Padma Shri

Padma Shri (also spelled Padma Shree, Padma Sree and Padma Sri) is an award given by the Government of India generally to Indian citizens to recognize their distinguished contribution in any sphere of activity including Arts, Education, Industry, Literature, Science, Games, Sports etc. (The word "Padma" (Hindi) means "Lotus".) It stands fourth in the hierarchy of civilian awards after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. On its obverse, the words "Padma" and "Shri", in Devanagari, appear above and below the lotus flower. The geometrical pattern on either side is in burnished bronze. All embossing is in white gold.

Some notable recipients of the awards (together with the category are listed hereunder)

Reicipients and the Category

• Amin Kamil - Literature and Education
• Prof. Amiya Kumar Bagchi - Literature and Education
• Anil Kumble - Sports (Cricket)
• Banwarilal Chouksey - Science and Engineering
• Bhagavatula Dattaguru - Science and Engineering
• Bilat Paswan Vihangam - Literature and Education
• Chaturbhuj Meher - Art
• Dr. Cyrus Soli Poonawallal - Trade and Industry
• Prof. Darchhawna - Literature and Education
• Dr. Dipankar Banerjee - Science and Engineering
• Dr. G. Bakthavathsalam - Medicine
  

Gadul Singh Lama Literature and Education
Gambhini Devi Yumlembam Art
Ustad Ghulam Sadiq Khan Art
Gladys Staines Social Work
Gurbachan Singh Randhawa Sports
Hema Bharali Social Work
Indira Jaisingh Public Affairs
Dr. J.M. Hans Medicine
Dr. Jagtar Singh Grewal  Literature and Education
K.C. Reddy Civil Service
Kanaksen Deka Journalism
Kavita Subramaniam Krishnamurti Art
Guru Kedarnath Sahu Art
Komala Varadan Art
Krishnan Nair Santhakumari Chitra Art
Kumkum Mohanty Art
Kunnakkudi R. Vaidyanathan Art
Kuntgod Vibhuti Subbanna Art
Rev. (Dr.) Lalsawma Social Work
Dr. Lavu Narendranath Medicine
Prof. Madhu Sudan Kanungo Science and Engineering
Dr. Mahadevappa Madappa  Science and Engineering
Mammen Mathew Journalism
Manas Chaudhuri  Journalism
Manuel Santana and M. Boyer Aguior Art
Mehrunnisa Parvez Literature and Education
Muzaffar Ali Art
Nana Chudasama Social Work
Dr. P.N. Vasudeva Kurup Medicine
Pullela Gopichand Sports
Puna Ram Nishad Art
Puran Chand Wadali Art
Rachel Thomas Sports
Maj. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Sports
Swami Ram Swaroop Sharma Art
Shah Rukh Khan Art
Shameem Dev Azad Art
Dr. Shantaram Balwant Mujumdar Literature and Education
Shobhana Bhartia Journalism
Sougaijam Thanil Singh Art
Dr. Srikumar Banerjee Science and Engineering
Sunita Narain Environment Protection
Sushil Sahai Social Work
Theilin Phanbuh Social Work
Vasudevan Gnana Gandhi Science and Engineering
Prof. Veer Singh Mehta Medicine

