List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2000–2009)

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 The names of recipients whose awards have been revoked or restored, both of which processes require the authority of the president, are archived and they are required to surrender their medal when their name is struck from the register;^[4] none of the conferments of Padma Bhushan during 2000–2009 have been revoked or restored.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	291
Website	https://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.^{[lower-alpha 1]}

A total of 291 awards were presented in the 2000s – twenty awards were presented in 2000, followed by thirty-two in 2001, twenty-five in 2002, thirty-two in 2003, nineteen in 2004, thirty in 2005, thirty-seven in 2006, thirty-two in 2007, thirty-five in 2008, and thirty-one in 2009. The Padma Bhushan in the 2000s was also conferred upon 37 foreign recipients – eighteen from the United States, five each from Russia and the United Kingdom, three from Japan, two from France, and one each from China, the Czech Republic, Germany, and South Africa. Individuals from ten different fields were awarded, which includes sixty-nine artists, sixty from literature and education, forty-three from science and engineering, twenty-seven from trade and industry, twenty-six from medicine, twenty-two from public affairs, eighteen from social work, twelve from civil services, ten from other fields, and four sportspersons.^[6]

In 2003, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) volunteer Dattopant Thengadi refused to accept the award until RSS founder K. B. Hedgewar RSS ideologue M. S. Golwalkar had been offered the Bharat Ratna.^[7] Historian Romila Thapar, who had earlier refused the award in 1992, did so again in 2005.^[7] In a letter she wrote to the then President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, she mentioned that she had refused the award when the Ministry of Human Resource Development contacted her. However, she stated she was surprised to see her name in the list of awardees.^[8] Civil servant S. R. Sankaran also refused to accept the award in 2005 without citing any reason.^[9]

Recipients

Wahiduddin Khan (awarded in 2000) is an Islamic scholar and peace activist. He founded the Centre for Peace and Spirituality in 2001.^[10]

L. Subramaniam (awarded in 2001) is considered the first among Indians to introduce the concept of Jugalbandi between Hindustani classical and Carnatic music.^[11]

Yamini Krishnamurthy (awarded in 2001) is an Indian classica dancer of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi style. She is also the recipient of Padma Vibhushan and Padma Shri.^[12]

Raj Reddy (awarded in 2001) is an Indian-American computer scientist and is the recipient of the Turing Award (1994) for his work in the field of Artificial Intelligence and computer science.^[13]

Naresh Trehan (awarded in 2001) is a cardiovascular-cardiothoracic surgeon and the founder of Medanta Institute.^[14]

Zakir Hussain (awarded in 2002) is a tabla player in Hindustani classical music. He is also the recipient of Padma Shri, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and the National Heritage Fellowship given by the United States.^[15]

Mario Miranda (awarded in 2002) was a cartoonist and painter.^[16]

Sitakant Mahapatra (awarded in 2003) is a poet, literary critic, and ex-IAS officer. He is also the recipient of the Jnanpith Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, and the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship.^[17]

Padma Subramanyam (awarded in 2003) is a Bharatanatyam dancer and has also received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1983) and is elected Fellow of Sangeet Natak Akademi for her contribution to Indian dance.^[18]

A recipient of the Padma Shri and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, Govindarajan Padmanaban (awarded in 2003) is an biochemist, biotechnologist and former director of Indian Institute of Science.^[19]

Sardara Singh Johl (awarded in 2004) is an agricultural economist and chancellor of Central University of Punjab. He also served as consultant to Food and Agriculture Organization, World Bank and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.^[20]

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (awarded in 2005) is the chairperson of Biocon and Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. She has frequently appeared in Forbes list of most powerful women.^[21]

Madhav Gadgil (awarded in 2006) is an ecologist academic, writer, and the founder of the research forum, Centre for Ecological Sciences.^[22]

Often called as "the czar of the Indian IT Industry", Azim Premji (awarded in 2006) is the chairperson of Wipro Limited.^[23]

Devaki Jain (awarded in 2006) is an Indian economist and writer, who has worked mainly in the field of feminist economics. She has written several books and papers on gender rights, development and feminist reflections.^[24]

