New Delhi: The most prestigious and revered honours in the country, the Padma awards list for the current year is out. Actor Rajinikanth and classical singer Girija Devi have been awarded with the highest honour of the Padma Vibhushan while Anupam Kher is the recipient of Padma Bhushan.
The list comprises a host of personalities from various fields, such as cinema, sports and business or industry.
Here's the complete list of winner:
1. Padma Vibhushan
Actor Rajinikanth
Media baron Ramoji Rao
Former J-K Governor Jagmohan
Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Adyar Cancer Institute chairwoman V Shanta
Dancer Yamini Krishnamurthy
Classical singer Girija Devi
Indian scientist Vasudev Kalkunte
Reliance Industries founder late Dhirubhai Ambani (posthumously)
2. Padma Bhushan
Anupam Kher
Singer Udit Narayan
Former CAG Vinod Rai
Tennis star Sania Mirza
Badminton player Saina Nehwal
Chairperson of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd Indu Jain
Theatre personality Heisnam Kanhailal
Former US Ambassador to India Robert D Blackwill
Indian sculptor Ram Sutar
Barjinder Singh Hamdard
Swami Tejomayananda
Prof N S Ramanuja Tatacharya
Prof D Nageshwar Reddy
3. Padma Shri
Prathibha Prahlad
Bhikhudan Gadhvi
Sribhas Chandra Supakar
Ajay Devgn
Priyanka Chopra
Tulsidas Borkar
Dr Soma Ghosh
Nila Madhab Panda
SS Rajamouli
Madhur Bhandarkar
M Venkatesh Kuma
Gulabi Sapera
Mamta Chandrakar
Malini Awasthi
Jai Prakash Lekhiwal
K Laxma Goud
Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe
Naresh Chander Lal
Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah
Prahlad Chandra Tasa
Dr Ravindra Nagar
Dahyabhai Shastri
Santeshivara Bhyrappa
Haldar Nag
Kameshwaram Brahma
Pushpesh Pant
Jawaharlal Kaul
Ashok Malik
Mannam Gopi Chand
Ravi Kant
Ram Harsh Singh
Shiv Narain Kureel
Sabya Sachi Sarkar
Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale
TK Lahiri
Praveen Chandra
Prof (Dr) Daljeet Singh Gambhir
Dr Chandrasekar Shesadri Thoguluva
Anil Kumari Malhotra
Prof MV Padma Srivastava
Dr Sudhir V Shah
Dr MM Joshi
Prof (Dr) John Ebnezar
Dr Nayudamma Yarlagadda
Simon Oraon
Imitiaz Qureshi
Piyush Pandey
Subhash Palekar
Ravinder Kumar Sinha
Dr HR Nagendra
MC Mehta
MN Krishna Mani
Ujjwal Nikam
Tokheho Sema
Satish Kumar
Mylswamy Annadurai
Dipankar Chatterji
Ganapati Dadasaheb Yadav
Veena Tandon
Onkar Nath Srivastava
Sunita Krishnan
Ajoy Kumar Dutta
M Pandit Dasa
PP Gopinathan Nair
Madeleine Herman de Blic
Srinivasan Damal Kandalai
Sudhakar Olwe
Dr TV Narayana
Arunachalam Murugantham
Deepika Kumari
Sushil Doshi
Mahesh Sharma
Saurabh Srivastava
Dilip Sanghvi
Dr Keki Hormusji Gharda
Late Shri Prakash Chand Surana (Posthumous)
Late Shri Saeed Jaffrey (NRI/PIO/Posthumous)
Michael Postel (Foreigner)
Salman Amin Sal Khan (NRI/PIO)
Hui Lan Zhang (Foreigner)
Predrag K Nikic (Foreigner)
Dr Sundar Aditya Menon (NRI/PIO)
Ajaypal Singh Banga (NRI/PIO)
