Padma Vibhushan Award Winners in Arts

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Published Sep 9, 2026 Updated Sep 9, 2026 1 min read

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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 Winners in Arts

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 Winners in Arts

India's Padma Vibhushan has honored numerous artists across disciplines: sitar maestro Ravi Shankar (1981), filmmaker Satyajit Ray (1976), Carnatic vocalist M.S. Subbulakshmi (1975), playback singer Lata Mangeshkar (1999), shehnai virtuoso Bismillah Khan (1980), and actor Amitabh Bachchan (2015). Other notable recipients include painter M.F. Husain (1991), Kathak dancer Birju Maharaj (1986), sarod player Ali Akbar Khan (1989), flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia (2000), and actor Dilip Kumar (2015), spanning music, dance, cinema, and painting since 1954.

Padma Vibhushan Award Winners in Arts Winners List

This Winners List features 72 winners of the Padma Vibhushan Award Winners in Arts, from 1954 to 2026.

Year	Recipient Name	Gender	State, Country	Fields

2026	Dharmendra Deol Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2026	Dr. N. Rajam Also won: Padma Bhushan	female	Uttar Pradesh, India	Arts
2025	Dr. Sharda Sinha Also won: Padma Bhushan	female	Bihar, India	Arts
2025	Kumudini Lakhia Also won: Padma Bhushan	female	Gujarat, India	Arts
2025	Dr. Lakshminarayana Subramaniam Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Karnataka, India	Arts
2024	Konidala Chiranjeevi Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Arts
2024	Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam Also won: Padma Bhushan	female	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
2024	Dr. Vyjayantimala Bali	female	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
2023	Zakir Hussain Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2022	Dr. Prabha Atre Also won: Padma Bhushan	female	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2021	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
2021	Sudarshan Sahoo	male	Odisha, India	Arts
2020	Pandit Chhannulal Mishra Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Arts
2019	Teejan Bai Also won: Padma Bhushan	female	Chhattisgarh, India	Arts
2019	Babasaheb alias Balwant Moreshwar Purandare	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2018	Ilaiyaraaja Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
2018	Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2017	Kattassery Joseph Yesudas Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Kerala, India	Arts
2016	Dr. Yamini Krishnamurti Also won: Padma Bhushan	female	Delhi, India	Arts
2016	Rajini Kanth Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
2016	Girija Devi Also won: Padma Bhushan	female	West Bengal, India	Arts
2015	Amitabh Bachchan Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2015	Mohammad Yusuf Khan alias Dilip Kumar Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2013	Syed Haider Raza Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Delhi, India	Arts
2013	Raghunath Mohapatra Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Odisha, India	Arts
2012	Prof. Kalapathi Ganapathi Subramanyan Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Gujarat, India	Arts
2012	Mario De Miranda Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Goa, India	Arts
2012	Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Assam, India	Arts
2011	Akkineni Nageswara Rao Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Arts
2011	Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan	female	Delhi, India	Arts
2011	Homai Vyarawalla	male	Gujarat, India	Arts
2010	Ebrahim Alkazi Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Delhi, India	Arts
2010	Zohra Segal	male	Delhi, India	Arts
2010	Dr. Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
2008	Dr. Asha Bhosle	female	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2006	Adoor Gopalakrishnan	male	Kerala, India	Arts
2005	Pt. Ram Narayan Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2005	Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman Also won: Padma Bhushan , Ramon Magsaysay Award	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2003	Sonal Mansingh Also won: Padma Bhushan	female	Delhi, India	Arts
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
2001	Zubin Mehta Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2001	Ustad Amjad Ali Khan	male	Delhi, India	Arts
2001	Hrishikesh Mukherjee	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2001	Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2000	Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2000	Pt. Jasraj Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2000	Kelu Charan Mohapatra Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Odisha, India	Arts
1999	Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
1999	Damal Krishnaswami Pattamal Also won: Padma Bhushan	female	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
1999	Kum. Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar Also won: Padma Bhushan	female	Maharashtra, India	Arts
1999	Satish Gujral	male	Delhi, India	Arts
1992	Mallikarjuna Bhimarayappa Mansoor Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Karnataka, India	Arts
1992	Kaloji Narayana Rao	male	Telangana, India	Arts
1992	Dr. Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre Alias Dr. V. Shantaram (Posthumous)	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
1991	Maqbool Fida Husain Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
1991	Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
1991	Dr. Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
1990	Shivputra Sidhram Komkali Alias Kumar Gandharv Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Madhya Pradesh, India	Arts
1989	Ustad Ali Akbar Khan	male	West Bengal, India	Arts
1986	Birju Maharaj	male	Delhi, India	Arts
1981	Ravi Shankar Also won: Padma Bhushan , Ramon Magsaysay Award	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Arts
1980	Bismillah Khan Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Arts
1977	T. Balasaraswati	female	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
1976	Satyajit Ray Also won: Padma Bhushan , Ramon Magsaysay Award	male	West Bengal, India	Arts
1976	Keshav Shankar Pillai	male	Delhi, India	Arts
1975	Madurai Shanmugavadivu Subbalakshmi Also won: Padma Bhushan , Ramon Magsaysay Award	female	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
1974	Binode Behari Mukherjee	male	West Bengal, India	Arts
1971	Ustad Allauddin Khan Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	West Bengal, India	Arts
1971	Uday Shankar	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
1954	Nandlal Bose	male	West Bengal, India	Arts

Padma Vibhushan Award Winners in Arts Award Chart by Gender

This chart groups 72 Padma Vibhushan Award Winners in Arts winners by Gender, across 2 distinct entries — male leads with 55 wins.

Padma Vibhushan Award Winners in Arts Award Chart by Fields

This chart tracks Padma Vibhushan Award Winners in Arts winners by year from 1954 to 2026, spanning 37 years, with the most wins (4) recorded in 1999.