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| Padma Vibhushan (List of Winners 1954--2018) |
In 1954 Satyendra Nath Bose, Nand Lal Bose, Zakir Hussain, Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, and VK Krishna Menon were the first recepients of the Padma Vibhushan Awards.
The recepients receives a medallion and a certificate. No monetary grant is associated with the award.
There are few personalities who refused Padma Vibhushan. PN Haksar is the first person to do so. He was offered Padma Vibhushan in 1973 for his diplomatic services. He played a crucial role in brokering the Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation and the Shimla Agreement, but he declined the award by saying "accepting an award for work done somehow causes an inexplicable discomfort to me."
Vilayat Khan, EMS Namboodiripad, Swami Ranganathananda, and Manikonda Chalapathi Rau are other few who refused the award. The family members of Lakshmi Chand Jain (2011) and Sharad Anantrao Joshi (2016) declined their posthumous conferments.
1986 Padma Vibhushan recepient Baba Amte was the first person to return the prestigious award along with his Padma Shri Award (1971) to protest against the treatment given to the tribals during the construction of Sardar Sarovar Dam.
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck was the first non-Indian to win the prestigious award.
Adityanath Jha was the first person to get this award posthumously.
| Year | Recepient | Field | State/Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Satyendra Nath Bose | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 1954 | Nandalal Bose | Arts | West Bengal |
| 1954 | Zakir Husain | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
| 1954 | Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 1954 | V. K. Krishna Menon | Public Affairs | Kerala |
| 1954 | Jigme Dorji Wangchuck | Public Affairs | Bhutan |
| 1955 | Dhondo Keshav Karve | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 1955 | J. R. D. Tata | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 1956 | Fazal Ali | Public Affairs | Bihar |
| 1956 | Jankibai Bajaj | Social Work | Madhya Pradesh |
| 1956 | Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi | Public Affairs | Madhya Pradesh |
| 1957 | Ghanshyam Das Birla | Trade & Industry | Rajasthan |
| 1957 | Sri Prakasa | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
| 1957 | M. C. Setalvad | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 1959 | John Mathai | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 1959 | Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 1959 | Radhabinod Pal | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
| 1960 | Naryana Raghvan Pillai | Public Affairs | Tamil Nadu |
| 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 & Education | West Bengal |
| 1963 | A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 1963 | Hari Vinayak Pataskar | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 1964 | Acharya Kakasaheb Kalelkar | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 1964 | Gopinath Kaviraj | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1965 | Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri | Civil Service | West Bengal |
| 1965 | Mehdi Nawaz Jung | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
| 1965 | Arjan Singh | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 1966 | Valerian Gracias | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 1967 | Chandra Kisan 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 & Engineering | United States |
| 1968 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis | Literature & 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 | Science & Engineering | United States |
| 1969 | Mohan Sinha Mehta | Civil Service | Rajasthan |
| 1969 | Ghananand Pande | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1970 | Tara Chand | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1970 | Suranjan Das | Civil Service | West Bengal |
| 1970 | Anthony Lancelot Dias | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 1970 | P. 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. Balacharya Gajendragadkar | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 1972 | Aditya Nath Jha | Public Affairs | 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 | Public Affairs | Jammu & Kashmir |
| 1972 | Vikram Sarabhai | Science & Engineering | Gujarat |
| 1972 | Hormasji Maneckji Seervai | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 1973 | Basanti Devi | Civil Service | West Bengal |
| 1973 | U. N. Dhebar | Social Work | Gujarat |
| 1973 | Daulat Singh Kothari | Science & 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 | Uttarakhand |
| 1974 | V. K. R. V. Rao | Civil Service | Karnataka |
| 1974 | Harish Chandra Sarin | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 1975 | C. D. Deshmukh | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
| 1975 | Durgabai Deshmukh | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 1975 | Mary Clubwala Jadhav | Social Work | Tamil Nadu |
| 1975 | Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 1975 | Raja Ramanna | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 1975 | Homi Nusserwanji Sethna | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
