Padma Award 2026: Rohit Sharma awarded Padma Shri, Dharmendra honoured with Padm ...

Continuing a celebrated annual tradition, the Government of Indiaannounced the recipients of thePadma Awards 2026 on the eve of the 76th Republic Day. Considered as one of the highest civilian awards of the country, Padma awards are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.
This year, the President has approved the conferment of 131 Padma Awards, reflecting a diverse tapestry of individuals as this year’s awardees represents an amusing mix of business icons, folk artists, politicians and medical pioneers.
This year’s list comprises 5 Padma Vibhushan, 13 Padma Bhushan, and 113 Padma Shri Awards. The awardees represent a diverse tapestry of individuals, including 19 women and 16 Posthumous awardees.
The list also features 6 persons from the category of  Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI. The awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz.- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc.

Padma Awards 2026: Rohit, Hamranpreet, Dhamendra and other recipients

This year’s list included many posthumous stalwarts like Alka Yaglik and Dharmendra.

Dharmendra Singh Deol has been honoured posthumously with the Padma Vibhushan for his exceptional contribution to Art. While Ms. Alka Yagnik has been conferred with the Padma Bhushan for her contribution to the field of Music.
The list also recognizes sporting excellence. Both Indian world cup winning captains for cricket Rohit Sharma and Harmanpreet Kaur have been awarded with a Padmashri. 
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This year the list of awardees also included 45 unsung heroes who were recognised by the government of India for their exemplary work on grassroots, where they toiled to improve the quality of life of subdued communities across the country.
Padma Awards 2026: Difference Padma Shri, Padam Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan

The Padma Awards are organised into a clear hierarchy based on the scale and nature of the contribution. Padma Vibhushan is the highest among them, reserved for “exceptional and distinguished service” that has a profound national or global impact.

The Padma Bhushan follows as the second-highest, recognising “distinguished service of a high order,” while the Padma Shri is the third-highest, awarded for “distinguished service” in any specific field.
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Padma Awards 2026: Check Full list 

The 2026 list is a powerful mix of global icons and “unsung heroes” from the grassroots level, particularly highlighting individuals from marginalized communities and remote regions. The complete list of all the awardees has been posted below.

