List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2010–2019)

The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award of the Republic of India.^[1] Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service of a high order", without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex.^[2] The recipients receive a Sanad, a certificate signed by the President of India and a circular-shaped medallion with no monetary association. The recipients are announced every year on Republic Day (26 January) and registered in The Gazette of India—a publication used for official government notices and released weekly by the Department of Publication, under the Ministry of Urban Development.^[3] The conferral of the award is not considered official without its publication in the Gazette. The name of a recipient, whose award has been revoked or restored, both of which require the authority of the President, is archived and they are required to surrender their medal when their name is struck from the register.^[4] As of 2019^[update], none of the conferments of Padma Bhushan during the 2010s have been revoked or restored. The recommendations are received from all the state and the union territory governments, as well as from Ministries of the Government of India, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan awardees, the Institutes of Excellence, the Ministers, the Chief Ministers and the Governors of State, and the Members of Parliament including private individuals.^[3]

Padma Bhushan
Type	National Civilian
Country	India
Presented by	Government of India
Ribbon
Obverse	A centrally located lotus flower is embossed and the text "Padma" written in Devanagari script is placed above and the text "Bhushan" is placed below the lotus.
Reverse	A platinum State Emblem of India placed in the centre with the national motto of India, "Satyameva Jayate" (Truth alone triumphs) in Devanagari Script
Established	1954
First awarded	1954
Total	218
Website	http://www.padmaawards.gov.in/
Precedence
Next (higher)	Padma Vibhushan
Next (lower)	Padma Shri
← Padma Vibhushan "Dusra Varg" (Class II)

When instituted in 1954, the Padma Bhushan was classified as "Dusra Varg" (Class II) under the three-tier Padma Vibhushan awards, which were preceded by the Bharat Ratna in hierarchy. On 15 January 1955, the Padma Vibhushan was reclassified into three different awards as the Padma Vibhushan, the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Shri.^[3] The criteria included "distinguished service of a high order in any field including service rendered by Government servants", but excluded those working with the public sector undertakings with the exception of doctors and scientists. The 1954 statutes did not allow posthumous awards; this was subsequently modified in the January 1955 statute.^[4] The design was also changed to the form that is currently in use; it portrays a circular-shaped toned bronze medallion 1+3⁄4 inches (44 mm) in diameter and 1⁄8 inch (3.2 mm) thick. The centrally placed pattern made of outer lines of a square of 1+3⁄16 inches (30 mm) side is embossed with a knob carved within each of the outer angles of the pattern. A raised circular space of diameter 1+1⁄16 inches (27 mm) is placed at the centre of the decoration. A centrally located lotus flower is embossed on the obverse side of the medal and the text "Padma" is placed above and the text "Bhushan" is placed below the lotus written in Devanagari script. The State Emblem of India is displayed in the centre of the reverse side, together with the national motto of India, "Satyameva Jayate" (Truth alone triumphs) in Devanagari script, which is inscribed on the lower edge. The rim, the edges and all embossing on either side is of standard gold with the text "Padma Bhushan" of gold gilt. The medal is suspended by a pink riband 1+1⁄4 inches (32 mm) in width with a broad white stripe in the middle.^[3][4] It is ranked fifth in the order of precedence of wearing of medals and decorations of the Indian civilian and military awards.^[a]

As of 2019^[update], a total of 218 individuals have been conferred with the award in 2010s – forty-three conferments were presented in 2010, followed by thirty-one in 2011, twenty-eight in 2012, twenty-three in 2013, twenty-four in 2014, twenty in 2015, nineteen in 2016, seven in 2017, nine in 2018, and fourteen in 2019. Since 2010, the Padma Bhushan have been conferred upon thirty foreign recipients – twenty from the United States, three from the United Kingdom, and one each from Bangladesh, Germany, Ireland, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, and Thailand. Individuals from ten different fields were awarded, which includes sixty artists, thirty-five from literature and education, twenty-four from science and engineering, twenty-one from trade and industry, eighteen from medicine, fifteen civil servants, seventeen from public affairs, ten sportspersons, eight from social work, and eleven from other fields. Most recently on 25 January 2019, the award has been bestowed upon fourteen recipients.^[6]

