New Delhi:
Former Comptroller and Auditor General of India Vinod Rai, actor Rajinikanth, spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravishankar and tennis player Sania Mirza are on the list of 112 Padma awardees whose names were announced on Monday by the government.
The awards will be given across three categories: the Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. These awards are given on Republic Day, for the over six decades now, to people who the government recognises have excelled in their fields.
Below is the full list:
Padma Vibhushan1. Ms. Yamini Krishnamurthi Art- Classical dance Delhi
2. Shri Rajinikanth Art-Cinema Tamil Nadu
3. Smt. Girija Devi Art-Classical Vocal West Bengal
4. Shri Ramoji Rao Literature & Education-Journalism Andhra Pradesh
5. Dr. Viswanathan Shanta Medicine- Oncology Tamil Nadu
6. Shri Shri Ravi Shankar Others-Spiritualism Karnataka
7. Shri Jagmohan Public Affairs Delhi
8. Dr.Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre Science & Engineering Karnataka
9. Shri Avinash Dixit (Foreigner) Literature & Education USA
10. Late Shri Dhiru Bhai Ambani (Posthumous) Trade & Industry Maharashtra
Padma Bhushan11. Shri Anupam Kher Art-Cinema Maharashtra
12. Shri Udit Narayan Jha Art-Playback Singing Maharashtra
13. Shri Ram V. Sutar Art-Sculpture Uttar Pradesh
14. Shri Heisnam Kanhailal Art-Theatre Manipur
15. Shri Vinod Rai Civil Service Kerala
16. Dr. Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad Literature & Education Andhra Pradesh
17. Prof. N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya Literature & Education Maharashtra
18. Dr. Barjinder Singh Hamdard Literature & Education - Journalism Punjab
19. Prof. D. Nageshwar Reddy Medicine-Gastroenterology Telangana
20. Swami Tejomayananda Other-Spiritualism Maharashtra
21. Shri Hafeez Contractor Others-Architecture Maharashtra
22. Shri Ravindra Chandra Bhargava Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh
23. Dr.Venkata Rama Rao Alla Science & Engineering Andhra Pradesh
24. Ms. Saina Nehwal Sports-Badminton Telangana
25. Ms. Sania Mirza Sports-Tennis Telangana
26. Ms. Indu Jain Trade & Industry Delhi
27. Late Swami Dayanand Sarawasati (Posthumous) Others-Spiritualism Uttarakhand
28. Shri Robert Blackwill (Foreigner) Public Affairs USA
29. Shri Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry (NRI/PIO) Trade & Industry Ireland
Padma Shri 30. Smt. Prathibha Prahlad Art- Classical Dance Delhi
31. Shri Bhikhudan Gadhvi Art- Folk Music Gujarat
32. Shri Sribhas Chandra Supakar Art- Textile Designing Uttar Pradesh
33. Shri Ajay Devgn Art-Cinema Maharashtra
34. Ms. Priyanka Chopra Art-Cinema Maharashtra
35. Pt. Tulsidas Borkar Art-Classical Music Goa
36. Dr. Soma Ghosh Art-Classical Vocal Uttar Pradesh
37. Shri Nila Madhab Panda Art-Film Direction and Production Delhi
38. Shri S.S. Rajamouli Art-Film Direction and Production Karnataka
39. Shri Madhur Bhandarkar Art-Film Direction and Production Maharashtra
40. Prof. M. Venkatesh Kumar Art-Folk Artist Karnataka
41. Ms. Gulabi Sapera Art-Folk Dance Rajasthan
42. Smt. Mamta Chandrakar Art-Folk Music Chhattisgarh
43. Ms. Malini Awasthi Art-Folk Music Uttar Pradesh
44. Shri Jai Prakash Lekhiwal Art-Miniature Painting Delhi
45. Shri K. Laxma Goud Art-Painting Telangana
46. Shri Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe Art-Photography Madhya Pradesh
47. Shri Naresh Chander Lal Art-Theatre & Cinema Andaman & Nicobar
48. Shri Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah Literature & Education Assam
49. Shri Prahlad Chandra Tasa Literature & Education Assam
50. Dr.Ravindra Nagar Literature & Education Delhi
