| Name | Padma Bhushan |
|---|---|
| Award For | Distinguished Service of a High order |
| Award By | Goverment of India |
| First Award | 1954 |
| Last Award | 26th January 2026 |
| Total Awarded | 1,356 |
| Status | active |
| Official URL | https://www.padmaawards.gov.in/ |
Explore Padma Bhushan winners grouped by Award By Year.
India named 19 Padma Bhushan recipients in 2025, spanning cinema, sports, and public life. Notable honorees...
The 2024 list featured 17 Padma Bhushan recipients. Bengali actor Mithun Chakraborty and playback singer Usha...
Only nine Padma Bhushan awards were given in 2023, one of the smallest lists in recent...
India conferred 17 Padma Bhushan honors in 2022 across 16 awards, including one joint award to...
With just 10 recipients, 2021 had an unusually small and politically weighted Padma Bhushan list, four...
The 2020 Padma Bhushan list held 16 recipients, headlined by Pritzker Prize-winning architect B. V. Doshi,...
Fourteen people received the Padma Bhushan in 2019, including Malayalam superstar Mohanlal and rocket scientist Nambi...
The 2018 list had just nine Padma Bhushan honorees, one of the smallest cohorts. Cricket captain...
With only seven recipients, 2017 had the smallest Padma Bhushan list of this period. Thailand's Princess...
India honored 19 Padma Bhushan recipients in 2016, with sport prominent through tennis star Sania Mirza...
India's 2015 Padma Bhushan list was the largest of this period with 20 recipients, and unusually...
India honored 24 Padma Bhushan recipients in 2014. Actor Kamal Haasan and lyricist Vairamuthu represented Tamil...
The 2013 list named 23 Padma Bhushan awardees. Cricketer Rahul Dravid and boxer Mary Kom were...
Twenty-eight people received the Padma Bhushan in 2012. Bollywood veterans Shabana Azmi and Dharmendra were honored...
The 2011 Padma Bhushan honored 31 individuals. Playback singer S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, actors Shashi Kapoor and...
With 43 recipients, 2010 produced the largest Padma Bhushan class of the decade. Music composer A....
Thirty-one recipients were named in 2009. Shooter Abhinav Bindra, India's first individual Olympic gold medalist, was...
The 2008 list of 35 recipients was notably international, featuring Chinese Indologist Ji Xianlin, Russian diplomat...
Thirty-two people received the Padma Bhushan in 2007. Lyricist-screenwriter Javed Akhtar and painters Syed Haider Raza...
A large cohort of 37 recipients marked 2006, one of the biggest of the decade. Telugu...
The 2005 Padma Bhushan list of 28 names included playback legend Manna Dey, filmmaker Yash Chopra,...
Only 19 people received the Padma Bhushan in 2004, the smallest class of the decade. Poet-lyricist...
India's Padma Bhushan list for 2003 named 32 recipients, one of the decade's largest cohorts. Notables...
The 2002 Padma Bhushan list honored 25 people, notably tabla maestro Zakir Hussain, Merchant-Ivory filmmaker Ismail...
With 32 recipients, 2001 was a bumper year led by Bollywood icons Amitabh Bachchan and Dev...
The year 2000 brought 20 Padma Bhushan awards, spanning superstar actor Rajinikanth (cinema), industrialist Ratan Tata,...
Only 14 people received the Padma Bhushan in 1999, the smallest post-revival batch. They included nuclear...
The Padma Bhushan resumed in 1998 after a five-year suspension caused by litigation over the award's...
1992 saw the largest of these years, with 33 Padma Bhushan recipients, just before a five-year...
The 1991 list named 24 recipients, headlined by cricket captain Kapil Dev, screen legend Dilip Kumar...
With 24 recipients, 1990 featured Hindustani vocalist Pandit Jasraj and Marathi writer P. L. Deshpande for...
