Padma Vibhushan
The Padma Vibhushan is the second-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, second only to the Bharat Ratna. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "exceptional and distinguished service", without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex.
Padma Vibhushan People (First 49 people) - Page 0
Sachin Tendulkar
Former Member of Rajya Sabha
Ravi Shankar
Indian writer
Satyajit Ray
Indian director
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Indian businessman
John Kenneth Galbraith
Canadian-American economist
Amitabh Bachchan
Former Member of the Lok Sabha
Rajinikanth
Indian actor
Edmund Hillary
New Zealand mountaineer
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Former President of India
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Former Prime Minister of India
Zubin Mehta
Indian conductor
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
British-American structural biologist
R. K. Narayan
Indian writer
Jayant Narlikar
Indian astrophysicist
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Indian film director
Manmohan Singh
Indian film director
Khushwant Singh
Indian author
Kamala Devi
Actress
O. N. V. Kurup
Poet
Bhimsen Joshi
Indian vocalist
Bismillah Khan
Indian musician
Dilip Kumar
Indian actor
Mahasweta Devi
Indian writer
Pranab Mukherjee
Former President of India
Gulzarilal Nanda
Former Acting Prime Minister of India
Uday Shankar
Indian film director
Kishan Maharaj
Musical artist
Amjad Ali Khan
Former Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
Jasraj
Indian vocalist
Lata Mangeshkar
Indian playback singer
Asha Bhosle
Indian playback singer
Amrita Pritam
Indian novelist
Naval Tata
Industrialist
J. R. D. Tata
Indian aviator
Rajendra K. Pachauri
Environmentalist
Raja Rao
Indian writer
R. K. Laxman
Indian cartoonist
M. Balamuralikrishna
Indian vocalist
Vikram Sarabhai
Indian physicist
Anil Kakodkar
Indian physicist
C. N. R. Rao
Indian chemist
Kuvempu
Indian poet
Viswanathan Anand
Indian chess grandmaster
Aruna Asaf Ali
Indian educator
Girija Devi
Indian singer
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
Indian activist
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Indian film director
