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India’s 76th Republic Day: A complete list of Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri awardees in 2025

List of Padma Awardees 2025: The Padma Awards are conferred on the recommendations of the Padma Awards Committee, which is appointed by the prime minister each year, and are announced annually on the eve of Republic Day and are presented by the President of India.

On the eve of Republic Day, the President of India honours distinguished individuals with several prestigious awards, including the Padma Awards, which celebrate significant contributions to the nation. (PTI Photo)

List of Padma Awardees 2025: India celebrated its 76th Republic Day on Sunday (January 26th), and on its eve, the Indian government announced the recipients of the prestigious Padma Awards.

The Padma awards are awarded in three categories: Padma Vibhushan (exceptional and distinguished service), Padma Bhushan (distinguished service of higher order), and Padma Shri (distinguished service), acknowledging the accomplishments in all spheres of disciplines that have influenced some aspect of public service.

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The Padma Awards are conferred on the recommendations of the Padma Awards Committee, which is appointed by the prime minister each year, and are announced annually on the eve of Republic Day and are presented by the President of India.

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Droupadi Murmu, the President of India, conferred 139 Padma Awards for the year 2025, including one dual instance. (note: in a duo case, the award is counted as one).

Padma Awards 2025: A complete list of Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri awardees

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There are three levels of Padma Awards: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.

For the year 2025, the list includes 7 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan, and 113 Padma Shri Awards; notably, 23 of this year’s honourees are women, 10 are NRI/PIO/OCI/ foreigners, and 13 are posthumous.

List of awardees of Padma Vibhushan in 2025:

SN	Name	Field	State/Country
1	Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy	Medicine	Telangana
2	Justice (Retd.) Jagdish Singh Khehar	Public Affairs	Chandigarh
3	Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia	Art	Gujarat
4	Lakshminarayana Subramaniam	Art	Karnataka
5	M. T. Vasudevan Nair (Posthumous)	Literature and Education	Kerala
6	Osamu Suzuki (Posthumous)	Trade and Industry	Japan
7	Sharda Sinha (Posthumous)	Art	Bihar

Source: PIB

List of awardees of Padma Bhushan in 2025:

SN	Name	Field	State/Country
1	A Surya Prakash	Literature and Education-Journalism	Karnataka
2	Anant Nag	Art	Karnataka
3	Bibek Debroy (Posthumous)	Literature and Education	NCT Delhi
4	Jatin Goswami	Art	Assam
5	Jose Chacko Periappuram	Medicine	Kerala
6	Kailash Nath Dikshit	Others-Archaeology	NCT Delhi
7	Manohar Joshi (Posthumous)	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 Patel	Trade and Industry	Gujarat
12	Pankaj Udhas (Posthumous)	Art	Maharashtra
13	Rambahadur Rai	Literature and Education-Journalism	Uttar Pradesh
14	Sadhvi Ritambhara	Social Work	Uttar Pradesh
15	S Ajith Kumar	Art	Tamil Nadu
16	Shekhar Kapur	Art	Maharashtra
17	Shobana Chandrakumar	Art	Tamil Nadu
18	Sushil Kumar Modi (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Bihar
19	Vinod Dham	Science and Engineering	United States of America

Source: PIB

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List of awardees of Padma Shri in 2025:

SN	Name	Field	State/Country
1	Adwaita Charan Gadanayak	Art	Odisha
2	Achyut Ramchandra Palav	Art	Maharashtra
3	Ajay V Bhatt	Science and Engineering	United States of America
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 Bhide Deshpande	Art	Maharashtra
13	Baijnath Maharaj	Others-Spiritualism	Rajasthan
14	Barry Godfray John	Art	NCT Delhi
15	Begam Batool	Art	Rajasthan
16	Bharat Gupt	Art	NCT 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	C S Vaidyanathan	Public Affairs	NCT Delhi
22	Chaitram Deochand Pawar	Social Work	Maharashtra
23	Chandrakant Sheth (Posthumous)	Literature and Education	Gujarat
24	Chandrakant Sompura	Others-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 and Kashmir
29	Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid	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	Harchandan Singh Bhatty	Art	Madhya Pradesh
34	Hariman Sharma	Others-Agriculture	Himachal Pradesh
35	Harjinder Singh Srinagar Wale	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 Mani Vijayan	Sports	Kerala
42	Jagadish Joshila	Literature and Education	Madhya Pradesh
43	Jaspinder Narula	Art	Maharashtra
44	Jonas Masetti	Others-Spiritualism	Brazil
45	Joynacharan Bathari	Art	Assam
46	Jumde Yomgam Gamlin	Social Work	Arunachal Pradesh
47	K. Damodaran	Others-Culinary	Tamil Nadu
48	K L Krishna	Literature and Education	Andhra Pradesh
49	K Omanakutty Amma	Art	Kerala
50	Kishore Kunal (Posthumous)	Civil Service	Bihar
51	L Hangthing	Others-Agriculture	Nagaland
52	Lakshmipathy Ramasubbaiyer	Literature and Education-Journalism	Tamil Nadu
53	Lalit Kumar Mangotra	Literature and Education	Jammu and Kashmir
54	Lama Lobzang (Posthumous)	Others-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	NCT Delhi
67	Nirmala Devi	Art	Bihar
68	Nitin Nohria	Literature and Education	United States of America
69	Onkar Singh Pahwa	Trade and Industry	Punjab
70	P Datchanamoorthy	Art	Puducherry
71	Pandi Ram Mandavi	Art	Chhattisgarh
72	Parmar Lavjibhai Nagjibhai	Art	Gujarat
73	Pawan Goenka	Trade and Industry	West Bengal
74	Prashanth 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	Literature and Education	NCT Delhi
82	Ranendra Bhanu Majumdar	Art	Maharashtra
83	Ratan Kumar Parimoo	Art	Gujarat
84	Reba Kanta Mahanta	Art	Assam
85	Renthlei Lalrawna	Literature and Education	Mizoram
86	Ricky Gyan Kej	Art	Karnataka
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 Viswanathan	Literature and Education	Tamil Nadu
92	Sethuraman Panchanathan	Science and Engineering	United States of America
93	Sheikha Shaikha Ali Al-Jaber Al-Sabah	Medicine	Kuwait
94	Sheen Kaaf Nizam (Shiv Kishan Bissa)	Literature and Education	Rajasthan
95	Shyam Bihari Agrawal	Art	Uttar Pradesh
96	Soniya Nityanand	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
97	Stephen Knapp	Literature and Education	United States of America
98	Subhash Khetulal Sharma	Others-Agriculture	Maharashtra
99	Suresh Harilal Soni	Social Work	Gujarat
100	Surinder Kumar Vasal	Science and Engineering	Delhi
101	Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik Maharaj)	Others-Spiritualism	West Bengal
102	Syed 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	Literature and Education	Andhra Pradesh
107	Vasudeo Kamath	Art	Maharashtra
108	Velu Aasaan	Art	Tamil Nadu
109	Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar	Art	Karnataka
110	Vijay Nityanand Surishwar Ji Maharaj	Others-Spiritualism	Bihar
111	Vijayalakshmi Deshamane	Medicine	Karnataka
112	Vilas Dangre	Medicine	Maharashtra
113	Vinayak Lohani	Social Work	West Bengal

Source: PIB

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