Padma Awards Winners List 2016

Names and fields of Padma Awards 2016 winners:

Padma Awards- The country's highest civilian honors are given in the categories of Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. Remember, Padma Vibhushan is the second highest civilian award given by the Government of India after Bharat Ratna. At the same time, after Padma Vibhushan, the third civilian honor is Padma Bhushan and the fourth is Padma Shri.

These awards are given for arts, social work, matters of public interest, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports and civil services. Padma Vibhushan is given for exceptional and outstanding services. These awards are announced every year on the occasion of Republic Day. The Padma Awards are presented by the President at a function to be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan in March/April.

Important facts related to Padma Awards:

The Padma Award was instituted in the year 1954. The award is announced on every Republic Day except for the brief interruption years 1978-1979 and 1993-1997.

"Padma Vibhushan" is given for exceptional and distinguished service.

"Padma Bhushan" is given for distinguished service of excellent order.

"Padma Shri" is given for distinguished service in any field.

The Padma Award (Padma Vibhushan/Padma Bhushan) of the highest order is given to a person who has been awarded the Padma award at least five years ago.

The total number of Padma Awards in a year (excluding posthumous and foreigners) should not exceed 120.

The names of Padma awardees are published in the Gazette of India.

The President can cancel the award of any person.

The President gives a medal, seal and signed Sanad (certificate) under the award.

A brief description of each award winner in a commemorative brochure is issued on the day of the decoration ceremony.

A replica of the medal is also given to Padma awardees. Which they can wear during any formal/state functions.

This year the President has approved Padma awards to 112 persons. Following are the names of 10 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 83 Padma Shri awardees in this list. Of these, 19 are women and 10 persons are foreigners, NRIs, PIOs.

Padma Vibhushan Award 2016 winners:

Winner's name	Region
Ms. Yamini Krishnamurthy	Art - Classical Dance
Mr. Rajinikanth	Art Cinema
Mrs. Girija Devi	Art - Classical Singing
Mr. Ramoji Rao	Literature & Education- Journalism
Dr. Vishwanathan Shantha	Medicine- Oncology
Shri Shri Ravishankar	Other - Spirituality
Mr Jagmohan	Public Affairs
Dr. Vasudev Kalkunte Atre	Science Engineering
Mr. Avinash Dixit	Literature and Education (Foreign)

Late Shri Dhirubhai Ambani	Trade and Industry
Padma Bhushan Award 2016 Winners:
Winner's name	Region
Mr. Anupam Kher	Art Cinema
Shri Udit Narayan Jha	Back-Singing
Shri Ram V Sutar	Art Sculpture
Mr. Hisnam Kanhailal	Art Theater
Mr. Vinod Rai	Civil Services
Dr. Yarlagad Laxmi Prasad	literature and Education
Professor N S Ramanuj Tatacharya	literature and Education

Dr Barjinder Singh Hamdard	Literature and Education-Journalism
Professor D Nageswara Reddy	Medicine - Gastroenterology
Swami Tejomayananda	Other Spirituality
Shri Hafiz Contractor	Other-Agriculture
Shri Ravindra Chandra Bhargava	Public Affairs
Dr. Venkata Rama Rao Alla	Science and Engineering
Ms. Saina Nehwal	Sports-Badminton
Ms. Sania Mirza	Sports Tennis
Ms. Indu Jain	Ttrade and Industry
Late Swami Dayanand Saraswati (Posthumous)	Other - Spirituality

Mr. Robert Blackville	Public Affairs (Foreigner)
Shri Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry (NRI/PIO)	Trade and Industry
Padma Shri Award 2016 Winners:
Winner's name	Region
Mrs. Pratibha Prahlad	Classical Dance
Mr. Bhikhudan Gadvi	Art-Folk Music
Mr. Sribhash Chandra Supakar	Art Clothing Design
Mr. Ajay Devgan	Art Cinema
Ms. Priyanka Chopra	Art Cinema
Pt. Tulsidas Borkar	Art - Classical Music

Dr. Soma Ghosh	Art - Classical Music
Mr. Neel Madhab Panda	Art – Film Direction and Production
Shri SS Rajamouli	Art – Film Direction and Production
Mr. Madhur Bhandarkar	Art – Film Direction and Production
Professor M Venkatesh Kumar	Art - Folk Artist
MS Pink Snake Charmer	Art – Folk Dance
Smt. Mamta Chandrakar	Art - Folk Music
Ms. Malini Awasthi	Art - Folk Music
Shri Jai Prakash Lekhiwal	Art-Manicure Painting
Shri K.Lakshma Gaur	Art Painting

