Full list of Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awardees 2018

Padma Awards 2018: Complete list of Padma awardees.One of the highest Civilian Awards of the country, Padma Awards were recently conferred in three different categories – Padma Vibhushan (second highest civilian award), Padma Bhushan (Third highest civilian award) and Padma Shri (Fourth highest civilian award). As we all know Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of the country.

Padma Shri awardees:

1. Anwar Jalalpuri (Posthumous) – Literature and Education (Literature – Urdu)
2. Sitavva Joddati – Social Work
3. Manas Bihari Verma – Science & Engineering (Defence)
4. Abhay Bang (Duo) – Medicine
5. Rani Bang (Duo) – Medicine
6. Damodar Ganesh Bapat – Social Work
7. Prafulla Govinda Baruah – Literature and Education-Journalism
8. Mohan Swaroop Bhatia – Art-Folk Music
9. Sudhanshu Biswas – Social Work
10. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu – Sports-Weightlifting
11. Pandit Shyamlal Chaturvedi – Literature and Education-Journalism
12. Jose Ma Joey Concepcion III (Foreigner) – Trade & Industry
13. Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi – Art-Weaving
14. Somdev Devvarman – Sports-Tennis
15. Yeshi Dhoden – Medicine
16. Arup Kumar Dutta – Literature and Education
17. Doddarange Gowda – Art-Lyrics
18. Arvind Gupta – Literature and Education
19. Digamber Hansda – Literature and Education
20. Ramli Bin Ibrahim (Foreigner) – Art-Dance
21. Piyong Temjen Jamir – Literature and Education
22. Malti Joshi – Literature and Education
23. Manoj Joshi – Art-Acting
24. Rameshwarlal Kabra – Trade & Industry
25. Pran Kishore Kaul – Art
26. Bounlap Keokangna (Foreigner) – Others-Architecture
27. Vijay Kichlu – Art-Music
28. Tommy Koh (Foreigner) – Public Affairs
29. Lakshmikutty – Medicine-Traditional
30. Joyshree Goswami Mahanta – Literature and Education
31. Narayan Das Maharaj – Others-Spiritualism
32. Pravakara Maharana – Art-Sculpture
33. Hun Many (Foreigner) – Public Affairs
34. Nouf Marwaai (Foreigner) – Others- Yoga
35. Zaverilal Mehta – Literature and Education-Journalism
36. Krishna Bihari Mishra – Literature and Education
37. Sisir Purushottam Mishra – Art-Cinema
38. Subhasini Mistry – Social Work
39. Tomio Mizokami (Foreigner) – Literature and Education
40. Somdet Phra Maha Muniwong (Foreigner) – Others-Spiritualism
41. Keshav Rao Musalgaonkar – Literature and Education
42. Thant Myint – U (Foreigner) – Public Affairs
43. V Nanammal – Others-Yoga
44. Sulagitti Narasamma – Social Work
45. Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan – Art-Folk Music
46. I Nyoman Nuarta (Foreigner) – Art-Sculpture
47. Malai Haji Abdullah Bin Malai Haji Othman (Foreigner) – Social Work
48. Gobaradhan Panika – Art-Weaving
49. Bhabani Charan Pattanaik – Public Affairs
50. Murlikant Petkar – Sports-Swimming
51. Habibullo Rajabov (Foreigner) – Literature and Education
52. M R Rajagopal – Medicine-Palliative Care
53. Sampat Ramteke (Posthumous) – Social Work
54. Chandra Sekhar Rath – Literature and Education
55. S S Rathore – Civil Service
56. Amitava Roy – Science and Engineering
57. Sanduk Ruit (Foreigner) – Medicine-Ophthalmology
58. R Sathyanarayana – Art-Music
59. Pankaj M Shah – Medicine-Oncology
60. Bhajju Shyam – Art-Painting
61. Maharao Raghuveer Singh – Literature and Education
62. Kidambi Srikanth – Sports-Badminton
63. Ibrahim Sutar – Art-Music
64. Siddeshwara Swamiji – Others-Spiritualism
65. Lentina Ao Thakkar – Social Work
66. Vikram Chandra Thakur – Science and Engineering
67. Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Tharanathan (Duo) – Art-Music
    Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Thyagarajan (Duo) – Art-Music
68. Nguyen Tien Thien (Foreigner) – Others-Spiritualism
69. Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi – Literature and Education
70. Rajagopalan Vasudevan – Science and Engineering
71. Panatawane Gangadhar Vithobaji – Literature and Education
72. Romulus Whitaker – Others-Wildlife Conservation
73. Baba Yogendra – Art
74. A Zakia – Literature and Education

Padma Vibhushan:

Illaiyaraja – Art-Music

Ghulam Mustafa Khan – Art-Music

P Parameswaran- Literature and Education

Padma Bhushan awardees:

Pankaj Advani – Sports-Billiards/Snooker

Philipose Mar Chrysostom – Others-Spiritualism

Mahendra Singh Dhoni – Sports-Cricket

Alexander Kadakin (Foreigner/Posthumous) – Public affairs

Ramachandran Nagaswamy – Others-Archaeology

Ved Prakash Nanda (OCI) – Literature and Education

Laxman Pai – Art-Painting

Arvind Parikh – Art-Music

Sharda Sinha – Art-Music

About Padma Awards

The Bharat Ratna and Padma Vibhushan were instituted by Government of India (GOI) in 1954. Padma Vibhushan was earlier presented in three different categories, namely Pahela Varg, Dusra Varg and Tisra Varg. They were finally renamed on 8th January, 1955 vide Presidential Notification as Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.

Padma Awards – one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz.- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.

These awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year. This year the President of India has approved conferment of 85 Padma Awards including two duo cases (in a duo case, the award is counted as one) as per list below. The list comprises 3 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan and 73 Padma Shri Awards. 14 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 16 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 3 posthumous awardees.