Each year on the occasion of Republic Day, the prestigious Padma Awards are bestowed upon individuals who have contributed immensely to society.

As India celebrates its 69th Republic Day on January 26, the awards – Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri – will be given to eminent personalities from various fields such as literature and education, art, sports, social work, medicine, science and engineering, civil service, public affairs, trade and industry.

Padma Shri awardees:

1. Anwar Jalalpuri (Posthumous) – Literature and Education (Literature – Urdu)
2. Sitavva Joddati – Social Work
3. Manas Bihari Verma – Science & Engineering (Defence)
4. Abhay Bang (Duo) – Medicine
5. Rani Bang (Duo) – Medicine
6. Damodar Ganesh Bapat – Social Work
7. Prafulla Govinda Baruah – Literature and Education-Journalism
8. Mohan Swaroop Bhatia – Art-Folk Music
9. Sudhanshu Biswas – Social Work
10. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu – Sports-Weightlifting
11. Pandit Shyamlal Chaturvedi – Literature and Education-Journalism
12. Jose Ma Joey Concepcion III (Foreigner) – Trade & Industry
13. Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi – Art-Weaving
14. Somdev Devvarman – Sports-Tennis
15. Yeshi Dhoden – Medicine
16. Arup Kumar Dutta – Literature and Education
17. Doddarange Gowda – Art-Lyrics
18. Arvind Gupta – Literature and Education
19. Digamber Hansda – Literature and Education
20. Ramli Bin Ibrahim (Foreigner) – Art-Dance
21. Piyong Temjen Jamir – Literature and Education
22. Malti Joshi – Literature and Education
23. Manoj Joshi – Art-Acting
24. Rameshwarlal Kabra – Trade & Industry
25. Pran Kishore Kaul – Art
26. Bounlap Keokangna (Foreigner) – Others-Architecture
27. Vijay Kichlu – Art-Music
28. Tommy Koh (Foreigner) – Public Affairs
29. Lakshmikutty – Medicine-Traditional
30. Joyshree Goswami Mahanta – Literature and Education
31. Narayan Das Maharaj – Others-Spiritualism
32. Pravakara Maharana – Art-Sculpture
33. Hun Many (Foreigner) – Public Affairs
34. Nouf Marwaai (Foreigner) – Others- Yoga
35. Zaverilal Mehta – Literature and Education-Journalism
36. Krishna Bihari Mishra – Literature and Education
37. Sisir Purushottam Mishra – Art-Cinema
38. Subhasini Mistry – Social Work
39. Tomio Mizokami (Foreigner) – Literature and Education
40. Somdet Phra Maha Muniwong (Foreigner) – Others-Spiritualism
41. Keshav Rao Musalgaonkar – Literature and Education
42. Thant Myint – U (Foreigner) – Public Affairs
43. V Nanammal – Others-Yoga
44. Sulagitti Narasamma – Social Work
45. Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan – Art-Folk Music
46. I Nyoman Nuarta (Foreigner) – Art-Sculpture
47. Malai Haji Abdullah Bin Malai Haji Othman (Foreigner) – Social Work
48. Gobaradhan Panika – Art-Weaving
49. Bhabani Charan Pattanaik – Public Affairs
50. Murlikant Petkar – Sports-Swimming
51. Habibullo Rajabov (Foreigner) – Literature and Education
52. M R Rajagopal – Medicine-Palliative Care
53. Sampat Ramteke (Posthumous) – Social Work
54. Chandra Sekhar Rath – Literature and Education
55. S S Rathore – Civil Service
56. Amitava Roy – Science and Engineering
57. Sanduk Ruit (Foreigner) – Medicine-Ophthalmology
58. R Sathyanarayana – Art-Music
59. Pankaj M Shah – Medicine-Oncology
60. Bhajju Shyam – Art-Painting
61. Maharao Raghuveer Singh – Literature and Education
62. Kidambi Srikanth – Sports-Badminton
63. Ibrahim Sutar – Art-Music
64. Siddeshwara Swamiji – Others-Spiritualism
65. Lentina Ao Thakkar – Social Work
66. Vikram Chandra Thakur – Science and Engineering
67. Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Tharanathan (Duo) – Art-Music
68. Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Thyagarajan (Duo) – Art-Music
69. Nguyen Tien Thien (Foreigner) – Others-Spiritualism
70. Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi – Literature and Education
71. Rajagopalan Vasudevan – Science and Engineering
72. Panatawane Gangadhar Vithobaji – Literature and Education
73. Romulus Whitaker – Others-Wildlife Conservation
74. Baba Yogendra – Art
75. A Zakia – Literature and Education

Padma Vibhushan:

1. Illaiyaraja – Art-Music
2. Ghulam Mustafa Khan – Art-Music
3. Parameswaran Parameswaran – Literature and Education

Padma Bhushan awardees:

1. Pankaj Advani – Sports-Billiards/Snooker
2. Philipose Mar Chrysostom – Others-Spiritualism
3. Mahendra Singh Dhoni – Sports-Cricket
4. Alexander Kadakin (Foreigner/Posthumous) – Public affairs
5. Ramachandran Nagaswamy – Others-Archaeology
6. Ved Prakash Nanda (OCI) – Literature and Education
7. Laxman Pai – Art-Painting
8. Arvind Parikh – Art-Music
9. Sharda Sinha – Art-Music