Padma Awards 2025
🔹 Total Awards
139 awardees (including 1 duo case, counted as one)
7 Padma Vibhushan
19 Padma Bhushan
113 Padma Shri
👩🦰 Women awardees: 23
🌍 Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI: 10
🕯️ Posthumous: 13
🏅 Padma Vibhushan (7)
Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy – Medicine (Telangana)
Justice (Retd.) Jagdish Singh Khehar – Public Affairs (Chandigarh)
Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia – Art (Gujarat)
Lakshminarayana Subramaniam – Art (Karnataka)
M. T. Vasudevan Nair (Posthumous) – Literature & Education (Kerala)
Osamu Suzuki (Posthumous) – Trade & Industry (Japan)
Sharda Sinha (Posthumous) – Art (Bihar)
🟤 Bihar Awardees – Padma Awards 2025
Padma Vibhushan (1)
Sharda Sinha (Posthumous) – Art
Padma Bhushan (1)
Sushil Kumar Modi (Posthumous) – Public Affairs
Padma Shri (3)
Bhim Singh Bhavesh – Social Work
Hemant Kumar – Medicine
Kishore Kunal (Posthumous) – Civil Service
Vijay Nityanand Surishwar Ji Maharaj – Spiritualism
✅ Total Bihar awardees = 6
Padma Vibhushan: 1
Padma Bhushan: 1
Padma Shri: 4
Padma Vibhushan (Posthumous)
Sharda Sinha (Folk & Classical Singer)
Hailed from Hulas village, Supaul district, Bihar; born 1 October 1952.
Fondly known as "Bihar Kokila", acclaimed for singing primarily in Maithili, Bhojpuri, Magahi, and Hindi; especially revered for her Chhath geet renditions.
Educational background includes a Master’s in Indian Classical Vocal Music, a Ph.D., and Nritya Visharad in Manipuri dance. Early breakthrough with Maithili song “Dularua Bhaiya” in 1971.
Honors:
Padma Shri (1991)
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2000)
Padma Bhushan (2018)
Padma Vibhushan (2025, posthumous)
Passed away on 5 November 2024 at AIIMS, Delhi.
Padma Bhushan (Posthumous)
Sushil Kumar Modi (Public Affairs / Politician)
Born on 5 January 1952. Served as Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar in two terms: 2005–2013 and 2017–2020, also held the Finance Minister portfolio.
Spearheaded fiscal reforms that turned Bihar into a revenue-surplus state, advocated for gender budgeting, and chaired the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers (2011–2013), playing a pivotal role in launching GST across India.
Active in student politics during the Emergency (1975–77), jailed for 19 months; veteran leader associated with RSS and ABVP during early years.
Passed away on 13 May 2024 at AIIMS, Delhi, after a prolonged illness.
Awarded Padma Bhushan (2025, posthumous) for his contributions to public life; presented to his wife, Jessie Sushil Modi, by President Murmu.
Padma Shri
Bhim Singh Bhavesh (Social Work)
Awarded for contributions in social work, Bihar.
Hemant Kumar (Medicine)
Awarded for contributions in medicine, Bihar.
Kishore Kunal (Posthumous, Civil Service)
Recognized for contributions to civil service, awarded posthumously.
Vijay Nityanand Surishwar Ji Maharaj (Spiritualism)
Honored in the field of others – spiritualism, Bihar.