SN	Name	Field	State/Country	Category
1	Shri Dharmendra Singh Deol (Posthumous)	Art	Maharashtra	Padma Vibhushan
2	Shri KT Thomas	Public Affairs	Kerala	Padma Vibhushan
3	Ms. N Rajam	Art	Uttar Pradesh	Padma Vibhushan
4	Shri P Narayanan	Literature and Education	Kerala	Padma Vibhushan
5	Shri V S Achuthanandhan (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Kerala	Padma Vibhushan
6	Ms. Alka Yagnik	Art	Maharashtra	Padma Bhushan
7	Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari	Public Affairs	Uttarakhand	Padma Bhushan
8	Shri Kallipatti Ramasamy Palaniswamy	Medicine	Tamil Nadu	Padma Bhushan
9	Shri Mammootty	Art	Kerala	Padma Bhushan
10	Dr. Nori Dattatreyudu	Medicine	United States of America	Padma Bhushan
11	Shri Piyush Pandey (Posthumous)	Art	Maharashtra	Padma Bhushan
12	Shri SKM Maeilanandhan	Social Work	Tamil Nadu	Padma Bhushan
13	Shri Shatavadhani R Ganesh	Art	Karnataka	Padma Bhushan
14	Shri Shibu Soren (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Jharkhand	Padma Bhushan
15	Shri Uday Kotak	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra	Padma Bhushan
16	Shri V K Malhotra (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Delhi	Padma Bhushan
17	Shri Vellappally Natesan	Public Affairs	Kerala	Padma Bhushan
18	Shri Vijay Amritraj	Sports	United States of America	Padma Bhushan
19	Shri A E Muthunayagam	Science and Engineering	Kerala	Padma Shri
20	Shri Anil Kumar Rastogi	Art	Uttar Pradesh	Padma Shri
21	Shri Anke Gowda M.	Social Work	Karnataka	Padma Shri
22	Ms. Armida Fernandez	Medicine	Maharashtra	Padma Shri
23	Shri Arvind Vaidya	Art	Gujarat	Padma Shri
24	Shri Ashok Khade	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra	Padma Shri
25	Shri Ashok Kumar Singh	Science and Engineering	Uttar Pradesh	Padma Shri
26	Shri Asok Kumar Haldar	Literature and Education	West Bengal	Padma Shri
27	Shri Baldev Singh	Sports	Punjab	Padma Shri
28	Shri Bhagwandas Raikwar	Sports	Madhya Pradesh	Padma Shri
29	Shri Bharat Singh Bharti	Art	Bihar	Padma Shri
30	Shri Bhiklya Ladakya Dhinda	Art	Maharashtra	Padma Shri
31	Shri Bishwa Bandhu (Posthumous)	Art	Bihar	Padma Shri
32	Shri Brij Lal Bhat	Social Work	Jammu and Kashmir	Padma Shri
33	Shri Buddha Rashmi Mani	Others – Archaeology	Uttar Pradesh	Padma Shri
34	Dr. Budhri Tati	Social Work	Chhattisgarh	Padma Shri
35	Shri Chandramouli Gaddamanugu	Science and Engineering	Telangana	Padma Shri
36	Shri Charan Hembram	Literature and Education	Odisha	Padma Shri
37	Shri Chiranji Lal Yadav	Art	Uttar Pradesh	Padma Shri
38	Ms. Deepika Reddy	Art	Telangana	Padma Shri
39	Shri Dharmiklal Chunilal Pandya	Art	Gujarat	Padma Shri
40	Shri Gadde Babu Rajendra Prasad	Art	Andhra Pradesh	Padma Shri
41	Shri Gafruddin Mewati Jogi	Art	Rajasthan	Padma Shri
42	Shri Gambir Singh Yonzone	Literature and Education	West Bengal	Padma Shri
43	Shri Garimella Balakrishna Prasad (Posthumous)	Art	Andhra Pradesh	Padma Shri
44	Ms. Gayatri Balasubramanian and Ms. Ranjani Balasubramanian (Duo)	Art	Tamil Nadu	Padma Shri
45	Shri Gopal Ji Trivedi	Science and Engineering	Bihar	Padma Shri
46	Shri Guduru Venkat Rao	Medicine	Telangana	Padma Shri
47	Shri H V Hande	Medicine	Tamil Nadu	Padma Shri
48	Shri Hally War	Social Work	Meghalaya	Padma Shri
49	Shri Hari Madhab Mukhopadhyay (Posthumous)	Art	West Bengal	Padma Shri
50	Shri Haricharan Saikia	Art	Assam	Padma Shri
51	Ms. Harmanpreet Kaur Bhullar	Sports	Punjab	Padma Shri
52	Shri Inderjit Singh Sidhu	Social Work	Chandigarh	Padma Shri
53	Shri Janardan Bapurao Bothe	Social Work	Maharashtra	Padma Shri
54	Shri Jogesh Deuri	Others – Agriculture	Assam	Padma Shri
55	Shri Juzer Vasi	Science and Engineering	Maharashtra	Padma Shri
56	Shri Jyotish Debnath	Art	West Bengal	Padma Shri
57	Shri K Pajanivel	Sports	Puducherry	Padma Shri
58	Shri K Ramasamy	Science and Engineering	Tamil Nadu	Padma Shri
59	Shri K Vijay Kumar	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu	Padma Shri
60	Shri Kabindra Purkayastha (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Assam	Padma Shri
61	Shri Kailash Chandra Pant	Literature and Education	Madhya Pradesh	Padma Shri
62	Ms. Kalamandalam Vimala Menon	Art	Kerala	Padma Shri
63	Shri Kewal Krishan Thakral	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh	Padma Shri
64	Shri Khem Raj Sundriyal	Art	Haryana	Padma Shri
65	Ms. Kollakal Devaki Amma G	Social Work	Kerala	Padma Shri
66	Shri Krishnamurty Balasubramanian	Science and Engineering	Telangana	Padma Shri
