This is a list of recipients of the Padma Shri award, the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, in the field of civil service. As of 2025, a total of 70 individuals have been awarded the Padma Shri for their contributions in the field of public affairs.
1950–1959 YearNameStateField1954Sarvapalli RadhakrishnanTamil NaduPublic affairs1954Chakravarti RajagopalachariTamil NaduPublic affairs1954Zakir HusainTelanganaPublic affairs1954Bal Gangadhar KherMaharashtraPublic affairs1954HH Maharaja Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Jigme Dorji WangchukBhutanPublic affairs1954Vengalil Krishnan Krishna MenonKeralaPublic affairs1954Lt. Col Maharaj Kumar Palden Thondup NamgyalSikkimPublic affairs1954Vaikunth Lallubhai MehtaGujaratPublic affairs1954Kum. Amalaprava DasAssamPublic affairs1954Machani SomappaAndhra PradeshPublic affairs1954Achamma MathaiMaharashtraPublic affairs1954Asha Devi AryanayakamMaharashtraPublic affairs1954Mrinmayi RayAndhra PradeshPublic affairs1954Perin CaptianMaharashtraPublic affairs1955Jawaharlal NehruUttar PradeshPublic affairs1956Chandulal Madhavlal TrivediMadhya PradeshPublic affairs1956Saiyid Fazl AliBiharPublic affairs1956Nawab Zain Yar JungTelanganaPublic affairs1956Pushpavati Janardanrai MehtaMaharashtraPublic affairs1957Govind Ballabh PantUttar PradeshPublic affairs1957Motilal Chimanlal SetalvadMaharashtraPublic affairs1957Sri PrakasaAndhra PradeshPublic affairs1957Radha Kumud MookerjiWest BengalPublic affairs1957Lakshmi N MenonKeralaPublic affairs1957Major Ralengnao KhathingManipurPublic affairs1958Moturi SatyanarayanaTamil NaduPublic affairs1959Radha Binode PalWest BengalPublic affairs1959Prataprai Girdharilal MehtaMaharashtraPublic affairs
1960-1969 YearNameStateField1960Narayana Raghavan PillaiTamil NaduPublic affairs1960Nilakantha DasOdishaPublic affairs1960Ayyadevara Kaleswara RaoAndhra PradeshPublic affairs1960Rustom Merwanji AlpaiwalaMaharashtraPublic affairs1961Bidhan Chandra RoyWest BengalPublic affairs1961Purushottam Das TandonUttar PradeshPublic affairs1961Vindhyeshwari Prasad VarmaBiharPublic affairs1962Rajendra PrasadBiharPublic affairs1962Padmaja NaiduTelanganaPublic affairs1962Moturi SatyanarayanaTamil NaduPublic affairs1962Sudhindra Nath MukerjeeWest BengalPublic affairs1962Mithan J. LamMaharashtraPublic affairs1963Zakir HusainTelanganaPublic affairs1963Hari Vinayak PataskarMaharashtraPublic affairs1963R. G. SaraiyaMaharashtraPublic affairs1964Pandit Kunji Lal DubeyMadhya PradeshPublic affairs1964Nur-ud-din AhmedDelhiPublic affairs1965Mehdi Nawaz JungTelanganaPublic affairs1965Capt. H H Raja Shrimant Chintamanrao Dhundirao Alias Appasaheb PatwardhanMaharashtraPublic affairs1965Mir Akbar Ali KhanAndhra PradeshPublic affairs1965Krishnaswami Ayyar Balasubramania AyyarTamil NaduPublic affairs1966Lal Bahadur Shastri (posthumous)Uttar PradeshPublic affairs1966Kizhkke Potte Kesava MenonKeralaPublic affairs1966Tiruvarur Swaminathier Ramaswami AiyarTamil NaduPublic affairs1967Chandra Kisan DaphtaryMaharashtraPublic affairs1967Kaikhushru Ruttonji Pestonji ShroffMaharashtraPublic affairs1967Kashi Prasad PandeMadhya PradeshPublic affairs1967Lal Chand VermanDelhiPublic affairs1968Madhav Shrihari AneyMadhya PradeshPublic affairs1968Kuthur Vaidyanatha Kalyana SundaramDelhiPublic affairs1968Mansukhlal Atmaram MasterMaharashtraPublic affairs
