| Padma Vibhushan | |
|---|---|
Padma Vibhushan medal attached with a pink ribbon | |
| Type | National Civilian |
| Country | |
| Presented by | Government of India |
| Ribbon | |
| Obverse | A centrally located lotus flower is embossed and the text "Padma" written in Devanagari script is placed above and the text "Vibhushan" is placed below the lotus. |
| Reverse | A platinumEmblem of India placed in the centre with the national motto of India, "Satyameva Jayate" (Truth alone triumphs) in Devanagari Script |
| Established | 1954 |
| First award | 1954 |
| Final award | 2026
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| Total | 348 |
| Precedence | |
| Next (higher) | |
| Next (lower) | |
← Padma Vibhushan "Pahla Varg" (Class I) | |
ThePadma Vibhushan is the second highestcivilian award of theRepublic of India. Instituted on 2 January 1954,[1] the award is given for the "exceptional and distinguished service", without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex. The Padma Vibhushan award recipients are announced every year onRepublic Day and registered inThe Gazette of India—a publication released weekly by the Department of Publication,Ministry of Urban Development used for official government notices.[2] The conferral of the award is not considered official without its publication in theGazette. Recipients whose awards have been revoked or restored, both of which require the authority of the President, are also registered in theGazette and are required to surrender their medals when their names are struck from the register.[3] As of 2020[update], none of the conferments of Padma Vibhushan have been revoked or restored. The recommendations are received from all the state and the union territory governments, the Ministries of the Government, theBharat Ratna and previous Padma Vibhushan award recipients, the Institutes of Excellence, the Ministers, theChief Ministers and theGovernors of State, and the Members of Parliament including private individuals. The recommendations received during 1 May and 15 September of every year are submitted to the Padma Awards Committee, constituted by thePrime Minister. The committee recommendations are later submitted to the Prime Minister and thePresident for the further approval.[2]
When instituted in 1954, the Padma Vibhushan was classified as "Pahla Varg" (Class I) under the three-tier Padma Vibhushan awards; preceded by the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award,[4] and followed by "Dusra Varg" (Class II), and "Tisra Varg" (Class III).[1] On 15 January 1955, the Padma Vibhushan was reclassified into three different awards; the Padma Vibhushan, the highest of the three, followed by thePadma Bhushan and thePadma Shri. The criteria includes "exceptional and distinguished service in any field including service rendered by Government servants" but excluding those working with thePublic sector undertakings with the exception of doctors and scientists. The 1954 statutes did not allow posthumous awards but this was subsequently modified in the January 1955 statute.[2][3] The award, along with other personalcivil honours, was briefly suspended twice in its history;[5] for the first time in July 1977 whenMorarji Desai was sworn in as the fourth Prime Minister.[6][7] The suspension was rescinded on 25 January 1980, afterIndira Gandhi became the Prime Minister.[8] The civilian awards were suspended again in mid-1992, when twoPublic-Interest Litigations were filed in theHigh Courts questioning the civilian awards being "Titles" per an interpretation ofArticle 18 (1) of theConstitution.[5][a] The awards were reintroduced by theSupreme Court in December 1995, following the conclusion of the litigation.[10]
The recipients receive aSanad (certificate) signed by the President and a medal with no monetary grant associated with the award.[2] The decoration is a circular-shaped toned bronze medallion1+3⁄4 inches (44 mm) in diameter and1⁄8 inch (3.2 mm) thick. The centrally placed pattern made of outer lines of a square of1+3⁄16 inches (30 mm) side is embossed with a knob embossed within each of the outer angles of the pattern. A raised circular space of diameter1+1⁄16 inches (27 mm) is placed at the centre of the decoration. A centrally located lotus flower is embossed on the obverse side of the medal and the text "Padma" written inDevanagari script is placed above and the text "Vibhushan" is placed below the lotus. TheEmblem of India is placed in the centre of the reverse side with the national motto, "Satyameva Jayate" (Truth alone triumphs) in Devanagari Script, inscribed on the lower edge. The rim, the edges and all embossing on either side is of white gold with the text "Padma Vibhushan" of silver gilt. The medal is suspended by a pink riband1+1⁄4 inches (32 mm) in width.[3] It is ranked fourth in the order of precedence of wearing of medals and decorations.[11]
The first recipients of the Padma Vibhushan wereSatyendra Nath Bose,Nandalal Bose,Zakir Husain,Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher,V. K. Krishna Menon, andJigme Dorji Wangchuck, who were honoured in 1954. As of 2026[update], the award has been bestowed on 348 individuals, including thirty-four posthumous and twenty-five non-citizen recipients.[12] Some of the recipients have refused or returned their awards;P. N. Haksar,[b]Vilayat Khan,[c]E. M. S. Namboodiripad,[d]Swami Ranganathananda,[e] andManikonda Chalapathi Rau refused the award; the family members ofLakshmi Chand Jain (2011) andSharad Anantrao Joshi (2016) declined their posthumous conferments,[f][g] and 1986 recipientBaba Amte and 2015 recipientParkash Singh Badal returned theirs honour in 1991 and 2020 respectively.[21][h][23][i] The 2026 award was bestowed upon five recipients – Dharmendra (posthumous),K. T. Thomas,N. Rajam, P. Narayanan, andV. S. Achuthanandan (posthumous).
