Padma Awards 2025

Padma Awards 2025: Complete List of Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri Recipients

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Padma Awards 2025

The Padma Awards are among India’s highest civilian honors, announced every year on the eve of Republic Day.

They are divided into three categories:

Padma Vibhushan: For exceptional and distinguished service.

Padma Bhushan: For distinguished service of a higher order.

Padma Shri: For distinguished service.

These awards recognize achievements across various fields that involve public service. The recipients are chosen based on recommendations made by the Padma Awards Committee, which is formed by the prime minister each year.

For 2025, the government has announced:

7 Padma Vibhushan awards

19 Padma Bhushan awards

113 Padma Shri awards

The President of India presents these awards during a grand ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhawan, usually in March or April.

Here’s complete list of Padma Award Recipients

Padma Vibhushan:

  1. Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy

  2. Justice (Retd.) Jagdish Singh Khehar

  3. Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia

  4. Lakshminarayana Subramaniam

  5. MT Vasudevan Nair (Posthumous)

  6. Osamu Suzuki (Posthumous)

  7. Sharda Sinha (Posthumous)

Padma Bhushan:

  1. A Surya Prakash

  2. Anant Nag

  3. Bibek Debroy (Posthumous)

  4. Jatin Goswami

  5. Jose Chacko Periappuram

  6. Kailash Nath Dikshit

  7. Manohar Joshi (Posthumous)

  8. Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti

  9. Nandamuri Balakrishna

  10. PR Sreejesh

  11. Pankaj Patel

  12. Pankaj Udhas (Posthumous)

  13. Rambahadur Rai

  14. Sadhvi Ritambhara

  15. S Ajith Kumar

  16. Shekhar Kapur

  17. Shobana Chandrakumar

  18. Sushil Kumar Modi (Posthumous)

  19. Vinod Dham

Padma Shri:

  1. Advaita Charan Gadanayak

  2. Achyut Ramchandra Palav

  3. Ajay V Bhatt

  4. Anil Kumar Boro

  5. Arijit Singh

  6. Arundhati Bhattacharya

  7. Arunoday Saha

  8. Arvind Sharma

  9. Ashok Kumar Mahapatra

  10. Ashok Laxman Saraf

  11. Ashutosh Sharma

  12. Ashwini Bhide Deshpande

  13. Baijnath Maharaj

  14. Barry Godfray John

  15. Begam Batool

  16. Bharat Gupt

  17. Bheru Singh Chouhan

  18. Bhim Singh Bhavesh

  19. Bhimawa Doddabalappa Shiilekyathara

  20. Budhendra Kumar Jain

  21. C S Vaidyanathan

  22. Chaitram Deochand Pawar

  23. Chandrakant Sheth (Posthumous)

  24. Chandrakant Sompura

  25. Chetan E Chitnis

  26. David R Syiemlieh

  27. Durga Charan Ranbir

  28. Farooq Ahmad Mir

  29. Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid

  30. Gita Upadhyay

  31. Gokul Chandra Das

  32. Guruvayur Dorai

  33. Harchandan Singh Bhatty

  34. Hariman Sharma

  35. Harjinder Singh Srinagar Wale

  36. Harvinder Singh

  37. Hassan Raghu

  38. Hemant Kumar

  39. Hriday Narayan Dixit

  40. Hugh and Colleen Gantzer (Posthumous)

  41. Inivalappil Mani Vijayan

  42. Jagadish Joshila

  43. Jaspinder Narula

  44. Jonas Masetti

  45. Joynacharan Bathari

  46. Jumde Yomgam Gamlin

  47. Damodaran

  48. K L Krishna

  49. K Omanakutty Amma

  50. Kishore Kunal (Posthumous)

  51. L Hangthing

  52. Lakshmipathy Ramasubbaiyer

  53. Lalit Kumar Mangotra

  54. Lama Lobzang (Posthumous)

  55. Libia Lobo Sardesai

  56. M D Srinivas

  57. Madugula Nagaphani Sarma

  58. Mahabir Nayak

  59. Mamata Shankar

  60. Manda Krishna Madiga

  61. Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli

  62. Miriyala Apparao (Posthumous)

  63. Nagendra Nath Roy

  64. Narayan (Bhulai Bhai) (Posthumous)

  65. Naren Gurung

  66. Neerja Bhatla

  67. Nirmala Devi

  68. Nitin Nohria

  69. Onkar Singh Pahwa

  70. P Datchanamoorthy

  71. Pandi Ram Mandavi

  72. Parmar Lavjibhai Nagjibhai

  73. Pawan Goenka

  74. Prashanth Prakash

  75. Pratibha Satpathy

  76. Purisai Kannappa Sambandan

  77. R Ashwin

  78. R G Chandramogan

  79. Radha Bahin Bhatt

  80. Radhakrishnan Devasenapathy

  81. Ramdarash Mishra

  82. Ranendra Bhanu Majumdar

  83. Ratan Kumar Parimoo

  84. Reba Kanta Mahanta

  85. Renthlei Lalrawna

  86. Ricky Gyan Kej

  87. Sajjan Bhajanka

  88. Sally Holkar

  89. Sant Ram Deswal

  90. Satyapal Singh

  91. Seeni Viswanathan

  92. Sethuraman Panchanathan

  93. Sheikha Shaikha Ali Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

  94. Sheen Kaaf Nizam (Shiv Kishan Bissa)

  95. Shyam Bihari Agrawal

  96. Soniya Nityanand

  97. Stephen Knapp

  98. Subhash Khetulal Sharma

  99. Suresh Harilal Soni

  100. Surinder Kumar Vasal

  101. Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik Maharaj)

  102. Syed Ainu Hasan

  103. Tejendra Narayan Majumdar

  104. Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi

  105. Tushar Durgeshbhai Shukla

  106. Vadiraj Raghavendracharya Panchamukhi

  107. Vasudeo Kamath

  108. Velu Assaan

  109. Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar

  110. Vijay Nityanand Surishwar Ji Maharaj

  111. Vijayalakshmi Deshamane

  112. Vilas Dangre

  113. Vinayak Lohani

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