Kavalam Narayana Panicker (awarded in 2007) has written 26 Malayalam plays and is a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and the fellowship of the Sangeet Natak Akademi.^[25]

Once described as "the Marco Polo of neuroscience", the Neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran (awarded in 2007) is best known for developing a therapy for Phantom limb pain.^[26]

Kaushik Basu (awarded in 2008) is the former Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank. He also served as the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India.^[27]

S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (awarded in 2008) is an Abel Prize-winner mathematician primarily known for his fundamental contributions to probability theory.^[28]

The Bharatanatyam exponents Shanta Dhananjayan (left) and Vannadil Pudiyaveettil Dhananjayan (right), better known as "Dhananjayans" (awarded in 2009), are founder of "Bharata Kalanjali", a dance institute located at Chennai.^[29]

Award recipients by year[6] Year Number of recipients 2000 20 2001 32 2002 25 2003 32 2004 19 2005 28 2006 37 2007 32 2008 35 2009 31	Award recipients by field[6] Field Number of recipients Arts 69 Civil Service 12 Literature & Education 60 Medicine 26 Others 10 Public Affairs 22 Science & Engineering 43 Social Work 18 Sports 4 Trade & Industry 27

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Key

# Indicates a posthumous honour

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

Year	Recipient	Field	State
2000	Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre	Science & Engineering	Delhi
2000	Anil Kumar Agarwal	Others	Delhi
2000	Ram Narain Agarwal	Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
2000	Sharan Rani Backliwal	Arts	Delhi
2000	Kalyan Dev	Social Work	Uttar Pradesh
2000	Veerendra Heggade	Social Work	Karnataka
2000	Pavaguda V. Indiresan	Science & Engineering	Delhi
2000	Wahiduddin Khan	Public Affairs	Delhi
2000	B. B. Lal	Science & Engineering	Delhi
2000	Raghunath Anant Mashelkar	Science & Engineering	Delhi
2000	H. Y. Sharada Prasad	Literature & Education	Delhi
2000	Rajinikanth	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2000	Begum Aizaz Rasul	Social Work	Uttar Pradesh
2000	Radha Reddy	Arts	Delhi
2000	Raja Reddy	Arts	Delhi
2000	Pakkiriswamy Chandra Sekharan	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
2000	Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya[lower-roman 1]#	Social Work	Maharashtra
2000	S. Srinivasan[lower-roman 2]#	Science & Engineering	Kerala
2000	Ratan Tata	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2000	Harbans Singh Wasir	Medicine	Haryana
2001	Dev Anand	Arts	Maharashtra
2001	Viswanathan Anand	Sports	Tamil Nadu
2001	Amitabh Bachchan	Arts	Maharashtra
2001	Rahul Bajaj	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2001	B. R. Barwale	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2001	Balasaheb Bharde	Social Work	Maharashtra
2001	Boyi Bhimanna	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
2001	Swadesh Chatterjee	Public Affairs	—[upper-alpha 1]
2001	Baldev Raj Chopra	Arts	Maharashtra
2001	Ashok Desai	Public Affairs	Delhi
2001	Karimpumannil Mathai George	Literature & Education	Kerala
2001	Bhupen Hazarika	Arts	Assam
2001	Lalgudi Jayaraman	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2001	Yamini Krishnamurthy	Arts	Delhi
2001	Shiv K. Kumar	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
2001	Raghunath Mohapatra	Arts	Odisha
2001	Arun Netravali	Science & Engineering	—[upper-alpha 1]
2001	Mohan Singh Oberoi	Trade & Industry	Delhi
2001	Rajendra K. Pachauri	Others	Delhi
2001	Abdul Karim Parekh	Social Work	Maharashtra
2001	Amrita Patel	Trade & Industry	Gujarat
