The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu presented Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri Awards for the year 2025 at the Civil Investiture Ceremony-II held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on May 27, 2025. Among the dignitaries present on the occasion were Vice President of India, Prime Minister of India and Union Minister for Home Affairs.
The President of India this year has awarded 139 Padma Awards, including a dual case (where the award is counted as one), with the list consisting of 13 posthumous awardees, 10 foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI, and 23 women.
Padma Awards, one of India’s highest civilian honours, are conferred in three categories: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri for contributions in diverse disciplines/fields, like art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, and others.
Full list of Padma Awardees for 2025: Padma Vibhushan
- Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy — Medicine
- Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar (retired) — Public Affairs
- Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia — Art
- Lakshminarayana Subramaniam — Art
- MT Vasudevan Nair (Posthumous) — Literature and Education
- Osamu Suzuki (Posthumous) — Trade and Industry
- Sharda Sinha (Posthumous) — Art
Padma Bhushan
- A Surya Prakash — Literature and Education (Journalism)
- Anant Nag — Art
- Bibek Debroy (Posthumous) — Literature and Education
- Jatin Goswami — Art
- Jose Chacko Periappuram — Medicine
- Kailash Nath Dikshit — Others (Archaeology)
- Manohar Joshi (Posthumous) — Public Affairs
- Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti — Trade and Industry
- Nandamuri Balakrishna — Art
- PR Sreejesh — Sports
- Pankaj Patel — Trade and Industry
- Pankaj Udhas (Posthumous) — Art
- Rambahadur Rai — Literature and Education (Journalism)
- Sadhvi Ritambhara — Social Work
- S Ajith Kumar — Art
- Shekhar Kapur — Art
- Shobana Chandrakumar — Art
- Sushil Kumar Modi (Posthumous) — Public Affairs
- Vinod Dham — Science and Engineering
PADMA SHRI
- Adwaita Charan Gadanayak — Art
- Achyut Ramchandra Palav — Art
- Ajay V Bhatt — Science and Engineering
- Anil Kumar Boro — Literature and Education
- Arijit Singh — Art
- Arundhati Bhattacharya — Trade and Industry
- Arunoday Saha — Literature and Education
- Arvind Sharma — Literature and Education
- Ashok Kumar Mahapatra — Medicine
- Ashok Laxman Saraf — Art
- Ashutosh Sharma — Science and Engineering
- Ashwini Bhide Deshpande — Art
- Baijnath Maharaj — Others (Spiritualism)
- Barry Godfray John — Art
- Begam Batool — Art
- Bharat Gupt — Art
- Bheru Singh Chouhan — Art
- Bhim Singh Bhavesh — Social Work
- Bhimavva Doddabalappa Shillekyathara — Art
- Budhendra Kumar Jain — Medicine
- CS Vaidyanathan — Public Affairs
- Chaitram Deochand Pawar — Social Work
- Chandrakant Sheth (Posthumous) — Literature and Education
- Chandrakant Sompura — Others (Architecture)
- Chetan E Chitnis — Science and Engineering
- David R Syiemlieh — Literature and Education
- Durga Charan Ranbir — Art
- Farooq Ahmad Mir — Art
- Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid — Literature and Education
- Gita Upadhyay — Literature and Education
- Gokul Chandra Das — Art
- Guruvayur Dorai — Art
- Harchandan Singh Bhatty — Art
- Hariman Sharma — Others (Agriculture)
- Harjinder Singh Srinagar Wale — Art
- Harvinder Singh — Sports
- Hassan Raghu — Art
- Hemant Kumar — Medicine
- Hriday Narayan Dixit — Literature and Education
- Hugh and Colleen Gantzer (Posthumous) (Duo) — Literature and Education (Journalism)
- Inivalappil Mani Vijayan — Sports
- Jagadish Joshila — Literature and Education
- Jaspinder Narula — Art
- Jonas Masetti — Others (Spiritualism)
- Joynacharan Bathari — Art
- Jumde Yomgam Gamlin — Social Work
- K Damodaran — Others (Culinary)
- KL Krishna — Literature and Education
- K Omanakutty Amma — Art
- Kishore Kunal (Posthumous) — Civil Service
- L Hangthing — Others (Agriculture)
- Lakshmipathy Ramasubbaiyer — Literature and Education (Journalism)
- Lalit Kumar Mangotra — Literature and Education
- Lama Lobzang (Posthumous) — Others (Spiritualism)
- Libia Lobo Sardesai — Social Work
- M D Srinivas — Science and Engineering
- Madugula Nagaphani Sarma — Art
- Mahabir Nayak — Art
- Mamata Shankar — Art
- Manda Krishna Madiga — Public Affairs
- Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli — Literature and Education
- Miriyala Apparao (Posthumous) — Art
- Nagendra Nath Roy — Literature and Education
- Narayan (Bhulai Bhai) (Posthumous) — Public Affairs
- Naren Gurung — Art
- Neerja Bhatla — Medicine
- Nirmala Devi — Art
- Nitin Nohria — Literature and Education
- Onkar Singh Pahwa — Trade and Industry
- P Datchanamoorthy —Art
- Pandi Ram Mandavi —Art
- Parmar Lavjibhai Nagjibhai —Art
- Pawan Goenka —Trade and Industry
- Prashanth Prakash — Trade and Industry
- Pratibha Satpathy — Literature and Education
- Purisai Kannappa Sambandan — Art
- R Ashwin — Sports
- R G Chandramogan — Trade and Industry
- Radha Bahin Bhatt — Social Work
- Radhakrishnan Devasenapathy — Art
- Ramdarash Mishra — Literature and Education
- Ranendra Bhanu Majumdar — Art
- Ratan Kumar Parimoo — Art
- Reba Kanta Mahanta — Art
- Renthlei Lalrawna — Literature and Education
- Ricky Gyan Kej — Art
- Sajjan Bhajanka — Trade and Industry
- Sally Holkar — Trade and Industry
- Sant Ram Deswal — Literature and Education
- Satyapal Singh — Sports
- Seeni Viswanathan — Literature and Education
- Sethuraman Panchanathan — Science and Engineering
- Sheikha Shaikha Ali Al-Jaber Al-Sabah — Medicine
- Sheen Kaaf Nizam (Shiv Kishan Bissa) — Literature and Education
- Shyam Bihari Agrawal — Art
- Soniya Nityanand —Medicine
- Stephen Knapp —Literature and Education
- Subhash Khetulal Sharma —Others (Agriculture)
- Suresh Harilal Soni —Social Work
- Surinder Kumar Vasal —Science and Engineering
- Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik Maharaj) —Others (Spiritualism)
- Syed Ainul Hasan —Literature and Education
