List of Padma Vibhushan award recipients - wikipedia List of Padma Vibhushan award recipients Padma Vibhushan Awarded by Government of India Country India Type National Civilian Ribbon Obverse A centrally located lotus flower is embossed and the text `` Padma '' written in Devanagari script is placed above and the text `` Vibhushan '' is placed below the lotus. Reverse A platinum Emblem of India placed in the centre with the national motto, `` Satyameva Jayate '' ( Truth alone triumphs ) in Devanagari Script Statistics Established 1954 Previous name ( s ) Padma Vibhushan `` Pahela Warg '' ( Class I ) First awarded 1954 Satyendra Nath Bose Nandalal Bose Zakir Husain Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher V.K. Krishna Menon Jigme Dorji Wangchuck Last awarded 2018 Ilaiyaraaja Ghulam Mustafa Khan P. Parameswaran Total awarded 303 Precedence Next ( higher ) Bharat Ratna Next ( lower ) Padma Bhushan The Padma Vibhushan is the second highest civilian award of the Republic of India. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for the `` exceptional and distinguished service '', without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex. The Padma Vibhushan award recipients are announced every year on Republic Day and registered in The Gazette of India -- a publication released weekly by the Department of Publication, Ministry of Urban Development used for official government notices. The conferral of the award is not considered official without its publication in the Gazette. Recipients whose awards have been revoked or restored, both of which require the authority of the President, are also registered in the Gazette and are required to surrender their medals when their names are struck from the register. As of 2018, none of the conferments of Padma Vibhushan have been revoked or restored. The recommendations are received from all the state and the union territory governments, the Ministries of the Government, the Bharat Ratna and previous Padma Vibhushan award recipients, the Institutes of Excellence, the Ministers, the Chief Ministers and the Governors of State, and the Members of Parliament including private individuals. The recommendations received during 1 May and 15 September of every year are submitted to the Padma Awards Committee, constituted by the Prime Minister. The committee recommendations are later submitted to the Prime Minister and the President for the further approval. When instituted in 1954, the Padma Vibhushan was classified as `` Pahela Warg '' ( Class I ) under the three - tier Padma Vibhushan awards ; preceded by the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award, and followed by `` Dusra Warg '' ( Class II ), and `` Tisra Warg '' ( Class III ). On 15 January 1955, the Padma Vibhushan was reclassified into three different awards ; the Padma Vibhushan, the highest of the three, followed by the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Shri. The criteria includes `` exceptional and distinguished service in any field including service rendered by Government servants '' but excluding those working with the Public sector undertakings with the exception of doctors and scientists. The 1954 statutes did not allow posthumous awards but this was subsequently modified in the January 1955 statute. The award, along with other personal civil honours, was briefly suspended twice in its history ; for the first time in July 1977 when Morarji Desai was sworn in as the fourth Prime Minister. The suspension was rescinded on 25 January 1980, after Indira Gandhi became the Prime Minister. The civilian awards were suspended again in mid-1992, when two Public - Interest Litigations were filed in the High Courts questioning the civilian awards being `` Titles '' per an interpretation of Article 18 ( 1 ) of the Constitution. The awards were reintroduced by the Supreme Court in December 1995, following the conclusion of the litigation. The recipients receive a Sanad ( certificate ) signed by the President and a medal with no monetary grant associated with the award. The decoration is a circular - shaped toned bronze