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+Naturalised citizen recipient | * Non-citizen recipient | # Posthumous recipient |
| Year | Image | Laureates | Field | State / country[12] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Satyendra Nath Bose | Science and Engineering | West Bengal | |
| 1954 | Nandalal Bose | Arts | West Bengal | |
| 1954 | Zakir Husain | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 1954 | B. G. Kher | Public Affairs | Maharashtra | |
| 1954 | V. K. Krishna Menon | Public Affairs | Kerala | |
| 1954 | Jigme Dorji Wangchuck* | Public Affairs | Bhutan | |
| 1955 | Dhondo Keshav Karve | Literature and Education | Maharashtra | |
| 1955 | J. R. D. Tata | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra | |
| 1956 | Fazl Ali | Public Affairs | Bihar | |
| 1956 | Janaki Devi Bajaj | Social Work | Madhya Pradesh | |
| 1956 | Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi | Public Affairs | Madhya Pradesh | |
| 1957 | Ghanashyam Das Birla | Trade and Industry | Rajasthan | |
| 1957 | Sri Prakasa | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1957 | M. C. Setalvad | Public Affairs | Maharashtra | |
| 1958 | No awards | |||
| 1959 | John Matthai | Literature and Education | Kerala | |
| 1959 | Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta | Social Work | Maharashtra | |
| 1959 | Radhabinod Pal | Public Affairs | West Bengal | |
| 1960 | Narayana Raghvan Pillai | Public Affairs | Tamil Nadu | |
| 1961 | No awards | |||
| 1962 | H. V. R. Iyengar | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu | |
| 1962 | Padmaja Naidu | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 1962 | Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1963 | Suniti Kumar Chatterji | Literature and Education | West Bengal | |
| 1963 | A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar | Medicine | Tamil Nadu | |
| 1963 | Hari Vinayak Pataskar | Public Affairs | Maharashtra | |
| 1964 | Acharya Kakasaheb Kalelkar | Literature and Education | Maharashtra | |
| 1964 | Gopinath Kaviraj | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1965 | Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri | Civil Service | West Bengal | |
| 1965 | Mehdi Nawaz Jung | Public Affairs | Telangana | |
| 1965 | Arjan Singh | Civil Service | Delhi | |
| 1966 | Valerian Gracias | Social Work | Maharashtra | |
| 1967 | C. K. Daphtary | Public Affairs | Maharashtra | |
| 1967 | Hafiz Mohamad Ibrahim | Civil Service | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 1967 | Bhola Nath Jha | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1967 | P. V. R. Rao | Civil Service | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 1968 | Madhav Shrihari Aney | Public Affairs | Madhya Pradesh | |
| 1968 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar* | Science and Engineering | United States | |
| 1968 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis | Literature and Education | Delhi | |
| 1968 | Kirpal Singh | Civil Service | Delhi | |
| 1968 | Kalyan Sundaram | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 1969 | Rajeshwar Dayal | Civil Service | Delhi | |
| 1969 | Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi | Civil Service | Maharashtra | |
| 1969 | Har Gobind Khorana* | Literature and Education | United States | |
| 1969 | Mohan Sinha Mehta | Civil Service | Rajasthan | |
| 1969 | Ghananand Pande | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1970 | Tara Chand | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1970 | Suranjan Das#[i] | Civil Service | West Bengal | |
| 1970 | Anthony Lancelot Dias | Public Affairs | Maharashtra | |
| 1970 | Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu | |
| 1970 | A. Ramasamy Mudaliar | Civil Service | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 1970 | Binay Ranjan Sen | Civil Service | West Bengal | |
| 1970 | Harbaksh Singh | Civil Service | Punjab | |
| 1971 | Bimala Prasad Chaliha | Civil Service | Assam | |
| 1971 | Allauddin Khan | Arts | West Bengal | |
