# List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2020–2029)

The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award of the Republic of India. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service of a high order", without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex. The recipients receive a Sanad, a certificate signed by the President of India and a circular-shaped medallion with no monetary association. The recipients are announced every year on Republic Day (26 January) and registered in The Gazette of India—a publication used for official government notices and released weekly by the Department of Publication, under the Ministry of Urban Development. The conferral of the award is not considered official without its publication in the Gazette. The name of a recipient, whose award has been revoked or restored, both of which require the authority of the President, is archived and they are required to surrender their medal when their name is struck from the register. As of 2019, none of the conferments of Padma Bhushan during 2010s have been revoked or restored. The recommendations are received from all the state and the union territory governments, as well as from Ministries of the Government of India, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan awardees, the Institutes of Excellence, the Ministers, the Chief Ministers and the Governors of State, and the Members of Parliament including private individuals.
When instituted in 1954, the Padma Bhushan was classified as "Dusra Warg" (Class II) under the three-tier Padma Vibhushan awards, which were preceded by the Bharat Ratna in hierarchy. On 15 January 1955, the Padma Vibhushan was reclassified into three different awards as the Padma Vibhushan, the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Shri. The criteria included "distinguished service of a high order in any field including service rendered by Government servants", but excluded those working with the public sector undertakings with the exception of doctors and scientists. The 1954 statutes did not allow posthumous awards; this was subsequently modified in the January 1955 statute. The design was also changed to the form that is currently in use; it portrays a circular-shaped toned bronze medallion 1+3⁄4 inches (44 mm) in diameter and 1⁄8 inch (3.2 mm) thick. The centrally placed pattern made of outer lines of a square of 1+3⁄16 inches (30 mm) side is embossed with a knob carved within each of the outer angles of the pattern. A raised circular space of diameter 1+1⁄16 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" is placed above and the text "Bhushan" is placed below the lotus written in Devanagari script. The State Emblem of India is displayed in the centre of the reverse side, together with the national motto of India, "Satyameva Jayate" (Truth alone triumphs) in Devanagari script, which is inscribed on the lower edge. The rim, the edges and all embossing on either side is of standard gold with the text "Padma Bhushan" of gold gilt. The medal is suspended by a pink riband 1+1⁄4 inches (32 mm) in width with a broad white stripe in the middle. It is ranked fifth in the order of precedence of wearing of medals and decorations of the Indian civilian and military awards.
As of 2023, a total of 51 individuals have been conferred with the award and have been conferred upon six foreign recipients – one from Bangladesh and Mexico each and six from the United States of America. Individuals from ten different fields were awarded, which includes one from medical field, two civil servants, sportspersons and from Science & Engineering field each, three from social work, seven artists, eight from literature and education, nine from trade and industry, eleven from public affairs, and six from other fields. Most recently on 25 January 2025, the award has been bestowed upon nineteen recipients.

