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Padma Vibhushan

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Padma Vibhushan


Award Information

Type
civilian

Category
national

Instituted
1954

First Awarded
1954

Last Awarded
2011

Total Awarded
283

Awarded by
Government of India

Previous Name(s)
Pahela Varg

Ribbon
Medium Pink

Award Rank

Bharat Ratna  Padma Vibhushan  Padma Bhushan


The Padma Vibhushan is the second highest civilian award in the Republic of India. It consists of a medal and a citation and is awarded by the President of India. It was established on 2 January 1954. It ranks behind the Bharat Ratna and comes before thePadma Bhushan. It is awarded to recognize exceptional and distinguished service to the nation in any field, including government service.
History
The award was established by Presidential decree on 2 January 1954. The Padma Vibhushan was originally established as the Pahela Varg (First Class) of a three-class "Padma Vibhushan" awards. However the structure was changed in 1955 and there is no record of the award being presented to recipients in the original structure. The award was suspended between 1977 and 1980 and between 1992 and 1998.As of the end of 2011, only 283 people have thus far been awarded this honour.

Medallion details

First medallion (1954-1955)
The initial medal was a circular gold medal, 1-3/8 inches in diameter, with an embossed lotus flower in the center and the legend "Padma Vibhushan" above and a floral wreath below. The obverse side had the Indian state emblem with the legend Desh Seva (National Service) above and a lotus wreath below. No record exists to show whether this design was used to present a medal to the awardees.

Second medallion (1955-1957)
In 1955, the badge design was altered to be a "mainly circular" 1-3/16-inch toned bronze badge with geometrical patterns. The center had a lotus flower with four major petals embossed in white gold. Above and below this flower, the name of the decoration Padma Vibhushan was embossed in silver-gilt.

