Padma Awards 2018 Announced: Full List Of Recipients
The President Ram Nath Kovind has approved the awards for 85 individuals, which includes 3 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan and 73 Padma Shri.
- Fourteen of the awardees are women and 3 persons have been awarded posthumously.
- In sports personalities, former India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and multiple world champion cueist Pankaj Advani have been conferred with the third-highest civilian award, Padma Bhushan.
- The 2017 World Weightlifting Champion Saikhom Mirabai Chanu and former Asian Games gold medallist tennis player Somdev Devvarman have been conferred with the Padma Shri.
- The awards are announced on the eve of the Republic Day every year.
Padma Vibhushan (2nd highest civilian award):
| Winner | Field | State | |
| 1 | Ilayaraja | Art (Music) | Tamil Nadu |
| 2 | Ghulam Mustafa Khan | Art (Music) | Maharashtra |
| 3 | Parameswaran Parameswaran | Literature & Education |
Kerala |
Padma Bhushan (3rd highest civilian award):
| Winner | Field | State | |
| 1 | Pankaj Advani | Sport (Billiards /Snooker) |
Karnataka |
| 2 | Mahendra Singh Dhoni | Sports (Cricket) | Jharkhand |
| 3 | Alexander Kadakin (Foreigner/Posthumous) | Public Affairs | Russia |
| 4 | Ved Prakash Nanda | Literature and Education |
US |
| 5 | Laxman Pai | Art (Painting) | Goa |
| 6 | Arvind Parikh | Art (Painting) | Maharashtra |
| 7 | Sharda Sinha | Art (Painting) | Bihar |
| 8 | Philipose Mar Chrysostom | Others (Spiritualism) | Kerala |
| 9 | Ramachandran Nagaswamy | Others (Archaeology) | Tamilnadu |
Padma Shri(3rd highest civilian award) : It is awarded for distinguished service of high order.
| Name | Field | State | |
| 1 | Shri Abhay Bang (Duo) | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 2 | Ms. Rani Bang (Duo) | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 3 | Shri Damodar Ganesh Bapat | Social Work | Chhattisgarh |
| 4 | Shri Prafulla Govinda Baruah |
Literature and Education-Journalism |
Assam |
| 5 | Shri Mohan Swaroop Bhatia | Art-Folk Music | Uttar Pradesh |
| 6 | Shri Sudhanshu Biswas | Social Work | West Bengal |
| 7 | Ms. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu | Sports-Weightlifting | Manipur |
| 8 | Shri Pandit Shyamlal Chaturvedi |
Literature and Education-Journalism |
Chhattisgarh |
| 9 | Shri Jose Ma Joey Concepcion III (Foreigner) |
Trade & Industry | Philippines |
| 10 | Ms. Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi |
Art-Weaving | Manipur |
| 11 | Shri Somdev Devvarman | Sports-Tennis | Tripura |
| 12 | Shri Yeshi Dhoden | Medicine | Himachal Pradesh |
| 13 | Shri Arup Kumar Dutta | Literature and Education |
Assam |
| 14 | Shri Doddarange Gowda | Art-Lyrics | Karnataka |
| 15 | Shri Arvind Gupta | Literature and Education |
Maharashtra |
| 16 | Shri Digamber Hansda | Literature and Education |
Jharkhand |
| 17 | Shri Ramli Bin Ibrahim (Foreigner) |
Art-Dance | Malaysia |
| 18 | Shri Anwar Jalalpuri (Posthumous) |
Literature and Education |
Uttar Pradesh |
| 19 | Shri Piyong Temjen Jamir | Literature and Education |
Nagaland |
| 20 | Ms. Sitavva Joddati | Social Work | Karnataka |
| 21 | Ms. Malti Joshi | Literature and Education |
Madhya Pradesh |
| 22 | Shri Manoj Joshi | Art-Acting | Maharashtra |
| 23 | Shri Rameshwarlal Kabra | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 24 | Shri Pran Kishore Kaul | Art | Jammu and Kashmir |
| 25 | Shri Bounlap Keokangna (Foreigner) |