2004 Awardees

Name	Field
Anupam Kher	Cinema
Anju Bobby George	Sports - Athletic
Dilip Kumar Tirkey	Sports - Hockey Player
Gurmayum Anita Devi	Mountaineer
Hariharan	Singer
Purshottam Das Jalota	Bhajan Singer
Sudhir Tailand	Cartoonist
A.K. Panivel Art -	Instrumental Music
Anil K Gupta	Literature and Education
Arun Trimbak Dabke	Medicine
Ashwin. B. Metha	Medicine - Cardiology
Asifa Zamani	Literature and Education
Bal Samant	Literature and Education
Aubakir Datanuly Nilibayev	Literature and Education
Batchu Lutchmiah Srinivasa Murthy	Social Work
Pandit Bhajan Sopori	Art Music Instrumental
Bharathiraja	Art - Cinema
Bharathi Shivaji	Art - dance- Mohiniyattom
Dalip Kaur Tiwana	Art - Literature and Education
Damodar Keshav Datar	Art - Instrumental Music
Devi Prasad Shetty	Medicine
Flora Macdeinald	Public Affairs
Gopal Prasad Sinha	Medicine
Gowri Ishwaran	Literature and Education
Hamlet Bareh Ngapkynta	Literature and Education
Heinrich Freiherr Von Stietencron	Literature and Education
Heisnan Kan Hailar	Art Theatre
Guru Jayaram Rao	Art - Dance- Kuchipudi
K. Ayappa Paniker	Literature and Education
K. N. Shankara	Science and Engineering - Satellite Technology
K. R. Kumaran Nair	Art - Dance - Kathakali
Kadri Gopalnath	Art - Music - Instrumental
Kalayathumkuzhi Mathew Beenamol	Sports - Athletics
Kanhiya Lal Sethia	Literature and Education
Kanthi Bhai Pattel	Art - Sculpture
Krishan Kanhai	Art - Painting
Kumarpal Desai	Literature and Education
Lalji Singh	Science and Engineering- Life Science
Liladhar Jaguri	Literature and Education
Meher Banaji	Social Work
Morup Namgiat	Art - Music
N. Leela	Art - Instrumental Music
Nalini Ranjan Mohanty	Science and Engineering
Nampilly Divakar	Science & Engineering
Neyyattinkara Vasudevan	Art-Music -Carnatic
P. Parameswaran	Literature and Education
Premlata Puri	Literature and Education
Prithvi Nath Kaula	Literature and Education
Queennie Rynjah	Social Work
Rahul Dravid	Sports - Cricket
Rajan Saxena	Medicine
Rajpal Singh Sirohi	Science & Engineering
Ramesh Chandra Shah	Literature and Education
Sadashiv Nimbalkar	Sports - Yoga
Samuel Paul	Literature and Education
Satish Kumar Kaura	Science and Engineering
Sharad Moreshwar Hardikar	Medicine
Sharayu Daftary	Trade and Industry
Shyam Narain Pandey	Literature and Education
Siddartha Mehta	Medicine-Dentistry
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly	Sports-Cricket
Subhash Chand Manchanda	Medicine
Sudha Raghunathan	Art - Carnatic - Vocal
Sunita Jain	Literature and Education
Surinder Singh	Art-Vocal Music
Surinder Kumar Sama	Medicine
Syed Shah Mohammed Hussaini	Literature and Education
Tatyana Yakovlevna Elizarenkova	Literature and Education
Tumkur Seetharamaiah Prahlad	Science and Engineering -Aerospace
V.Kunjumani	Art - Instrumental-Flute
Visheshwaraiah Prakash	Science and Engineering

2003 Awardees

Name	Field
Aamir Khan	Art - Cinema
Ashok Kumar Barua	Science and Technology
Ashok Seth	Medicine
Baburao Govindrao Shirke	Science and Engineering
C.Lalhmingliana	Social work
Danny Denzongpa	Art - Cinema
Francis Dore	Public affairs
Gopal Chandra Mitra	Science and Engineering
Gopal Purushottam Phadke	Sports
Gyan Chandra Mishra	Science and Engineering
J.S.Guleria	Medicine
Jagdish Chaturvedi	Literature
Jahnu Barua	Literature &Education
Jai Bhagwan Chowdhury	Science & Engineering, Bio-technology
Jai Pal Mittal	Science and Engineering
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar	Sports athletics
Kanhaiya  Lal Pokhriyal	Sports mountaineering
Kshetrimayum Ongbi Thouranishabi Devi	Art Indian classical dance
Mahendra Singh Sodha	Science and Engineering
Malvika Sarukkai	Classical dance
Manthiram Natarajan	Science and Engineering
Manzoor Ehtesham	Literature and Education
Motilal Jotwani	Literature and Education
N.Vedachalam	Science and Engineering
N.R Madhava Menon	Public Affairs Law
Nalli Kuppuswami Chettiar	Trade and Industry
Nandanoori Mukesh Kumar	Sports hockey
Narayana Panicker Kochupillai	Medicine
Nemi Chand Jain	Theatre
Nokdenlmba	Literature and Education
Om Prakash Jain	Art
Pratapsinh alias Balasaheb Jadav	Journalism
Pritam Singh	Literature and Education
R.Vairamuthu	Literature and Education poetry
Rajagoplan Krishan Vaidyan	Medicine
Rakhee Gulzar	Art cinema
Ram Gopal Bajaj	Art
Ranjana Gauhar	Art Indian classical dance
Rita Ganguly	Art music dance
S.Ramakrishnan	Science and Engineering
S.Sukumari	Cinema
S.Venkataraghavan	Sports cricket
Sadashiv V.Gorakshkar	Museology
Sarvagya Singh Katiyar	Science and Engineering
Pandit Satish Vyas	Instrumental Music
Ustad Shafaat Ahmed Khan	Instrumental Music
Shailendra Nath Shrivastava	Literature and Education
Shivaram Baburao Bhoje	Science and Engineering
T.M.Soundarajan	Music
T.N.Shanbhag	Book publishing
V.R.Khatti	Science and Engineering
Verna Elizabeth Watre Ingty	Social Work
Vijay Prakash Singh	Medicine gastroenterology
Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad	Literature and education