Current medallion (1957-current)
In 1957, the badge design was retained but the material changed from toned bronze to burnished bronze.
List of Awardees
Sr.no
Year
Name
Field
State
Country
1
1954
Satyendra Nath Bose
Science & Engineering
West Bengal
India
2
1954
Zakir Hussain
Public Affairs
Andhra Pradesh
India
3
1954
Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher
Public Affairs
Maharashtra
India
4
1954
Jigme Dorji Wangchuk
Public Affairs
Bhutan
Bhutan*
5
1954
Nand Lal Bose
Arts
West Bengal
India
6
1954
V. K. Krishna Menon
Public Affairs
Kerala
India
7
1955
Dhondo Keshav Karve
Literature & Education
Maharashtra
India
8
1955
J. R. D. Tata
Trade & Industry
Maharashtra
India
9
1956
Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
Public Affairs
Madhya Pradesh
India
10
1956
Fazal Ali
Public Affairs
Bihar
India
11
1956
Jankibai Bajaj
Social Work
Madhya Pradesh
India
12
1957
Ghanshyam Das Birla
Trade & Industry
Rajasthan
India
13
1957
Motilal Chimanlal Setalvad
Law and Public affairs
Maharashtra
India
14
1957
Shriprakash
Public Affairs
Andhra Pradesh
India
15
1959
John Matthai
Literature & Education
Kerala
India
16
1959
Radhabinod Pal
Public Affairs
West Bengal
India
17
1959
Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta
Social Work
Maharashtra
India
18
1960
Naryana Raghvan Pillai
Public Affairs
Tamil Nadu
India
19
1962
H. Varda Raja Iyengar
Civil Service
Tamil Nadu
India
20
1962
Padmaja Naidu
Public Affairs
Andhra Pradesh
India
21
1962
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Civil Service
Uttar Pradesh
India
22
1963
A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar
Medicine
Tamil Nadu
India
23
1963
Suniti Kumar Chatterji
Literature & Education
West Bengal
India
24
1963
Hari Vinayak Pataskar
Public Affairs
Maharashtra
India
25
1964
Gopinath Kaviraj
Literature & Education
Uttar Pradesh
India
26
1964
Acharya Kalelkar
Literature & Education
Maharashtra
India
27
1965
Arjan Singh
Military Service
Delhi
India
28
1965
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri
Military Service
West Bengal
India
29
1965
Mehdi Nawaz Jung
Public Affairs
Andhra Pradesh
India
30
1966
Valerian Gracias
Social Work
Maharashtra
India
31
1967
Bhola Nath Jha
Civil Service
Uttar Pradesh
India
32
1967
Chandra Kisan Daphtary
Public Affairs
Maharashtra
India
33
1967
Hafix Mohammed Ibrahim
Civil Service
Andhra Pradesh
India
34
1967
Pattadakal Venkanna R Rao
Civil Service
Andhra Pradesh
India
35
1968
Mahadev Srihari Ane
Public Affairs
Madhya Pradesh
India
36
1968
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Science & Engineering
Tamil Nadu
United States*
37
1968
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Statistical Science
Delhi
India
38
1968
K. Vaidyanatha Kalyana Sundaram
Public Affairs
Tamil Nadu
India
39
1968
Kripal Singh
Civil Service
Delhi
India
40
1969
Hargobind Khorana
Science & Engineering
Massachusetts
United States*
41
1969
Mohan Sinha Mehta
Civil Service
Rajasthan
India
42
1969
Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi
Civil Service
Maharashtra
India
43
1969
Ghananand Pande
Civil Service
Uttar Pradesh
India
44
1969
Rajeshwar Dayal
Civil Service
Delhi
India
45
1970
Binay Ranjan Sen
Civil Service
West Bengal
India
46
1970
Tara Chand
Literature & Education
Uttar Pradesh
India
47
1970
Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam
Civil Service
Tamil Nadu
India
48
1970
Suranjan Das
Civil Service
West Bengal
India
49
1970
Harbaksh Singh
Military Service
Punjab
India
50
1970
A. Rameswami Mudaliar
Civil Service
Tamil Nadu
India
51
1970
Anthony Lancelot Dias
Public Affairs
Maharashtra
India
52
1971
Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar
Medicine
Goa
India
53
1971
Balaram Sivaraman
Civil Service
Tamil Nadu
India
54
1971
Bimala Prasad Chaliha
Civil Service
Assam
India
55
1971
Uday Shankar
Arts
West Bengal
India
56
1971
Sumati Morarjee
Civil Service
Maharashtra
India
57
1971
Allauddin Khan
Arts
West Bengal
India
58
1972
S. M. Nanda
Military Service
Delhi
India
59
1972
Pratap Chandra Lal
Military Service
Punjab
India
60
1972
Aditya Nath Jha
Public Affairs
Uttar Pradesh
India
61
1972
Jivraj Narayan Mehta
Public Affairs
Maharashtra
India
62
1972
P. Balacharya Gajendragadkar
Public Affairs
Maharashtra
India
63
1972
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai
Science & Engineering
Gujarat
India
64
1972
Sam Manekshaw
Military Service
Tamil Nadu
India
65
1972
Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq
Public Affairs
Jammu and Kashmir
India
66
1972
Hormasji Maneckji Seervai
Law and Public affairs
Maharashtra
India
67
1973
Daulat Singh Kothari
Science & Engineering
Delhi
India
68
1973
Nagendra Singh
Public Affairs
Rajasthan
India
69
1973
Tirumalrao Swaminathan
Civil Service
Tamil Nadu
India
70
1973
U. N. Dhebar
Social Work
Gujarat
India
71
1973
Basanti Devi
Civil Service
West Bengal
India
72
1973
Nellie Sengupta
Social Work
West Bengal
India
73
1974
V. Kasturi Ranga Varadarja Rao
Civil Service
Karnataka
India
74
1974
Benode Behari Mukherjee
Arts
West Bengal
India
75
1974
Harish Chandra Sarin
Civil Service
Delhi
India
76
1974
Niren De
Law and Public Affairs
West Bengal
India
77
1975
Basanti Dulal Nag Chaudhuri
Literature & Education
West Bengal
India
78
1975
Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh
Public Affairs
Maharashtra
India
79
1975
Durgabai Deshmukh
Social Work
Maharashtra
India
80
1975
Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey
Literature & Education
Maharashtra
India
81
1975
Raja Ramanna
Science & Engineering
Karnataka
India
82
1975
Homi Nusserwanji Sethna
Civil Service
Maharashtra
India
83
1975
M.S. Subbulakshmi
Arts
Tamil Nadu
India
84
1975
Mary Clubwala Jadhav
Social Work
Tamil Nadu
India
85
1976
Bashir Hussain Zaidi
Literature & Education
Delhi
India
86
1976
Kalpathi Ramakrishna Ramanathan
Science & Engineering
Kerala
India
87
1976
Kalu Lal Shrimali
Literature & Education
Uttar Pradesh
India
88
1976
Giani Gurmukh Singh Mussafir
Literature & Education
Punjab
India
89
1976
Keshava Shankar Pillai
Arts
Delhi
India
90
1976
Salim Moizuddin Ali Abdul
Science & Engineering
Uttar Pradesh
India
91
1976
Satyajit Ray
Arts
West Bengal
India
92
1977
Om Prakash Mehra
Military Service
Punjab
India
93
1977
Ajudhia Nath Khosla
Civil Service
Delhi
India
94
1977
Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee
Public Affairs
West Bengal
India
95
1977
Ali Yavar Jung
Public Affairs
Andhra Pradesh
India
96
1977
Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
Literature & Education
Delhi
India
97
1977
T. Balasaraswati
Arts
Tamil Nadu
India
98
1980
Rai Krishnadasa
Civil Service
Uttar Pradesh
India
99
1980
Bismillah Khan
Arts
Uttar Pradesh
India
100
1981
Satish Dhawan
Science & Engineering
Karnataka
India
101
1981
Ravi Shankar
Arts
Uttar Pradesh
India
102
1982
Mira Behn
Social Work