India's official gazette lists 14 Padma Bhushan recipients for 1989, including classical vocalist Girija Devi, Times...
The 1988 Padma Bhushan list, the smallest of this stretch at 13 recipients, honored Telugu cinema...
In 1987, 12 Padma Bhushan awards were conferred. Honorees included Hindustani classical vocalist Kishori Amonkar, Malayalam...
India named 14 Padma Bhushan recipients in 1986, notably including two foreigners: French industrialist Jean Riboud,...
1985 produced a large batch of 21 Padma Bhushan awards. Vocalist Bhimsen Joshi and Malayalam novelist...
Eighteen people received the Padma Bhushan in 1984, a year notable for honoring two Gandhi-linked foreign...
The 1983 Padma Bhushan list of 17 included British director Richard Attenborough, honored for his Oscar-winning...
Fifteen Padma Bhushan awards were given in 1982, with American art historian Stella Kramrisch, a leading...
Only nine Padma Bhushan awards were conferred in 1981, one of the smallest lists of the...
1980 is the most unusual year on this list: only a single Padma Bhushan was awarded,...
Seventeen people received the Padma Bhushan in 1977, the first batch given after a two-year gap...
Sixteen Padma Bhushan awards were given in 1976. Business tycoon Naoroji Godrej represented trade and industry,...
Fifteen Padma Bhushan awards were conferred in 1975, most notably including a posthumous honor for ghazal...
India's 1974 Padma Bhushan list of 21 awardees notably included two foreign-born, India-based scholars: Swiss art...
With only 17 awardees, 1973 produced one of the smallest Padma Bhushan lists of the decade....
The year 1972 saw a bumper list of 50 Padma Bhushan awardees, the largest of this...
Bollywood icon Raj Kapoor and celebrated cartoonist R. K. Laxman headlined 1971's 41 Padma Bhushan recipients....
Theatre legend Sombhu Mitra, tabla maestro Ahmed Jan Thirakwa, sculptor Ramkinkar Baij, and Bharatanatyam dancer Kumari...
Playback singing legend Lata Mangeshkar was among 1969's 29 Padma Bhushan awardees, alongside actor Prithviraj Kapoor,...
Shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan and future Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, then an army general, headlined 1968's...
Sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and sarod maestro Ali Akbar Khan, both towering Hindustani classical musicians, were...
With just 14 recipients, 1966 had one of the smallest Padma Bhushan lists of this era....
Filmmaker Satyajit Ray, whose work brought global acclaim to Indian cinema, headlined 1965's 25 Padma Bhushan...
Among 1964's 18 Padma Bhushan recipients was Sheikh Abdullah, the Kashmiri political leader, honored under literature...
The 1963 Padma Bhushan list included 12 recipients across literature, medicine, civil service and public affairs....
1962 saw a notably large Padma Bhushan cohort, with 27 recipients spanning medicine, literature, civil service...
The 1961 list of 13 recipients stood out for including two foreign-born honorees: British anthropologist Verrier...
1960 produced one of the smallest Padma Bhushan cohorts to date, just 10 recipients. The list...
The 1959 list of 14 recipients is best remembered for honoring Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa mountaineer...
1958 brought 16 recipients, highlighted by ornithologist Salim Ali, later called the "Birdman of India," and...
The 1957 Padma Bhushan list totaled 16 recipients, dominated by literary and academic scholars such as...
1956's list of 13 recipients is distinguished by two legendary sportspeople: hockey icon Dhyan Chand and...
The smallest early Padma Bhushan cohort, 1955 recognized just 12 people, including freedom fighter and cultural...
As the inaugural year of the Padma Bhushan, 1954 honored 23 recipients, the largest early cohort,...
This chart groups 1355 Padma Bhushan winners by Gender, across 2 distinct entries — male leads with 1220 wins.
This chart tracks Padma Bhushan winners by year from 1954 to 2026, spanning 66 years, with the most wins (50) recorded in 1972.
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