Padma Awards 2025: Ajith Kumar, Shobana Chandrakumar among awardees -- Check out full list

The Padma Awards — one of the highest civilian honours of the country — are conferred in three categories: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service while ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order. A ‘Padma Shri’ is awarded for distinguished service in any field. Full list of Padma Awardees for 2025: Padma Vibhushan Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy — Medicine Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar — Public Affairs Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia — Art Lakshminarayana Subramaniam — Art MT Vasudevan Nair — Literature and Education Osamu Suzuki — Trade and Industry Sharda Sinha — Art Padma Bhushan A Surya Prakash — Literature and Education Anant Nag — Art Bibek Debroy — Literature and Education Jatin Goswami — Art Jose Chacko Periappuram — Medicine Kailash Nath Dikshit — Others Manohar Joshi — Public Affairs Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti — Trade and Industry Nandamuri Balakrishna — Art PR Sreejesh — Sports Pankaj Patel — Trade and Industry Pankaj Udhas — Art Rambahadur Rai — Literature and Education Sadhvi Ritambhara — Social Work S Ajith Kumar — Art Shekhar Kapur — Art Shobana Chandrakumar — Art Sushil Kumar Modi — Public Affairs Vinod Dham — Science and Engineering Padma Shri Adwaita Charan Gadanayak — Art Achyut Ramchandra Palav — Art Ajay V Bhatt — Science and Engineering Anil Kumar Boro — Literature and Education Arijit Singh — Art Arundhati Bhattacharya — Trade and Industry Arunoday Saha — Literature and Education Arvind Sharma — Literature and Education Ashok Kumar Mahapatra — Medicine Ashok Laxman Saraf — Art Ashutosh Sharma — Science and Engineering Ashwini Bhide Deshpande — Art Baijnath Maharaj — Others Barry Godfray John — Art Begam Batool — Art Bharat Gupt — Art Bheru Singh Chouhan — Art Bhim Singh Bhavesh — Social Work Bhimavva Doddabalappa Shillekyathara — Art Budhendra Kumar Jain — Medicine CS Vaidyanathan — Public Affairs Chaitram Deochand Pawar — Social Work Chandrakant Sheth — Literature and Education Chandrakant Sompura — Others Chetan E Chitnis — Science and Engineering David R Syiemlieh — Literature and Education Durga Charan Ranbir — Art Farooq Ahmad Mir — Art Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid — Literature and Education Gita Upadhyay — Literature and Education Gokul Chandra Das — Art Guruvayur Dorai — Art Harchandan Singh Bhatty — Art Hariman Sharma — Others Harjinder Singh Srinagar Wale — Art Harvinder Singh — Sports Hassan Raghu — Art Hemant Kumar — Medicine Hriday Narayan Dixit — Literature and Education Hugh and Colleen Gantzer — Literature and Education Inivalappil Mani Vijayan — Sports Jagadish Joshila — Literature and Education Jaspinder Narula — Art Jonas Masetti — Others Joynacharan Bathari — Art Jumde Yomgam Gamlin — Social Work K Damodaran — Others KL Krishna — Literature and Education K Omanakutty Amma — Art Kishore Kunal — Civil Service L Hangthing — Others Lakshmipathy Ramasubbaiyer — Literature and Education Lalit Kumar Mangotra — Literature and Education Lama Lobzang — Others Libia Lobo Sardesai — Social Work M D Srinivas — Science and Engineering Madugula Nagaphani Sarma — Art Mahabir Nayak — Art Mamata Shankar — Art Manda Krishna Madiga — Public Affairs Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli — Literature and Education Miriyala Apparao — Art Nagendra Nath Roy — Literature and Education Narayan — Public Affairs Naren Gurung — Art Neerja Bhatla — Medicine Nirmala Devi — Art Nitin Nohria — Literature and Education Onkar Singh Pahwa — Trade and Industry P Datchanamoorthy ---Art Pandi Ram Mandavi ---Art Parmar Lavjibhai Nagjibhai ---Art Pawan Goenka ---Trade and Industry Prashanth Prakash — Trade and Industry Pratibha Satpathy — Literature and Education Purisai Kannappa Sambandan — Art R Ashwin — Sports R G Chandramogan — Trade and Industry Radha Bahin Bhatt — Social Work Radhakrishnan Devasenapathy — Art Ramdarash Mishra — Literature and Education Ranendra Bhanu Majumdar — Art Ratan Kumar Parimoo — Art Reba Kanta Mahanta — Art Renthlei Lalrawna — Literature and Education Ricky Gyan Kej — Art Sajjan Bhajanka — Trade and Industry Sally Holkar — Trade and Industry Sant Ram Deswal — Literature and Education Satyapal Singh — Sports Seeni Viswanathan — Literature and Education Sethuraman Panchanathan — Science and Engineering Sheikha Shaikha Ali Al-Jaber Al-Sabah — Medicine Sheen Kaaf Nizam — Literature and Education Shyam Bihari Agrawal — Art Soniya Nityanand ---Medicine Stephen Knapp ---Literature and Education Subhash Khetulal Sharma ---Others Suresh Harilal Soni ---Social Work Surinder Kumar Vasal ---Science and Engineering Swami Pradiptananda ---Others Syed Ainul Hasan ---Literature and Education Tejendra Narayan Majumdar ---Art Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi ---Art Tushar Durgeshbhai Shukla ---Literature and Education Vadiraj Raghawendracharya Panchamukhi ---Literature and Education Vasudeo Kamath ---Art Velu Aasaan ---Art Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar ---Art Vijay Nityanand Surishwar Ji Maharaj ---Others Vijayalakshmi Deshamane ---Medicine Vilas Dangre ---Medicine