List of 119 Padma Award Winners 2021

Padma Awards

Padma Awards are announced on the eve of Republic Day, based on the recommendation of the award committee and after the approval of the President, the Prime Minister and Home Minister. It is one of the highest civilian awards in the country. The Central Government has announced the Padam Awards On the eve of Republic Day.
These awards are conferred at the Rashtrapati Bhavan of India in a ceremony usually held around March or April every year.

This year 29 are women, 10 persons under the category of foreigners, NRI, PIO AND OCI and one transgender Out of 119 Padma awardees. On the other hand 16 people have been given the award posthumously.

Padam Vibhushan Awards

Padama Vibhushan 

The Padma Vibhushan is the second- highest civilian award of India preceded by Bharat Ratna. This Year Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe and late singer SP Balasubramaniam were honored with the Padma Awards.

List of Padma Vibhushan recipient

SN	Name	Field	Place
1.	Shri Shinzo Abe	Public Affairs	Japan
2.	Shri S P Balasubramaniam	Art	Tamil Nadu
3.	Shri Sudarshan Sahoo	Art	Odisha
4.	Shri B. B. Lal	Archaeology	Delhi
5.	Maulana Wahiduddin Khan	Spiritualism	Delhi
6.	Shri Narinder Singh Kapany	Science and Engineering	United States of America
7.	Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde	Medicine	Karnataka

1. Shinzo Abe 

Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe has been awarded the Padma Vibhushan award. He has been awarded for outstanding work in the field of public service. During his tenure, there was considerable progress in bilateral relations between India and Japan.

2. SP Balasubramanian 

SP Balasubrahmanyam is famous singer and sang over 40,000 songs in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam in a 50-year singing career.
He has also acted as music director in more than 40 films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi languages. He has been awarded the Padma Shri in 2001 and the Padma Bhushan in 2011. He died on 25 September 2020.

3. Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde 

Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde is a famous cardiologist from Karnataka. He has also written several books on medical practice and ethics. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan Award in 2010.

4. Narinder Singh Kapani -

Narinder Singh Kapani is an Indian American physicists. Fiber-optics communications, lasers, biomedical instrumentation, solar power and pollution monitoring are major inventions of him.
Besides this he holds more than a hundred patents and was a member of the National Inventors Council. He coined the term fiber optics in 1956.
He was also nominated by Forbes Magazine as Unsung Heroes in Businessman of the Century Edition.

5.  Maulana Waheeduddin Khan 

 
Maulana Waheeduddin Khan famous Islamic scholar and peace activist. He was awarded the Demirgus Peace International Award by President Mikhail Gorbachev during the Soviet Union.

He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2000. He is known for his translation of Quran into simple and contemporary English.

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6.  Bibi Lal 

Bibi Lal is famous archaeologist of Delhi. He has been the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). There was a lot of debate about his book 'Ram, his historicity, temples and bridges: literature, archeology and other sciences'. It was said to be a temple under the disputed structure. He has been given the Padma Bhushan in 2000.

7. Sudarshan Sahu 

Sudarshan Sahu is a famous sculptor of Odisha. He specializes in molding mythology into sand sculptures. He has previously been awarded the Padma Shri in 1988.

Padam Bhushan

The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award of India after the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan

Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, former Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan have been awarded the Padma Bhushan. 

List of Padma Bhushan recipient

SN	Name	Field	Place
1.	Shri Tarun Gogoi	Public Affairs	Assam
2.	Ms. Sumitra Mahajan	Public Affairs	Madhya Pradesh
3.	Shri Ram Vilas Paswan	Public Affairs	Bihar
4.	Shri Kalbe Sadiq	Spiritualism	Uttar Pradesh
5.	Shri Tarlochan Singh	Public Affairs	Haryana
6.	Shri Rajnikant Devidas Shroff	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
7.	Shri Keshubhai Patel	Public Affairs	Gujarat
8.	Shri Nripendra Misra	Civil Service	Uttar Pradesh
9.	Shri Chandrashekhar Kambara	Literature and Education	Karnataka
10.	Ms. Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra	Art	Kerala

1. Ms. Krishnan Nair Shantakumari
Chithra -

Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra is an Indian playback singer and Carnatic musician. She is from Kerala and recorded more than 25,000 songs in various Indian languages.

2. Shri Tarun Gogoi

Tarun Gogoi was former Chief Minister of Assam from 2001 to 2016. He was the longest serving Chief Minister of the state during his tenure.

3. Shri Chandrashekhar Kambara

Chandrashekhara Kambara is a famous Indian poet, folklorist, playwright, film director in Karnataka.

4. Ms. Sumitra Mahajan

Sumitra Mahajan was the Speaker of Lok Sabha from 2014 to 2019.  She was also known as a longest serving Woman Member of Parliament.

5. Shri Nripendra Misra

Nripendra Misra is a retired IAS officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre. He was former chairperson of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Telecom Secretary of India and Fertilizers Secretary of India.

6. Shri Ram Vilas Paswan

Ram Vilas Paswan was former Cabinet Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.

7. Shri Keshubhai Patel

He was a former Chief Minister of Gujarat in 1995 and from 1998 to 2001.

8. Shri Kalbe Sadiq

Kalbe Sadiq was an Indian Islamic scholar, reformer, educationist, philanthropist and preacher.

9. Shri Rajnikant Devidas Shroff

 He is an Industrialist from Maharashtra. He is also founder and Chairman-cum-Managing Director of United Phosphorus Ltd, an Indian MNC founded in 1969.

10. Shri Tarlochan Singh

S. Tarlochan Singh is a Member of the Parliament of India, representing Haryana. He was member of National Human Rights Commission of India from 2003 to 2006. He is known for his efforts for the rescue of sikhs from Afghanistan after the civil war there.

Padma shree

102 Indian citizens honored with fourth-highest civilian award the Padma Shri. generally it gives only to Indian citizens in various fields of life such as literature, arts, education, industry, science, sports, medicine, social service and public life etc. 

Full List of Padam shree Awardees 

Table

Some important faces for examination

• Players

P Anita 

P Anita is former India women's basketball team captain. She lives in Tamil Nadu.

Mauma das

Indian table tennis player Mouma Das has represented India in international events since 2000. She born in Kolkata, West Bengal.
She was awarded India's second highest sporting honour the Arjuna Award, in 2013.

Othayothu Madhavan Nambiar 

Indian athletics coach Madhvan nambiyar is from Kerala. He was awarded Dronacharya award in 1985.

Virender Singh 

Virendar singh  is an Indian freestyle wrestler from Haryana

Anshu jampsepa 

Anshu Jamsenpa is an Indian mountaineer. She born in Bomdila, Arunachal Pradesh. She became the first woman in the world to scale the summit of Mount Everest twice in a season.

 

• Civilians

Bhuri bai

Indian Bhil artist Bhuri Bai is from Pitol village, Madhya Pardesh. She has won highest state honour accorded to artists, the Shikhar Samman.

Shri Maheshbhai & Shri Nareshbhai Kanodia 

 Mahesh bhai and naresh bhai kanodia were great singer and musicians from Gujarat state in India.

Mridula sinha - Mridula sinha was a former Governor (first woman Governor of Goa) of Goa.
She served as Governor from August 2014 to October 2019.

Radheshyam barle

Radheshyam barle is a Panthi folk dancer and artist. He was awarded
for his contribution in the field of art.