United Kingdom
103
1985
C. N. R. Rao
Science & Engineering
Karnataka
India
104
1985
Mambillikalathil Kumar Menon
Civil Service
Kerala
India
105
1986
Autar Singh Paintal
Medicine
Delhi
India
106
1986
Birju Maharaj
Arts
Delhi
India
107
1986
Baba Amte
Social Work
Maharashtra
India
108
1987
Benjamin Peary Pal
Science & Engineering
Punjab
India
109
1987
Manmohan Singh
Civil Service
Delhi
India
110
1987
Arun Shridhar Vaidya
Military Service
Maharashtra
India
111
1987
Kamladevi Chattopadhyay
Social Work
Karnataka
India
112
1988
Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa
Literature & Education
Karnataka
India
113
1988
Mirza Hameedullah Beg
Law and Public Affairs
Delhi
India
114
1988
Mahadevi Verma
Literature & Education
Uttar Pradesh
India
115
1989
M. S. Swaminathan
Science & Engineering
Delhi
India
116
1989
Umashankar Dikshit
Public Affairs
Uttar Pradesh
India
117
1989
Ali Akbar Khan
Arts
West Bengal
India
118
1990
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Science & Engineering
Tamil Nadu
India
119
1990
Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
Arts
Tamil Nadu
India
120
1990
Vallmpadugai Srinivasa Raghavan Arunachalam
Literature & Education
Delhi
India
121
1990
Bhabatosh Dutta
Literature & Education
West Bengal
India
122
1990
Kumar Gandharva
Arts
Karnataka
India
123
1990
Triloki Nath Chaturvedi
Civil Service
Karnataka
India
124
1991
Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel
Science & Engineering
Gujarat
India
125
1991
M. Balamuralikrishna
Arts
Andhra Pradesh
India
126
1991
Hirendra Nath Mukherjee
Public Affairs
West Bengal
India
127
1991
N. G. Ranga
Public Affairs
Andhra Pradesh
India
128
1991
Rajaram Shastri
Literature & Education
Uttar Pradesh
India
129
1991
Gulzari Lal Nanda
Public Affairs
Gujarat
India
130
1991
Khusro Faramurz Rustamji
Civil Service
Maharashtra
India
131
1991
M.F. Husain
Arts
Maharashtra
India
132
1992
Mallikarjun Mansur
Arts
Karnataka
India
133
1992
V. Shantaram
Arts
Maharashtra
India
134
1992
Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati
Medicine
Delhi
India
135
1992
Lakshmanshastri Joshi
Literature & Education
Maharashtra
India
136
1992
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Public Affairs
Delhi
India
137
1992
Govinddas Shroff
Literature & Education
Maharashtra
India
138
1992
Kaloji Narayana Rao
Arts
Andhra Pradesh
India
139
1992
Ravi Narayan Reddy
Public Affairs
Andhra Pradesh
India
140
1992
Sardar Swaran Singh
Public Affairs
Punjab
India
141
1992
Aruna Asaf Ali
Public Affairs
Delhi
India
142
1998
Lakshmi Sahgal
Public Affairs
Uttar Pradesh
India
143
1998
Usha Mehta
Social Work
Maharashtra
India
144
1998
Nani Ardeshir Palkhivala
Law and Public Affairs
Maharashtra
India
145
1998
Walter Sisulu
Public Affairs