67	Shri Kumar Bose	Art	West Bengal	Padma Shri
68	Shri Kumarasamy Thangaraj	Science and Engineering	Telangana	Padma Shri
69	Prof. (Dr.) Lars-Christian Koch	Art	Germany	Padma Shri
70	Ms. Liudmila Viktorovna Khokhlova	Literature and Education	Russia	Padma Shri
71	Shri Madhavan Ranganathan	Art	Maharashtra	Padma Shri
72	Shri Maganti Murali Mohan	Art	Andhra Pradesh	Padma Shri
73	Shri Mahendra Kumar Mishra	Literature and Education	Odisha	Padma Shri
74	Shri Mahendra Nath Roy	Literature and Education	West Bengal	Padma Shri
75	Shri Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar	Literature and Education	Delhi	Padma Shri
76	Ms. Mangala Kapoor	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh	Padma Shri
77	Shri Mir Hajibhai Kasambhai	Art	Gujarat	Padma Shri
78	Shri Mohan Nagar	Social Work	Madhya Pradesh	Padma Shri
79	Shri Narayan Vyas	Others – Archaeology	Madhya Pradesh	Padma Shri
80	Shri Naresh Chandra Dev Varma	Literature and Education	Tripura	Padma Shri
81	Shri Nilesh Vinodchandra Mandlewala	Social Work	Gujarat	Padma Shri
82	Shri Nuruddin Ahmed	Art	Assam	Padma Shri
83	Shri Othuvaar Thiruthani Swaminathan	Art	Tamil Nadu	Padma Shri
84	Dr. Padma Gurmet	Medicine	Ladakh	Padma Shri
85	Shri Palkonda Vijay Anand Reddy	Medicine	Telangana	Padma Shri
86	Ms. Pokhila Lekthepi	Art	Assam	Padma Shri
87	Shri Prabhakar Basavprabhu Kore	Literature and Education	Karnataka	Padma Shri
88	Dr. Prateek Sharma	Medicine	United States of America	Padma Shri
89	Shri Praveen Kumar	Sports	Uttar Pradesh	Padma Shri
90	Shri Prem Lal Gautam	Science and Engineering	Himachal Pradesh	Padma Shri
91	Shri Prosenjit Chatterjee	Art	West Bengal	Padma Shri
92	Dr. Punniamurthy Natesan	Medicine	Tamil Nadu	Padma Shri
93	Shri R Krishnan (Posthumous)	Art	Tamil Nadu	Padma Shri
94	Shri RVS Mani	Civil Service	Delhi	Padma Shri
95	Shri Rabilal Tudu	Literature and Education	West Bengal	Padma Shri
96	Shri Raghupat Singh (Posthumous)	Others – Agriculture	Uttar Pradesh	Padma Shri
97	Shri Raghuveer Tukaram Khedkar	Art	Maharashtra	Padma Shri
98	Shri Rajastapathi Kaliappa Goundar	Art	Tamil Nadu	Padma Shri
99	Shri Rajendra Prasad	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh	Padma Shri
100	Shri Rama Reddy Mamidi (Posthumous)	Others – Animal Husbandry	Telangana	Padma Shri
101	Shri Ramamurthy Sreedher	Others – Radio Broadcasting	Delhi	Padma Shri
102	Shri Ramchandra Godbole and Ms. Suneeta Godbole (Duo)	Medicine	Chhattisgarh	Padma Shri
103	Shri Ratilal Borisagar	Literature and Education	Gujarat	Padma Shri
104	Shri Rohit Sharma	Sports	Maharashtra	Padma Shri
105	Ms. S G Susheelamma	Social Work	Karnataka	Padma Shri
106	Shri Sangyusang S Pongener	Art	Nagaland	Padma Shri
107	Sant Niranjan Dass	Others – Spiritualism	Punjab	Padma Shri
108	Shri Sarat Kumar Patra	Art	Odisha	Padma Shri
109	Shri Saroj Mandal	Medicine	West Bengal	Padma Shri
110	Shri Satish Shah (Posthumous)	Art	Maharashtra	Padma Shri
111	Shri Satyanarayan Nuwal	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra	Padma Shri
112	Ms. Savita Punia	Sports	Haryana	Padma Shri
113	Prof. Shafi Shauq	Literature and Education	Jammu and Kashmir	Padma Shri
114	Shri Shashi Shekhar Vempati	Literature and Education	Karnataka	Padma Shri
115	Shri Shrirang Devaba Lad	Others – Agriculture	Maharashtra	Padma Shri
116	Ms. Shubha Venkatesha Iyengar	Science and Engineering	Karnataka	Padma Shri
117	Shri Shyam Sundar	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh	Padma Shri
118	Shri Simanchal Patro	Art	Odisha	Padma Shri
119	Ms. Sivasankari	Literature and Education	Tamil Nadu	Padma Shri
120	Dr. Suresh Hanagavadi	Medicine	Karnataka	Padma Shri
121	Swami Brahmdev Ji Maharaj	Social Work	Rajasthan	Padma Shri
122	Shri TT Jagannathan (Posthumous)	Trade and Industry	Karnataka	Padma Shri
123	Shri Taga Ram Bheel	Art	Rajasthan	Padma Shri
124	Shri Tarun Bhattacharya	Art	West Bengal	Padma Shri
125	Shri Techi Gubin	Social Work	Arunachal Pradesh	Padma Shri
126	Shri Thiruvaarur Bakthavathsalam	Art	Tamil Nadu	Padma Shri
127	Ms. Tripti Mukherjee	Art	West Bengal	Padma Shri
128	Shri Veezhinathan Kamakoti	Science and Engineering	Tamil Nadu	Padma Shri
129	Shri Vempaty Kutumba Sastry	Literature and Education	Andhra Pradesh	Padma Shri
130	Shri Vladimer Mestvirishvili (Posthumous)	Sports	Georgia	Padma Shri
131	Shri Yumnam Jatra Singh (Posthumous)	Art	Manipur	Padma Shri

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