Recipients

 

In a career spanning over six decades, Shrinivas Khale (awarded in 2010) composed more than 1000 songs primarily written in Marathi along with Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati and Sanskrit.^[7]

 

Mallika Sarabhai (awarded in 2010) is a Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi dancer and has been awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2000) and the Knight of the Order of Arts & Letters (2002).^[8]

 

Kathakali exponent Madavoor Vasudevan Nair (awarded in 2011) had expertise in portraying anti-hero characters such as Ravana, Duryodhana, Kichaka, and Jarasandha.^[9]

 

Ayurvedic and Naturopathy exponent Raghavan Thirumulpad (awarded in 2011) has authored several works on wellness in Sanskrit and Malayalam.^[10]

 

Considered "one of the foremost contemporary artists",^[11] British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor (awarded in 2012) was awarded a Knighthood in 2013.^[12]

 

Cardiac surgeon turned businessman Devi Shetty (awarded in 2012) is a chairman and Founder of Narayana Health, a chain of over 20 medical centers in the country.^[13]

 

Marathi language poet and lyricist Mangesh Padgaonkar (awarded in 2013) won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for his collection of poems, Salaam.^[14]

 

A critical theorist, literary critic, and educator Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (awarded in 2013) has been involved in rural education, feminist and ecological social movements since 1986.^[15]

 

Having authored over 500 short stories and articles,^[16] Indian author of British descent Ruskin Bond (awarded in 2014) also received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in 1992.^[17]

 

Grammy-winner percussionist in the field of Carnatic music and a Ghatam exponent T. H. Vinayakram (awarded in 2014) has been elected Fellow of Sangeet Natak Akademi for his contribution to Indian music.^[18]

 

Best known as the architect of country's first supercomputer PARAM, Vijay P. Bhatkar (awarded in 2015) is a computer scientist, Information technology leader, and educationist.^[19]

 

Geologist Khadg Singh Valdiya (awarded in 2015) is known for his contribution to the sphere of geodynamics and was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for his work in the fields of neotectonics, sedimentology, and environmental geology.^[20]

 

A. V. Rama Rao (awarded in 2016) is known for his work in Organic synthesis and has published more than 260 research papers. Rao has been elected a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, the Indian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and The World Academy of Sciences.^[21]

 

Vinod Rai (awarded in 2016) is the former Comptroller and Auditor General of India and had been a director on several boards, including the State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank, Life Insurance Corporation of India, and IDFC.^[22]

 

Grammy-winner Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (awarded in 2017) is a Hindustani classical music instrumentalist, the "best known exponent of the Mohan Veena".^[23]

 

Thailand national Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (awarded in 2017) is a scholar of Sanskrit language.^[24]

 

The longest-serving bishop (over 62 years) in the country, Philipose Mar Chrysostom (awarded in 2018) is the Metropolitan bishop of the Mar Thoma Church in Kerala.^[25]

 

Once described as "an unequalled expert in Chola bronzes", historian, archaeologist and epigraphist R. Nagaswamy (awarded in 2018) is known for his work on temple inscriptions and art history of Tamil Nadu.^[26]

Award recipients by year^[6] Year Number of recipients 2010 43 2011 31 2012 28 2013 23 2014 24 2015 20 2016 19 2017 7 2018 9 2019 14	Award recipients by field^[6] Field Number of recipients Arts 60 Civil Service 15 Literature & Education 36 Medicine 18 Others 9 Public Affairs 17 Science & Engineering 24 Social Work 8 Sports 10 Trade & Industry 21

Key

# Indicates a posthumous honour

List of Padma Bhushan award recipients, showing the year, field, and state/country^[6]