1970–1979 YearNameStateField1970Anthony Lancelot DiasMaharashtraPublic affairs1970Bhagwant Rao Annabhau MandloiMadhya PradeshPublic affairs1970Hans Raj GuptaHaryanaPublic affairs1971Indira GandhiUttar PradeshPublic affairs1971Bimal Prasad ChalihaAssamPublic affairs1971Bhai Mohan SinghDelhiPublic affairs1971Ram Lal MehtaDelhiPublic affairs1972Aditya Nath Jha (posthumous)Uttar PradeshPublic affairs1972Jivraj Narain MehtaMaharashtraPublic affairs1972Prahlad Balacharya GajendragadkarMaharashtraPublic affairs1972Ghulam Mohd. Sadiq (posthumous)Jammu and KashmirPublic affairs1972Gopaliah Subbukrishna MelkoteOdishaPublic affairs1973Nagendra SinghRajasthanPublic affairs1973Ijwant SinghDelhiPublic affairs1974Niren DeWest BengalPublic affairs1975Varahagiri Venkata GiriOdishaPublic affairs1975Chintaman Dwarkanath DeshmukhAndhra PradeshPublic affairs1975Dr. (Smt.) Durgabai DeshmukhMaharashtraPublic affairs1976Kumaraswamy Kamraj (posthumous)Tamil NaduPublic affairs1977Ajudhia Nath KhoslaDelhiPublic affairs1977Ajoy Kumar MukherjeeWest BengalPublic affairs1977Ali Yavar Jung Bahadur (posthumous)TelanganaPublic affairs1977Chandreshwar Prasad Narayan SinghDelhiPublic affairs1977Baba Prithvi Singh AzadChandigarhPublic affairs1977Telo De MascarenhasGermanyPublic affairs
1980–1989 YearNameStateField1985Justice Durga Das BasuWest BengalPublic affairs1985Syed (Justice) Sadat Abdul MasudWest BengalPublic affairs1986Jean Riboud (posthumous)FrancePublic affairs1986Martand SinghDelhiPublic affairs1988Manidur Gopalan Ramachandran (posthumous)Tamil NaduPublic affairs1988Justice Mirza Hameedullah BegDelhiPublic affairs1988Kushok BakulaDelhiPublic affairs1988Renuka RayWest BengalPublic affairs1988Valmiki ChoudharyDelhiPublic affairs1989Umashankar DikshitUttar PradeshPublic affairs1989Lord Fenner Brockway (posthumous)United KingdomPublic affairs1989Lakshman SinghMaharashtraPublic affairs1989Yoshio SakurauchiJapanPublic affairs
1990–1999 YearNameStateField1990Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (posthumous)MaharashtraPublic affairs1990Nelson Rolihlahla MandelaSouth AfricaPublic affairs1990Triloki Nath ChaturvediDelhiPublic affairs1990Julius SilvermanUnited KingdomPublic affairs1990Ram Narain MalhotraMaharashtraPublic affairs1991Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (posthumous)GujaratPublic affairs1991Morarji Ranchhodji DesaiGujaratPublic affairs1991Rajiv Gandhi (posthumous)DelhiPublic affairs1991Hirendra Nath MukherjeeWest BengalPublic affairs1991Nayakulu Gogineni RangaAndhra PradeshPublic affairs1991Gulzari Lal NandaGujaratPublic affairs1991Fali Sam NarimanDelhiPublic affairs1991Jeevan Singh UmranangalPunjabPublic affairs1991Manubhai Rajaram PanoholiGujaratPublic affairs1991Babulal Chhogalal PataudiMadhya PradeshPublic affairs1991Hari Govindrao alias Bhausaheb VartakMaharashtraPublic affairs1992Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (posthumous)West BengalPublic affairs1992Sardar Swaran SinghPunjabPublic affairs1992Atal Bihari VajpayeeDelhiPublic affairs1992Ravi Narayan Reddy (posthumous)TelanganaPublic affairs1992Aruna Asaf AliDelhiPublic affairs1992Bijoy Chandra BhagavatiAssamPublic affairs1992Vavilala GopalakrishnayyaAndhra PradeshPublic affairs1992Homijehangir Hormusji TaleyarkhanMaharashtraPublic affairs1992Maadari Bhagya GautamTelanganaPublic affairs1992Vaman Balkrishna Naique Prataprao SardesaiGoaPublic affairs1997Gulzari Lal Nanda (posthumous)GujaratPublic affairs1997Aruna Asaf Ali (posthumous)DelhiPublic affairs1998Chidambaram SubramaniamTamil NaduPublic affairs1998(Smt.) Lakshmi