South Africa
146
1999
Rajagopala Chidambaram
Science & Engineering
Tamil Nadu
India
147
1999
Sarvepalli Gopal
Literature & Education
Tamil Nadu
India
148
1999
Verghese Kurien
Science & Engineering
Gujarat
India
149
1999
Hans Raj Khanna
Public Affairs
Delhi
India
150
1999
V. R. Krishna Iyer
Law and Public Affairs
Kerala
India
151
1999
Lata Mangeshkar
Arts
Maharashtra
India
152
1999
Bhimsen Joshi
Arts
Karnataka
India
153
1999
Braj Kumar Nehru
Civil Service
Himachal Pradesh
India
154
1999
Dharma Vira
Civil Service
Delhi
India
155
1999
Lallan Prasad Singh
Civil Service
Delhi
India
156
1999
Nana Deshmukh
Social Work
Delhi
India
157
1999
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Social Work
Maharashtra
India
158
1999
Satish Gujral
Arts
Delhi
India
159
1999
D. K. Pattammal
Arts
Tamil Nadu
India
160
2000
Krishen Behari Lall
Civil Service
Delhi
India
161
2000
Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan
Science & Engineering
Karnataka
India
162
2000
Manohar Singh Gill
Civil Service
Delhi
India
163
2000
Kelucharan Mohapatra
Arts
Orissa
India
164
2000
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Arts
Maharashtra
India
165
2000
Pandit Jasraj
Arts
Maharashtra
India
166
2000
Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati
Literature & Education
Gujarat
India
167
2000
Kakkadan Nandanath Raj
Literature & Education
Kerala
India
168
2000
Bhairab Dutt Pande
Civil Service
Uttarakhand
India
169
2000
Maidavolu Narasimham
Trade & Industry
Andhra Pradesh
India
170
2000
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayan
Literature & Education
Tamil Nadu
India
171
2000
Sikander Bakht
Public Affairs
Delhi
India
172
2000
Tarlok Singh
Civil Service
Delhi
India
173
2001
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
Science & Engineering

United States
174
2001
Chakravarthi Vijayaraghava Narasimhan
Civil Service
Tamil Nadu
India
175
2001
Shivkumar Sharma
Arts
Maharashtra
India
176
2001
Man Mohan Sharma
Science & Engineering
Maharashtra
India
177
2001
Amjad Ali Khan
Arts
Delhi
India
178
2001
Benjamin Arthur Gilman
Public Affairs

United States*
179
2001
Hosei Norota
Public Affairs

Japan*
180
2001
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Arts
Maharashtra
India
181
2001
John Kenneth Galbraith
Literature & Education

United States
182
2001
Kotta Satchidananda Murty
Literature & Education
Andhra Pradesh
India
183
2001
Zubin Mehta
Arts

India
184
2002
Chakravthi Rangarajan
Literature & Education
Tamil Nadu
India
185
2002
Gangubai Hangal
Arts
Karnataka
India
186
2002
Kishan Maharaj
Arts
Uttar Pradesh
India
187
2002
Soli Jehangir Sorabjee
Law
Delhi
India
188
2002
Kishori Amonkar
Arts
Maharashtra
India
189
2003
Bal Ram Nanda
Literature & Education
Delhi
India
190
2003
Kazi Lhendup Dorji Kangsarpa
Public Affairs
West Bengal
India
191
2003
Sonal Mansingh
Arts
Delhi
India
192
2003
Bhrihaspati Dev Triguna
Medicine
Delhi
India
193
2004
Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah
Law and Public Affairs
Karnataka
India
194
2004
Amrita Pritam
Literature & Education
Delhi
India
195
2004
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar
Science & Engineering
Maharashtra
India
196
2005
B. K. Goyal
Medicine
Maharashtra
India
197
2005
Karan Singh
Public Affairs
Delhi
India
198
2005
Mohan Dharia
Social Work
Maharashtra
India
199
2005
Ram Narayan
Arts
Maharashtra
India
200
2005
Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valiathan
Medicine
Karnataka
India
201
2005
Jyotindra Nath Dixit
Civil Service
Delhi
India
202
2005
Milon Kumar Banerji
Law and Public Affairs
Delhi
India
203
2005
R. K. Laxman
Arts
Maharashtra
India
204
2006
Norman E. Borlaug
Science & Engineering
Texas
United States
205
2006
V. N. Khare
Law and Public Affairs
Uttar Pradesh
India
206
2006
Mahasveta Devi
Literature & Education
West Bengal
India
207
2006
Nirmala Deshpande
Social Work
Delhi
India
208
2006
Obaid Siddiqui
Science & Engineering
Karnataka
India
209
2006
Prakash Narain Tandon
Medicine
Delhi
India
210
2006
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Arts
Kerala
India
211
2006
C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao
Civil Service
Tamil Nadu
India
212
2006
Charles Correa
Science & Engineering
Maharashtra
India
213
2007
Raja Jesudoss Chelliah
Public Affairs
Tamil Nadu
India
214
2007
Venkataraman Krishnamurthy
Civil Service
Tamil Nadu
India
215
2007
Balu Sankaran
Medicine
Tamil Nadu
India
216
2007
Fali Sam Nariman
Law and Public Affairs
Delhi
India
217
2007
Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati
Law and Public Affairs
Delhi
India
218
2007
Khushwant Singh
Literature & Education
Delhi
India
219
2007
Raja Rao
Literature & Education
Karnataka
India
220
2007
N.N. Vohra
Civil Service
Haryana
India
221
2007
Naresh Chandra
Civil Service
Delhi
India
222
2007
Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan
Science & Engineering
Kerala
India
223
2007
Viswanathan Anand
Sports
Tamil Nadu
India
224
2007
Rajendra K. Pachauri
Environmentalism