Padma Awards 2025 – Complete List
Award Category Name Field State/Country Padma Vibhushan Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy Medicine Telangana Padma Vibhushan Justice (Retd.) Jagdish Singh Khehar Public Affairs Chandigarh Padma Vibhushan Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia Art Gujarat Padma Vibhushan Lakshminarayana Subramaniam Art Karnataka Padma Vibhushan M. T. Vasudevan Nair (Posthumous) Literature & Education Kerala Padma Vibhushan Osamu Suzuki (Posthumous) Trade & Industry Japan Padma Vibhushan Sharda Sinha (Posthumous) Art Bihar Padma Bhushan A Surya Prakash Literature & Education (Journalism) Karnataka Padma Bhushan Anant Nag Art Karnataka Padma Bhushan Bibek Debroy (Posthumous) Literature & Education NCT Delhi Padma Bhushan Jatin Goswami Art Assam Padma Bhushan Jose Chacko Periappuram Medicine Kerala Padma Bhushan Kailash Nath Dikshit Archaeology NCT Delhi Padma Bhushan Manohar Joshi (Posthumous) Public Affairs Maharashtra Padma Bhushan Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti Trade & Industry Tamil Nadu Padma Bhushan Nandamuri Balakrishna Art Andhra Pradesh Padma Bhushan P R Sreejesh Sports Kerala Padma Bhushan Pankaj Patel Trade & Industry Gujarat Padma Bhushan Pankaj Udhas (Posthumous) Art Maharashtra Padma Bhushan Rambahadur Rai Literature & Education (Journalism) Uttar Pradesh Padma Bhushan Sadhvi Ritambhara Social Work Uttar Pradesh Padma Bhushan S Ajith Kumar Art Tamil Nadu Padma Bhushan Shekhar Kapur Art Maharashtra Padma Bhushan Shobana Chandrakumar Art Tamil Nadu Padma Bhushan Sushil Kumar Modi (Posthumous) Public Affairs Bihar Padma Bhushan Vinod Dham Science & Engineering USA SN Name Field State/Country 1 🟨 Shri Adwaita Charan Gadanayak 🟨 Art Odisha 2 🟨 Shri Achyut Ramchandra Palav 🟨 Art Maharashtra 3 Shri Ajay V Bhatt Science and Engineering United States of America 4 Shri Anil Kumar Boro Literature and Education Assam 5 🟨 Shri Arijit Singh 🟨 Art West Bengal 6 Smt. Arundhati Bhattacharya Trade and Industry Maharashtra 7 Shri Arunoday Saha Literature and Education Tripura 8 Shri Arvind Sharma Literature and Education Canada 9 Shri Ashok Kumar Mahapatra Medicine Odisha 10 🟨 Shri Ashok Laxman Saraf 🟨 Art Maharashtra 11 Shri Ashutosh Sharma Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh 12 🟨 Smt. Ashwini Bhide Deshpande 🟨 Art Maharashtra 13 🟨 Shri Baijnath Maharaj 🟨 Others–Spiritualism Rajasthan 14 🟨 Shri Barry Godfray John 🟨 Art NCT Delhi 15 🟨 Smt. Begam Batool 🟨 Art Rajasthan 16 🟨 Shri Bharat Gupt 🟨 Art NCT Delhi 17 🟨 Shri Bheru Singh Chouhan 🟨 Art Madhya Pradesh 18 🟨 Shri Bhim Singh Bhavesh 🟨 Social Work Bihar 19 🟨 Smt. Bhimavva Doddabalappa Shillekyathara 🟨 Art Karnataka 20 Shri Budhendra Kumar Jain Medicine Madhya Pradesh 21 Shri C S Vaidyanathan Public Affairs NCT Delhi 22 Shri Chaitram Deochand Pawar Social Work Maharashtra 23 Shri Chandrakant Sheth (Posthumous) Literature and Education Gujarat 24 Shri Chandrakant Sompura Others–Architecture Gujarat 25 Shri Chetan E Chitnis Science and Engineering France 26 Shri David R Syiemlieh Literature and Education Meghalaya 27 🟨 Shri Durga Charan Ranbir 🟨 Art Odisha 28 🟨 Shri Farooq Ahmad Mir 🟨 Art Jammu & Kashmir 29 Shri Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh 30 Smt. Gita Upadhyay Literature and Education Assam 31 🟨 Shri Gokul Chandra Das 🟨 Art West Bengal 32 🟨 Shri Guruvayur Dorai 🟨 Art Tamil Nadu 33 🟨 Shri Harchandan Singh Bhatty 🟨 Art Madhya Pradesh 34 Shri Hariman Sharma Others–Agriculture Himachal Pradesh 35 🟨 Shri Harjinder Singh Srinagar Wale 🟨 Art Punjab 36 Shri Harvinder Singh Sports Haryana 37 🟨 Shri Hassan Raghu 🟨 Art Karnataka 38 Shri Hemant Kumar Medicine Bihar 39 Shri Hriday Narayan Dixit Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh 40 Shri Hugh & Colleen Gantzer (Posthumous) (Duo) Literature and Education–Journalism Uttarakhand 41 Shri Inivalappil Mani Vijayan Sports Kerala 42 Shri Jagadish Joshila Literature and Education Madhya Pradesh 43 🟨 Smt. Jaspinder Narula 🟨 Art Maharashtra 44 🟨 Shri Jonas Masetti 🟨 Others–Spiritualism