51. Shri Dahyabhai Shastri Literature & Education Gujarat
52. Dr.Santeshivara Bhyrappa Literature & Education Karnataka
53. Shri Haldar Nag Literature & Education Odisha
54. Shri Kameshwaram Brahma Literature & Education -Journalism Assam
55. Prof. Pushpesh Pant Literature & Education-Journalism Delhi
56. Shri Jawaharlal Kaul Literature & Education-Journalism Jammu & Kashmir
57. Shri Ashok Malik Literature &Education Delhi
58. Dr.Mannam Gopi Chand Medicine-Cardio Thoracic Surgery Telangana
59. Prof. Ravi Kant Medicine-Surgery Uttar Pradesh
60. Prof. Ram Harsh Singh Medicine- Ayurveda Uttar Pradesh
61. Prof. Shiv Narain Kureel Medicine- Paediatric Surgery Uttar Pradesh
62. Dr.Sabya Sachi Sarkar Medicine -Radiology Uttar Pradesh
63. Dr. Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale Medicine-Cardiac Surgery Andhra Pradesh
64. Prof. T.K. Lahiri Medicine-Cardio Thoracic Surgery Uttar Pradesh
65. Dr. Praveen Chandra Medicine-Cardiology Delhi
66. Prof. (Dr) Daljeet Singh Gambhir Medicine-Cardiology Uttar Pradesh
67. Dr.Chandrasekar Shesadri Thoguluva Medicine-Gastroenterology Tamil Nadu
68. Dr. (Mrs.) Anil Kumari Malhotra Medicine-Homeopathy Delhi
69. Prof. M.V. Padma Srivastava Medicine-Neurology Delhi
70. Dr. Sudhir V. Shah Medicine-Neurology Gujarat
71. Dr. M. M. Joshi Medicine-Ophthalmology Karnataka
72. Prof. (Dr) John Ebnezar Medicine-Orthopaedic Surgery Karnataka
73. Dr. Nayudamma Yarlagadda Medicine-Paediatric Surgery Andhra Pradesh
74. Shri Simon Oraon Other -Environment Conservation Jharkhand
75. Shri Imitiaz Qureshi Other-Culinary Delhi
76. Shri Piyush Pandey Others-Advertising & Communication Maharashtra
77. Shri Subhash Palekar Others-Farming Maharashtra
78. Shri Ravinder Kumar Sinha Others-Wildlife Conservation Bihar
79. Dr. H.R. Nagendra Others-Yoga Karnataka
80. Shri M. C. Mehta Public Affairs Delhi
81. Shri M. N. Krishna Mani Public Affairs Delhi
82. Shri Ujjwal Nikam Public Affairs Maharashtra
83. Shri Tokheho Sema Public Affairs Nagaland
84. Dr. Satish Kumar Science & Engineering Delhi
85. Dr.Mylswamy Annadurai Science & Engineering Karnataka
86. Prof. Dipankar Chatterji Science & Engineering Karnataka
87. Prof.(Dr.) Ganapati Dadasaheb Yadav Science & Engineering Maharashtra
88. Smt. (Prof.) Veena Tandon Science & Engineering Meghalaya
89. Shri Onkar Nath Srivastava Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh
90. Ms. Sunita Krishnan Social Work Andhra Pradesh
91. Shri Ajoy Kumar Dutta Social Work Assam
92. Shri M. Pandit Dasa Social Work Karnataka
93.Shri P. P. Gopinathan Nair Social Work Kerala
94. Smt. Madeleine Herman de Blic Social Work Puducherry
95. Shri Srinivasan Damal Kandalai Social work Tamil Nadu
96. Shri Sudhakar Olwe Social Work Maharashtra
97. Dr. T.V. Narayana Social Work Telangana
98. Shri Arunachalam Murugantham Social Work Tamil Nadu
99. Ms. Deepika Kumari Sports-Archery Jharkhand
100. Shri Sushil Doshi Sports-commentary Madhya Pradesh
101. Shri Mahesh Sharma Trade & Industry Delhi
102. Shri Saurabh Srivastava Trade & Industry Delhi
103. Sh Dilip Sanghvi Trade & Industry Maharashtra
104.Dr. Keki Hormusji Gharda Trade & Industry Maharashtra
105. Late Shri Prakash Chand Surana (Posthumous) Art -Classical Music Rajasthan
106. Late Shri Saeed Jaffrey (NRI/PIO/Posthumous) Art-Cinema UK
107. Shri Michael Postel (Foreigner) Art-Archaeology France
108. Shri Salman Amin Sal Khan (NRI/PIO) Literature & Education USA
109. Smt. Hui Lan Zhang (Foreigner) Others-Yoga China
110. Shri Predrag K. Nikic (Foreigner) Others-Yoga Serbia
111. Dr.Sundar Aditya Menon (NRI/PIO) Social Work UAE
112. Shri Ajaypal Singh Banga (NRI/PIO) Trade & Industry USA