Padma Bhushan
The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service of a high order. . . without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex. "
Padma Bhushan People (First 49 people) - Page 7
Coluthur Gopalan
Indian nutritionist
Arcot Ramachandran
Indian scientist
Herbert Fischer
German diplomat
Jaiveer Agarwal
Indian ophthalmologist
Alice Boner
Swiss painter
Thayil John Cherian
Surgeon
Abdul Karim Parekh
Indian social worker
Nuruddin Ahmed
Indian lawyer
Triloki Nath Khoshoo
Indian environmental scientist
MS Dhoni
Indian cricketer
Ismail Merchant
Indian film producer
Kamal Haasan
Indian actor
Vilayat Khan
Indian composer
Arvind Panagariya
Indian economist
Kumar Mangalam Birla
Chancellor of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Jagdish Sheth
Professor
Vikram Pandit
American banker
Muthulakshmi Reddy
Indian medical practitioner
John T. Chambers
Former executive
Mohanlal
Indian actor
Cyrus S. Poonawalla
Managing Director of the Serum Institute of India
Robert Blackwill
Former Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of India
T. S. Soundram
T. V. Sundaram Iyengar's daughter
O. V. Vijayan
Indian author
Balamani Amma
Indian poet
Vallathol Narayana Menon
Poet
Bipan Chandra
Indian historian
Yoshirō Mori
Former Prime Minister of Japan
C. K. Prahalad
Indian-American entrepreneur
Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa
Former Member of Rajya Sabha
Dhyan Chand
Indian field hockey player
Victor Banerjee
Indian actor
Rashid Khan
Indian actor
L. Subramaniam
Indian Violinist
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
Instrumentalist
Krishna Ella
Chairperson of Bharat Biotech International
Bhisham Sahni
Writer
Maithili Sharan Gupt
Poet
Inderjit Kaur Barthakur
Indian civil servant
K. V. Kamath
Banking executive
Shekhar Gupta
Indian journalist
S. Janaki
Indian playback singer
Sumitra Mahajan
Member of the Lok Sabha
Begum Aizaz Rasul
Former Member of the Constituent Assembly of India
Kaushik Basu
Former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India
Pullela Gopichand
Indian badminton player
Andre Beteille
Indian sociologist
