Padma Vibhushan Award Winners in Civil Service

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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 Civil Service

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 Civil Service

India's highest civilian honours in public administration recognize distinguished civil servants and diplomats. H. V. R. Iyengar, ICS officer and RBI Governor, was honoured in 1962; Rajeshwar Dayal, ICS officer and diplomat, in 1969. K. B. Lall, veteran ICS diplomat, and M. S. Gill, IAS officer and Chief Election Commissioner, both received it in 2000. Cabinet Secretary Naresh Chandra and administrator-Governor Narinder Nath Vohra followed in 2007, and Governor T. V. Rajeswar in 2012.

Padma Vibhushan Award Winners in Civil Service Winners List

This Winners List features 56 winners of the Padma Vibhushan Award Winners in Civil Service, from 1962 to 2022.

Year	Recipient Name	Gender	State, Country	Fields

2022	General Bipin Rawat PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM (Posthumous)	male	Uttarakhand, India	Civil Service
2012	T. V. Rajeswar	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
2011	Brajesh Chandra Mishra	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
2009	Chandrika Prasad Srivastava Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Civil Service
2007	Venkataraman Krishnamurthy Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
2007	Naresh Chandra	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
2007	Narinder Nath Vohra	male	Haryana, India	Civil Service
2006	Colathur Rama Krishnaswamy Rao Sahib	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Civil Service
2005	Jyotindra Nath Dixit (Posthumous)	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
2001	Dr. Chakravarthi Vijayaraghava Narasimhan	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Civil Service
2000	Tarlok Singh Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
2000	Dr. Manohar Singh Gill	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
2000	Dr. Krishen Behari Lall	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
2000	Bhairab Datt Pande	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Civil Service
1999	Braj Kumar Nehru	male	Himachal Pradesh, India	Civil Service
1999	Lallan Prasad Singh (Posthumous)	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
1999	Dharma Vira	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
1991	Khusro Framurz Rustamji Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Civil Service
1990	Triloki Nath Chaturvedi	male	Karnataka, India	Civil Service
1987	Dr. Benjamin Peary Pal Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
1987	Dr. Manmohan Singh	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
1987	General Arun Shridhar Vaidya (Posthumous)	male	Maharashtra, India	Civil Service
1985	Dr. Mambillikalathil Govinda Kumar Menon Also won: Padma Bhushan , Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology	male	Kerala, India	Civil Service
1980	Rai Krishnadasa	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Civil Service
1977	Ajudhia Nath Khosla Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
1977	Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra	male	Punjab, India	Civil Service
1975	Homi Nusserwanji Sethna Also won: Padma Bhushan , Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology	male	Maharashtra, India	Civil Service
1974	Dr. Vijayendra Kasturi Ranga Varadaraja Rao	male	Karnataka, India	Civil Service
1974	Harish Chandra Sarin	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
1973	Basanti Devi	male	West Bengal, India	Civil Service
1973	Thirumalraya Swaminathan	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Civil Service
1972	Lt. Gen. Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Civil Service
1972	Air Vice Marshal P.Chandra Lal Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Punjab, India	Civil Service
1972	Dr. Prahlad Balacharya Gajendragadkar	male	Maharashtra, India	Civil Service
1972	Dr. Aditya Nath Jha (Posthumous)	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Civil Service
1972	Admiral Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
1971	Bimal Prasad Chaliha	male	Assam, India	Civil Service
1971	Sumati Morarjee	female	Maharashtra, India	Civil Service
1971	Balram Sivaraman	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Civil Service
1970	Lt. (Gen.) Harbakhsh Singh Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Punjab, India	Civil Service
1970	Dr. Arcot Lakshamanaswami Mudaliar Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Civil Service
1970	Group Captain Suranjan Das (Posthumous)	male	West Bengal, India	Civil Service
1970	General Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam (DSO MBE)	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Civil Service
1970	Dr. Binay Ranjan Sen	male	West Bengal, India	Civil Service
1969	Rajeshwar Dayal	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
1969	Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi	male	Maharashtra, India	Civil Service
1969	Dr. Mohan Sinha Mehta	male	Rajasthan, India	Civil Service
1969	Ghananand Pande	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Civil Service
1968	Kirpal Singh	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
1967	Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Civil Service
1967	Bhola Nath Jha	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Civil Service
1967	Pattadakal Venkanna Raghavendra Rao	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Civil Service
1965	Gen. Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri	male	West Bengal, India	Civil Service
1965	Air Marshal Arjan Singh (DFC)	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
1962	Haravu venkatanarasingha Varada Raja Iengar	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Civil Service
1962	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Civil Service

Padma Vibhushan Award Winners in Civil Service Award Chart by Gender

This chart groups 56 Padma Vibhushan Award Winners in Civil Service winners by Gender, across 2 distinct entries — male leads with 55 wins.

Padma Vibhushan Award Winners in Civil Service Award Chart by Fields

This chart tracks Padma Vibhushan Award Winners in Civil Service winners by year from 1962 to 2022, spanning 27 years, with the most wins (5) recorded in 1970.