Der Padma Vibhushan () ist nach dem Bharat Ratna der zweithöchste indische zivile Verdienstorden. Der Orden und die zugehörige Verleihungsurkunde werden vom indischen Staatspräsidenten jährlich am 26. Januar, dem „Tag der Republik“, verliehen.
Die Auszeichnung wurde zum 2. Januar 1954 eingeführt. Mit ihr werden Personen für außergewöhnlich herausragende Leistungen für die indische Nation, gleich auf welchem Gebiet, geehrt. Vom 13. Juli 1977 bis zum 26. Januar 1980 war die Verleihung des Preises ausgesetzt worden.
Der dritthöchste Orden ist der Padma Bhushan, der vierthöchste der Padma Shri.
Ordensträger Jahr Name 1954 Satyendranath Bose Zakir Hussain Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher Jigme Dorje Wangchuck Nand Lal Bose V. K. Krishna Menon 1955 Dhondo Keshav Karve Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata 1956 Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi Fazal Ali Jankibai Bajaj 1957 Ghanshyam Das Birla Motilal Chimanlal Setalvad Sri Prakasa 1958 nicht verliehen 1959 John Matthai Radhnobinod Pal Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta 1960 Naryana Raghvan Pillai 1961 nicht verliehen 1962 V. R. Krishna Iyer Padmaja Naidu Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit 1963 A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar Suniti Kumar Chatterji Hari Vinayak Pataskar 1964 Gopinath Kaviraj Acharya Kalelkar 1965 Arjan Singh Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri Mehdi Nawaz Jung 1966 Valerian Kardinal Gracias 1967 Bhola Nath Jha Chandra Kisan Daphtary Hafix Mohammed Ibrahim Pattadakal Venkanna R. Rao 1968 Madhav Shrihari Aney Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis K. Vaidyanatha Kalyana Sundaram Kripal Singh 1969 Har Gobind Khorana Mohan Sinha Mehta Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi Ghananand Pande Rajeshwar Dayal 1970 Binay Ranjan Sen Tara Chand Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam Suranjan Das Harbaksh Singh A. Rameswami Mudaliar Anthony Lancelot Dias 1971 Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar Balaram Sivaraman Bimal Prasad Chaliha Uday Shankar Sumati Morarjee Allauddin Khan 1972 S. M. Nanda Pratap Chandra Lal Aditya Nath Jha Jivraj N. Mehta P. Balacharya Gajendragadkar Vikram Sarabhai Sam Manekshaw Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq Hormasji Maneckji Seervai 1973 Daulat Singh Kothari Nagendra Singh Tirumalrao Swaminathan U. N. Dhebar Basanti Devi Nellie Sengupta 1974 V. Kasturi Ranga Varadarja Rao Binode Behari Mukherjee Harish Chandra Sarin Niren De 1975 Basanti Dulal Nag Chaudhuri Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh Durgabai Deshmukh Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey Raja Ramanna Homi Nusserwanji Sethna M. S. Subbulakshmi Mary Clubwala Jadhav 1976 Bashir Hussain Zaidi Kalpathi Ramakrishna Ramanathan Kalu Lal Shrimali Giani Gurmukh Singh Mussafir Keshava Shankar Pillai Salim Ali Satyajit Ray 1977 Om Prakash Mehra Ajudhia Nath Khosla Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee Ali Yavar Jung Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh T. Balasaraswati 1978 nicht verliehen 1979 1980 Rai Krishnadasa Bismillah Khan 1981 Satish Dhawan Ravi Shankar 1982 Mira Behn 1983 nicht verliehen 1984 1985 C. N. R. Rao Mambillikalathil Kumar Menon 1986 Autar Singh Paintal Birju Maharaj Murlidhar Devidas Amte 1987 Benjamin Peary Pal Manmohan Singh Arun Shridhar Vaidya Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay 1988 Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa Mirza Hameedullah Beg Mahadevi Varma 1989 M. S. Swaminathan Uma Shankar Dikshit Ali Akbar Khan 1990 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer Vallmpadugai Srinivasa Raghavan Arunachalam Bhabatosh Dutta Sirivaputra Sidhram Komkali Triloki Nath Chaturvedi 1991 Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel M. Balamuralikrishna Hirendra Nath Mukherjee N. G. Ranga