Year	Recipient	Field	State
2010	Satya Paul Agarwal	Medicine	Delhi
2010	Mohammad Amin	Literature & Education	Delhi
2010	Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay	Public Affairs	Jharkhand
2010	M. S. Banga	Trade & Industry	—^[A]
2010	Anil Bordia	Literature & Education	Rajasthan
2010	Bipan Chandra	Literature & Education	Delhi
2010	B. K. Chaturvedi	Civil Service	Delhi
2010	Sant Singh Chatwal	Public Affairs	—^[B]
2010	G. P. Chopra	Literature & Education	Delhi
2010	Tan Chung	Literature & Education	—^[B]
2010	Madhusudan Dhaky	Arts	Gujarat
2010	P. R. Dubhashi	Civil Service	Maharashtra
2010	Puttaraj Gawai	Arts	Karnataka
2010	Belle Monappa Hegde	Medicine	Karnataka
2010	Ilaiyaraaja	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2010	Jagdish Chandra Kapur	Science & Engineering	Delhi
2010	Shrinivas Khale	Arts	Maharashtra
2010	Aamir Khan	Arts	Maharashtra
2010	Sultan Khan	Arts	Maharashtra
2010	Ram Kumar	Arts	Delhi
2010	Kumudini Lakhia	Arts	Gujarat
2010	Kuzhur Narayana Marar	Arts	Kerala
2010	Chhannulal Mishra	Arts	Uttar Pradesh
2010	E. T. Narayanan Mooss	Medicine	Kerala
2010	C. P. Krishnan Nair	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2010	S. P. Oswal	Trade & Industry	Punjab
2010	Akbar Padamsee	Arts	Maharashtra
2010	Ramakanta Panda	Medicine	Maharashtra
2010	Balasaheb Vikhe Patil	Social Work	Maharashtra
2010	Arogyaswami Paulraj	Science & Engineering	—^[B]
2010	A. R. Rahman	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2010	Moosa Raza	Civil Service	Delhi
2010	Mallika Sarabhai	Arts	Gujarat
2010	Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana	Arts	Andhra Pradesh
2010	Abhijit Sen	Public Affairs	Delhi
2010	Satya Vrat Shastri	Literature & Education	Delhi
2010	Noshir M. Shroff	Medicine	Delhi
2010	Kushal Pal Singh	Trade & Industry	Delhi
2010	Bikash Sinha	Science & Engineering	West Bengal
2010	Balagangadharanatha Swamiji	Social Work	Karnataka
2010	Narayanan Vaghul	Trade & Industry	Tamil Nadu
2010	P. K. Warrier	Medicine	Kerala
2010	Fareed Zakaria	Literature & Education	—^[B]
2011	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam	Arts	Andhra Pradesh
2011	Rajashree Birla	Social Work	Maharashtra
2011	M. N. Buch	Civil Service	Madhya Pradesh
2011	C. V. Chandrasekhar	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2011	Ajai Chowdhry	Trade & Industry	Delhi
2011	Yogesh Chander Deveshwar	Trade & Industry	West Bengal
2011	Satyadev Dubey	Arts	Maharashtra
2011	T. J. S. George	Literature & Education	Karnataka
2011	Shankha Ghosh	Literature & Education	West Bengal
2011	Kris Gopalakrishnan	Trade & Industry	Karnataka
2011	Keki Byramjee Grant^[i]#	Medicine	Maharashtra
2011	Shashi Kapoor	Arts	Maharashtra
2011	Krishen Khanna	Arts	Haryana
2011	Mohammed Zahur Khayyam	Arts	Maharashtra
2011	Chanda Kochhar	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2011	Dwijen Mukhopadhyay	Arts	West Bengal
2011	Madavoor Vasudevan Nair	Arts	Kerala
2011	Ramdas Pai	Literature & Education	Karnataka
2011	Dashrath Patel^[ii]#	Arts	Gujarat
2011	Rajendra Singh Pawar	Trade & Industry	Haryana
2011	S. Ramachandran	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
2011	Shobhana Ranade	Social Work	Maharashtra
2011	Gunupati Venkata Krishna Reddy	Trade & Industry	Andhra Pradesh
2011	Kallam Anji Reddy	Trade & Industry	Andhra Pradesh
2011	Waheeda Rehman	Arts	Maharashtra
2011	Shyam Saran	Civil Service	Delhi
2011	Analjit Singh	Trade & Industry	Delhi
2011	Arpita Singh	Arts	Delhi
2011	Surendra Singh	Civil Service	Delhi
2011	R. K. Srikantan	Arts	Karnataka
2011	Raghavan Thirumulpad^[iii]#	Medicine	Kerala
2012	Suresh H. Advani	Medicine	Maharashtra