2002 Awardees

Name	Field
Dr. A.S. Narayana
Smt. Manorama
Ustad Abdul Lateef Khan
Dr. Munirathna Anandakrishnan
Shri Amitav Mallik
Shri Muzaffer Hussain
Dr. Anand Swarup Arya
Prof. N. Balakrishnan
Dr. Apathukatha Sivathanu
Pillai Shri Navaneetham
Padmanabha Seshadri
Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Ms. Norma Alvares
Prof. Ashok Ramachandra Kelkar
Dr. P.K. Sethi
Dr. B.N. Suresh
Prof. Padmanabhan Balaram
Dr. Chaitanyamoy Ganguly
Shri Phillips Talbot
Ms. Darshana Jhaveri
Dr. Pradip K. Chowbey
Ms. Diana Fram Edulji
Dr. Prakash Amte
Prof. Dorairajan Balasubramanian
Dr. Prakash Kothari
Dr. Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy
Smt. Prema Purav
Shri Fazal Mohammad
Smt. Pushpa Bhuyan
Shri Gopal Chhotray
Smt. Raj Begum
Shri Govind Nihalani
Shri Rajan Devdas
Dr. Gullapalli Nageswara Rao
Prof. Ramanath Cowsik
Shri Gyan Chand Jain
Dr. S. Rajaram
Dr. Harsh Mahajan
Ms. Saroja Vaidyanathan
Shri Hirebettu Sadananda Kamath
Dr. Satish Chandra Rai
Dr. Hrashel Sawi Luaia
Dr. Suresh H. Advani
Dr. Idupuganti Venkata Subba Rao
Shri T. Nakoyama
Dr. (Smt.) Indira Goswami
Shri T.H. Vinayak Ram
Shri Jaspal Rana
Shri Turlapaty Kutumba Rao
Shri K. Narayana
Shri Viresh Pratap Chaudhry
Smt. Kiran Seghal
Shri Virendra Kumar Sharma
Dr. Vikram Marwaha
Dr.(Ms.) Kiran Martin
Dr. Kamaljit Singh Paul
Dr. (Mrs.) K. Mathangi Ramakrishnan	Prof. Vijay Kumar Dada
Smt. Mani Krishnaswami
Shri Wannakuwattawaduge Don Amardeva
Shri Madhu Mangesh Karnik
Shri Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
Dr. Kota Harinarayana
Dr. Yang- Shik Kim
Shri Mani Ratnam