| 1971 | Sumati Morarjee | Civil Service | Maharashtra | |
| 1971 | Uday Shankar | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 1971 | Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar | Medicine | Goa | |
| 1971 | B. Sivaraman | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu | |
| 1972 | P. B. Gajendragadkar | Civil Service | Maharashtra | |
| 1972 | Aditya Nath Jha# | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1972 | Pratap Chandra Lal | Civil Service | Punjab | |
| 1972 | Sam Manekshaw | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu | |
| 1972 | Jivraj Narayan Mehta | Public Affairs | Maharashtra | |
| 1972 | Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda | Civil Service | Delhi | |
| 1972 | Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq#[ii] | Public Affairs | Jammu and Kashmir | |
| 1972 | Vikram Sarabhai#[iii] | Science and Engineering | Gujarat | |
| 1972 | Hormasji Maneckji Seervai | Literature and Education | Maharashtra | |
| 1973 | Basanti Devi | Civil Service | West Bengal | |
| 1973 | U. N. Dhebar | Social Work | Gujarat | |
| 1973 | Daulat Singh Kothari | Science and Engineering | Delhi | |
| 1973 | Nellie Sengupta | Social Work | West Bengal | |
| 1973 | Nagendra Singh | Public Affairs | Rajasthan | |
| 1973 | Thirumalraya Swaminathan | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu | |
| 1974 | Niren De | Public Affairs | West Bengal | |
| 1974 | Benode Behari Mukherjee | Arts | West Bengal | |
| 1974 | V. K. R. V. Rao | Civil Service | Karnataka | |
| 1974 | Harish Chandra Sarin | Civil Service | Delhi | |
| 1975 | C. D. Deshmukh | Public Affairs | Maharashtra | |
| 1975 | Durgabai Deshmukh | Social Work | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 1975 | Mary Clubwala Jadhav | Social Work | Tamil Nadu | |
| 1975 | Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri | Literature and Education | West Bengal | |
| 1975 | Raja Ramanna | Science and Engineering | Karnataka | |
| 1975 | Homi Nusserwanji Sethna | Civil Service | Maharashtra | |
| 1975 | M. S. Subbulakshmi | Arts | Tamil Nadu | |
| 1975 | Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey | Literature and Education | Maharashtra | |
| 1976 | Salim Ali | Science and Engineering | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1976 | Gurmukh Singh Musafir#[iv][26] | Literature and Education | Punjab | |
| 1976 | K. Shankar Pillai | Arts | Delhi | |
| 1976 | K. R. Ramanathan | Science and Engineering | Kerala | |
| 1976 | Satyajit Ray | Arts | West Bengal | |
| 1976 | K. L. Shrimali | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1976 | Bashir Hussain Zaidi | Literature and Education | Delhi | |
| 1977 | T. Balasaraswati | Arts | Tamil Nadu | |
| 1977 | Ali Yavar Jung#[v] | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 1977 | Ajudhia Nath Khosla | Civil Service | Delhi | |
| 1977 | Om Prakash Mehra | Civil Service | Punjab | |
| 1977 | Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee | Public Affairs | West Bengal | |
| 1977 | Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh | Literature and Education | Delhi | |
| 1978 | Awards suspended | |||
| 1979 | ||||
| 1980 | Bismillah Khan | Arts | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1980 | Rai Krishnadasa | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1981 | Satish Dhawan | Science and Engineering | Karnataka | |
| 1981 | Ravi Shankar | Arts | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1982 | Mirabehn | Social Work | United Kingdom | |
| 1983 | No awards | |||
| 1984 | ||||
| 1985 | C. N. R. Rao | Science and Engineering | Karnataka | |
| 1985 | M. G. K. Menon | Science and Engineering | Kerala | |
| 1986 | Baba Amte | Social Work | Maharashtra | |
| 1986 | Birju Maharaj | Arts | Delhi | |
| 1986 | Autar Singh Paintal | Medicine | Delhi | |
| 1987 | Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay | Social Work | Karnataka | |
| 1987 | Benjamin Peary Pal | Science and Engineering | Punjab | |
| 1987 | Manmohan Singh | Civil Service | Delhi | |
| 1987 | Arun Shridhar Vaidya#[vi] | Civil Service | Maharashtra | |