| 1975 | M. S. Subbulakshmi | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 1975 | Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 1976 | Salim Ali | Science & Engineering | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1976 | Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir | Literature & Education | Punjab |
| 1976 | K. Shankar Pillai | Arts | Delhi |
| 1976 | K. R. Ramanathan | Science & Engineering | Kerala |
| 1976 | Satyajit Ray | Arts | West Bengal |
| 1976 | Kalu Lal Shrimali | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1976 | Bashir Hussain Zaidi | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 1977 | T. Balasaraswati | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 1977 | Ali Yavar Jung | 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 & Education | Delhi |
| 1980 | Bismillah Khan | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1980 | Rai Krishnadasa | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1981 | Satish Dhawan | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 1981 | Ravi Shankar | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1982 | Mira Behn | Social Work | United Kingdom |
| 1985 | C. N. R. Rao | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 1985 | M. G. K. Menon | Civil Service | 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 & Engineering | Punjab |
| 1987 | Manmohan Singh | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 1987 | Arun Shridhar Vaidya | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
| 1988 | Mirza Hameedullah Beg | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 1988 | Kuvempu | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 1988 | Mahadevi Varma | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1989 | Uma Shankar Dikshit | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1989 | Ali Akbar Khan | Arts | West Bengal |
| 1989 | M. S. Swaminathan | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 1990 | V. S. R. Arunachalam | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 1990 | Triloki Nath Chaturvedi | Civil Service | Karnataka |
| 1990 | Bhabatosh Datta | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 1990 | Kumar Gandharva | Arts | Madhya Pradesh |
| 1990 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 1990 | 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 & Engineering | Gujarat |
| 1991 | N. G. Ranga | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
| 1991 | Khusro Faramurz Rustamji | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
| 1991 | Rajaram Shastri | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1992 | Aruna Asaf Ali | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 1992 | Lakshman Shastri Joshi | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 1992 | Mallikarjun Mansur | Arts | Karnataka |
| 1992 | S. I. Padmavati | Medicine | Delhi |
| 1992 | Kaloji Narayana Rao | Arts | Andhra Pradesh |
| 1992 | Ravi Narayana Reddy | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
| 1992 | V. Shantaram | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 1992 | Govindbhai Shroff | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 1992 | Swaran Singh | Public Affairs | Punjab |
| 1992 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 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 & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 1999 | Nanaji Deshmukh | Social Work | Delhi |
| 1999 | Sarvepalli Gopal | Literature & 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 & 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 | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 1999 | Dharma Vira | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 2000 | Sikander Bakht | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 2000 | Jagdish Bhagwati | Literature & Education | United States |
| 2000 | Hariprasad Chaurasia | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 2000 | M. S. Gill | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 2000 | Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 2000 | K. B. Lall | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 2000 | Kelucharan Mohapatra | Arts | Odisha |
| 2000 | Jasraj Motiram | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 2000 | M. Narasimham | Trade & Industry | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2000 | R. K. Narayan | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 2000 | Bhairab Dutt Pande | Civil Service | Uttarakhand |
| 2000 | K. N. Raj | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 2000 | Tarlok Singh | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 2001 | John Kenneth Galbraith | Literature & Education | United States |
| 2001 | Benjamin A. Gilman | Public Affairs | United States |
| 2001 | Amjad Ali Khan | Arts | Delhi |
| 2001 | Zubin Mehta | Arts | United States |
| 2001 | Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 2001 | Kotha Satchidanda Murthy | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2001 | Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan | Civil Service | Tamil Nadu |
| 2001 | Hosei Norota | Public Affairs | Japan |
| 2001 | C. R. Rao | Science & Engineering | United States |