Brazil 45 🟨 Shri Joynacharan Bathari 🟨 Art Assam 46 Smt. Jumde Yomgam Gamlin Social Work Arunachal Pradesh 47 Shri K. Damodaran Others–Culinary Tamil Nadu 48 Shri K L Krishna Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh 49 🟨 Smt. K Omanakutty Amma 🟨 Art Kerala 50 Shri Kishore Kunal (Posthumous) Civil Service Bihar 51 Shri L Hangthing Others–Agriculture Nagaland 52 Shri Lakshmipathy Ramasubbaiyer Literature and Education–Journalism Tamil Nadu 53 Shri Lalit Kumar Mangotra Literature and Education Jammu & Kashmir 54 Shri Lama Lobzang (Posthumous) Others–Spiritualism Ladakh 55 Smt. Libia Lobo Sardesai Social Work Goa 56 Shri M D Srinivas Science and Engineering Tamil Nadu 57 🟨 Shri Madugula Nagaphani Sarma 🟨 Art Andhra Pradesh 58 🟨 Shri Mahabir Nayak 🟨 Art Jharkhand 59 🟨 Smt. Mamata Shankar 🟨 Art West Bengal 60 Shri Manda Krishna Madiga Public Affairs Telangana 61 Shri Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli Literature and Education Maharashtra 62 🟨 Shri Miriyala Apparao (Posthumous) 🟨 Art Andhra Pradesh 63 Shri Nagendra Nath Roy Literature and Education West Bengal 64 Shri Narayan (Bhulai Bhai) (Posthumous) Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh 65 🟨 Shri Naren Gurung 🟨 Art Sikkim 66 Smt. Neerja Bhatla Medicine NCT Delhi 67 🟨 Smt. Nirmala Devi 🟨 Art Bihar 68 Shri Nitin Nohria Literature and Education United States of America 69 Shri Onkar Singh Pahwa Trade and Industry Punjab 70 🟨 Shri P Datchanamoorthy 🟨 Art Puducherry 71 🟨 Shri Pandi Ram Mandavi 🟨 Art Chhattisgarh 72 🟨 Shri Parmar Lavjibhai Nagjibhai 🟨 Art Gujarat 73 Shri Pawan Goenka Trade and Industry West Bengal 74 Shri Prashanth Prakash Trade and Industry Karnataka 75 Smt. Pratibha Satpathy Literature and Education Odisha 76 🟨 Shri Purisai Kannappa Sambandan 🟨 Art Tamil Nadu 77 Shri R Ashwin Sports Tamil Nadu 78 Shri R G Chandramogan Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu 79 Smt. Radha Bahin Bhatt Social Work Uttarakhand 80 🟨 Shri Radhakrishnan Devasenapathy 🟨 Art Tamil Nadu 81 Shri Ramdarash Mishra Literature and Education NCT Delhi 82 🟨 Shri Ranendra Bhanu Majumdar 🟨 Art Maharashtra 83 🟨 Shri Ratan Kumar Parimoo 🟨 Art Gujarat 84 🟨 Shri Reba Kanta Mahanta 🟨 Art Assam 85 Shri Renthlei Lalrawna Literature and Education Mizoram 86 🟨 Shri Ricky Gyan Kej 🟨 Art Karnataka 87 Shri Sajjan Bhajanka Trade and Industry West Bengal 88 Smt. Sally Holkar Trade and Industry Madhya Pradesh 89 Shri Sant Ram Deswal Literature and Education Haryana 90 Shri Satyapal Singh Sports Uttar Pradesh 91 Shri Seeni Viswanathan Literature and Education Tamil Nadu 92 Shri Sethuraman Panchanathan Science and Engineering United States of America 93 Smt. Sheikha Shaikha Ali Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Medicine Kuwait 94 Shri Sheen Kaaf Nizam (Shiv Kishan Bissa) Literature and Education Rajasthan 95 🟨 Shri Shyam Bihari Agrawal 🟨 Art Uttar Pradesh 96 Smt. Soniya Nityanand Medicine Uttar Pradesh 97 Shri Stephen Knapp Literature and Education United States of America 98 Shri Subhash Khetulal Sharma Others–Agriculture Maharashtra 99 Smt. Suresh Harilal Soni Social Work Gujarat 100 Shri Surinder Kumar Vasal Science and Engineering Delhi 101 🟨 Shri Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik Maharaj) 🟨 Others–Spiritualism West Bengal 102 Shri Syed Ainul Hasan Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh 103 🟨 Shri Tejendra Narayan Majumdar 🟨 Art West Bengal 104 🟨 Smt. Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi 🟨 Art Manipur 105 Shri Tushar Durgeshbhai Shukla Literature and Education Gujarat 106 Shri Vadiraj Raghawendracharya Panchamukhi Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh 107 🟨 Shri Vasudeo Kamath 🟨 Art Maharashtra 108 🟨 Shri Velu Aasaan 🟨 Art Tamil Nadu 109 🟨 Shri Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar 🟨 Art Karnataka 110 🟨 Shri Vijay Nityanand Surishwar Ji Maharaj 🟨 Others–Spiritualism Bihar 111 Smt. Vijayalakshmi Deshamane Medicine Karnataka 112 Shri Vilas Dangre Medicine Maharashtra 113 Shri Vinayak Lohani Social Work West Bengal