| 1988 | Mirza Hameedullah Beg | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 1988 | Kuvempu | Literature and Education | Karnataka | |
| 1988 | Mahadevi Varma#[vii] | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1989 | Uma Shankar Dikshit | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1989 | Ali Akbar Khan | Arts | West Bengal | |
| 1989 | M. S. Swaminathan | Science and Engineering | Tamil Nadu | |
| 1990 | V. S. R. Arunachalam | Literature and Education | Delhi | |
| 1990 | Triloki Nath Chaturvedi | Civil Service | Karnataka | |
| 1990 | Bhabatosh Datta | Literature and Education | West Bengal | |
| 1990 | Kumar Gandharva | Arts | Madhya Pradesh | |
| 1990 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Science and Engineering | Tamil Nadu | |
| 1991 | Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer | Arts | Tamil Nadu | |
| 1991 | M. Balamuralikrishna | Arts | Tamil Nadu | |
| 1991 | M. F. Husain | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 1991 | Hirendranath Mukherjee | Public Affairs | West Bengal | |
| 1991 | Gulzarilal Nanda | Public Affairs | Gujarat | |
| 1991 | I. G. Patel | Science and Engineering | Gujarat | |
| 1991 | N. G. Ranga | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 1991 | Khusro Faramurz Rustamji | Civil Service | Maharashtra | |
| 1991 | Rajaram Shastri | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1992 | Aruna Asaf Ali | Social Work | Delhi | |
| 1992 | Lakshman Shastri Joshi | Literature and Education | Maharashtra | |
| 1992 | Mallikarjun Mansur | Arts | Karnataka | |
| 1992 | S. I. Padmavati | Medicine | Delhi | |
| 1992 | Kaloji Narayana Rao | Arts | Telangana | |
| 1992 | Ravi Narayana Reddy#[viii] | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 1992 | V. Shantaram#[ix] | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 1992 | Govindbhai Shroff | Literature and Education | Maharashtra | |
| 1992 | Swaran Singh | Public Affairs | Punjab | |
| 1992 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 1993 | Awards suspended | |||
| 1994 | ||||
| 1995 | ||||
| 1996 | ||||
| 1997 | ||||
| 1998 | Usha Mehta | Social Work | Maharashtra | |
| 1998 | Nanabhoy Palkhivala | Public Affairs | Maharashtra | |
| 1998 | Lakshmi Sahgal | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1998 | Walter Sisulu* | Public Affairs | South Africa | |
| 1999 | Pandurang Shastri Athavale | Social Work | Maharashtra | |
| 1999 | Rajagopala Chidambaram | Science and Engineering | Maharashtra | |
| 1999 | Nanaji Deshmukh | Social Work | Delhi | |
| 1999 | Sarvepalli Gopal | Literature and Education | Tamil Nadu | |
| 1999 | Satish Gujral | Arts | Delhi | |
| 1999 | V. R. Krishna Iyer | Public Affairs | Kerala | |
| 1999 | Bhimsen Joshi | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 1999 | Hans Raj Khanna | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 1999 | Verghese Kurien | Science and Engineering | Gujarat | |
| 1999 | Lata Mangeshkar | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 1999 | Braj Kumar Nehru | Civil Service | Himachal Pradesh | |
| 1999 | D. K. Pattammal | Arts | Tamil Nadu | |
| 1999 | Lallan Prasad Singh#[x] | Civil Service | Delhi | |
| 1999 | Dharma Vira | Civil Service | Delhi | |
| 2000 | Sikander Bakht | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 2000 | Jagdish Bhagwati* | Literature and Education | United States | |
| 2000 | Hariprasad Chaurasia | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 2000 | M. S. Gill | Civil Service | Delhi | |
| 2000 | Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan | Science and Engineering | Karnataka | |
| 2000 | K. B. Lall | Civil Service | Delhi | |
| 2000 | Kelucharan Mohapatra | Arts | Odisha | |
| 2000 | Jasraj Motiram | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 2000 | M. Narasimham | Trade and Industry | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 2000 | R. K. Narayan | Literature and Education | Tamil Nadu | |
| 2000 | Bhairab Dutt Pande | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 2000 | K. N. Raj | Literature and Education | Kerala | |