Shri Bhalchandra Dattatreya Mondhe	Art Photography
Shri Naresh Chandra Lal	Arts - Theater and Cinema
Shri Dhirendra Nath Bezbarua	literature and Education
Shri Prahlad Chandra Tasa	literature and Education
Dr. Ravindra Nagar	literature and Education
Shri Dayabhai Shastri	literature and Education
Dr. Santhesivara Bhirappa	literature and Education
Mr. Halder Nag	literature and Education
Shra Kameswaram Brahma	Literature and Education-Journalism
Professor Pushpesh Pant	Literature and Education-Journalism

Mr. Jawaharlal Kaul	Literature and Education-Journalism
Mr. Ashok Malik	Literature and Education
Dr. Mannam Gopi Chand	Medicine- Cardio Thoracic Surgery
Professor Ravi Kant	Medicine-Surgery
Professor Ram Harsh Singh	Medicine- Ayurveda
Professor Shiv Narayan Kuril	Medicine - Pediatric Surgery
Dr. Sabya Saatchi Sarkar	Medicine-Radiology
Dr. Alla Gopal Krishna Gokhale	Medicine- Cardiac Surgery
Professor T K Lahiri	Medicine- Cardio Thoracic Surgery
Dr. Praveen Chandra	Medicine- Cardiology

Professor (Dr. Daljit Singh Gambhir	Medicine- Cardiology
Dr Chandra Shekhar Seshadri Thoguluva	Medicine- Gastroenterology
Dr. Smt. Anil Kumari Malhotra	Medicine-Homeopathy
Professor MV Padma Shrivastava	Medicine- Neurology
Dr. Sudhar V Shah	Medicine- Neurology
Dr. M M Joshi	Medicine-Ophthalmology
Professor (Dr.) John Ebenezer	Medicine - orthopedic surgery
Dr. Nayudma Yarlgad	Medicine - Pediatric Surgery
Mr. Simon Oraon	Other-Environmental Protection
Mr. Imtiaz Qureshi	Other- Cooking

Mr. Piyush Pandey	Other-Advertising & Communications
Mr. Subhash Palekar	Other-agriculture
Mr. Ravindra Kumar Sinha	Other Wildlife Conservation
Dr H R Nagendra	Other- Yoga
Mr. MC Mehta	Public Affairs
Shri M N Krishna Mani	Public Affairs
Shri Ujjwal Nikam	Public Affairs
Mr. Tokheho Sema	Public Affairs
Dr. Satish Kumar	Science and Engineering
Dr. Millaswamy Annadurai	Science and Engineering

Professor Dipankar Chatterjee	Science and Engineering
Professor (Dr. Ganpit Dadasaheb Yadav)	Science and Engineering
Smt (Professor Veena Tandon)	Science and Engineering
Shri Omkar Nath Srivastava	Science and Engineering
Ms. Sunita Krishnan	Social Work
Shri Ajay Kunar Dutta	Social Work
Shri M. Pandit Dasa	Social Work
Shri P P Gopinathan Nair	Social Work
Mrs. Madeleine de Blick	Social Work
Sri Srinivasan Damal Kandalai	Social Work

Shri Sudhakar Olway	Social Work
Dr TV Narayan	Social Work
Sri Arunachalam Murugantham	Social Work
Ms. Deepika Kumari	Sports-Archery
Mr. Sushil Doshi	Sports-Commentary
Mr. Mahesh Sharma	Trade & Industry
Mr. Saurabh Srivastava	Trade & Industry
Shri Dilip Sanghvi	Trade & Industry
Dr. Keki Hormusji Gharada	Trade & Industry
Mr. Michael Postel	Art-Archaeology (Foreigner)
Shri Salman Amin Sal Khan	Literature and Education (NRI/PIO)
Mrs. Hui Lan Zhang(Foreign)	Other-yoga (Foreigner)
Mr. Pradrag's nikik	Other-yoga (Foreigner)
Dr. Sundar Aditya Menon	Social Work
Shri Ajaypal Singh Banga	Trade and Industry (NRI/PIO)