Padma Awards are one of the highest civilian honours in India and are categorized into three namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri.
The Padma awards are granted in a variety of disciplines/fields of activity, including art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, commerce and industry, medical, literature and education, sports, and civil service, among others.
The President of India bestows the Padma Awards during ceremonial festivities held at Rashtrapati Bhawan in March or April of each year.
Complete List of Padma Awards Winners 2022
The President has authorised the conferral of 128 Padma Awards in 2022, as shown in the list below. There are 34 female honorees on the list, as well as 10 foreigners/NRIs/PIOs/OCIs and 13 posthumous awardees.
Padma Vibhushan
The Padma Vibhushan is awarded for exceptional and outstanding service. It was bestowed upon four eminent members of our country in 2022.
| Name | State | Field |
|---|---|---|
| General Bipin Rawat (Posthumous) | Uttarakhand | Civil Service |
| Prabha Atre | Maharashtra | Art |
| Kalyan Singh (Posthumous) | Uttar Pradesh | Public Affairs |
| Radheyshyam Khemka (Posthumous) | Uttar Pradesh | Literature & Education |
Padma Bhushan
The 'Padma Bhushan' award is given to 17 distinguished individuals worldwide, including Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft), Sundar Pichai (CEO of Google), Krishna Ella (Bharat Biotech chairman, Covaxin manufacturer) and his wife Suchitra Ella (co-founder of Bharat Biotech), and Cyrus Poonawalla (MD of Serum Institute of India (SII)).
| Name | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|
| Satya Narayana Nadella | Trade & Industry | USA |
| Sundararajan Pichai | Trade & Industry | USA |
| Madhur Jaffery | Others-Culinary | USA |
| Sanjaya Rajaram (Posthumous) | Science & Engg. | Mexico |
| Ghulam Nabi Azad | Public Affairs | Jammu & Kashmir |
| Victor Banerjee | Arts | West Bengal |
| Gurmeet Bawa (Posthumous) | Arts | Punjab |
| Rashid Khan | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| Rajiv Mehrishi | Civil Service | Rajasthan |
| Pratibha Ray | Literature & Education | Odisha |
| Swami Sachidanand | Literature & Education | Gujarat |
| Vashishth Tripathi | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
| Cyrus Poonawalla | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| Natarajan Chandrasekaran | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| Krishna Ella & Suchitra Ella | Trade & Industry | Telangana |
| Devendra Jhajharia | Sports | Rajasthan |
Padma Shri
The 'Padma Shri' is given for distinguished service in any area. Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra, Pramod Bhagat & Vandana Kataria (Olympians), singer Sonu Nigam were some of the 107 Padma shri winners of 2022.
| Name | Field | State/Country |
|---|---|---|
| Maria Christopher Byrski | Literature & Education | Poland |
| Rutger Kortenhorst | Literature & Education | Ireland |
| Chirapat Prapandavidya | Literature & Education | Thailand |
| Tatiana Lvovna Shaumyan | Literature & Education | Russia |
| Dr. Prokar Dasgupta | Medicine | U.K. |
| Ryuko Hira | Trade & Industry | Japan |
| Dr. Sosamma Iype | Animal Husbandry | Kerala |
| P. Narayana Kurup | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| K. B. Rabiya | Social Work | Kerala |
| Sankaranarayana Menon Chundayil / Unni Gurukkal | Sports | Kerala |
| Amai Mahalinga Naik | Agriculture | Karnataka |
| Seth Pal Singh | Agriculture | Uttar Pradesh |
| Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan (Posthumous) | Arts | Andhra Pradesh |
| Lalita Vakil | Arts | Himachal Pradesh |
| H. R. Keshavamurthy | Arts | Karnataka |
| Tsering Namgyal | Arts | Ladakh |
| Sulochana Chavan | Arts | Maharashtra |
| Sonu Nigam | Arts | Maharashtra |
| Ram Sahay Panday | Arts | Madhya Pradesh |
| Durga Bai Vyam | Arts | Madhya Pradesh |
| Arjun Singh Dhurve | Arts | Madhya Pradesh |
| Konsam Ibomcha Singh | Arts | Manipur |
| Lourembam Bino Devi | Arts | Manipur |
| Shyamamani Devi | Arts | Odisha |
| Thavil Kongampattu A. V. Murugaiyan | Arts | Puducherry |
| Ram Dayal Sharma | Arts | Rajasthan |
| Chandraprakash Dwivedi | Arts | Rajasthan |
| Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia | Arts | Sikkim |
| R. Muthukannammal | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| S. Ballesh Bhajantri | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| Sowcar Janaki | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| A. K. C. Natarajan | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| Ramachandraiah | Arts | Telangana |