| 2000 | Tarlok Singh | Civil Service | Delhi | |
| 2001 | John Kenneth Galbraith* | Literature and Education | United States | |
| 2001 | Benjamin Gilman* | Public Affairs | United States | |
| 2001 | Amjad Ali Khan | Arts | Delhi | |
| 2001 | Zubin Mehta* | Arts | United States | |
| 2001 | Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 2001 | K. Satchidananda Murty | Literature and Education | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 2001 | Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu | |
| 2001 | Hosei Norota* | Public Affairs | Japan | |
| 2001 | C. R. Rao* | Science and Engineering | United States | |
| 2001 | Man Mohan Sharma | Science and Engineering | Maharashtra | |
| 2001 | Shivkumar Sharma | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 2002 | Kishori Amonkar | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 2002 | Gangubai Hangal | Arts | Karnataka | |
| 2002 | Kishan Maharaj | Arts | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 2002 | C. Rangarajan | Literature and Education | Tamil Nadu | |
| 2002 | Soli Sorabjee | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 2003 | Kazi Lhendup Dorjee | Public Affairs | West Bengal | |
| 2003 | Sonal Mansingh | Arts | Delhi | |
| 2003 | Bal Ram Nanda | Literature and Education | Delhi | |
| 2003 | Brihaspati Dev Triguna | Medicine | Delhi | |
| 2004 | Jayant Narlikar | Science and Engineering | Maharashtra | |
| 2004 | Amrita Pritam | Literature and Education | Delhi | |
| 2004 | M. N. Venkatachaliah | Public Affairs | Karnataka | |
| 2005 | Milon K. Banerji | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 2005 | Mohan Dharia | Social Work | Maharashtra | |
| 2005 | Jyotindra Nath Dixit#[xi] | Civil Service | Delhi | |
| 2005 | B. K. Goyal | Medicine | Maharashtra | |
| 2005 | R. K. Laxman | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 2005 | Ram Narayan | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 2005 | Karan Singh | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 2005 | M. S. Valiathan | Medicine | Delhi | |
| 2006 | Norman Borlaug* | Science and Engineering | United States | |
| 2006 | Charles Correa | Science and Engineering | Maharashtra | |
| 2006 | Nirmala Deshpande | Social Work | Delhi | |
| 2006 | Mahasweta Devi | Literature and Education | West Bengal | |
| 2006 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Arts | Kerala | |
| 2006 | V. N. Khare | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 2006 | C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu | |
| 2006 | Obaid Siddiqi | Science and Engineering | Karnataka | |
| 2006 | Prakash Narain Tandon | Medicine | Delhi | |
| 2007 | P. N. Bhagwati | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 2007 | Naresh Chandra | Civil Service | Delhi | |
| 2007 | Raja Chelliah | Public Affairs | Tamil Nadu | |
| 2007 | V. Krishnamurthy | Civil Service | Delhi | |
| 2007 | Fali Sam Nariman | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 2007 | Raja Rao*#[xii] | Literature and Education | United States | |
| 2007 | Balu Sankaran | Medicine | Delhi | |
| 2007 | Khushwant Singh | Literature and Education | Delhi | |
| 2007 | E. C. George Sudarshan* | Science and Engineering | United States | |
| 2007 | Narinder Nath Vohra | Civil Service | Haryana | |
| 2008 | Adarsh Sein Anand | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 2008 | Viswanathan Anand | Sports | Tamil Nadu | |
| 2008 | Asha Bhosle | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 2008 | P. N. Dhar | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 2008 | Edmund Hillary*#[xiii] | Sports | New Zealand | |
| 2008 | Lakshmi Mittal* | Trade and Industry | United Kingdom | |
| 2008 | Pranab Mukherjee | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 2008 | N. R. Narayana Murthy | Trade and Industry | Karnataka | |
| 2008 | Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi | Trade and Industry | Delhi | |
| 2008 | Rajendra K. Pachauri | Science and Engineering | Delhi | |