medallion 1 ⁄ inches ( 44 mm ) in diameter and ⁄ inch ( 3.2 mm ) thick. The centrally placed pattern made of outer lines of a square of 1 ⁄ inches ( 30 mm ) side is embossed with a knob embossed within each of the outer angles of the pattern. A raised circular space of diameter 1 ⁄ inches ( 27 mm ) is placed at the centre of the decoration. A centrally located lotus flower is embossed on the obverse side of the medal and the text `` Padma '' written in Devanagari script is placed above and the text `` Vibhushan '' is placed below the lotus. The Emblem of India is placed in the centre of the reverse side with the national motto, `` Satyameva Jayate '' ( Truth alone triumphs ) in Devanagari Script, inscribed on the lower edge. The rim, the edges and all embossing on either side is of white gold with the text `` Padma Vibhushan '' of silver gilt. The medal is suspended by a pink riband 1 ⁄ inches ( 32 mm ) in width. It is ranked fourth in the order of precedence of wearing of medals and decorations. The first recipients of the Padma Vibhushan were Satyendra Nath Bose, Nandalal Bose, Zakir Husain, Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, V.K. Krishna Menon, and Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, who were honoured in 1954. As of 2017, the award has been bestowed on 300 individuals, including twelve posthumous and nineteen non-citizen recipients. Some of the recipients have refused or returned their awards ; P.N. Haksar, Vilayat Khan, E.M.S. Namboodiripad, Swami Ranganathananda, and Manikonda Chalapathi Rau refused the award ; the family members of Lakshmi Chand Jain ( 2011 ) and Sharad Anantrao Joshi ( 2016 ) declined their posthumous conferments, and 1986 recipient Baba Amte returned his honour in 1991. Most recently on 25 January 2018, the award has been bestowed upon three recipients ; Ilaiyaraaja, Ghulam Mustafa Khan, and P. Parameswaran. Contents 1 Recipients 2 Explanatory notes 3 References 4 Bibliography 5 External links Recipients Awarded in 1954, Satyendra Nath Bose is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, providing the foundation for Bose -- Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose -- Einstein condensate. 1959 recipient John Mathai was country 's first Railway Minister and later served as Finance Minister. The Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh is the first and the only five - star rank officer with the Indian Air Force. Singh was conferred Padma Vibhushan in 1965. 1971 recipient Sumati Morarjee was the first woman in the world to head an organisation of ship owners ( `` Indian National Steamship Owners Association '' ) and was later elected as the vice-president of the `` World Shipping Federation ''. Uday Shankar was a dancer known for his frequent collaboration with a Russian Ballet dancer Anna Pavlova and was awarded with the honour in 1971. Awarded in 1972, Sam Manekshaw ( left ), often known as `` Sam Bahadur '' ( `` Sam the Brave '' ), was the first Field Marshal of the country and also of the Indian Army. Vikram Sarabhai, widely considered as the `` Father of Indian space program '', was one of the founders and first chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation. Sarabhai was awarded posthumously in 1972. Awarded in 1975, C.D. Deshmukh is the first Indian Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and later served as Finance Minister of India ( 1950 -- 57 ). 1986 recipient Birju Maharaj is an exponent of Kalka - Bindadin gharana of Kathak dance. Manmohan Singh is an economist who served as the Chief Economic Advisor ( 1972 -- 76 ), Governor of Reserve Bank of India ( 1982 -- 85 ), Finance Minister of India ( 1991 -- 96 ), and later as the Prime Minister of India ( 2004 -- 14 ). The Padma Vibhushan was bestowed upon Singh in 1987. Awarded in 1989, M.S. Swaminathan, often called as the `` Father of Green Revolution '', is known for this contribution to Green Revolution in India through the development of high - yielding varieties of wheat. 