2001	Pran	Arts	Maharashtra
2001	Aroon Purie	Literature & Education	Delhi
2001	Bhupathiraju Vissam Raju	Trade & Industry	Andhra Pradesh
2001	Bhanumathi Ramakrishna	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2001	Sundaram Ramakrishnan	Social Work	Maharashtra
2001	Chitranjan Singh Ranawat	Medicine	—[upper-alpha 1]
2001	Palle Rama Rao	Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
2001	Raj Reddy	Science & Engineering	—[upper-alpha 1]
2001	Kum Uma Sharma	Arts	Delhi
2001	L. Subramaniam	Arts	Karnataka
2001	Naresh Kumar Trehan	Medicine	Delhi
2002	Gary Ackerman	Public Affairs	—[upper-alpha 1]
2002	H. P. S. Ahluwalia	Social Work	Delhi
2002	Prabha Atre	Arts	Maharashtra
2002	Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharyya	Public Affairs	—[upper-alpha 2]
2002	Chandu Borde	Sports	Maharashtra
2002	Eugene Chelyshev	Literature & Education	—[upper-alpha 3]
2002	Pravinchandra Varjivan Gandhi	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2002	Shobha Gurtu	Arts	Maharashtra
2002	Henning Holck-Larsen	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2002	Zakir Hussain	Arts	Maharashtra
2002	B. K. S. Iyengar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
2002	Faquir Chand Kohli	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
2002	V. C. Kulandaiswamy	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
2002	Gury Marchuk	Science & Engineering	—[upper-alpha 3]
2002	Jagat Singh Mehta	Civil Service	Rajasthan
2002	Ismail Merchant	Arts	Maharashtra
2002	Mario Miranda	Literature & Education	Goa
2002	Frank Pallone	Public Affairs	—[upper-alpha 1]
2002	Ramanujam Varatharaja Perumal	Science & Engineering	Kerala
2002	Natesan Rangabashyam	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
2002	Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra	Civil Service	Delhi
2002	Habib Tanvir	Arts	Madhya Pradesh
2002	Kottayan Katankot Venugopal	Public Affairs	Delhi
2002	Nirmal Verma	Literature & Education	Delhi
2002	K. J. Yesudas	Arts	Kerala
2003	Teejan Bai	Arts	Chhattisgarh
2003	Ammannur Madhava Chakyar	Arts	Kerala
2003	Prabhu Chawla	Others	Delhi
2003	Herbert Fischer	Public Affairs	—[upper-alpha 4]
2003	Jamshyd Godrej	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2003	Coluthur Gopalan	Medicine	Delhi
2003	Parasaran Kesava Iyengar	Public Affairs	Delhi
2003	B. Rajam Iyer	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2003	Shri Krishna Joshi	Science & Engineering	Haryana
2003	Madurai N. Krishnan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2003	Rajinder Kumar	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
2003	Ramesh Kumar	Medicine	Delhi
2003	Purshotam Lal	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
2003	Sitakant Mahapatra	Literature & Education	Odisha
2003	Bagicha Singh Minhas	Science & Engineering	Delhi
2003	Subhash Mukhopadhyay	Literature & Education	West Bengal
2003	P. S. Narayanaswamy	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2003	Arcot Ramachandran	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
2003	Trichur V. Ramachandran	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2003	Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti	Medicine	Maharashtra
2003	T. V. Sankaranarayanan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2003	Naseeruddin Shah	Arts	Maharashtra
2003	T. V. R. Shenoy	Others	Delhi
2003	Jagjit Singh	Arts	Maharashtra
2003	Ram Badan Singh	Science & Engineering	Delhi
2003	Hari Shankar Singhania	Trade & Industry	Delhi
2003	Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2003	Narayanan Srinivasan	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
2003	Padma Subrahmanyam	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2003	Swapna Sundari	Arts	Delhi