| 2008 | E. Sreedharan | Science and Engineering | Delhi | |
| 2008 | Ratan Tata | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra | |
| 2008 | Sachin Tendulkar | Sports | Maharashtra | |
| 2009 | Sunderlal Bahuguna | Social Work | Uttarakhand | |
| 2009 | Jasbir Singh Bajaj | Medicine | Punjab | |
| 2009 | D. P. Chattopadhyaya | Literature and Education | West Bengal | |
| 2009 | Ashok Sekhar Ganguly | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra | |
| 2009 | Nirmala Joshi | Social Work | West Bengal | |
| 2009 | Anil Kakodkar | Science and Engineering | Maharashtra | |
| 2009 | Purshotam Lal | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 2009 | G. Madhavan Nair | Science and Engineering | Karnataka | |
| 2009 | Govind Narain | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 2009 | Chandrika Prasad Srivastava | Civil Service | Maharashtra | |
| 2010 | Ebrahim Alkazi | Arts | Delhi | |
| 2010 | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan* | Science and Engineering | United Kingdom | |
| 2010 | Prathap C. Reddy | Trade and Industry | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 2010 | Y. Venugopal Reddy | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 2010 | Zohra Sehgal | Arts | Delhi | |
| 2010 | Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman | Arts | Tamil Nadu | |
| 2011 | Montek Singh Ahluwalia | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 2011 | Vijay Kelkar | Public Affairs | Maharashtra | |
| 2011 | Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 2011 | O. N. V. Kurup | Literature and Education | Kerala | |
| 2011 | Sitakant Mahapatra | Literature and Education | Odisha | |
| 2011 | Brajesh Mishra | Civil Service | Delhi | |
| 2011 | K. Parasaran | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 2011 | Azim Premji | Trade and Industry | Karnataka | |
| 2011 | Palle Rama Rao | Science and Engineering | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 2011 | Akkineni Nageswara Rao | Arts | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 2011 | Kapila Vatsyayan | Arts | Delhi | |
| 2011 | Homai Vyarawalla | Arts | Gujarat | |
| 2012 | Bhupen Hazarika#[xiv] | Arts | Assam | |
| 2012 | Mario Miranda#[xv] | Arts | Goa | |
| 2012 | T. V. Rajeswar | Civil Service | Delhi | |
| 2012 | Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti | Medicine | Maharashtra | |
| 2012 | K. G. Subramanyan | Arts | Gujarat | |
| 2013 | Raghunath Mohapatra | Arts | Odisha | |
| 2013 | Roddam Narasimha | Science and Engineering | Karnataka | |
| 2013 | Yash Pal | Science and Engineering | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 2013 | S. H. Raza | Arts | Delhi | |
| 2014 | B. K. S. Iyengar | Others | Maharashtra | |
| 2014 | Raghunath Anant Mashelkar | Science and Engineering | Maharashtra | |
| 2015 | L. K. Advani | Public Affairs | Gujarat | |
| 2015 | Amitabh Bachchan | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 2015 | Parkash Singh Badal | Public Affairs | Punjab | |
| 2015 | Veerendra Heggade | Social Work | Karnataka | |
| 2015 | Dilip Kumar | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 2015 | Jagadguru Swami Rambhadracharya | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 2015 | M. R. Srinivasan | Science and Engineering | Tamil Nadu | |
| 2015 | Kottayan Katankot Venugopal | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 2015 | Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan* | Social Work | United Kingdom/France | |
| 2016 | V. K. Aatre | Science and Engineering | Karnataka | |
| 2016 | Dhirubhai Ambani#[xvi] | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra | |
| 2016 | Girija Devi | Arts | West Bengal | |
| 2016 | Avinash Dixit* | Literature and Education | United States | |
| 2016 | Jagmohan | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 2016 | Yamini Krishnamurthy | Arts | Delhi | |
| 2016 | Rajinikanth | Arts | Tamil Nadu | |
| 2016 | Ramoji Rao | Literature and Education | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 2016 | Sri Sri Ravi Shankar | Others | Karnataka | |