2012	Shabana Azmi	Arts	Maharashtra
2012	Homi K. Bhabha	Literature & Education	—^[A]
2012	Shashikumar Chitre	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
2012	Khaled Choudhury	Arts	West Bengal
2012	Jatin Das	Arts	Delhi
2012	Vidya Dehejia	Literature & Education	—^[B]
2012	Dharmendra	Arts	Maharashtra
2012	S. N. Goenka	Social Work	Maharashtra
2012	M. S. Gopalakrishnan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2012	T. V. Gopalakrishnan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2012	Buddhadev Das Gupta	Arts	West Bengal
2012	Sunil Janah	Arts	—^[B]
2012	Anish Kapoor	Arts	—^[A]
2012	S. B. Mujumdar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
2012	Balasubramanian Muthuraman	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2012	Mira Nair	Arts	Delhi
2012	Arvind Panagariya	Literature & Education	—^[B]
2012	José Pereira	Literature & Education	—^[B]
2012	Mata Prasad	Civil Service	Uttar Pradesh
2012	M. S. Raghunathan	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
2012	P. Chandrasekhara Rao	Public Affairs	—^[C]
2012	Ronen Sen	Civil Service	West Bengal
2012	Devi Shetty	Medicine	Karnataka
2012	M. V. Subbiah	Trade & Industry	Tamil Nadu
2012	N. Vittal	Civil Service	Kerala
2012	N. H. Wadia	Medicine	Maharashtra
2012	George Yeo	Public Affairs	—^[D]
2013	Satya N. Atluri	Science & Engineering	—^[B]
2013	Maharaj Kishan Bhan	Civil Service	Delhi
2013	Jaspal Bhatti^[iv]#	Arts	Punjab
2013	Rahul Dravid	Sports	Karnataka
2013	Adi Godrej	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2013	Abdul Rashid Khan	Arts	West Bengal
2013	Rajesh Khanna^[v]#	Arts	Maharashtra
2013	Mary Kom	Sports	Manipur
2013	Nandkishore Shamrao Laud	Medicine	Maharashtra
2013	Mangesh Padgaonkar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
2013	Hemendra Singh Panwar	Civil Service	Madhya Pradesh
2013	Jogesh Pati	Science & Engineering	—^[B]
2013	Shivajirao Girdhar Patil	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
2013	A. Sivathanu Pillai	Science & Engineering	Delhi
2013	D. Ramanaidu	Arts	Andhra Pradesh
2013	Kanak Rele	Arts	Maharashtra
2013	V. K. Saraswat	Science & Engineering	Delhi
2013	Ashoke Sen	Science & Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
2013	Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	Literature & Education	—^[B]
2013	B. N. Suresh	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
2013	Sharmila Tagore	Arts	Delhi
2013	Ramamurthy Thyagarajan	Trade & Industry	Tamil Nadu
2013	Saroja Vaidyanathan	Arts	Delhi
2014	Anisuzzaman	Literature & Education	—^[E]
2014	Mrityunjay Athreya	Literature & Education	Delhi
2014	Padmanabhan Balaram	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
2014	Dalveer Bhandari	Public Affairs	Delhi
2014	Ruskin Bond	Literature & Education	Uttarakhand
2014	Anita Desai	Literature & Education	Delhi
2014	Pullela Gopichand	Sports	Andhra Pradesh
2014	Kamal Haasan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2014	Jyeshtharaj Joshi	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
2014	Vijayendra Nath Kaul	Civil Service	Delhi
2014	Neelam Kler	Medicine	Delhi
2014	Madappa Mahadevappa	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
2014	Leander Paes	Sports	Maharashtra
2014	K. Radhakrishnan	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
2014	Anumolu Ramakrishna^[vi]#	Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
2014	Thirumalachari Ramasami	Science & Engineering	Delhi
2014	Lloyd Rudolph	Literature & Education	—^[B]
2014	Susanne Hoeber Rudolph	Literature & Education	—^[B]
2014	Vinod Prakash Sharma	Science & Engineering	Delhi
