Padma Bhushan
The Padma Bhushan ( Hindi पद्म भूषण , lotus order ) is the third highest Indian civil order after the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan (and before the Padma Shri ). It has been awarded annually since 1954 on January 26th - “ Republic Day ” - by the Indian President to people who have made a great contribution to the nation in scientific, political, cultural or other areas.
Medal bearer (selection)
- 1954: Homi Jehangir Bhabha , Husain Ahmad Madani , MS Subbulakshmi
- 1956: Rukmini Devi Arundale , Dhyan Chand , Mahadevi Varma
- 1957: Govind Sakharam Sardesai
- 1958: KPS Menon , Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia , AC Narayanan Nambiar , Rustom Jal Vakil
- 1959: Ali Yavar Jung , Tenzing Norgay
- 1960: Kazi Nazrul Islam , Vithalrao Nagesh Shirodkar
- 1961: K. Venkataraman
- 1963: TR Seshadri
- 1964: RK Narayan , Mohammed Abdullah
- 1965: Jayant Vishnu Narlikar , Satyajit Ray
- 1966: Zubin Mehta , Vikram Sarabhai , Homi Nusserwanji Sethna
- 1967: Mulk Raj Anand , Ravi Shankar , Ali Akbar Khan
- 1968: CR Rao , MC Modi , Sam Manekshaw , Bismillah Khan , Waman Bapuji Meter
- 1969: Prithviraj Kapoor , Lata Mangeshkar , Raja Rao
- 1970: Buddhadeva Bose , Sombhu Mitra , Ahmed Jan Thirakwa , MS Krishnan
- 1971: Raj Kapoor , DK Pattammal
- 1972: Jagjit Singh Aurora , MS Swaminathan , Birendra Nath Sircar , Chandrika Prasad Srivastava
- 1973: Maqbul Fida Husain , Raja Ramanna
- 1974: Alice Boner , Khushwant Singh
- 1975: Asima Chatterjee
- 1976: Harish-Chandra
- 1980: Sunil Gavaskar
- 1981: APJ Abdul Kalam , Mrinal Sen
- 1982: S. Balachander
- 1983: Richard Attenborough , Rajkumar , Swraj Paul , KG Ramanathan , Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala
- 1984: Michael Ferreira , Sivaji Ganesan , Ishwari Prasad , Kanwar Natwar Singh , Vijay Tendulkar
- 1985: Gurbachan Singh Talib
- 1986: Sidney Dillon Ripley , Ela Bhatt
- 1987: Man Mohan Sharma , Nikhil Banerjee
- 1988: Kushok Bakula , A. Nageswara Rao
- 1989: Fenner Brockway
- 1990: MS Narasimhan
- 1991: Ebrahim Alkazi , Dilip Kumar , Ram Narayan , Kapil Dev , Shyam Benegal
- 1992: Hariprasad Chaurasia , Anna Hazare , Naushad Ali
- 1998: UR Ananthamurthy , Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar , G. Madhavan Nair
- 1999: Ashok Kumar
- 2000: Ratan Tata , Rajinikanth , Braj Basi Lal
- 2001: Dev Anand , Viswanathan Anand , Amitabh Bachchan , Baldev Raj Chopra , Bhupen Hazarika , Rajendra Pachauri , Raj Reddy , L. Subramaniam
- 2002: Gary Ackerman , Anil Agarwal , Kumar Bhattacharyya , Shobha Gurtu , Zakir Hussain , BKS Iyengar , Ismail Merchant , Frank Pallone , Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra , Nirmal Verma , Zohra Segal , Evgeni Petrowitsch Tschelyschew , Guri Iwanowitsch Martschuk
- 2003: Herbert Fischer , Naseeruddin Shah
- 2004: Soumitra Chattopadhyay , Gulzar , Yoshirō Mori
- 2005: Yash Chopra , Manna Dey , Qurratulain Hyder , Shah Rukh Khan , Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw , Azim Premji
- 2006: P. Leela , Nandan Nilekani , Dušan Zbavitel , Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena , Vijaypat Singhania , Chiranjeevi , Lokesh Chandra
- 2007: Javed Akhtar , Indra Nooyi , VS Ramachandran , Ela Gandhi , Sunil Mittal , Bhikhu Parekh , Jeffrey Sachs
- 2008: Asis Datta , Meghnad Desai , Ravindra Kelekar , Dominique Lapierre , Shiv Nadar , Vikram Pandit , SR Srinivasa Varadhan , Sunita Lyn Williams , Juli Michailowitsch Voronzow , Ji Xianlin
- 2009: Abhinav Bindra , Ramachandra Guha , Khalid Hameed , CK Prahalad , CS Seshadri , Thomas Kailath , D. Jayakanthan
- 2010: Aamir Khan , Sultan Khan , AR Rahman , Fareed Zakaria , Kushal Pal Singh
- 2011: Shashi Kapoor , Waheeda Rehman , Chanda Kochhar , Shyam Saran
- 2012: Shabana Azmi , Khaled Choudhury , Buddhadev Das Gupta , Dharmendra Singh Deol, TV Gopalkrishnan , Mira Nair , Anish Kapoor , Satya Narayan Goenka , P. Chandrasekhara Rao , George Yeo , B. Muthuraman , MS Raghunathan , Homi K. Bhabha , Ronen Sen , D. Ramanaidu
- 2013: Rahul Dravid , Mary Kom , Rajesh Khanna , Sharmila Tagore , Ashoke Sen , Jogesh Pati , Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- 2014: Leander Paes , Pullela Gopichand , Kamal Haasan , Anita Desai , K. Radhakrishnan , Dalveer Bhandari , Ruskin Bond
- 2015: Jahnu Barua , Manjul Bhargava , David Frawley , Bill Gates , Melinda Gates
- 2016: Anupam Kher , Udit Narayan , Saina Nehwal , Sania Mirza , Robert Blackwill , Pallonji Mistry
- 2017: Sharad Pawar , Murli Manohar Joshi , Ramachandra Rao , Vishwa Mohan Bhatt , Maha Chakri Sirindhorn
Web links
Commons : Padma Bhushan - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Official site of the Government of India to the Padma Awards (English)
- Website with the winners of the last two years (English) accessed on March 25, 2017