Ahead of the 74th Republic Day, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday announced the recipients of the prestigious Padma Awards, the highest civilian award in India. The President has approved the conferment of 106 Padma Awards including that of Mulayam Singh Yadav, who will be receiving the award posthumously. A compendium of 6 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan and 91 Padma Shri Awards are set to be awarded.
The Padma Awards are India’s highest civilian honor after the Bharat Ratna, seeking to recognize achievements in all fields of activities or discipline such as art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service and more.
Here is the complete list of the Padma Awards recipients for 2023:
Padma Vibhushan Awardees (6)
1. Mulayam Singh Yadav (Posthumously)
2. Bakrishna Doshi (Posthumously)
3. Zakir Hussian
4. SM Krishna
5. Dilip Mahalanbis (Posthumously)
6. Srinivas Varadhan
Padma Bhushan Awardees (9)
- SL Bhyrappa
- Kumar Mangalam Birla
- Deepak Dhar
- Vani Jairam
- Swami Chinna Jeeyar
- Suman Kalyanpur
- Kapil Kapoor
- Sudha Murty
- Kamlesh D Patel
Padma Shri Awardees (91)
- Sukama Acharya
- Jodhaiyabai Baiga
- Premjit Baria
- Usha Barle
- Munishwar Chander Dawar
- Hemant Chauhan
- Bhanubhai Chitara
- Hemoprova Chutia
- Narendra Chandra Debbarma (Posthumously)
- Subhadra Devi
- Khadar Valli Dudekula
- Hem Chandra Goswami
- Pritikana Goswami
- Radha Charan Gupta
- Modadugu Vijay Gupta
- Ahmed Hussain & Mohd Hussain (Duo)
- Dilshad Hussain
- Bhiku Ramji Idate
- C I Issac
- Rattan Singh Jaggi
- Bikram Bahadur Jamatia
- Ramkuiwangbe Newme
- Rakesh Radheshyam Jhunjhunwala (Posthumously)
- Ratan Chandra Kar
- Mahipat Kavi
- M M Keeravaani
- Areez Khambatta (Posthumous)
- Parshuram Komaji Khune
- Ganesh Nagappa Krishnarajanagara
- Maguni Charan Kuanr
- Anand Kumar
- Arvind Kumar
- Domar Singh Kunvar
- Risingbor Kurkalang
- Hirabai Lobi
- Moolchand Lodha
- Rani Machaiah
- Ajay Kumar Mandavi
- Prabhakar Bhanudas Mande
- Gajanan Jagannath Mane
- Antaryami Mishra
- Nadoja Pindipapanahalli Munivenkatappa
- Prof. (Dr.) Mahendra Pal
- Uma Shankar Pandey
- Ramesh Parmar & Shanti Parmar (Duo)
- Nalini Parthasarathi
- Hanumantha Rao Pasupuleti
- Ramesh Patange
- Krishna Patel
- K Kalyanasundaram Pillai
- V P Appukuttan Poduval
- Kapil Dev Prasad
- S R D Prasad
- Shah Rasheed Ahmed Quadri
- C V Raju
- Bakshi Ram
- Cheruvayal K Raman
- Sujatha Ramdorai
- Abbareddy Nageswara Rao
- Pareshbhai Rathwa
- B Ramakrishna Reddy
- Mangala Kanti Roy
- K C Runremsangi
- Vadivel Gopal & Masi Sadaiyan (Duo)
- Manoranjan Sahu
- Patayat Sahu
- Ritwik Sanyal
- Kota Satchidananda Sastry
- Sankurathri Chandra Sekhar
- K Shanathoiba Sharma
- Nekram Sharma
- Gurcharan Singh
- Laxman Singh
- Mohan Singh
- Thounaojam Chaoba Singh
- Prakash Chandra Sood
- Neihunuo Sorhie
- Dr. Janum Singh Soy
- Kushok Thiksey Nawang Chamba Stanzin
- S Subbaraman
- Moa Subong
- Palam Kalyana Sundaram
- Raveena Ravi Tandon
- Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari
- Dhaniram Toto
- Tula Ram Upreti
- Gopalsamy Veluchamy
- Ishwar Chander Verma
- Coomi Nariman Wadia
- Ghulam Muhammad Zaz
- Karma Wangchu (Posthumously)
