Il Padma Bhushan (in hindī पद्म भूषण, Ordine del loto) è la terza più alta onorificenza civile della Repubblica indiana dopo il Bharat Ratna e il Padma Vibhushan (prima del Padma Shri). Viene conferito tutti gli anni dal 1954 dal presidente della repubblica in occasione del Giorno della Repubblica, il 26 gennaio per meriti scientifici, politici, culturali che abbiano portato prestigio alla nazione indiana. Al settembre 2018 sono state assegnate 1.241 medaglie.

Premiati (selezione) 1954: Homi Jehangir Bhabha, Husain Ahmad Madani, M. S. Subbulakshmi 1956: Rukmini Devi Arundale, Dhyan Chand, Mahadevi Varma 1958: K. P. S. Menon, Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia, A. C. Narayanan Nambiar, Rustom Jal Vakil 1959: Ali Yavar Jung, Tenzing Norgay, Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar 1960: Kazi Nazrul Islam, Vithalrao Nagesh Shirodkar 1961: K. Venkataraman 1963: T. R. Seshadri 1964: R. K. Narayan, Mohammed Abdullah 1965: Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, Satyajit Ray 1966: Zubin Mehta, Vikram Sarabhai, Homi Nusserwanji Sethna 1967: Mulk Raj Anand, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan 1968: C. R. Rao, M. C. Modi, Sam Manekshaw, Bismillah Khan, Waman Bapuji Metre 1969: Prithviraj Kapoor, Lata Mangeshkar, Raja Rao 1970: Buddhadeva Bose, Sombhu Mitra, Ahmed Jan Thirakwa, M. S. Krishnan 1971: Raj Kapoor, D. K. Pattammal, Gangubai Hangal 1972: Jagjit Singh Aurora, M. S. Swaminathan, Birendra Nath Sircar, Chandrika Prasad Srivastava 1973: Maqbul Fida Husain, Raja Ramanna 1974: Alice Boner, Khushwant Singh 1975: Asima Chatterjee 1976: Harish-Chandra 1980: Sunil Gavaskar 1981: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Mrinal Sen 1982: S. Balachander 1983: Richard Attenborough, Rajkumar, Swraj Paul, K. G. Ramanathan, Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala 1984: Michael Ferreira, Sivaji Ganesan, Ishwari Prasad, Kanwar Natwar Singh, Vijay Tendulkar 1985: Gurbachan Singh Talib 1986: Sidney Dillon Ripley, Ela Bhatt 1987: Man Mohan Sharma, Nikhil Banerjee 1988: Kushok Bakula, A. Nageswara Rao 1989: Fenner Brockway, Girija Devi 1990: M. S. Narasimhan 1991: Ebrahim Alkazi, Dilip Kumar, Ram Narayan, Kapil Dev, Shyam Benegal 1992: Hariprasad Chaurasia, Anna Hazare, Naushad Ali 1998: U. R. Ananthamurthy, Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar, G. Madhavan Nair 1999: Ashok Kumar 2000: Ratan Tata, Rajinikanth, Braj Basi Lal 2001: Dev Anand, Viswanathan Anand, Amitabh Bachchan, Baldev Raj Chopra, Bhupen Hazarika, Rajendra Pachauri, Raj Reddy, L. Subramaniam 2002: Gary Ackerman, Anil Agarwal, Kumar Bhattacharyya, Shobha Gurtu, Zakir Hussain, B. K. S. Iyengar, Ismail Merchant, Frank Pallone, Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra, Nirmal Verma, Zohra Segal 2003: Herbert Fischer, Naseeruddin Shah 2004: Soumitra Chattopadhyay, Gulzar, Yoshirō Mori 2005: Yash Chopra, Manna Dey, Qurratulain Hyder, Shah Rukh Khan, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Azim Premji 2006: P. Leela, Nandan Nilekani, Dušan Zbavitel, Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena, Vijaypat Singhania, Chiranjeevi, Lokesh Chandra 2007: Javed Akhtar, Indra Nooyi, V. S. Ramachandran, Ela Gandhi, Sunil Mittal, Bhikhu Parekh, Jeffrey Sachs 2008: Asis Datta, Meghnad Desai, Ravindra Kelekar, Dominique Lapierre, Shiv Nadar, Vikram Pandit, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Sunita Lyn Williams, Juli Michailowitsch Woronzow, Ji Xianlin, Sushil Kumar Saxena 2009: Abhinav Bindra, Ramachandra Guha, Khalid Hameed, C. K. Prahalad, C. S. Seshadri, Thomas Kailath 2010: Aamir Khan, Sultan Khan, A. R. Rahman, Fareed Zakaria, Kushal Pal Singh 2011: Shashi Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Chanda Kochhar, Shyam Saran 2012: Shabana Azmi, Khaled Choudhury, Buddhadev Das Gupta, Dharmendra Singh Deol, T. V. Gopalkrishnan, Mira Nair, Anish Kapoor, Satya Narayan Goenka, P. Chandrasekhara Rao, George Yeo, B. Muthuraman, M. S. Raghunathan, Homi K. Bhabha, Ronen Sen, D. Ramanaidu 2013: Rahul Dravid, Mary Kom, Rajesh Khanna, Sharmila Tagore, Ashoke Sen, Jogesh Pati, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 2014: Leander Paes, Pullela Gopichand, Kamal Haasan, Anita Desai, K. Radhakrishnan, Dalveer Bhandari, Ruskin Bond 2015: Jahnu Barua, Manjul Bhargava, David Frawley, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates 2016: Anupam Kher, Udit Narayan, Saina Nehwal, Sania Mirza, Robert Blackwill, Pallonji Mistry 2017: Sharad Pawar, Murli Manohar Joshi, Ramachandra Rao, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Maha Chakri Sirindhorn 2018: Pankaj Advani, Philipose Mar Chrysostom, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Alexander Kadakin, Ramachandran Nagaswamy, Laxman Pai, Arvind Parikh, Sharda Sinha

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