2001

Shri Aamir Raza Husain Prof. Dr. (Ms.) Alaka Keshav Deshpande
Prof. Ashoke Sen Dr. Avadhanam Sita Raman
Dr. Avadhanam Sita Raman Prof. Bala V. Balachandran
Dr. Bhabendra Nath Saikia Dr. (Prof.) Bhupathiraju Somaraju
Ms. Bhuvneshwari Kumari Prof. Bikash Chandra Sinha
Shri Bisweswar Bhattacharjee Dr. Chandrasekhara Basavanneppa Kambar
Dr. Chandrathil Gouri Krishnadas Nair Dr. Chittoor Mohammed Habeebullah
Shri Daatla Venkata Suryanarayana Raju Dr. Dasari Prasada Rao
Dr. Dasika Durga Prasada Rao Dr. Devagowda Javaregowda
Shri Dhanraj Pillay Shri Elattuvalapil Sreedharan
Dr. (Smt.) Gouri Sen Prof. Goverdhan Mehta
Smt. Jeelani Bano Dr. Jyoti Bhushan Banerji
Shri Kalidas Gupta Riza Dr. Kallam Anji Reddy
Shri Kandathil Mammen Philip Shri Keshavkumar Chintaman Ketkar
Shri Keshavkumar Chintaman Ketkar Dr. (Ms.) Ketayun Ardeshir Dinshaw
Shri Khalid Abdul Hamid Ansari Dr. Krishna Prasad Singh Varma
Shri Laishram Nabakishore Singh Shri Leander Adrian Paes
Dr. Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan Dr. Madhavan Krishnan Nair
Shri Mahesh Bhupati Shri Manoj Das
Prof. Mohammad Shafi Lt. Gen.(Retd.) Mohammad Ahmad Zaki
Shri Mohammed Tayab Khan Shri Mohan Ranade
Dr. Mool Chand Maheshwari Bishop (Dr.) Mulanakushiyil Abraham Thomas
Dr. Nerella Venumadhav Smt. Padma Sachdev
Smt. Padmaja Phenany Joglekar Dr. Paul Ratnasamy
Dr. Prem Shanker Goel Dr. Ravindra Kumar
Dr. S.T.Gnanananda Kavi Dr. Sandip Kumar Basu
Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram Dr. Sharadkumar Dicksheet
Dr. Siramdasu Venkata Rama Rao Smt. Sobha Naidu
Shri Sripathi Panditharadhyula Balasubrahmanyam Prof. Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme
Dr. Sunil Manilal Kothari Ms. Sunita Rani
Dr. Thirumalachari Ramasami Shri Thota Tharani
Prof. Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan Ms. Tulasi Munda
Shri Vachnesh Tripathi Shri Vijay Kumar Chaturvedi
Shri Viswanathan Mohanlal

2000

Shri A.R. Rehman Shri Aloysius Fernandez
Shri Alyque Padamsee Ms. Anjoli Ela Menon
Dr. Dilip Devidas Bhawakar Shri Dina N. Malhotra
Shri E. Nilakanta Singh Shri E.S. Reddy
Prof. G.L. Bondarevsky Shri Gopalasamy Govindarajan
Dr. Gurdev Singh Kush Dr. Gurumukh Sajanmal Sainani
Dr. H. Sudarshan Smt. Hema Malini
Dr. I. Sathyamurthy Shri Jagannath Kaul
Shri Jagannathan Shri K.P. Saxena
Dr. Kakkar Subha Rao Shri Kanhai Chitrakar
Dr. Kirpal Singh Chugh Dr. Mahendra Bhandari
Dr. Mandan Mishra Dr. Mandan Mishra
Dr. Mathew Samuel Kalarickal Shri N.R. Narayana Murthy
Ms. Nabanita Deb Sen Ms. Neidonuo Angami
Shri Pahlira Sena Chawngthu Dr. Parsu Ram Mishra
Ms. Patricia Mukhim Smt. Piloo Noshir Jungalwala
Dr. Pradeep Kumar Dave Ms. Puan Sri Datin Janaky Athinahapp
Shri Rabindranth Upadhyaya Shri Ramanand Sagar
Shri S.N. Gourisaria Ms. Santosh Yadav
Shri Shekhar Kapur Ms. Shobha Mudgal
Dr. Suresh Chandra G. Chaturvedi Dr. Vijay P. Bhatkar
Dr. Vipin Buckshey

1982

P.T. Venugopal