| Padmaja Reddy | Arts | Telangana |
| Darshanam Mogilaiah | Arts | Telangana |
| Madhuri Barthwal | Arts | Uttarakhand |
| Ajita Srivastava | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| Shivnath Mishra | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| Sheesh Ram | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| Kamalini Asthana & Nalini Asthana | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| Kaajee Singh | Arts | West Bengal |
| Guruprasad Mohapatra (Posthumous) | Civil Service | Delhi |
| Abdul Khader Nadakattin | Grassroots Innovation | Karnataka |
| Narasimha Rao Garikapati | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh |
| Dhaneswar Engti | Literature & Education | Assam |
| Shaibal Gupta (Posthumous) | Literature & Education | Bihar |
| J. K. Bajaj | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| Prof. Najma Akhtar | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| Tara Jauhar | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| Dilip Shahani | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| Khalil Dhantejvi (Posthumous) | Literature & Education | Gujarat |
| Raghuvendra Tanwar | Literature & Education | Haryana |
| Vidyanand Sarek | Literature & Education | Himachal Pradesh |
| Vishwamurti Shastri | Literature & Education | J&K |
| Girdhari Ram Ghonju (Posthumous) | Literature & Education | Jharkhand |
| Siddhalingaiah (Posthumous) | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat | Literature & Education | Ladakh |
| Avadh Kishore Jadia | Literature & Education | Madhya Pradesh |
| Badaplin War | Literature & Education | Meghalaya |
| V. L. Nghaka | Literature & Education | Mizoram |
| T. Senka Ao | Literature & Education | Nagaland |
| Narasingha Prasad Guru | Literature & Education | Odisha |
| Harmohinder Singh Bedi | Literature & Education | Punjab |
| Sirpi Balasubramaniam | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| Vidya Vindu Singh | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| Kali Pada Saren | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| Dr. Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao | Medicine | Andhra Pradesh |
| Dr. Lata Desa | Medicine | Gujarat |
| Dr. Narendra Prasad Misra (Posthumous) | Medicine | Madhya Pradesh |
| Dr. Balaji Tambe (Posthumous) | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| Dr. Bhimsen Singhal | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| Dr. Himmatrao Bawaskar | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| Dr. Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| Dr. Veeraswamy Seshiah | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| Dr. Kamlakar Tripathi | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh |
| Malji bhai Desai | Public Affairs | Gujarat |
| Jyantkumar Maganlal Vyas | Science & Engg. | Gujarat |
| Moti Lal Madan | Science & Engg. | Haryana |
| Subbanna Ayyappan | Science & Engg. | Karnataka |
| Anil Kumar Rajvanshi | Science & Engg. | Maharashtra |
| Aditya Prasad Dash | Science & Engg. | Odisha |
| Ajay Kumar Sonkar | Science & Engg. | Uttar Pradesh |
| Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay | Science & Engg. | West Bengal |
| Shakuntala Choudhary | Social Work | Assam |
| Acharya Chandanaji | Social Work | Bihar |
| Prabhaben Shah | Social Work | Dadra Nagar Haveli & Daman Diu |
| Savaji Bhai Dholakia | Social Work | Gujarat |
| Gamit Ramilaben Raysingbhai | Social Work | Gujarat |
| Om Prakash Gandhi | Social Work | Haryana |
| Srimad Baba Balia | Social Work | Odisha |
| Prem Singh | Social Work | Punjab |
| Baba Iqbal Singh Ji | Social Work | Punjab |
| S. Damodaran | Social Work | Tamil Nadu |
| Basanti Devi | Social Work | Uttarakhand |
| Guru Tulku Rinpoche | Spiritualism | Arunachal Pradesh |
| Sadguru Brahmeshanand Acharya Swami | Spiritualism | Goa |
| Brahmanand Sankhwalkar | Sports | Goa |
| Sumit Antil | Sports | Haryana |
| Neeraj Chopra | Sports | Haryana |
| Faisal Ali Dar | Sports | J&K |
| Pramod Bhagat | Sports | Odisha |
| Avani Lekhara | Sports | Rajasthan |
| Vandana Kataria | Sports | Uttarakhand |
| Jagjit Singh Dardi | Trade & Industry | Chandigarh |
| Muktamani Devi | Trade & Industry | Manipur |
| Prahlad Rai Agarwala | Trade & Industry | West Bengal |
| Sivananda | Yoga | Uttar Pradesh |
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