Padma Vibhushan Award (2001-2010)

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Name	Padma Vibhushan
Type	Civilian Awards
Award For	Exceptional and Distinguished Service
Award By	Goverment of India
First	1954
Last	26th January 2026
Status	Active
Country	India

About Padma Vibhushan Award (2001-2010)

The Padma Vibhushan is the second-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "exceptional and distinguished service". All persons without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex are eligible for these awards.

History of Padma Vibhushan Award (2001-2010)

This decade honored towering figures across disciplines. Musicians Zubin Mehta and Amjad Ali Khan (2001) represented the arts, while cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand (2008) reflected sporting excellence. Industry leaders Ratan Tata, N. R. Narayana Murthy, and steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal (2008) marked India's economic rise, alongside statesman Pranab Mukherjee. Scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, a Nobel laureate, was honored in 2010, and cartoonist R. K. Laxman in 2005. The period showcased a broad, globalized recognition spanning arts, science, sports, civil service, and business achievement.

Padma Vibhushan Award (2001-2010) Winners List

This Winners List features 79 winners of the Padma Vibhushan Award (2001-2010), from 2001 to 2010.

Year	Recipient Name	Gender	State, Country	Fields

2010	Ebrahim Alkazi Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Delhi, India	Arts
2010	Dr. Prathap Chandra Reddy Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Trade & Industry
2010	Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Non-citizen)	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Science & Engineering
2010	Dr. Yaga Venugopal Reddy	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Public Affairs
2010	Zohra Segal	male	Delhi, India	Arts
2010	Dr. Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
2009	Dr. Purshotam Lal Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Medicine
2009	Anil Kakodkar Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Science & Engineering
2009	Prof. Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	West Bengal, India	Literature & Education
2009	G. Madhavan Nair Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Karnataka, India	Science & Engineering
2009	Dr. Ashok Sekhar Ganguly Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Trade & Industry
2009	Prof. Jasbir Singh Bajaj Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Punjab, India	Medicine
2009	Chandrika Prasad Srivastava Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Civil Service
2009	Sunderlal Bahuguna	male	Uttarakhand, India	Others
2009	Sister Mary Nirmala Joshi	female	West Bengal, India	Social Work
2009	Govind Narain	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Public Affairs
2008	Viswanathan Anand Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Delhi, India	Science & Engineering
2008	Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Delhi, India	Science & Engineering
2008	Ratan Naval Tata Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Trade & Industry
2008	Justice Adarsh Sein Anand	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Public Affairs
2008	Dr. E. Sreedharan	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Sports
2008	Dr. Asha Bhosle	female	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2008	Prof. P.N. Dhar	male	Delhi, India	Public Affairs
2008	Sir Edmund Hillary (Posthumous, Non-citizen)	male	Auckland, New Zealand	Sports
2008	Lakshmi Niwas Mittal (Non-citizen)	male	Rajasthan, India	Trade & Industry
2008	Pranab Mukherjee	male	Delhi, India	Public Affairs
2008	N.R. Narayana Murthy	male	Karnataka, India	Trade & Industry
2008	Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi	male	Delhi, India	Trade & Industry
2008	Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar	male	Maharashtra, India	Sports
2007	Fali Sam Nariman Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Delhi, India	Public Affairs
2007	Venkataraman Krishnamurthy Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
2007	Dr. Ennacal Chandy George Sudarshan Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Texas, United States	Science & Engineering
2007	Khushwant Singh Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Delhi, India	Literature & Education
2007	Raja Rao Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Karnataka, India	Literature & Education
2007	Justice Prafulla Chandra Bhagwati	male	Delhi, India	Public Affairs
2007	Naresh Chandra	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
2007	Dr. Raja Jesudoss Chelliah	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Public Affairs
2007	Prof. Balu Sankaran	male	Delhi, India	Medicine
2007	Narinder Nath Vohra	male	Haryana, India	Civil Service
2006	Dr. Prakash Narain Tandon Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Delhi, India	Medicine
2006	Prof. Obaid Siddiqi Also won: Padma Bhushan , Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology	male	Karnataka, India	Science & Engineering
2006	Dr. Norman E. Borlaug (Non-citizen)	male	Texas, United States	Science & Engineering
2006	Charles Correa	male	Maharashtra, India	Science & Engineering
2006	Dr.(Ms.) Nirmala Deshpande	female	Delhi, India	Social Work
2006	Mahasweta Devi Also won: Ramon Magsaysay Award	female	West Bengal, India	Literature & Education
2006	Adoor Gopalakrishnan	male	Kerala, India	Arts
2006	Justice Visheshwar Nath Khare	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Public Affairs
2006	Colathur Rama Krishnaswamy Rao Sahib	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Civil Service
2005	Pt. Ram Narayan Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2005	Dr. Bal Krishna Goyal Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Medicine
2005	Dr. Marthanda Varma Sankaran Vaiathan Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Delhi, India	Medicine
2005	Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman Also won: Padma Bhushan , Ramon Magsaysay Award	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2005	Milon Kumar Banerji	male	Delhi, India	Public Affairs
2005	Dr. Mohan Dharia	male	Maharashtra, India	Social Work
2005	Jyotindra Nath Dixit (Posthumous)	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
2005	Dr. Karan Singh	male	Delhi, India	Public Affairs
2004	Prof. Jayant Vishnu Narlikar Also won: Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar , Padma Bhushan , Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology	male	Maharashtra, India	Science & Engineering
2004	Ms. Amrita Pritam	female	Delhi, India	Literature & Education
2004	Justice Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah	male	Karnataka, India	Public Affairs
2003	Vaidya Devendra Triguna Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Delhi, India	Medicine
2003	Sonal Mansingh Also won: Padma Bhushan	female	Delhi, India	Arts
2003	Bal Ram Nanda Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Delhi, India	Literature & Education
2003	Kazi Lhendup Dorji Kangsarpa	male	West Bengal, India	Public Affairs
2002	Kishori Ravindra Amonkar Also won: Padma Bhushan	female	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2002	Dr. Gangubai Hangal	male	Karnataka, India	Arts
2002	Pandit Kishan Maharaj	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Arts
2002	Dr. Chakravarthi Rangarajan	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Literature & Education
2002	Soli Jehangir Sorabjee	male	Delhi, India	Public Affairs
2001	Prof. Manmohan Sharma Also won: Padma Bhushan , Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology	male	Maharashtra, India	Science & Engineering
2001	Prof. Kotta Satchidananda Murty Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Literature & Education
2001	Dr. Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao Also won: Padma Bhushan , Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology	male	New York, United States	Science & Engineering
2001	Zubin Mehta Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2001	John Kenneth Galbraith (Non-citizen)	male	Massachusetts, United States	Literature & Education
2001	Benjamin Arthur Gilman (Non-citizen)	male	New York, United States	Public Affairs
2001	Ustad Amjad Ali Khan	male	Delhi, India	Arts
2001	Hrishikesh Mukherjee	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2001	Dr. Chakravarthi Vijayaraghava Narasimhan	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Civil Service
2001	Hosei Norota (Non-citizen)	male	Akita, Japan	Public Affairs
2001	Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts