Padma Awards 2025: Arijit Singh, Pankaj Udhas, R Ashwin, and More, Check Full List of Awardees

Padma Awards 2025 Announced: On the 76th Indian Republic Day, the central government announced the list of Padma Shri Award honorees for 2025. The Padma Awards, considered among the highest civilian accolades in the country, are divided into three categories: Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Vibhushan. These distinguished prizes honour individuals for their services in a variety of sectors, including art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature, and other disciplines. The President of India publicly presents the prizes during ceremonial festivities held at Rashtrapati Bhavan in March or April of each year.

For 2025, the President has approved the issuance of 139 Padma Awards, including one duo case (where a duo is counted as a single award). The list comprises seven Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan, and 113 Padma Shri honors. The winners include 23 women, 10 foreigners/NRIs/PIOs/OCIs, and 13 posthumously honoured individuals. Check the full list here.

Padma Awards 2025 Winner List

Many renowned figures of the world are included in this list, including singer Arijit Singh, cricketer R Ashwin, former Suzuki CEO Osamu Suzuki, and Sushil Kumar Modi, among others. Below is the list of all the winners who received the Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan, and Padma Shri awards.

Padma Vibushan

• Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy

• Justice (Retd.) Jagdish Singh Khehar

• Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia

• Lakshminarayana Subramaniam

• MT Vasudevan Nair (Posthumous)

• Osamu Suzuki (Posthumous)

• Sharda Sinha (Posthumous)

Padma Bhushan

• A Surya Prakash

• Anant Nag

• Bibek Debroy (Posthumous)

• Jatin Goswami

• Jose Chacko Periappuram

• Kailash Nath Dikshit

• Manohar Joshi (Posthumous)

• Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti

• Nandamuri Balakrishna

• PR Sreejesh

• Pankaj Patel

• Pankaj Udhas (Posthumous)

• Rambahadur Rai

• Sadhvi Ritambhara

• S Ajith Kumar

• Shekhar Kapur

• Shobana Chandrakumar

• Sushil Kumar Modi (Posthumous)

• Vinod Dham

Padma Shri

• Advaita Charan Gadanayak

• Achyut Ramchandra Palav

• Ajay V Bhatt

• Anil Kumar Boro

• Arijit Singh

• Arundhati Bhattacharya

• Arunoday Saha

• Arvind Sharma

• Ashok Kumar Mahapatra

• Ashok Laxman Saraf

• Ashutosh Sharma

• Ashwini Bhide Deshpande

• Baijnath Maharaj

• Barry Godfray John

• Begam Batool

• Bharat Gupt

• Bheru Singh Chouhan

• Bhim Singh Bhavesh

• Bhimawa Doddabalappa Shiilekyathara

• Budhendra Kumar Jain

• C S Vaidyanathan

• Chaitram Deochand Pawar

• Chandrakant Sheth (Posthumous)

• Chandrakant Sompura

• Chetan E Chitnis

• David R Syiemlieh

• Durga Charan Ranbir

• Farooq Ahmad Mir

• Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid

• Gita Upadhyay

• Gokul Chandra Das

• Guruvayur Dorai

• Harchandan Singh Bhatty

• Hariman Sharma

• Harjinder Singh Srinagar Wale

• Harvinder Singh

• Hassan Raghu

• Hemant Kumar

• Hriday Narayan Dixit

• Hugh and Colleen Gantzer (Posthumous)

• Inivalappil Mani Vijayan

• Jagadish Joshila

• Jaspinder Narula

• Jonas Masetti

• Joynacharan Bathari

• Jumde Yomgam Gamlin

• K. Damodaran

• K L Krishna

• K Omanakutty Amma

• Kishore Kunal (Posthumous)

• L Hangthing

• Lakshmipathy Ramasubbaiyer

• Lalit Kumar Mangotra

• Lama Lobzang (Posthumous)

• Libia Lobo Sardesai

• M D Srinivas

• Madugula Nagaphani Sarma

• Mahabir Nayak

• Mamata Shankar

• Manda Krishna Madiga

• Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli

• Miriyala Apparao (Posthumous)

• Nagendra Nath Roy

• Narayan (Bhulai Bhai) (Posthumous)

• Naren Gurung

• Neerja Bhatla

• Nirmala Devi

• Nitin Nohria

• Onkar Singh Pahwa

• P Datchanamoorthy

• Pandi Ram Mandavi

• Parmar Lavjibhai Nagjibhai

• Pawan Goenka

• Prashanth Prakash

• Pratibha Satpathy

• Purisai Kannappa Sambandan

• R Ashwin

• R G Chandramogan

• Radha Bahin Bhatt

• Radhakrishnan Devasenapathy

• Ramdarash Mishra

• Ranendra Bhanu Majumdar

• Ratan Kumar Parimoo

• Reba Kanta Mahanta

• Renthlei Lalrawna

• Ricky Gyan Kej

• Sajjan Bhajanka

• Sally Holkar

• Sant Ram Deswal

• Satyapal Singh

• Seeni Viswanathan

• Sethuraman Panchanathan

• Sheikha Shaikha Ali Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

• Sheen Kaaf Nizam (Shiv Kishan Bissa)

• Shyam Bihari Agrawal

• Soniya Nityanand

• Stephen Knapp

• Subhash Khetulal Sharma

• Suresh Harilal Soni

• Surinder Kumar Vasal

• Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik Maharaj)

• Syed Ainu Hasan

• Tejendra Narayan Majumdar

• Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi

• Tushar Durgeshbhai Shukla

• Vadiraj Raghavendracharya Panchamukhi

• Vasudeo Kamath

• Velu Assaan

• Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar

• Vijay Nityanand Surishwar Ji Maharaj

• Vijayalakshmi Deshamane

• Vilas Dangre

• Vinayak Lohani