India’s first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, who died in a helicopter crash last month, and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, late Kalyan Singh are among the four people who will receive the Padma Vibhushan, the Centre announced on Tuesday. The Padma Vibhushan is the second-highest civilian award in India after the Bharat Ratna.

Rawat will get the award for his work in the field of civil service while Singh will receive it for his contribution to public affairs. The other two awardees are vocalist Prabha Atre for Art and Radheyshyam Khemka, the editor of Gita Press Trust’s monthly magazine, for literature.

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Besides these, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri Awards were announced.

Founders of Bharat Biotech Krishna Ella and his wife Suchitra Ella, Managing Director of the Serum Institute of India Cyrus S Poonawalla, Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and actor Victor Banerjee are among those who were awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award in the country.

Executive chairperson of Microsoft Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer of Google’s parent company Alphabet Sundar Pichai and food and travel writer Madhur Jaffery will also get the Padma Bhushan.

Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra, owner of HMI Hotel Group Ryuko Hira, Ladakh MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, singer Sonu Nigam, footballer Brahmanand Sankhwalkar, yoga guru Sivananda, among others will be the recipient of the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian award.

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The awards are given each year to civilians for their services in the fields.

President Ram Nath Kovind confers the awards at ceremonial functions held at the Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March or April. This year 34 of the awardees are women.

The list also includes 10 persons who are either foreigners, Non-resident Indian, person of Indian origin or Overseas Citizen Of India and and 13 posthumous awardees.

Full list of recipients

Padma Vibhushan

  1. Prabha Atre  
  2. Radheyshyam Khemka (Posthumous)
  3. General Bipin Rawat (Posthumous)
  4. Shri Kalyan Singh (Posthumous)

Padma Bhushan

  1. Ghulam Nabi Azad
  2. Victor Banerjee
  3. Gurmeet Bawa (Posthumous)
  4. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
  5. Natarajan Chandrasekaran
  6. Krishna Ella and Suchitra Ella
  7. Madhur Jaffery
  8. Devendra Jhajharia
  9. Rashid Khan
  10. Rajiv Mehrishi
  11. Satya Narayana Nadella
  12. Sundararajan Pichai
  13. Cyrus Poonawalla
  14. Sanjaya Rajaram (Posthumous)
  15. Pratibha Ray
  16. Swami Sachidanand
  17. Vashishth Tripathi

Padma Shri

  1. Prahlad Rai Agarwala
  2. Najma Akhtar
  3. Sumit Antil
  4. T Senka Ao
  5. Kamalini Asthana and Nalini Asthana
  6. Subbanna Ayyappan
  7. JK Bajaj
  8. Sirpi Balasubramaniam
  9. Srimad Baba Balia
  10. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
  11. Madhuri Barthwal
  12. Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat
  13. Himmatrao Bawaskar
  14. Harmohinder Singh Bedi
  15. Pramod Bhagat
  16. S Ballesh Bhajantri
  17. Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia
  18. Maria Christopher Byrski
  19. Acharya Chandanaji
  20. Sulochana Chavan
  21. Neeraj Chopra
  22. Shakuntala Choudhary
  23. Sankaranarayana Menon Chundayil
  24. S Damodaran
  25. Faisal Ali Dar
  26. Jagjit Singh Dardi
  27. Prokar Dasgupta
  28. Aditya Prasad Dash
  29. Lata Desai
  30. Malji bhai Desai
  31. Basanti Devi
  32. Lourembam Bino Devi
  33. Muktamani Devi
  34. Shyamamani Devi
  35. Khalil Dhantejvi (Posthumous)
  36. Savaji Bhai Dholakia
  37. Arjun Singh Dhurve
  38. Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre
  39. Chandraprakash Dwivedi
  40. Dhaneswar Engti
  41. Om Prakash Gandhi
  42. Narasimha Rao Garikapati
  43. Girdhari Ram Ghonju (Posthumous)
  44. Shaibal Gupta (Posthumous)
  45. Narasingha Prasad Guru
  46. Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan (Posthumous)
  47. Ryuko Hira
  48. Sosamma Iype
  49. Avadh Kishore Jadia
  50. Sowcar Janaki
  51. Tara Jauhar
  52. Vandana Kataria
  53. HR Keshavamurthy
  54. Rutger Kortenhorst
  55. P Narayana Kurup
  56. Avani Lekhara
  57. Moti Lal Madan
  58. Shivnath Mishra
  59. Narendra Prasad Misra (Posthumous)
  60. Darshanam Mogilaiah
  61. Guruprasad Mohapatra (Posthumous)
  62. Thavil Kongampattu A V Murugaiyan
  63. R Muthukannammal
  64. Abdul Khader Nadakattin
  65. Amai Mahalinga Naik
  66. Tsering Namgyal
  67. AKC Natarajan
  68. VL Nghaka
  69. Sonu Nigam
  70. Ram Sahay Panday
  71. Chirapat Prapandavidya
  72. KV Rabiya
  73. Anil Kumar Rajvanshi
  74. Sheesh Ram
  75. Ramachandraiah
  76. Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao
  77. Gamit Ramilaben Raysingbhai
  78. Padmaja Reddy
  79. Guru Tulku Rinpoche
  80. Brahmanand Sankhwalkar
  81. Vidyanand Sarek
  82. Kali Pada Saren
  83. Veeraswamy Seshiah
  84. Prabhaben Shah
  85. Dilip Shahani
  86. Ram Dayal Sharma
  87. Vishwamurti Shastri
  88. Tatiana Lvovna Shaumyan
  89. Siddhalingaiah (Posthumous)
  90. Kaajee Singh
  91. Konsam Ibomcha Singh
  92. Prem Singh
  93. Seth Pal Singh
  94. Vidya Vindu Singh
  95. Baba Iqbal Singh
  96. Bhimsen Singhal
  97. Sivananda
  98. Ajay Kumar Sonkar
  99. Ajita Srivastava
  100. Brahmeshanand Acharya Swami
  101. Balaji Tambe (Posthumous)
  102. Raghuvendra Tanwar
  103. Kamlakar Tripathi
  104. Lalita Vakil
  105. Durga Bai Vyam
  106. Jyantkumar Maganlal Vyas
  107. Badaplin War