Padma Awards 2025 Live: 71 individuals honored with Padma Awards, Here’s full details

71 personalities are being honored with Padma Awards by the President for their remarkable contribution in different fields at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Read further on Dynamite News

New Delhi: 71 individuals are being honored with Padma Awards by the President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan for their remarkable contribution and work in different fields. This includes 4 Padma Vibhushan, 10 Padma Vibhushan and 57 Padma Shri.

Apart from the President, the Padma Awards distribution ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan includes Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President, Home Minister, many eminent politicians, dignitaries and guests.

Padma awards are announced every year on the eve of Republic Day (26 January). This time, 139 personalities have been announced to be given Padma awards, which will be given in two phases.

In the first phase, 71 personalities out of 139 personalities are being honored today. In the second phase, the remaining 68 Padma winners will be honored next month.

This time 23 women in the list of Padma awardees. Apart from these, 10 foreigners, NRI, PIO, OCI category persons are included.

13 Persons Awarded Posthumously

This year 13 persons are being awarded Padma award posthumously, which includes the names of Bhojpuri singer Sharda Sinha, Osamu Suzuki of Suzuki Company, Manohar Joshi.

Awardees List

Padma Vibhushan -

Duvvur Nageswara Reddy
Former Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar
Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia
Lakshminarayan Subramaniam
M.T. Vasudevan Nair (posthumous)
Osamu Suzuki (posthumous)
Sharda Sinha (posthumous)

Padma Bhushan -

A. Surya Prakash
Ananta Nag
Bibek Debroy (posthumous)
Jatin Goswami
Jose Chacko Periyappuram
Kailash Nath Dixit
Manohar Joshi (posthumous)
Nalli Kuppuswami Chetty
Nandamuri Balakrishna
P.R. Sreejesh
Pankaj Patel
Pankaj Udhas (posthumously)
Ram Bahadur Rai
Sadhvi Ritambhara
S Ajit Kumar
Shekhar Kapoor
Shobhana Chandrakumar
Sushil Kumar Modi (posthumously)
Vinod Dham

Padma Shri -

Advaita Charan Gadnayak
Ramchandra Palav
Ajay V Bhatt
Anil Kumar Boro
Arijit Singh
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Arunoday Saha
Arvind Sharma
Ashok Kumar Mohapatra
Ashok Laxman Saraf
Ashutosh Sharma
Ashwini Bhide Deshpande
Baijnath Maharaj
Barry Godfrey John
Begum Batul
Bharat Gupta
Bheru Singh Chauhan
Bhim Singh Bhavesh
Bhimavva Doddabalappa Sillekyathara
Budhendra Kumar Jain
C.S. Vaidyanathan
Chaitram Devchand Pawar
Chandrakant Sheth (posthumous)
Chandrakant Sompura
Chetan E Chitnis
David R Simlieh
Durga Charan Ranbir
Farooq Ahmad Mir
Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid
Geeta Upadhyaya
Gokul Chandra Das
Guruvayur Dorai
Harchandan Singh Bhatti
Hariman Sharma
Harjinder Singh Srinagar Wale
Harvinder Singh
Hasan Raghu
Hemant Kumar
Hriday Narayan Dixit
Hugh and Colleen Gantzer (posthumous)(Double)
Inivalappil Mani Vijayan
Jagadish Joshila
Jaspinder Narula
Jonas Masetti
Joynacharan Bathery
Jumde Yomgam Gamlin
K. Damodaran
K.L. Krishna
K.Omankutty Amma
Kishore Kunal (posthumous)
L. Hungthing
Lakshmipathi Ramasubbaiyar
Lalit Kumar Mangotra
Lama Lobzang (posthumous)
Libya Lobo Sardesai
M.D. Srinivas
Madugula Nagphani Sarma
Mahavir Nayak
Mamata Shankar
Manda Krishna Madiga
Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampally
Miriala Apparao (posthumous)
Nagendra Nath Roy
Narayan (Bhulaibhai) (posthumous)
Naren Gurung
Neerja Bhatla
Nirmala Devi
Nitin Nohria
Omkar Singh Pahwa
P. Datchanamurthy
Pandi Ram Mandavi
Parmar Lavjibhai Nagjibhai
Pawan Goenka
Prashant Prakash
Pratibha Satpathy
Purisai Kannappa Sambandhan
R. Ashwin
R.G. Chandramogan
Radha Bahin Bhatt
Radhakrishnan Devasenapati
Ramdarsh ​​Mishra
Ranendra Bhanu Majumdar
Ratan Kumar Parimu
Reba Kanta Mahanta
Renthlei Lalrana
Ricky Gyan Kej
Sajjan Bhajanka
Sally Holkar
Sant Ram Deswal
Satyapal Singh
Seeni Viswanathan
Sethuraman Panchanathan
Sheikha Ali Al-Jaber Al-Saba
Shein Kaf Nizam (Shiva Kishan Bissa)
Shyam Bihari Agrawal
Sonia Nityananda
Stephen Knapp
Subhash Khetulal Sharma
Suresh Harilal Soni
Surinder Kumar Vasal
Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik Maharaj)
Syed Ainul Hasan
Tejendra Narayan Majumdar
Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi
Tushar Durgeshbhai Shukla
Vadiraj Raghavendracharya Panchmukhi
Vasudev Kamath
Velu Asan
Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar
Vijay Nityananda Surishwarji Maharaj
Vijayalakshmi Deshmane
Vilas Dangre
Vinayak Lohani

About Padma Awards

Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award, given for exceptional and distinguished service.

Padma Bhushan, It's the third-highest civilian award in the country, after the Bharat Ratna and Padma Vibhushan.

Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India, recognizes distinguished service in various fields.