2003	O. V. Vijayan	Literature & Education	Kerala
2003	Herbert Alexandrovich Yefremov	Science & Engineering	—[upper-alpha 3]
2004	Soumitra Chatterjee	Arts	West Bengal
2004	Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
2004	Gulzar	Arts	Maharashtra
2004	Sardara Singh Johl	Science & Engineering	Punjab
2004	Madhav Vittal Kamath	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
2004	Komal Kothari	Arts	Rajasthan
2004	Thoppil Varghese Antony	Civil service	Tamil Nadu
2004	Yoshiro Mori	Public Affairs	—[upper-alpha 5]
2004	Gopi Chand Narang	Literature & Education	Delhi
2004	Govindarajan Padmanaban	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
2004	Poornima Arvind Pakvasa	Social Work	Gujarat
2004	Vishnu Prabhakar	Literature & Education	Delhi
2004	N. Rajam	Arts	Uttar Pradesh
2004	Chennamaneni Hanumantha Rao	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
2004	Thiruvengadam Lakshman Sankar	Civil Service	Andhra Pradesh
2004	T. N. Seshagopalan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2004	Bijoy Nandan Shahi	Medicine	Delhi
2004	Krishna Srinivas	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
2004	Alarmel Valli	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2005	Sardar Anjum	Literature & Education	Haryana
2005	Andre Beteille	Literature & Education	Delhi
2005	Chandi Prasad Bhatt	Others	Uttarakhand
2005	Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri	Literature & Education	Delhi
2005	Yash Chopra	Arts	Maharashtra
2005	Manna Dey	Arts	Karnataka
2005	Irfan Habib	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
2005	Yusuf Hamied	Medicine	Maharashtra
2005	Qurratulain Hyder	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
2005	Tarlochan Singh Kler	Medicine	Delhi
2005	Anil Kohli	Medicine	Delhi
2005	Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
2005	Mrinal Miri	Literature & Education	Meghalaya
2005	Hari Mohan	Medicine	Delhi
2005	Brijmohan Lall Munjal	Trade & Industry	Delhi
2005	M. T. Vasudevan Nair	Literature & Education	Kerala
2005	Azim Premji	Trade & Industry	Karnataka
2005	Balraj Puri	Literature & Education	Jammu & Kashmir
2005	Syed Mir Qasim[lower-roman 3]#	Public Affairs	Delhi
2005	A. Ramachandran	Arts	Delhi
2005	G. V. Iyer Ramakrishna	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu
2005	V. S. Ramamurthy	Science & Engineering	Delhi
2005	K. I. Varaprasad Reddy	Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
2005	K. Srinath Reddy	Medicine	Delhi
2005	Tumkur Ramaiya Satishchandran	Civil Service	Karnataka
2005	Girish Chandra Saxena	Civil Service	Delhi
2005	Narasimhiah Seshagiri	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
2005	William Mark Tully	Literature & Education	Delhi
2006	Jaiveer Agarwal	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
2006	P. S. Appu	Civil Service	Karnataka
2006	Shashi Bhushan	Public Affairs	Delhi
2006	Ganga Prasad Birla	Social Work	West Bengal
2006	Grigory Bongard-Levin	Literature & Education	—[upper-alpha 3]
2006	Lokesh Chandra	Literature & Education	Delhi
2006	Chiranjeevi	Arts	Andhra Pradesh
2006	Dinesh Nandini Dalmia	Literature & Education	Delhi
2006	Tarun Das	Trade & Industry	Haryana
2006	Madhav Gadgil	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
2006	A. K. Hangal	Arts	Maharashtra
2006	Devaki Jain	Social Work	Karnataka
2006	Kamleshwar	Literature & Education	Haryana
2006	Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan	Arts	Maharashtra
2006	Sabri Khan	Arts	Delhi
2006	Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan	Arts	Maharashtra
2006	Shanno Khurana	Arts	Delhi