1991 recipient M.F. Husain was a painter and is often called as the `` Picasso of India ''. V.R. Krishna Iyer was a former Supreme Court judge ( 1973 -- 80 ) and is noted to have `` humanised the law '' through his judgements. Iyer received the conferment in 1999. Awarded in 1999, Verghese Kurien, widely known as the `` Father of the White Revolution '', was the chief architect of Operation Flood, making India as one of the largest milk producer in the world. A recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, country 's highest award in cinema, film director Adoor Gopalakrishnan is credited with pioneering the new wave cinema movement in Malayalam cinema. Gopalakrishnan was awarded with the Padma Vibhushan in 2006. Awarded in 2008, Khushwant Singh was a writer and journalist ; and was a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from 1980 to 1986. 2008 recipient Viswanathan Anand is country 's first chess Grandmaster and five times winner of World Chess Championship. Awarded in 2008, Edmund Hillary ( left ) was one of the first two individuals known to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which he accomplished with Tenzing Norgay ( right ) on 29 May 1953. A nuclear scientist and former Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Anil Kakodkar is known for his contribution in the design and construction of Dhruva, India 's largest research reactor. Kakodkar received the conferment in 2009. Malayalam litterateur O.N.V. Kurup is a recipient of Jnanpith Award, country 's highest literary honour. He was awarded with the Padma Vibhushan in 2011. 2014 recipient B.K.S. Iyengar was a yoga exponent and creator of dynamic yoga style, Iyengar Yoga. Awarded in 2015, `` Tragedy King '' Dilip Kumar debuted as an actor in Jwar Bhata ( 1944 ) and acted in more than 60 Hindi films in a career that spanned over six decades. Awarded in 2016, Hindustani classical vocalist Girija Devi is a disciple of Benares gharana, an Indian classical musical school. She is widely known for the thumri genre of singing. Award recipients by year Year Number of recipients 1954 -- 59 17 1960 -- 69 27 1970 -- 79 53 1980 -- 89 20 1990 -- 99 42 2000 -- 09 86 2010 -- present 58 Award recipients by field Field Number of recipients Arts 57 Civil Service 53 Literature & Education 40 Medicine 13 Others 5 Public Affairs 68 Science & Engineering 35 Social Work 17 Sports Trade & Industry 12 Key # Indicates a posthumous honour List of Padma Vibhushan recipients, showing the year, field, and state / country Year Recipient Field State 1954 Satyendra Nath Bose Literature & Education West Bengal 1954 Nandalal Bose Arts West Bengal 1954 Zakir Husain Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 1954 Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher Public Affairs Maharashtra 1954 V.K. Krishna Menon Public Affairs Kerala 1954 Jigme Dorji Wangchuck Public Affairs -- 1955 Dhondo Keshav Karve Literature & Education Maharashtra 1955 J.R.D. Tata Trade & Industry Maharashtra 1956 Fazal Ali Public Affairs Bihar 1956 Jankibai Bajaj Social Work Madhya Pradesh 1956 Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi Public Affairs Madhya Pradesh 1957 Ghanshyam Das Birla Trade & Industry Rajasthan 1957 Sri Prakasa Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 1957 M.C. Setalvad Public Affairs Maharashtra 1959 John Mathai Literature & Education Kerala 1959 Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta Social Work Maharashtra 1959 Radhabinod Pal Public Affairs West Bengal 1960 Naryana Raghvan Pillai Public Affairs Tamil Nadu 1962 H.V.R. Iyengar Civil Service Tamil Nadu 1962 Padmaja Naidu Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 1962 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Civil Service Uttar Pradesh 1963 Suniti Kumar Chatterji Literature & Education West Bengal 1963 A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar Medicine Tamil Nadu 1963 Hari Vinayak Pataskar Public Affairs Maharashtra 1964 Acharya Kakasaheb Kalelkar Literature & Education Maharashtra 1964 Gopinath Kaviraj Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh 1965 Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri Civil Service West Bengal 