | Arvind Sharma | Literature and Education | Canada |
9 | Ashok Kumar Mahapatra | Medicine | Odisha |
10 | Ashok Laxman Saraf | Art | Maharashtra |
11 | Ashutosh Sharma | Science and Engineering | Uttar Pradesh |
12 | Ashwini Bhinde Deshpande | Art | Maharashtra |
13 | Baijnath Maharaj | Spiritualism | Rajasthan |
14 | Barry Godfray John | Art | Delhi |
15 | Begam Batool | Art | Rajasthan |
16 | Bharat Gupta | Art | Delhi |
17 | Bheru Singh Chouhan | Art | Madhya Pradesh |
18 | Bhim Singh Bhavesh | Social work | Bihar |
19 | Bhimavva Doddabalappa Shillekyathara | Art | Karnataka |
20 | Budhendra Kumar Jain | Medicine | Madhya Pradesh |
21 | CS Vaidyanathan | Public Affairs | Delhi |
22 | Chaitram Deochand Pawar | Social work | Maharashtra |
23 | Chandrakant Sheth (posthumous) | Literature and Education | Gujarat |
24 | Chandrakant Sompura | Architecture | Gujarat |
25 | Chetan E Chitnis | Science and Engineering | France |
26 | David R Syiemlieh | Literature and Education | Meghalaya |
27 | Durga Charan Ranbir | Art | Odisha |
28 | Farooq Ahmad Mir | Art | Jammu Kashmir |
29 | Ganeshwar Shastri | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh |
30 | Gita Upadhyay | Literature and Education | Assam |
31 | Gokul Chandra Das | Art | West Bengal |
32 | Guruvayur Dorai | Art | Tamil Nadu |
33 | Harcharan Singh Bhatty | Art | Madhya Pradesh |
34 | Hariman Sharma | Agriculture | Himachal Pradesh |
35 | Harjinder Singh | Art | Punjab |
36 | Harvinder Singh | Sports | Haryana |
37 | Hassan Raghu | Art | Karnataka |
38 | Hemant Kumar | Medicine | Bihar |
39 | Hriday Narayan Dixit | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh |
40 | Hugh, and Colleen Gantzer (posthumous) | Literature and Education (Journalism) | Uttarakhand |
41 | Inivalappil Mnai Vijayan | Sports | Kerala |
42 | Jagadish Joshila | Literature and Education | Madhya Pradesh |
43 | Jaspinder Narula | Art | Maharashtra |
44 | Jonas Masetti | Spiritualism | Brazil |
45 | Joynacharan Bathari | Art | Assam |
46 | Jumde Yomgam Gamlin | Social work | Andhra Pradesh |
47 | K Damodaran | Culinary | Tamil Nadu |
48 | K L Krishna | Litearture and Education | Andhra Pradesh |
49 | K Omanakutty Amma | Art | Kerala |
50 | Kishore Kunal (posthumous) | Civil services | Bihar |
51 | L Hangthing | Agriculture | Nagaland |
52 | Lakshimpathy Ramasubbaiyer | Literature and Education | Jammu and Kashmir |
53 | Lalit Kumar Mangotra | Literature and Education | Jammu and Kashmir |
54 | Lama Lobzang (posthumous0 | Spiritualism | Ladakh |
55 | Libia Lobo Sardesai | Social work | Goa |
56 | M D Srinivas | Science and Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
57 | Madugula Nagaphani Sarma | Art | Andhra Pradesh |
58 | Mahabir Nayak | Art | Jharkhand |
59 | Mamata Shankar | Art | West Bengal |
60 | Manda Krishna Madiga | Public Affairs | Telangana |
61 | Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli | Literature and Education | Maharashtra |
62 | Miriyala Apparao (Posthumous) | Art | Andhra Pradesh |
63 | Nagendra Nath Roy | Literature and Education | West Bengal |
64 | Narayan Bhulai Bhai (posthumous) | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh |
65 | Naren Gurung | Art | Sikkim |
66 | Neerja Bhatla | Medicine | Delhi |
67 | Nirmala Devi | Art | Bihar |
68 | Nitin Nohria | Literature and Education | USA |
69 | Onkar Singh Pahwa | Trade and Industry | Punjab |
70 | P Datchanamoorthy | Art | Puducherry |
71 | Pandi Ram Mandavi | Art | Chhattisgarh |
72 | Parmar Navjibhai Lagjibhai | Art | Gujarat |
73 | Pawan Goenka | Trade and Industry | West Bengal |
74 | Prashant Prakash | Trade and Industry | Karnataka |
75 | Pratibha Satpathy | Literature and Education | Odisha |
76 | Purisai Kannappa Sambandan | Art | Tamil Nadu |
77 | R Ashwin | Sports | Tamil Nadu |
78 | R G Chandramogan | Trade and Industry | Tamil Nadu |
79 | Radha Bahin Bhatt | Social work | Uttarakhand |
80 | Radhakrishnan Devasenapathy | Art | Tamil Nadu |
81 | Ramdarash Mishra | Lietarture and Education | Delhi |
82 | Ranendra Bhanu Majumdar | Art | Maharashtra |
83 | Ratan Kumar Parimoo | Art | Gujarat |
84 | Reba Kanta Mahanta | Art | Assam |
85 | Renthei Lalrawna | Literature and Education | Mizoram |
86 | Ricky Gyan Kej | Art | Maharashtra |
87 | Sajjan Bhajanka | Trade and Industry | West Bengal |
88 | Sally Holkar | Trade and Industry | Madhya Pradesh |
89 | Sant Ram Deswal | Literature and Education | Haryana |
90 | Satyapal Singh | Sports | Uttar Pradesh |
91 | Seeni Vishwanathan | Literature and Education | Tamil Nadu |
92 | Sethuraman Panchananthan | Science and Engineering | USA |
93 | Sheikha Shaika Ali | Medicine | Kuwait |
94 | Sheen kaaf Nizam | Literature and Education | Rajasthan |
95 | Shyam Bihari Agrawal | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
96 | Soniya Nityanand | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh |
97 | Stephen Knapp | Literature and Education | USA |
98 | Shubhash Khetulal Sharma | Agriculture | Maharashtra |
99 | Suresh Harilal Soni | Social work | Gujarat |
100 | Surinder Kumar Vasal | Science and Engineering | Delhi |
101 | Swami Pradiptananda | Spiritualism | West Bengal |
102 | Sayed Ainul Hasan | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh |
103 | Tejendra Narayan Majumdar | Art | West Bengal |
104 | Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi | Art | Manipur |
105 | Tushar Durgeshbhai Shukla | Literature and Education | Gujarat |
106 | Vadiraj Raghawendracharya Panchamukhi | Lietrature and Education | Andhra Pradesh |
107 | Vasudeo Kamath | Art | Maharashtra |
108 | Velu Aasaaan | Art | Tamil Nadu |
109 | Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar | Art | Karnataka |
110 | Vijay Nityanand Surishwar | Spiritualism | Bihar |
111 | Vijayalakshmi Deshamana | Medicine | Karnataka |
112 | Vilas Dangre | Medicine | Maharashtra |
113 | Vinayak Lohani | Social work | West Bengal |
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