2006	Gunter Kruger[lower-roman 4]#	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2006	P. Leela[lower-roman 5]#	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2006	K. P. P. Nambiar	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
2006	Nandan Nilekani	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
2006	Sai Paranjpye	Arts	Maharashtra
2006	Deepak Parekh	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2006	M. V. Pylee	Literature & Education	Kerala
2006	Subramaniam Ramadorai	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2006	N. S. Ramaswamy	Social Work	Karnataka
2006	Pavani Parameswara Rao	Public Affairs	Uttar Pradesh
2006	Ramakanta Rath	Literature & Education	Odisha
2006	V. Shanta	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
2006	Hira Lall Sibal	Public Affairs	Chandigarh
2006	Billy Arjan Singh	Others	Uttar Pradesh
2006	Jasjit Singh	Others	Haryana
2006	Vijaypat Singhania	Sports	Maharashtra
2006	K. G. Subramanyan	Arts	Gujarat
2006	K. K. Talwar	Medicine	Chandigarh
2006	Vijay Shankar Vyas	Literature & Education	Rajasthan
2006	Dušan Zbavitel	Literature & Education	—[upper-alpha 6]
2007	Javed Akhtar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
2007	Gabriel Chiramel	Literature & Education	Kerala
2007	Ela Gandhi	Public Affairs	—[upper-alpha 7]
2007	Saroj Ghose	Science & Engineering	West Bengal
2007	V. Mohini Giri	Social Work	Delhi
2007	Somnath Hore[lower-roman 6]#	Arts	West Bengal
2007	Jamshed Jiji Irani	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2007	Gurcharan Singh Kalkat	Science & Engineering	Chandigarh
2007	N. Mahalingam	Trade & Industry	Tamil Nadu
2007	Prithipal Singh Maini	Medicine	Delhi
2007	Tyeb Mehta	Arts	Maharashtra
2007	Rajan Misra	Arts	Delhi
2007	Sajan Misra	Arts	Delhi
2007	Sunil Mittal	Trade & Industry	Delhi
2007	Ramankutty Nair	Arts	Kerala
2007	Gopaldas Neeraj	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
2007	Indra Nooyi	Trade & Industry	—[upper-alpha 1]
2007	Kavalam Narayana Panicker	Arts	Kerala
2007	Bhikhu Parekh	Literature & Education	—[upper-alpha 2]
2007	Syed Mohammad Sharfuddin Quadri	Medicine	West Bengal
2007	Vilayanur S. Ramachandran	Science & Engineering	—[upper-alpha 1]
2007	Tapan Raychaudhuri	Literature & Education	—[upper-alpha 2]
2007	Syed Haider Raza	Arts	—[upper-alpha 8]
2007	Jeffrey Sachs	Literature & Education	—[upper-alpha 1]
2007	Chandra Prasad Saikia[lower-roman 7]#	Literature & Education	Assam
2007	L. Z. Sailo	Literature & Education	Mizoram
2007	Shiv Kumar Sarin	Medicine	Delhi
2007	Shriram Sharma	Medicine	Maharashtra
2007	Manju Sharma	Science & Engineering	Delhi
2007	T. N. Srinivasan	Literature & Education	—[upper-alpha 1]
2007	Osamu Suzuki	Trade & Industry	—[upper-alpha 5]
2007	K. T. Thomas	Public Affairs	Kerala
2008	Mian Bashir Ahmed	Public Affairs	Jammu & Kashmir
2008	Kaushik Basu	Literature & Education	—[upper-alpha 1]
2008	Shayama Chona	Literature & Education	Delhi
2008	Jagjit Singh Chopra	Medicine	Chandigarh
2008	Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar	Arts	Delhi
2008	Chandrashekhar Dasgupta	Civil Service	Delhi
2008	Asis Datta	Science & Engineering	Delhi
2008	Meghnad Desai	Public Affairs	—[upper-alpha 2]
2008	Padma Desai	Literature & Education	—[upper-alpha 1]
2008	Sukh Dev	Science & Engineering	Delhi
2008	Nirmal Kumar Ganguly	Medicine	Delhi
2008	B. N. Goswamy	Literature & Education	Chandigarh
2008	Vasant Gowarikar	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
2008	Baba Kalyani	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2008	K. V. Kamath	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2008	Inderjit Kaur	Social Work	Punjab
2008	Ravindra Kelekar	Literature & Education	Goa
2008	Asad Ali Khan	Arts	Delhi
2008	Dominique Lapierre	Social Work	—[upper-alpha 8]
2008	D. R. Mehta	Social Work	Rajasthan
