Former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, former Principal Secretary to PM Nripendra Misra, former Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan (posthumous), former Assam CM Tarun Gogoi (posthumous) and religious leader Kalbe Sadiq (posthumous) are among the ten recipients who have been awarded with Padma Bhushan this year.
Here is the complete list of Padma Awardees 2021.
Padma Vibhushan (7)
SN | Name | Field | State/Country |
1. | Shri Shinzo Abe | Public Affairs | Japan |
| Shri S P Balasubramaniam (Posthumous) | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde | Medicine | Karnataka |
| Shri Narinder Singh Kapany (Posthumous) | Science and Engineering | United States of America |
| Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | Others- Spiritualism | Delhi |
| Shri B. B. Lal | Others- Archaeology | Delhi |
| Shri Sudarshan Sahoo | Art | Odisha |
Padma Bhushan (10)
| 8. | Ms. Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra | Art | Kerala |
| 9. | Shri Tarun Gogoi (Posthumous) | Public Affairs | Assam |
| 10. | Shri Chandrashekhar Kambara | Literature and Education | Karnataka |
| 11. | Ms. Sumitra Mahajan | Public Affairs | Madhya Pradesh |
| 12. | Shri Nripendra Misra | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh |
| 13. | Shri Ram Vilas Paswan (Posthumous) | Public Affairs | Bihar |
| 14. | Shri Keshubhai Patel (Posthumous) | Public Affairs | Gujarat |
| 15. | Shri Kalbe Sadiq (Posthumous) | Others-Spiritualism | Uttar Pradesh |
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