1965 Mehdi Nawaz Jung Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 1965 Arjan Singh Civil Service Delhi 1966 Valerian Gracias Social Work Maharashtra 1967 Chandra Kisan Daphtary Public Affairs Maharashtra 1967 Hafiz Mohamad Ibrahim Civil Service Andhra Pradesh 1967 Bhola Nath Jha Civil Service Uttar Pradesh 1967 P.V.R. Rao Civil Service Andhra Pradesh 1968 Madhav Shrihari Aney Public Affairs Madhya Pradesh 1968 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Science & Engineering -- 1968 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Literature & Education Delhi 1968 Kirpal Singh Civil Service Delhi 1968 Kalyan Sundaram Public Affairs Delhi 1969 Rajeshwar Dayal Civil Service Delhi 1969 Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi Civil Service Maharashtra 1969 Har Gobind Khorana Science & Engineering -- 1969 Mohan Sinha Mehta Civil Service Rajasthan 1969 Ghananand Pande Civil Service Uttar Pradesh 1970 Tara Chand Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh 1970 Suranjan Das Civil Service West Bengal 1970 Anthony Lancelot Dias Public Affairs Maharashtra 1970 P. Prabhakar Kumaramangalam Civil Service Tamil Nadu 1970 A. Ramasamy Mudaliar Civil Service Andhra Pradesh 1970 Binay Ranjan Sen Civil Service West Bengal 1970 Harbaksh Singh Civil Service Punjab 1971 Bimala Prasad Chaliha Civil Service Assam 1971 Allauddin Khan Arts West Bengal 1971 Sumati Morarjee Civil Service Maharashtra 1971 Uday Shankar Arts Maharashtra 1971 Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar Medicine Goa 1971 B. Sivaraman Civil Service Tamil Nadu 1972 P. Balacharya Gajendragadkar Public Affairs Maharashtra 1972 Aditya Nath Jha # Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh 1972 Pratap Chandra Lal Civil Service Punjab 1972 Sam Manekshaw Civil Service Tamil Nadu 1972 Jivraj Narayan Mehta Public Affairs Maharashtra 1972 Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda Civil Service Delhi 1972 Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq # Public Affairs Jammu & Kashmir 1972 Vikram Sarabhai # Science & Engineering Gujarat 1972 Hormasji Maneckji Seervai Literature & Education Maharashtra 1973 Basanti Devi Civil Service West Bengal 1973 U.N. Dhebar Social Work Gujarat 1973 Daulat Singh Kothari Science & Engineering Delhi 1973 Nellie Sengupta Social Work West Bengal 1973 Nagendra Singh Public Affairs Rajasthan 1973 Thirumalraya Swaminathan Civil Service Tamil Nadu Niren De Public Affairs West Bengal Benode Behari Mukherjee Arts Uttarakhand V.K.R.V. Rao Civil Service Karnataka Harish Chandra Sarin Civil Service Delhi C.D. Deshmukh Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh Durgabai Deshmukh Social Work Maharashtra Mary Clubwala Jadhav Social Work Tamil Nadu Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri Literature & Education West Bengal Raja Ramanna Science & Engineering Karnataka Homi Nusserwanji Sethna Civil Service Maharashtra M.S. Subbulakshmi Arts Tamil Nadu Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey Literature & Education Maharashtra 1976 Salim Ali Science & Engineering Uttar Pradesh 1976 Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir Literature & Education Punjab 1976 K. Shankar Pillai Arts Delhi 1976 K.R. Ramanathan Science & Engineering Kerala 1976 Satyajit Ray Arts West Bengal 1976 Kalu Lal Shrimali Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh 1976 Bashir Hussain Zaidi Literature & Education Delhi 1977 T. Balasaraswati Arts Tamil Nadu 1977 Ali Yavar Jung Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 1977 Ajudhia Nath Khosla Civil Service Delhi 1977 Om Prakash Mehra Civil Service Punjab 1977 Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee Public Affairs West Bengal 1977 Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh Literature & Education Delhi 1980 Bismillah Khan Arts Uttar Pradesh 1980 Rai Krishnadasa Civil Service Uttar Pradesh 1981 Satish Dhawan Science & Engineering Karnataka 1981 Ravi Shankar Arts Uttar Pradesh 1982 Mira Behn Social Work -- 1985 C.N.R. Rao Science & Engineering Karnataka 1985 M.G.K. Menon Civil Service Kerala 1986 