Others-Architecture | Laos |
| 26 | Shri Vijay Kichlu | Art-Music | West Bengal |
| 27 | Shri Tommy Koh (Foreigner) |
Public Affairs | Singapore |
| 28 | Ms. Lakshmikutty | Medicine-Traditional | Kerala |
| 29 | Ms. Joyshree Goswami Mahanta |
Literature and Education |
Assam |
| 30 | Shri Narayan Das Maharaj | Others-Spiritualism | Rajasthan |
| 31 | Shri Pravakara Maharana | Art-Sculpture | Odisha |
| 32 | Shri Hun Many (Foreigner) |
Public Affairs | Cambodia |
| 33 | Ms. Nouf Marwaai (Foreigner) |
Others- Yoga | Saudi Arabia |
| 34 | Shri Zaverilal Mehta | Literature and Education- Journalism |
Gujarat |
| 35 | Shri Krishna Bihari Mishra | Literature and Education | West Bengal |
| 36 | Shri Sisir Purushottam Mishra | Art-Cinema | Maharashtra |
| 37 | Ms. Subhasini Mistry | Social Work | West Bengal |
| 38 | Shri Tomio Mizokami (Foreigner) |
Literature and Education | Japan |
| 39 | Shri Somdet Phra Maha Muniwong (Foreigner) |
Others-Spiritualism | Thailand |
| 40 | Shri Keshav Rao Musalgaonkar |
Literature and Education | Madhya Pradesh |
| 41 | Dr Thant Myint – U (Foreigner) |
Public Affairs | Myanmar |
| 42 | Ms. V Nanammal | Others-Yoga | Tamil Nadu |
| 43 | Ms. Sulagitti Narasamma | Social Work | Karnataka |
| 44 | Ms. Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan |
Art-Folk Music | Tamil Nadu |
| 45 | Shri I Nyoman Nuarta (Foreigner) |
Art- Sculpture | Indonesia |
| 46 | Shri Malai Haji Abdullah Bin Malai Haji Othman (Foreigner) |
Social Work | Brunei Darussalam |
| 47 | Shri Gobaradhan Panika | Art-Weaving | Odisha |
| 48 | Shri Bhabani Charan Pattanaik |
Public Affairs | Odisha |
| 49 | Shri Murlikant Petkar | Sports-Swimming | Maharashtra |
| 50 | Shri Habibullo Rajabov (Foreigner) |
Literature and Education | Tajikistan |
| 51 | Shri M R Rajagopal | Medicine-Palliative Care | Kerala |
| 52 | Shri Sampat Ramteke (Posthumous) |
Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 53 | Shri Chandra Sekhar Rath | Literature and Education | Odisha |
| 54 | Shri S S Rathore | Civil Service | Gujarat |
| 55 | Shri Amitava Roy | Science and Engineering | West Bengal |
| 56 | Shri Sanduk Ruit (Foreigner) |
Medicine-Ophthalmology | Nepal |
| 57 | Shri R Sathyanarayana | Art-Music | Karnataka |
| 58 | Shri Pankaj M Shah | Medicine-Oncology | Gujarat |
| 59 | Shri Bhajju Shyam | Art-Painting | Madhya Pradesh |
| 60 | Shri Maharao Raghuveer Singh |
Literature and Education | Rajasthan |
| 61 | Shri Kidambi Srikanth | Sports-Badminton | Andhra Pradesh |
| 62 | Shri Ibrahim Sutar | Art-Music | Karnataka |
| 63 | Shri Siddeshwara Swamiji | Others-Spiritualism | Karnataka |
| 64 | Ms. Lentina Ao Thakkar | Social Work | Nagaland |
| 65 | Shri Vikram Chandra Thakur | Science and Engineering | Uttarakhand |
| 66 | Shri Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Tharanathan (Duo) |
Art-Music | Karnataka |
| 67 | Shri Nguyen Tien Thien (Foreigner) |
Others-Spiritualism | Vietnam |
| 68 | Shri Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 69 | Shri Rajagopalan Vasudevan | Science and Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| 70 | Shri Manas Bihari Verma | Science and Engineering | Bihar |
| 71 | Shri Panatawane Gangadhar Vithobaji |
Literature and Education | Maharashtra |
| 72 | Shri Romulus Whitaker | Others-Wildlife Conservation |
Tamil Nadu |
| 73 | Shri Baba Yogendra | Art | Madhya Pradesh |
| 74 | Shri A Zakia | Literature and Education | Mizoram |
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