SahgalUttar PradeshPublic affairs1998Nani Ardeshir PalkhivalaMaharashtraPublic affairs1998Walter SisuluSouth AfricaPublic affairs1998Col. Gurbakhsh Singh DhillonMadhya PradeshPublic affairs1998Laxmi Mall SinghviDelhiPublic affairs1998Justice (Shri) Vithal Mahadev TarkundeUttar PradeshPublic affairs1998Satyapal DangPunjabPublic affairs1998Shri Jayaprakash Narayan (posthumous)BiharPublic affairs1999Shri Gopinath Bordoloi (posthumous)AssamPublic affairs1999Justice Hans Raj Khanna (Retd.)DelhiPublic affairs1999Justice Vaidynathapuram Rama Ayyar Krishna Iyer (Retd.)KeralaPublic affairs1999Braj Kumar NehruHimachal PradeshPublic affairs1999Jag Parvesh ChandraDelhiPublic affairs
2000–2009 YearNameStateField2000Sikander BakhtDelhiPublic affairs2000Maulana Wahiduddin KhanDelhiPublic affairs2000Enuga Sreenivasulu ReddyUnited StatesPublic affairs2000Satya Narayan GourisariaUnited KingdomPublic affairs2001Benjamin Arthur GilmanUnited StatesPublic affairs2001Hosei NorotaJapanPublic affairs2001Ashok Haribhai DesaiDelhiPublic affairs2001Swadesh ChatterjeeUnited StatesPublic affairs2001Mohan RanadeMaharashtraPublic affairs2002Soli Jehangir SorabjeeDelhiPublic affairs2002Congressman Frank PalloneUnited StatesPublic affairs2002Congressman Gary AckermanUnited StatesPublic affairs2002Sushantha Kumar BhattacharyaUnited KingdomPublic affairs2002Kottayan Katankot VenugopalDelhiPublic affairs2002Satish Chandra RaiUttar PradeshPublic affairs2002Phillips TalbotUnited StatesPublic affairs2002Taro NakayamaJapanPublic affairs2002Viresh Pratap ChaudhryDelhiPublic affairs2003Kazi Lhendup Dorji KangsarpaWest BengalPublic affairs2003Herbert Paul FischerGermanyPublic affairs2003Parasaran Kesava IyengarDelhiPublic affairs2003Francis DoreFrancePublic affairs2003Neelakanta Ramakrishna Madhava MenonWest BengalPublic affairs2004Justice (Retd) Manepalli Narayana Rao VenkatachaliahKarnatakaPublic affairs2004Justice (Retd.) Shri Chandrashekhar Shankar DharmadhikariMaharashtraPublic affairs2004Yoshiro MoriJapanPublic affairs2004Flora Isabel MacDonaldCanadaPublic affairs2005Karan SinghDelhiPublic affairs2005Milon Kumar BanerjiDelhiPublic affairs2005Syed Mir Qasim (posthumous)DelhiPublic affairs2005Indira JaisingDelhiPublic affairs2006Justice Visheshwar Nath KhareUttar PradeshPublic affairs2006Hira Lall SibalChandigarhPublic affairs2006Pavani Parmeswara RaoUttar PradeshPublic affairs2006Shashi BhushanDelhiPublic affairs2006Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al MahmoudQatarPublic affairs2007Raja Jesudoss ChelliahTamil NaduPublic affairs2007Justice (Shri) Prafulla Chandra BhagwatiDelhiPublic affairs2007Fali Sam NarimanDelhiPublic affairs2007Justice (Shri) K.T. ThomasKeralaPublic affairs2007Ela GandhiSouth AfricaPublic affairs2007Dr. Syeda Saiyidain HameedDelhiPublic affairs2007Teesta SetalvadMaharashtraPublic affairs2008Justice (Dr.) Adarsh Sein AnandUttar PradeshPublic affairs2008P.N. DharDelhiPublic affairs2008Pranab MukherjeeDelhiPublic affairs2008Yuli M. Vorontsov (posthumous)RussiaPublic affairs2008Mian Bashir AhmadJammu and KashmirPublic affairs2008Lord Meghnad Jagdishchandra DesaiUnited KingdomPublic affairs2008Colette MathurSwitzerlandPublic affairs2009Govind NarainUttar PradeshPublic affairs2009(Smt.) Inderjit Kaur BarthakurMeghalayaPublic affairs2009Kirit Shantilal ParikhDelhiPublic affairs2009Shyamlha PappuDelhiPublic affairs2009K. Asungba SangtamNagalandPublic affairs
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