Baba Amte Social Work Maharashtra 1986 Birju Maharaj Arts Delhi 1986 Autar Singh Paintal Medicine Delhi Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Social Work Karnataka Benjamin Peary Pal Science & Engineering Punjab Manmohan Singh Civil Service Delhi Arun Shridhar Vaidya Civil Service Maharashtra 1988 Mirza Hameedullah Beg Public Affairs Delhi 1988 Kuvempu Literature & Education Karnataka 1988 Mahadevi Varma Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh 1989 Uma Shankar Dikshit Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh 1989 Ali Akbar Khan Arts West Bengal 1989 M.S. Swaminathan Science & Engineering Delhi 1990 V.S.R. Arunachalam Literature & Education Delhi 1990 Triloki Nath Chaturvedi Civil Service Karnataka 1990 Bhabatosh Datta Literature & Education West Bengal 1990 Kumar Gandharva Arts Madhya Pradesh 1990 A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Science & Engineering Tamil Nadu 1990 Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer Arts Tamil Nadu 1991 M. Balamuralikrishna Arts Tamil Nadu 1991 M.F. Husain Arts Maharashtra 1991 Hirendranath Mukherjee Public Affairs West Bengal 1991 Gulzarilal Nanda Public Affairs Gujarat 1991 I.G. Patel Science & Engineering Gujarat 1991 N.G. Ranga Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 1991 Khusro Faramurz Rustamji Civil Service Maharashtra 1991 Rajaram Shastri Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh 1992 Aruna Asaf Ali Public Affairs Delhi 1992 Lakshman Shastri Joshi Literature & Education Maharashtra 1992 Mallikarjun Mansur Arts Karnataka 1992 S.I. Padmavati Medicine Delhi 1992 Kaloji Narayana Rao Arts Andhra Pradesh 1992 Ravi Narayana Reddy Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 1992 V. Shantaram Arts Maharashtra 1992 Govindbhai Shroff Literature & Education Maharashtra 1992 Swaran Singh Public Affairs Punjab 1992 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Public Affairs Delhi 1998 Usha Mehta Social Work Maharashtra 1998 Nanabhoy Palkhivala Public Affairs Maharashtra 1998 Lakshmi Sahgal Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh 1998 Walter Sisulu Public Affairs -- 1999 Pandurang Shastri Athavale Social Work Maharashtra 1999 Rajagopala Chidambaram Science & Engineering Maharashtra 1999 Nanaji Deshmukh Social Work Delhi 1999 Sarvepalli Gopal Literature & Education Tamil Nadu 1999 Satish Gujral Arts Delhi 1999 V.R. Krishna Iyer Public Affairs Kerala 1999 Bhimsen Joshi Arts Maharashtra 1999 Hans Raj Khanna Public Affairs Delhi 1999 Verghese Kurien Science & Engineering Gujarat 1999 Lata Mangeshkar Arts Maharashtra 1999 Braj Kumar Nehru Civil Service Himachal Pradesh 1999 D.K. Pattammal Arts Tamil Nadu 1999 Lallan Prasad Singh # Civil Service Delhi 1999 Dharma Vira Civil Service Delhi 2000 Sikander Bakht Public Affairs Delhi 2000 Jagdish Bhagwati Literature & Education -- 2000 Hariprasad Chaurasia Arts Maharashtra 2000 M.S. Gill Civil Service Delhi 2000 Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan Science & Engineering Karnataka 2000 K.B. Lall Civil Service Delhi 2000 Kelucharan Mohapatra Arts Odisha 2000 Jasraj Motiram Arts Maharashtra 2000 M. Narasimham Trade & Industry Andhra Pradesh 2000 R.K. Narayan Literature & Education Tamil Nadu 2000 Bhairab Dutt Pande Civil Service Uttarakhand 2000 K.N. Raj Literature & Education Kerala 2000 Tarlok Singh Civil Service Delhi 2001 John Kenneth Galbraith Literature & Education -- 2001 Benjamin A. Gilman Public Affairs -- 2001 Amjad Ali Khan Arts Delhi 2001 Zubin Mehta Arts -- 2001 Hrishikesh Mukherjee Arts Maharashtra 2001 Kotha Satchidanda Murthy Literature & Education Andhra Pradesh 2001 Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan Civil Service Tamil Nadu 2001 Hosei Norota Public Affairs -- 2001 C.R. Rao Science & Engineering -- 2001 Man Mohan Sharma Science & Engineering Maharashtra 2001 Shivkumar Sharma Arts Maharashtra 2002 Kishori Amonkar Arts Maharashtra 2002 Gangubai Hangal Arts Karnataka 2002 Kishan Maharaj Arts Uttar Pradesh 2002 C. Rangarajan Literature & Education Andhra Pradesh 2002 Soli Sorabjee Public Affairs Delhi 2003 Kazi Lhendup