2008	Shiv Nadar	Trade & Industry	Tamil Nadu
2008	Suresh Kumar Neotia	Trade & Industry	Delhi
2008	T. K. Oommen	Literature & Education	Haryana
2008	K. Padmanabhaiah	Civil Service	Delhi
2008	Vikram Pandit	Trade & Industry	—[upper-alpha 1]
2008	V. Ramachandran	Civil Service	Kerala
2008	Sushil Kumar Saxena	Arts	Delhi
2008	Amarnath Sehgal[lower-roman 8]#	Arts	Delhi
2008	Jasdev Singh	Others	Delhi
2008	Sri Lal Sukla	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
2008	P. Susheela	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2008	S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan	Literature & Education	—[upper-alpha 1]
2008	Yuli Vorontsov[lower-roman 9]#	Public Affairs	—[upper-alpha 3]
2008	Sunita Williams	Others	—[upper-alpha 1]
2008	Ji Xianlin	Literature & Education	—[upper-alpha 9]
2009	Isher Judge Ahluwalia	Literature & Education	Delhi
2009	Inderjit Kaur Barthakur	Public Affairs	Meghalaya
2009	Shamshad Begum	Arts	Maharashtra
2009	Abhinav Bindra	Sports	Punjab
2009	Shanta Dhananjayan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2009	V. P. Dhananjayan	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2009	Ramachandra Guha	Literature & Education	Karnataka
2009	Shekhar Gupta	Literature & Education	Delhi
2009	Khalid Hameed	Medicine	—[upper-alpha 2]
2009	Minoru Hara	Literature & Education	—[upper-alpha 5]
2009	Jayakanthan	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
2009	Thomas Kailath	Science & Engineering	—[upper-alpha 1]
2009	Sarvagya Singh Katiyar	Science & Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
2009	G. Krishna	Arts	Andhra Pradesh
2009	R. C. Mehta	Arts	Gujarat
2009	A. Sreedhara Menon	Literature & Education	Kerala
2009	S. K. Misra	Civil Service	Haryana
2009	A. M. Naik	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2009	Satish Nambiar	Others	Delhi
2009	Kunwar Narayan	Literature & Education	Delhi
2009	Nagnath Naikwadi	Social Work	Maharashtra
2009	Kirit Parikh	Public Affairs	Delhi
2009	Sam Pitroda	Science & Engineering	Delhi
2009	C. K. Prahalad	Literature & Education	—[upper-alpha 1]
2009	Gurdip Singh Randhawa	Science & Engineering	Delhi
2009	Brijendra Kumar Rao	Medicine	Delhi
2009	Bhakta B. Rath	Science & Engineering	—[upper-alpha 1]
2009	C. S. Seshadri	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
2009	V. Ganapati Sthapati	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2009	Devendra Triguna	Medicine	Delhi
2009	Sarojini Varadappan	Social Work	Tamil Nadu

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 States
2. Indicates a citizen of the United Kingdom
3. Indicates a citizen of Russia
4. Indicates a citizen of Germany
5. Indicates a citizen of Japan
6. Indicates a citizen of Czech Republic
7. Indicates a citizen of South Africa
8. Indicates a citizen of France
9. Indicates a citizen of China

Posthumous recipients

1. Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya died on 9 May 1999, at the age of 96.^[30]
2. S. Srinivasan died on 1 September 1999, at the age of 58.^[31]
3. Syed Mir Qasim died on 14 December 2004, at the age of 83.^[32]
4. Gunter Kruger died on 26 February 2005, at the age of 68.^[33]
5. P. Leela died on 31 October 2005, at the age of 75.^[34]
6. Somnath Hore died on 1 October 2006, at the age of 85.^[35]
7. Chandra Prasad Saikia died on 9 August 2006, at the age of 80.^[36]
8. Amarnath Sehgal died on 28 December 2007, at the age of 85.^[37]
9. Yuli Vorontsov died on 12 December 2007, at the age of 78.^[38]

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External links

• Official website
• "Awards & Medals". Ministry of Home Affairs (India). 14 September 2015. Archived from the original on 9 February 2018. Retrieved 22 October 2015.