## Recipients

* 2020
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024
* 2025
Key :
| + Naturalised citizen recipient | * Non-citizen recipient | # Posthumous recipient |
List of Padma Bhushan award recipients, showing the year, field, and state/country :
| Year | Recipient | Field | Country / State |
| 2020 | Sri M | Others | Kerala |
| 2020 | Syed Muazzem Ali*# | Public Affairs | Bangladesh |
| 2020 | Muzaffar Hussain Baig | Public Affairs | Jammu and Kashmir |
| 2020 | Ajoy Chakrabarty | Arts | West Bengal |
| 2020 | Manoj Das | Literature & Education | Puducherry |
| 2020 | Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi | Others | Gujarat |
| 2020 | Krishnammal Jagannathan | Social Work | Tamil Nadu |
| 2020 | S. C. Jamir | Public Affairs | Nagaland |
| 2020 | Anil Prakash Joshi | Social Work | Uttarakhand |
| 2020 | Tsering Landol | Medicine | Ladakh |
| 2020 | Anand Mahindra | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 2020 | N. R. Madhava Menon# | Public Affairs | Kerala |
| 2020 | Manohar Parrikar# | Public Affairs | Goa |
| 2020 | Jagdish Sheth* | Literature & Education | United States |
| 2020 | P. V. Sindhu | Sports | Telangana |
| 2020 | Venu Srinivasan | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 2020 | Sumitra Mahajan | Public Affairs | Madhya Pradesh |
| 2021 | K. S. Chithra | Arts | Kerala |
| 2021 | Tarun Gogoi# | Public Affairs | Assam |
| 2021 | Chandrashekhara Kambara | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 2021 | Nripendra Misra | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh |
| 2021 | Ram Vilas Paswan# | Public Affairs | Bihar |
| 2021 | Keshubhai Patel# | Public Affairs | Gujarat |
| 2021 | Kalbe Sadiq# | Others | Uttar Pradesh |
| 2021 | Rajnikant Shroff | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 2021 | Tarlochan Singh | Public Affairs | Haryana |
| 2022 | Ghulam Nabi Azad | Public Affairs | Jammu and Kashmir |
| 2022 | Gurmeet Bawa# | Arts | Punjab |
| 2022 | Natarajan Chandrasekaran | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 2022 | Madhur Jaffrey* | Others | United States |
| 2022 | Devendra Jhajharia | Sports | Rajasthan |
| 2022 | Rashid Khan | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| 2022 | Rajiv Mehrishi | Civil Service | Rajasthan |
| 2022 | Satya Nadella* | Trade & Industry | United States |
| 2022 | Sundar Pichai* | Trade & Industry | United States |
| 2022 | Cyrus S. Poonawalla | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 2022 | Sanjaya Rajaram*# | Science & Engineering | Mexico |
| 2022 | Pratibha Ray | Literature & Education | Odisha |
| 2022 | Swami Sachchidanand | Literature & Education | Gujarat |
| 2022 | Vashishth Tripathi | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 2022 | Krishna Ella | Trade & Industry | Telangana |
| 2022 | Suchitra Ella | Trade & Industry | Telangana |
| 2022 | Victor Banerjee | Arts | West Bengal |
| 2023 | S. L. Bhyrappa | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 2023 | Kumar Mangalam Birla | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 2023 | Deepak Dhar | Science & Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 2023 | Vani Jairam | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 2023 | Chinna Jeeyar | Others | Telangana |
| 2023 | Suman Kalyanpur | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 2023 | Kapil Kapoor | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 2023 | Sudha Murthy | Social Work | Karnataka |
| 2023 | Kamlesh Patel | Others | Telangana |
| 2024 | Fathima Beevi# | Public Affairs | Kerala |
| 2024 | Hormusji N. Cama | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 2024 | Mithun Chakraborty | Arts | West Bengal |
| 2024 | Sitaram Jindal | Trade & Industry | Karnataka |
| 2024 | Young Liu* | Trade & Industry | Taiwan |
| 2024 | Ashwin Balachand Mehta | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 2024 | Satyabrata Mookherjee# | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
| 2024 | Ram Naik | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 2024 | Tejas Patel | Medicine | Gujarat |
| 2024 | O. Rajagopal | Public Affairs | Kerala |
| 2024 | Rajdutt | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 2024 | Togdan Rinpoche# | Others | Ladakh |
| 2024 | Pyarelal Sharma | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 2024 | C. P. Thakur | Medicine | Bihar |
| 2024 | Usha Uthup | Arts | West Bengal |
| 2024 | Vijayakant# | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 2024 | Kundan Vyas | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 2025 | A. Surya Prakash | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 2025 | Anant Nag | Arts | Karnataka |
| 2025 | Bibek Debroy# | Literature & Education | Delhi |
| 2025 | Jatin Goswami | Arts | Assam |
| 2025 | Jose Chacko Periappuram | Medicine | Kerala |
| 2025 | Kailash Nath Dikshit | Others | Delhi |
| 2025 | Manohar Joshi# | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 2025 | Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti | Trade & Industry | Tamil Nadu |
| 2025 | Nandamuri Balakrishna | Arts | Andhra Pradesh |
| 2025 | P. R. Sreejesh | Sports | Kerala |
| 2025 | Pankaj Patel | Trade & Industry | Gujarat |
| 2025 | Pankaj Udhas# | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 2025 | Ram Bahadur Rai | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 2025 | Sadhvi Rithambara | Social Work | Uttar Pradesh |
| 2025 | Ajith Kumar | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 2025 | Shekhar Kapur | Arts | Maharashtra |
| 2025 | Shobana | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| 2025 | Sushil Kumar Modi# | Public Affairs | Bihar |
| 2025 | Vinod Dham* | Science & Engineering | United States |

## Explanatory notes

* ↑ The order of precedence is: Bharat Ratna, Param Vir Chakra, Ashoka Chakra, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan.

### Posthumous recipients

* ↑ Syed Muazzem Ali died on 30 December 2019, at the age of 75.
* ↑ N. R. Madhava Menon died on 8 May 2019, at the age of 84.
* ↑ Manohar Parrikar died on 17 March 2019, at the age of 63.
* ↑ Tarun Gogoi died on 23 November 2020, at the age of 84.
* ↑ Ram Vilas Paswan died on 8 October 2020, at the age of 74.
* ↑ Keshubhai Patel died on 29 October 2020, at the age of 90.
* ↑ Kalbe Sadiq died on 24 November 2020, at the age of 82.
* ↑ Gurmeet Bawa died on 21 November 2021, at the age of 77.
* ↑ Sanjaya Rajaram died on 17 February 2021, at the age of 78.
* ↑ Fathima Beevi died on 23 November 2023, at the age of 96.
* ↑ Satyabrata Mookherjee died on 3 March 2023, at the age of 90.
* ↑ Togdan Rinpoche died on 24 May 2023, at the age of 85.
* ↑ Vijayakant died on 28 December 2023, at the age of 71.
* ↑ Bibek Debroy died on 1 November 2024, at the age of 69.
* ↑ Manohar Joshi died on 23 February 2024, at the age of 86.
* ↑ Pankaj Udhas died on 26 February 2024, at the age of 72.
* ↑ Sushil Kumar Modi died on 13 May 2024, at the age of 72.