Dorjee Public Affairs West Bengal 2003 Sonal Mansingh Arts Delhi 2003 Bal Ram Nanda Literature & Education Delhi 2003 Brihaspati Dev Triguna Medicine Delhi Jayant Narlikar Science & Engineering Maharashtra Amrita Pritam Literature & Education Delhi M.N. Venkatachaliah Public Affairs Karnataka 2005 Milon K. Banerji Public Affairs Delhi 2005 Mohan Dharia Social Work Maharashtra 2005 Jyotindra Nath Dixit # Civil Service Delhi 2005 B.K. Goyal Medicine Maharashtra 2005 R.K. Laxman Arts Maharashtra 2005 Ram Narayan Arts Maharashtra 2005 Karan Singh Public Affairs Delhi 2005 M.S. Valiathan Medicine Karnataka 2006 Norman Borlaug Science & Engineering -- 2006 Charles Correa Science & Engineering Maharashtra 2006 Nirmala Deshpande Social Work Delhi 2006 Mahasweta Devi Literature & Education West Bengal 2006 Adoor Gopalakrishnan Arts Kerala 2006 V.N. Khare Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh 2006 C.R. Krishnaswamy Rao Civil Service Tamil Nadu 2006 Obaid Siddiqi Science & Engineering Karnataka 2006 Prakash Narain Tandon Medicine Delhi 2007 P.N. Bhagwati Public Affairs Delhi 2007 Naresh Chandra Civil Service Delhi 2007 Raja Chelliah Public Affairs Tamil Nadu 2007 V. Krishnamurthy Civil Service Delhi 2007 Fali Sam Nariman Public Affairs Delhi 2007 Raja Rao # Literature & Education -- 2007 Balu Sankaran Medicine Delhi 2007 Khushwant Singh Literature & Education Delhi 2007 George Sudarshan Science & Engineering -- 2007 Narinder Nath Vohra Civil Service Haryana 2008 Adarsh Sein Anand Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh 2008 Viswanathan Anand Sports Tamil Nadu 2008 Asha Bhosle Arts Maharashtra 2008 P.N. Dhar Civil Service Delhi 2008 Edmund Hillary # Sports -- 2008 Lakshmi Mittal Trade & Industry -- 2008 Pranab Mukherjee Public Affairs Delhi 2008 N.R. Narayana Murthy Trade & Industry Karnataka 2008 Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi Trade & Industry Delhi 2008 Rajendra K. Pachauri Science & Engineering Delhi 2008 E. Sreedharan Science & Engineering Delhi 2008 Ratan Tata Trade & Industry Maharashtra 2008 Sachin Tendulkar Sports Maharashtra 2009 Sunderlal Bahuguna Others Uttarakhand 2009 Jasbir Singh Bajaj Medicine Punjab 2009 D.P. Chattopadhyaya Literature & Education West Bengal 2009 Ashok Sekhar Ganguly Trade & Industry Maharashtra 2009 Sister Nirmala Social Work West Bengal 2009 Anil Kakodkar Science & Engineering Maharashtra 2009 Purshotam Lal Medicine Uttar Pradesh 2009 G. Madhavan Nair Science & Engineering Karnataka 2009 Govind Narain Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh 2009 Chandrika Prasad Srivastava Civil Service Maharashtra Ebrahim Alkazi Arts Delhi Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Science & Engineering -- Prathap C. Reddy Trade & Industry Tamil Nadu Y. Venugopal Reddy Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh Zohra Sehgal Arts Delhi Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman Arts Tamil Nadu 2011 Montek Singh Ahluwalia Public Affairs Delhi 2011 Vijay Kelkar Public Affairs Maharashtra 2011 Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai Public Affairs Delhi 2011 O.N.V. Kurup Literature & Education Kerala 2011 Sitakant Mahapatra Literature & Education Odisha 2011 Brajesh Mishra Civil Service Delhi 2011 K. Parasaran Public Affairs Delhi 2011 Azim Premji Trade & Industry Karnataka 2011 Palle Rama Rao Science & Engineering Andhra Pradesh 2011 Akkineni Nageswara Rao Arts Andhra Pradesh 2011 Kapila Vatsyayan Arts Delhi 2011 Homai Vyarawalla Arts Gujarat 2012 Bhupen Hazarika # Arts Assam 2012 Mario Miranda # Arts Goa 2012 T.V. Rajeswar Civil Service Delhi 2012 Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti Medicine Maharashtra 2012 K.G. Subramanyan Arts Gujarat 2013 Raghunath Mohapatra Arts Odisha 2013 Roddam Narasimha Science & Engineering Karnataka 2013 Yash Pal Science & Engineering Uttar Pradesh 2013 S.H. Raza Arts Delhi 2014 B.K.S. Iyengar Others Maharashtra 2014 Raghunath Anant Mashelkar Science & Engineering Maharashtra 2015 L.K. Advani Public Affairs Gujarat 2015 Amitabh Bachchan Arts Maharashtra 2015 Parkash Singh Badal Public