2014	Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh	Arts	Gujarat
2014	Begum Parveen Sultana	Arts	Maharashtra
2014	Dhirubhai Thaker	Literature & Education	Gujarat
2014	Vairamuthu	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
2014	T. H. Vinayakram	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2015	Jahnu Barua	Arts	Assam
2015	Manjul Bhargava	Science & Engineering	—^[B]
2015	Vijay Bhatkar	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
2015	Swapan Dasgupta	Literature & Education	Delhi
2015	David Frawley	Literature & Education	—^[B]
2015	Bill Gates	Social Work	—^[B]
2015	Melinda Gates	Social Work	—^[B]
2015	Satyamitranand Giri	Others	Uttar Pradesh
2015	N. Gopalaswami	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu
2015	Subhash C. Kashyap	Public Affairs	Delhi
2015	Gokulotsavji Maharaj	Arts	Madhya Pradesh
2015	Saichiro Misumi	Public Affairs	—^[F]
2015	Ambrish Mithal	Medicine	Delhi
2015	Sudha Ragunathan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2015	Harish Salve	Public Affairs	Delhi
2015	Ashok Seth	Medicine	Delhi
2015	Rajat Sharma	Literature & Education	Delhi
2015	Satpal Singh	Sports	Delhi
2015	Shivakumara Swami	Others	Karnataka
2015	Khadg Singh Valdiya	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
2016	Ravindra Chandra Bhargava	Public Affairs	Uttar Pradesh
2016	Robert Blackwill	Public Affairs	—^[B]
2016	Hafeez Contractor	Others	Maharashtra
2016	Indu Jain	Trade & Industry	Delhi
2016	Heisnam Kanhailal	Arts	Manipur
2016	Anupam Kher	Arts	Maharashtra
2016	Sania Mirza	Sports	Telangana
2016	Pallonji Mistry	Trade & Industry	—^[G]
2016	Udit Narayan	Arts	Maharashtra
2016	Saina Nehwal	Sports	Haryana
2016	Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
2016	Vinod Rai	Civil Service	Kerala
2016	N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
2016	A. V. Rama Rao	Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
2016	D. Nageshwar Reddy	Medicine	Telangana
2016	Dayananda Saraswati^[vii]#	Others	Uttarakhand
2016	Barjinder Singh Hamdard	Literature & Education	Punjab
2016	Ram V. Sutar	Arts	Uttar Pradesh
2016	Tejomayananda	Others	Maharashtra
2017	Vishwa Mohan Bhatt	Arts	Rajasthan
2017	Deviprasad Dwivedi	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
2017	Ratnasundarsuri	Others	Gujarat
2017	Niranjanananda Saraswati	Others	Bihar
2017	Cho Ramaswamy^[viii]#	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
2017	Maha Chakri Sirindhorn	Literature & Education	—^[H]
2017	Tehemton Erach Udwadia	Medicine	Maharashtra
2018	Pankaj Advani	Sports	Karnataka
2018	Philipose Mar Chrysostom	Others	Kerala
2018	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	Sports	Jharkhand
2018	Alexander Kadakin^[ix]#	Public Affairs	—^[I]
2018	Ramachandran Nagaswamy	Others	Tamil Nadu
2018	Ved Prakash Nanda	Literature & Education	—^[B]
2018	Laxman Pai	Arts	Goa
2018	Arvind Parikh	Arts	Maharashtra
2018	Sharda Sinha	Arts	Bihar
2019	John T. Chambers	Trade & Industry	—^[B]
2019	Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa	Public Affairs	Punjab
2019	Pravin Gordhan	Public Affairs	—^[J]
2019	Mahashay Dharampal Gulati	Trade & Industry	Delhi
2019	Darshan Lal Jain	Social Work	Haryana
2019	Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade	Medicine	Maharashtra
2019	Kariya Munda	Public Affairs	Jharkhand
2019	Budhaditya Mukherjee	Arts	West Bengal
2019	Mohanlal	Arts	Kerala
2019	Nambi Narayanan	Science & Engineering	Kerala
2019	Kuldip Nayar^[x]	Literature & Education	Delhi
2019	Bachendri Pal	Sports	Uttarakhand
2019	V. K. Shunglu	Civil Service	Delhi
2019	Hukmdev Narayan Yadav	Public Affairs	Bihar

