January 26, 2023 / 17:17 IST
The Padma Awards 2023, which were announced on January 25, saw eminent businessmen including Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla and veteran market investor and billionaire the late Rakesh Jhunjhunwala among the winners. Sudha Murty, noted social worker and wife of Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy, and the late Areez Khambatta, founder of the Rasna Group, were also among the winners at the Padma Awards.
The Padma Awards are given in various disciplines and fields of activities like art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service. 'Padma Vibhushan' is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; 'Padma Bhushan' for distinguished service of high order and 'Padma Shri' for distinguished service in any field. The list comprises 6 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan and 91 Padma Shri Awards. 19 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 2 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 7 Posthumous awardees.
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Here is the full list of Padma Awards 2023 winners:
Padma Vibhushan
- Balkrishna Doshi (Posthumous)
- Zakir Hussain
- SM Krishna
- Dilip Mahalanabis (Posthumous)
- Srinivas Varadhan
- Mulayam Singh Yadav (Posthumous)
Padma Bhushan- SL Bhyrappa
- Kumar Mangalam Birla
- Deepak Dhar
- Vani Jairam
- Swami Chinna Jeeyar
- Suman Kalyanpur
- Kapil Kapoor
- Sudha Murty
- Kamlesh D Patel
Padma Shri- Dr. Sukama Acharya
- Jodhaiyabai Baiga
- Premjit Baria
- Usha Barle
- Munishwar Chanddawar
- Hemant Chauhan
- Bhanubhai Chitara
- Hemoprova Chutia
- Narendra Chandra Debbarma (Posthumous)
- Subhadra Devi
- Khadar Valli Dudekula
- Pritikana Goswami
- Radha Charan Gupta
- Modadugu Vijay Gupta
- Ahmed Hussain & Shri Mohd Hussain *(Duo)
- Dilshad Hussain
- Bhiku Ramji Idate
- CI Issac
- Rattan Singh Jaggi
- Bikram Bahadur Jamatia
- Shri Ramkuiwangbe Jene
- Rakesh Radheshyam Jhunjhunwala (Posthumous)
- Ratan Chandra Kar
- Mahipat Kavi
- MM Keeravaani
- Areez Khambatta (Posthumous)
- Parshuram Komaji Khune
- Ganesh Nagappa Krishnarajanagara
- Maguni Charan Kuanr
- Anand Kumar
- Arvind Kumar
- Domar Singh Kunvar
- Risingbor Kurkalang
- Hirabai Lobi
- Moolchand Lodha
- Rani Machaiah
- Ajay Kumar Mandavi
- Prabhakar Bhanudas Mande
- Gajanan Jagannath Mane
- Antaryami Mishra
- Nadoja Pindipapanahalli Munivenkatappa
- Prof. (Dr.) Mahendra Pal
- Uma Shankar Pandey
- Ramesh Parmar & Ms. Shanti Parmar (Duo)
- Dr. Nalini Parthasarathi
- Hanumantha Rao Pasupuleti
- Ramesh Patange
- Krishna Patel
- K Kalyanasundaram Pillai
- VP Appukuttan Poduval
- Kapil Dev Prasad
- SRD Prasad
- Shah Rasheed Ahmed Quadri
- CV Raju
- Bakshi Ram
- Cheruvayal K Raman
- Sujatha Ramdorai
- Abbareddy Nageswara Rao
- Pareshbhai Rathwa
- B Ramakrishna Reddy
- Mangala Kanti Roy
- KC Runremsangi
- Vadivel Gopal & Shri Masi Sadaiyan *(Duo)
- Manoranjan Sahu
- Patayat Sahu
- Ritwik Sanyal
- Kota Satchidananda Sastry
- Sankurathri Chandra Sekhar
- K Shanathoiba Sharma
- Nekram Sharma
- Gurcharan Singh
- Laxman Singh
- Mohan Singh
- Thounaojam Chaoba Singh
- Prakash Chandra Sood
- Neihunuo Sorhie
- Dr. Janum Singh Soy
- Kushok Thiksey Nawang Chamba Stanzin
- S Subbaraman
- Moa Subong
- Palam Kalyana Sundaram
- Raveena Ravi Tandon
- Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari
- Dhaniram Toto
- Tula Ram Upreti
- Dr. Gopalsamy Veluchamy
- Dr. Ishwar Chander Verma
- Coomi Nariman Wadia
- Karma Wangchu (Posthumous)
- Ghulam Muhammad Zaz
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