Affairs Punjab 2015 Veerendra Heggade Social Work Karnataka 2015 Dilip Kumar Arts Maharashtra 2015 Rambhadracharya Others Uttar Pradesh 2015 M.R. Srinivasan Science & Engineering Tamil Nadu 2015 Kottayan Katankot Venugopal Public Affairs Delhi 2015 Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan Trade & Industry -- 2016 V.K. Aatre Science & Engineering Karnataka 2016 Dhirubhai Ambani # Trade & Industry Maharashtra 2016 Girija Devi Arts West Bengal 2016 Avinash Dixit Literature & Education -- 2016 Jagmohan Public Affairs Delhi 2016 Yamini Krishnamurthy Arts Delhi 2016 Rajinikanth Arts Tamil Nadu 2016 Ramoji Rao Literature & Education Andhra Pradesh 2016 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Others Karnataka 2016 V. Shanta Medicine Tamil Nadu 2017 Murli Manohar Joshi Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh 2017 Sunder Lal Patwa # Public Affairs Madhya Pradesh 2017 Sharad Pawar Public Affairs Maharashtra 2017 Udupi Ramachandra Rao Science & Engineering Karnataka 2017 P.A. Sangma # Public Affairs Meghalaya 2017 Jaggi Vasudev Others Tamil Nadu 2017 K.J. Yesudas Arts Kerala 2018 Ilaiyaraaja Arts Tamil Nadu 2018 Ghulam Mustafa Khan Arts Maharashtra 2018 P. Parameswaran Literature & Education Kerala Explanatory notes Jump up ^ Per Article 18 ( 1 ) of the Constitution of India : Abolition of titles, `` no title, not being a military or academic distinction, shall be conferred by the State ''. Jump up ^ P.N. Haksar was offered the award in 1973 for, among other services, his crucial diplomatic role in brokering the Indo - Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation and the Shimla Agreement, but declined as `` Accepting an award for work done somehow causes an inexplicable discomfort to me. '' Jump up ^ Vilayat Khan refused Padma Shri ( 1964 ), Padma Bhushan ( 1968 ), and Padma Vibhushan ( 2000 ) and stated that `` the selection committees were incompetent to judge ( his ) music ''. Jump up ^ E.M.S. Namboodiripad, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India ( of the Communist Party of India ( Marxist ) from 1964 ) and the first Chief Minister of Kerala ( 1957 - 59, 1967 - 69 ), declined the award in 1992, as it went against his nature to accept a state honour. Jump up ^ Swami Ranganathananda declined the award in 2000 as it was conferred to him as an individual and not to the Ramakrishna Mission. Jump up ^ Lakshmi Chand Jain died on 14 November 2010, at the age of 84. His family refused to accept the posthumous honour as Jain was against accepting state honours. Jump up ^ Sharad Anantrao Joshi 's family refused to accept the posthumous honour as Joshi 's work for good of farmers is not reflected in the Government policies for them. ^ Jump up to : In 1991, Baba Amte returned the award, along with the Padma Shri conferred in 1971, to protest against the treatment given to the tribals during the construction of Sardar Sarovar Dam. Jump up ^ Khushwant Singh was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third - highest civilian award, in 1974 ; he returned the award in 1984 in protest against Operation Blue Star led by the Indian Army. Jump up ^ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar declined the award in 2015 and requested that `` someone else should be given the honour ''. Non-citizen recipients Jump up ^ Indicates a citizen of Bhutan ^ Jump up to : Indicates a citizen of the United States ^ Jump up to : Indicates a citizen of the United Kingdom Jump up ^ Indicates a citizen of South Africa Jump up ^ Indicates a citizen of Japan Jump up ^ Indicates a citizen of New Zealand Jump up ^ Indicates a citizen of France Posthumous recipients Jump up ^ Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq died on 12 December 1971, at the age of 59. Jump up ^ Vikram Sarabhai died on 30 December 1971, at the age of 52. Jump up ^ Lallan Prasad Singh died on 9 November 1998, at the age of 86. Jump up ^ Jyotindra Nath Dixit died on 3 January 2005, at the age of 68. 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Question: who has been awarded padma vibhushan in 2018
Answer: Ilaiyaraaja