Rajaram Shastri Gulzarilal Nanda Khusro Faramurz Rustamji Maqbul Fida Husain 1992 Mallikarjun Bheemarayappa Mansur Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati Lakshmanshastri Joshi Atal Bihari Vajpayee Govinddas Shroff Kaloji Narayana Rao Ravi Narayan Reddy Sardar Swaran Singh Aruna Asaf Ali 1993 nicht verliehen 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 Lakshmi Sahgal Usha Mehta Nani Ardeshir Palkhivala Walter Sisulu 1999 Rajagopala Chidambaram Sarvepalli Gopal Verghese Kurien Hans Raj Khanna V. R. Krishna Iyer Lata Mangeshkar Bhimsen Joshi Braj Kumar Nehru Dharma Vira Lallan Prasad Singh Nana Deshmukh Pandurang Shastri Athavale Satish Gujral D. K. Pattammal 2000 Krishen Behari Lall Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan Manohar Singh Gill Kelucharan Mohapatra Hariprasad Chaurasia Jasraj Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati K. N. Raj Bhairab Dutt Pande M. Narasimham R. K. Narayan Sikander Bakht Tarlok Singh 2001 C. R. Rao Chakravarthi Vijayaraghava Narasimhan Shiv Kumar Sharma Man Mohan Sharma Amjad Ali Khan Benjamin Arthur Gilman Hosei Norota Hrishikesh Mukherjee John Kenneth Galbraith Kotta Satchidananda Murty Zubin Mehta 2002 C. Rangarajan Gangubai Hangal Kishan Maharaj Soli Jehangir Sorabjee Kishori Amonkar 2003 Bal Ram Nanda Kazi Lhendup Dorji Khangsarpa Sonal Mansingh Bhrihaspati Dev Triguna 2004 Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah Amrita Pritam Jayant Vishnu Narlikar 2005 Bal Krishna Goyal Karan Singh Mohan Dharia Ram Narayan Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valiathan Jyotindra Nath Dixit Milon Kumar Banerji R. K. Laxman 2006 Norman Ernest Borlaug Vishweshwar Nath Khare Mahasweta Devi Nirmala Deshpande Obaid Siddiqui Prakash Narain Tandon Adoor Gopalakrishnan C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao Charles Correa 2007 Raja Jesudoss Chelliah Venkataraman Krishnamurthy Balu Sankaran Fali Sam Nariman Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati Khushwant Singh Raja Rao Narinder Nath Vohra Naresh Chandra George Sudarshan 2008 Viswanathan Anand Rajendra Pachauri Sachin Tendulkar N. R. Narayana Murthy E. Sreedharan Lakshmi Mittal Adarsh Sein Anand P. N. Dhar P. R. S. Oberoi Asha Bhosle Edmund Hillary Ratan Tata Pranab Mukherjee 2009 Chandrika Prasad Srivastava Sunderlal Bahuguna Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya Nirmala Joshi Jasbir Singh Bajaj Govind Narain G. Madhavan Nair Purshotam Lal Anil Kakodkar Ashok Sekhar Ganguly 2010 Ebrahim Alkazi Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman Zohra Segal Y. Venugopal Reddy Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Prathap Chandra Reddy 2011 Kapila Vatsyayan Homai Vyarawalla A. Nageswara Rao K. Parasaran Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai Vijay Kelkar Montek Singh Ahluwalia P. Rama Rao Azim Premji Brajesh Mishra O. N. V. Kurup Sitakant Mahapatra Lakshmi Chand Jain (postum) in The Times of India vom 25. März 2011 2012 K. G. Subramanyan Mario Miranda (postum) Bhupen Hazarika (postum) Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti T. V. Rajeswar 2013 Yash Pal Roddam Narasimha Raghunath Mohapatra Syed Haider Raza 2014 Raghunath Anant Mashelkar B. K. S. Iyengar 2015 Lal Krishna Advani Amitabh Bachchan Parkash Singh Badal D. Veerendra Heggade Dilip Kumar Rambhadracharya M. R. Srinivasan K. K. Venugopal Karim Aga Khan IV. 2016 V. K. Aatre Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani Girija Devi Avinash Dixit Jagmohan Yamini Krishnamurthy Rajinikanth Ramoji Rao Sri Sri Ravi Shankar V. Shanta 2017 Murli Manohar Joshi Sunder Lal Patwa Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar Udupi Ramachandra Rao Purno Agitok Sangma (postum) Jaggi Vasudev K. J. Yesudas
Weblinks
Offizielle Website der indischen Regierung zu den Padma Awards (englisch)
Einzelnachweise
Kategorie:Orden und Ehrenzeichen (Indien) Kategorie:Erstverleihung 1954