Controversies and refusals

The 2010 conferment on an Indian-American businessman Sant Singh Chatwal created much controversy. Awarded in the field of Public Affairs, Chatwal is known for his association with former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton and pled guilty to violating the Federal Election Campaign Act and witness tampering during the United States presidential election.^[36] He was also accused of lobbying for the award by leveraging his contacts in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and United States Congress.^[37] The Government of India, however, issued a press release defending the conferment. The statement mentioned Chatwal as a "tireless advocate" of the country's interest in the United States. It also clarified that out of five Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered cases against him between 1992 and 1994, three were closed by CBI itself and in remaining two cases, Chatwal was discharged by the Court and as per the reports that were made available to the selection committee, there was "nothing adverse on record against him".^[38][39] According to media reports, there were several cases filed or registered after April 2009 which includes three criminal complaints with Kerala Police and four cases in Delhi High Court and Kerala High Court. Chatwal also served summons in January 2010. However, the then Union Home Secretary Gopal Krishna Pillai said that "no probe has been ordered nor any report sought from anyone".^[40]

Earlier in 2008, Chatwal was considered for the Padma Shri but the Indian Embassy in Washington, D.C. declined to nominate Chatwal when asked by the PMO. Ronen Sen, who was then serving as the Indian Ambassador to the United States, had told the PMO that the conferral would not be appropriate because of the controversy associated with Chatwal's financial dealings in two countries. Sen had also mentioned that though positive, Chatwal's contribution are much less compared to other Indian-Americans and the bestowal would not only "demoralise the others who had done much more" but also would create "the impression that India did not regard lack of transparency in financial dealings as a disqualification for its highest honours".^[41]

In 2013, playback singer S. Janaki refused to accept her award and stated that "the award has come late in her five-and-half-decade long career". The singer also mentioned that she is not against the Government and expressed happiness for the recognition but requested the Government to "show some more consideration to the artists from the southern parts of the country".^[42] In 2014, family members of J. S. Verma who served as 27th Chief Justice of India refused the posthumous conferral stating that "Verma himself would not have accepted" the honour as he "never hankered or lobbied for any acclaim, reward or favour".^[xi][44]

Explanatory notes

1. The order of precedence is: Bharat Ratna, Param Vir Chakra, Ashoka Chakra, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan.^[5]

Non-citizen recipients

1. Indicates a citizen of the United Kingdom
2. Indicates a citizen of the United States
3. Indicates a citizen of Germany
4. Indicates a citizen of Singapore
5. Indicates a citizen of Bangladesh
6. Indicates a citizen of Japan
7. Indicates a citizen of Ireland
8. Indicates a citizen of Thailand
9. Indicates a citizen of Russia
10. Indicates a citizen of South Africa

Posthumous recipients

1. Keki Byramjee Grant died on 4 January 2011, at the age of 90.^[27]
2. Dashrath Patel died on 2 December 2010, at the age of 83.^[28]
3. Raghavan Thirumulpad died on 21 November 2010, at the age of 90.^[29]
4. Jaspal Bhatti died on 25 October 2012, at the age of 57.^[30]
5. Rajesh Khanna died on 18 July 2012, at the age of 69.^[31]
6. Anumolu Ramakrishna died on 20 August 2013, at the age of 73.^[32]
7. Dayananda Saraswati died on 23 September 2015, at the age of 85.^[33]
8. Cho Ramaswamy died on 7 December 2016, at the age of 82.^[34]
9. Alexander Kadakin died on 26 January 2017, at the age of 67.^[35]
10. Kuldip Nayar died on 23 August 2018, at the age of 95.
11. J. S. Verma died on 22 April 2013, at the age of 80.^[43]

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External links

• Official website
• "Awards & Medals". Ministry of Home Affairs (India). 14 September 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2015.