| 2001 | Man Mohan Sharma | Science & 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 & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2002 | Soli Sorabjee | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 2003 | Kazi Lhendup Dorjee | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
| 2003 | Sonal Mansingh | Arts | Delhi |
| 2003 | Bal Ram Nanda | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 2003 | Brihaspati Dev Triguna | Medicine | Delhi |
| 2004 | Jayant Narlikar | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 2004 | Amrita Pritam | Literature & 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 | 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 | Karnataka |
| 2006 | Norman Borlaug | Science & Engineering | United States |
| 2006 | Charles Correa | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 2006 | Nirmala Deshpande | Social Work | Delhi |
| 2006 | Mahasweta Devi | Literature & 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 & 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 | Literature & Education | United States |
| 2007 | Balu Sankaran | Medicine | Delhi |
| 2007 | Khushwant Singh | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 2007 | George Sudarshan | Science & 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 | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 2008 | Edmund Hillary | Sports | New Zealand |
| 2008 | Lakshmi Mittal | Trade & Industry | United Kingdom |
| 2008 | Pranab Mukherjee | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 2008 | N. R. Narayana Murthy | Trade & Industry | Karnataka |
| 2008 | Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi | Trade & Industry | Delhi |
| 2008 | Rajendra K. Pachauri | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 2008 | E. Sreedharan | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 2008 | Ratan Tata | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 2008 | Sachin Tendulkar | Sports | Maharashtra |
| 2009 | Sunderlal Bahuguna | Others | Uttarakhand |
| 2009 | Jasbir Singh Bajaj | Medicine | Punjab |
| 2009 | D. P. Chattopadhyaya | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| 2009 | Ashok Sekhar Ganguly | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 2009 | Sister Nirmala | Social Work | West Bengal |
| 2009 | Anil Kakodkar | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 2009 | Purshotam Lal | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh |
| 2009 | G. Madhavan Nair | Science & 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 & Engineering | United Kingdom |
| 2010 | Prathap C. Reddy | Trade & Industry | Tamil Nadu |
| 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 & Education | Kerala |
| 2011 | Sitakant Mahapatra | Literature & Education | Odisha |
| 2011 | Brajesh Mishra | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 2011 | K. Parasaran | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 2011 | Azim Premji | Trade & Industry | Karnataka |
| 2011 | Palle Rama Rao | Science & Engineering | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2011 | Akkineni Nageswara Rao | Arts | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2011 | Kapila Vatsyayan | Arts | Delhi |
| 2011 | Homai Vyarawalla | Arts | Gujarat |
| 2012 | Bhupen Hazarika | Arts | Assam |
| 2012 | Mario Miranda | 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 & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 2013 | Yash Pal | Science & Engineering | Uttar Pradesh |
| 2013 | S. H. Raza | Arts | Delhi |
| 2014 | B. K. S. Iyengar | Others | Maharashtra |
| 2014 | Raghunath Anant Mashelkar | Science & 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 | Rambhadracharya | Others | Uttar Pradesh |
| 2015 | M. R. Srinivasan | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 2015 | Kottayan Katankot Venugopal | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 2015 | Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan | Trade & Industry | United Kingdom/France |
| 2016 | V. K. Aatre | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 2016 | Dhirubhai Ambani | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 2016 | Girija Devi | Arts | West Bengal |
| 2016 | Avinash Dixit | Literature & Education | United States |
| 2016 | Jagmohan | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 2016 | Yamini Krishnamurthy | Arts | Delhi |
| 2016 | Rajinikanth | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 2016 | Ramoji Rao | Literature & 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 | Public Affairs | Madhya Pradesh |
| 2017 | Sharad Pawar | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 2017 | Udupi Ramachandra Rao | Science & Engineering | Karnataka |
| 2017 | P. A. Sangma | Public Affairs | Meghalaya |
| 2017 | Jaggi Vasudev | Others | Tamil Nadu |
| 2017 | K. J. Yesudas | Arts | Kerala |
| 2018 | Ilaiyaraaja | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 2018 | Ghulam Mustafa Khan | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 2018 | P. Parameswaran | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 2019 | Balwant Moreshwar Purandare | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 2019 | Anil Manibhai Naik | Trade | Maharashtra |
| 2019 | Ismail Omar Gulleh | Public Affairs | Dijibouti |
| 2019 | Teejan Bai | Arts | Chattisgarh |