India
225
2008
Narayana Murthy
Information Technology
Karnataka
India
226
2008
E. Sreedharan
Delhi Metro
Kerala
India
227
2008
Lakshmi Niwas Mittal
Industry

India
228
2008
Adarsh Sein Anand
Public Affairs
Delhi
India
229
2008
P. N. Dhar
Civil Service

India
230
2008
P. R. S. Oberoi
Trade

India
231
2008
Asha Bhosle
Arts
Maharashtra
India
232
2008
Edmund Hillary
Mountaineering
Auckland
New Zealand
233
2008
Ratan Tata
Industry
Maharashtra
India
234
2008
Pranab Mukherjee
Public Affairs
West Bengal
India
235
2008
Sachin Tendulkar
Sports
Maharashtra
India
236
2009
Chandrika Prasad Srivastava
Civil Service
Maharashtra
India
237
2009
Sunderlal Bahuguna
Environmental Conservation
Uttarakhand
India
238
2009
D. P. Chattopadhyaya
Literature & Education
West Bengal
India
239
2009
Jasbir Singh Bajaj
Medicine
Punjab
India
240
2009
Purshotam Lal
Medicine
Uttar Pradesh
India
241
2009
Govind Narain
Public Affairs
Uttar Pradesh
India
242
2009
Anil Kakodkar
Science & Engineering
Maharashtra
India
243
2009
Dr. G. Madhavan Nair
Science & Engineering
Kerala
India
244
2009
Sister Nirmala
Social Work
West Bengal
India
245
2009
A. S. Ganguly
Trade & Industry
Maharashtra
India
246
2010
Ebrahim Alkazi
Arts
Delhi
India
247
2010
Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
Arts
Tamil Nadu
India
248
2010
Zohra Segal
Arts
Delhi
India
249
2010
Y. Venugopal Reddy
Law and Public affairs
Andhra Pradesh
India
250
2010
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Science & Engineering
Tamil Nadu
United Kingdom
251
2010
Prathap C. Reddy
Trade & Industry
Andhra Pradesh
India
252
2011
Shri A Nageshwara Rao
Arts
Andhra Pradesh
India
253
2011
Dr. (Smt.) Kapila Vatsyayan
Arts
Delhi
India
254
2011
Mrs. Homai Vyarawalla
Arts
Gujarat
India
255
2011
Shri K. Parasaran
Public Affairs
Delhi
India
256
2011
Dr. Akhlaq-ur-Rehman Kidwai
Public Affairs
Delhi
India
257
2011
Shri Vijay Kelkar
Public Affairs
Delhi
India
258
2011
Shri Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Public Affairs
Delhi
India
259
2011
Shri Palle Rama Rao
Science
Andhra Pradesh
India
260
2011
Shri Azim Premji
Trade and Industry
Karnataka
India
261
2011
Shri Brajesh Mishra
Civil Service
Madhya Pradesh
India
262
2011
Prof. (Dr.) Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup
Literature
Kerala
India
263
2011
Dr. Sitakant Mahapatra
Literature
Orissa
India
264
2011
Shri Lakshmi Chand Jain
Public Affairs
Delhi
India
265
2011
Shri Devnath Singh
Public Affairs
Chhattisgarh
India

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