Padma Bhushan

The Padma Bhushan is an Indian civilian decoration established on January 2, 1954 by the President of India. It stands third in the hierarchy of civilian awards, after the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan, but comes before the Padma Sri. It is awarded to recognize distinguished service of a high order to the nation, in any field.

List of Awardees

List of awardess can be found at http://india.gov.in/myindia/padmabhushan_awards_list1.php [1]

2006

Name	Field! State
AK Hangal	Art	Maharashtra
Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan	Art	Maharashtra
Deepak Parekh	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
Devaki Jain	Social Work	Karnataka
Dinesh Nandini Dalmia	Literature and Education	Delhi
Dusan Zbavitel	Literature and Education	Czech Republic
Ganga Prasad Birla	Social Work	West Bengal
Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan	Art	Maharashtra
Gregory Maximovich Bongard-Levin	Literature and Education	Russia
Gunter Kruger (Posthumous)	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
Shri Hira Lall Sibal	Public Affairs	Chandigarh
Jaiveer Agarwal	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
Air Commodore Jasjit Singh	Defence Services	Haryana
KG Subramanyam	Art	West Bengal
Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena	Literature and Education	Delhi
Kewal Kishan Talwar	Medicine	Chandigarh
Sivasankar Vara Prasad(Chiranjeevi)	Art	Andhra Pradesh
KPP Nambiar	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
Lokesh Chandra	Literature and Education	Delhi
Madhav Gadgil	Science and Engineering	Maharashtra
MV Pylee	Literature and Education	Kerala
NS Ramaswamy	Social Work	Karnataka
Nandan M Nilekani	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
P Leela (Posthumous)	Art	Tamil Nadu
PP Rao	Public Affairs	Uttar Pradesh
PS Appu	Civil Service	Karnataka
Ramakanta Rath	Literature and Education	Orissa
S Ramadorai	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
Ustad Sabri Khan	Art	Delhi
Sai Paranjpye	Art	Maharashtra
Shanno Khurana	Art	Delhi
Shashi Bhushan	Public Affairs	Delhi
Tarun Das	Trade and Industry	Haryana
V Shanta	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
Vijay Shankar Vyas	Literature and Education	Rajasthan
Vijaypat Singhania	Sports	Maharashtra

2005

Name	Field	State
A Ramachandran	Art	Delhi
Dr. Andre Beteille	Literature and Education	Delhi;
Dr. Anil Kohli	Medicine	Delhi
Azim Premji	Trade and Industry	Karnataka
Balraj Puri	Literature and Education	Jammu & Kashmir
Dr. Brijmohan Lall Munjal	Trade and Industry	Delhi
Chandi Prasad Bhatt	Social Work	Uttaranchal
G.V. Ramakrishna	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu
Girish Chandra Saxena	Civil Service	Delhi
Dr. Hari Mohan	Medicine	Delhi
Prof. Irfan Habib	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
Prof. K. Srinath Reddy	Medicine	Delhi
Kiran Majumdar Shaw	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
M.T. Vasudevan Nair	Art	Kerala
Mrinal Miri	Journalism	Meghalaya
Dr. Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri	Trade and Industry	Delhi
Dr. Narasimhiah Seshagiri	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
Probodh Chandra Dey alias Manna Dey	Art	Maharashtra
Qurratulain Hyder	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
Prof. Romila Thapar	Literature and Education	Delhi
S.R. Sankaran	Civil Service	Andhra Pradesh;
Dr. Sardar Anjum	Literature and Education	Haryana
Late Syed Mir Qasim (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Jammu and Kashmir
T.R. Satish Chandran	Civil Service	Karnataka
Dr. Tarlochan Singh Kler	Medicine	Delhi
Prof. Valangiman Subramanian Ramamurthy	Science and Engineering	Delhi
Varaprasad K. Reddy	Science and Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
William Mark Tully	Journalism	United Kingdom
Yash Chopra	Art	Maharashtra
Dr. Yusuf Khwaja Hamied	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra

2004

# Alarmel Valli, dancer# Lt. Gen. Bijoy Nandan Shahi, doctor# Hanumantha Rao, Telugu writer# Madurai T. N. Seshagopalan, Carnatic vocalist# Dr. N. Rajam, violinist# Poornima Arvind Pakvasa, social worker (Gujarat)# Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari# Gopi Chand Narang# Krishna Srinivas# Vishnu Prabhakar# Komal Kothari, musician# Govindarajan Padmanabhan, scientist# Sardara Singh Johl, scientist# Sankar# Antony# Yoshiro Mori, former Japanese PM# Soumitra Chatterjee, Bengali film director and actor# Kamath, journalist

2003

Name	Field! State
Teejan Bai	Arts	Chhattisgarh

2002

# Frank Pallone, American Congressman# K. J. Yesudas, singer # N. Rangabhashyam, medical expert # Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia, everest hero # H.H. Larsen, industrialist# Mario De Miranda, cartoonist # B.K.S.R. Iyengar, yoga teacher # Faquir Chand Kohli, IT pioneer # Jagat Singh Mehta, diplomat # Nirmal Verma, writer # Dr. Prabha Atre, Vocalist, Music Teacher # Ramanujam Varatharaja Perumal, aeronautical scientist # Shobha Viswanath Gurtu, vocalist# Yevgeni Petrovich Chelyshev, Indologist from Russia# Zakir Hussain - tabla player

1999

# Lata Mangeshkar, filmi vocalist# Rajinikanth, filmi Actor# Anil Kakodkar, Atomic Energy Commission Scientist

1985

# Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Hindustani vocalist

1983

# Dr. RajKumar, film Kannada actor, singer

1973

# Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, classical musician

1972

# Dr. Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani, ENT Surgeon

1969

# Surashri Kesarbai Kerkar, Hindustani vocalist

1968

# Sam Manekshaw, Chief of Army Staff (also awarded Padma Vibhushan in 1972)# Waman Bapuji Metre, Petroleum Geologist

1967

# Mihir Sen, record-setting swimmer