| 2016 | V. Shanta | Medicine | Tamil Nadu | |
| 2017 | Murli Manohar Joshi | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 2017 | Sunder Lal Patwa#[xvii] | Public Affairs | Madhya Pradesh | |
| 2017 | Sharad Pawar | Public Affairs | Maharashtra | |
| 2017 | Udupi Ramachandra Rao | Science and Engineering | Karnataka | |
| 2017 | P. A. Sangma#[xviii] | Public Affairs | Meghalaya | |
| 2017 | Jaggi Vasudev | Others | Tamil Nadu | |
| 2017 | K. J. Yesudas | Arts | Kerala | |
| 2018 | Ilaiyaraja | Arts | Tamil Nadu | |
| 2018 | Ghulam Mustafa Khan | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 2018 | P. Parameswaran | Literature and Education | Kerala | |
| 2019 | Teejan Bai | Arts | Chhattisgarh | |
| 2019 | Ismaïl Omar Guelleh* | Public Affairs | Djibouti | |
| 2019 | Anil Manibhai Naik | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra | |
| 2019 | Balwant Moreshwar Purandare | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 2020 | George Fernandes#[xix] | Public Affairs | Bihar | |
| 2020 | Arun Jaitley#[xx] | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 2020 | Anerood Jugnauth* | Public Affairs | Mauritius | |
| 2020 | M. C. Mary Kom | Sports | Manipur | |
| 2020 | Chhannulal Mishra | Arts | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 2020 | Sushma Swaraj#[xxi] | Public Affairs | Delhi | |
| 2020 | Vishwesha Tirtha#[xxii] | Others | Karnataka | |
| 2021 | Shinzo Abe* | Public Affairs | Japan | |
| 2021 | S. P. Balasubrahmanyam#[xxiii] | Arts | Tamil Nadu | |
| 2021 | Belle Monappa Hegde | Medicine | Karnataka | |
| 2021 | Narinder Singh Kapany*#[xxiv] | Science and Engineering | United States | |
| 2021 | Wahiduddin Khan | Others | Delhi | |
| 2021 | B. B. Lal | Others | Delhi | |
| 2021 | Sudarshan Sahoo | Arts | Odisha | |
| 2022 | Prabha Atre | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 2022 | Radheshyam Khemka#[xxv] | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 2022 | Bipin Rawat#[xxvi] | Civil Service | Uttarakhand | |
| 2022 | Kalyan Singh#[xxvii] | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 2023 | Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi#[xxviii] | Science and Engineering | Gujarat | |
| 2023 | Zakir Hussain | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 2023 | S. M. Krishna | Public Affairs | Karnataka | |
| 2023 | Dilip Mahalanabis#[xxix] | Medicine | West Bengal | |
| 2023 | S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan* | Science and Engineering | United States | |
| 2023 | Mulayam Singh Yadav#[xxx] | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 2024 | Vyjayanthimala | Arts | Tamil Nadu | |
| 2024 | Chiranjeevi | Arts | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 2024 | Venkaiah Naidu | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 2024 | Bindeshwar Pathak#[xxxi] | Social Work | Bihar | |
| 2024 | Padma Subrahmanyam | Arts | Tamil Nadu | |
| 2025 | D. Nageshwar Reddy | Medicine | Telangana | |
| 2025 | Jagdish Singh Khehar | Public Affairs | Chandigarh | |
| 2025 | Kumudini Lakhia | Arts | Gujarat | |
| 2025 | L. Subramaniam | Arts | Karnataka | |
| 2025 | M. T. Vasudevan Nair#[xxxii] | Literature and Education | Kerala | |
| 2025 | Osamu Suzuki*#[xxxiii] | Trade and Industry | Japan | |
| 2025 | Sharda Sinha#[xxxiv] | Arts | Bihar | |
| 2026 | Dharmendra#[xxxv] | Arts | Maharashtra | |
| 2026 | K. T. Thomas | Public Affairs | Kerala | |
| 2026 | N. Rajam | Art | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 2026 | P. Narayanan | Literature and Education | Kerala | |
| 2026 | V. S. Achuthanandan#[xxxvi] | Public Affairs | Kerala | |
The President is pleased to institute an award to be designated "Padma Vibhushan" in three classes, namely: "Pahla Varg", "Dusra Varg" and "Tisra Varg"
All persons upon whom the decoration of Padma Vibhushan (Pahla Varg) was conferred under the Regulations issued with Notification No. 2-Pres./54, dated the 2nd January, 1954, shall, for all purposes of these regulations, be deemed to be persons on whom the decoration of Padma Vibhushan has been conferred by the President.