List of Padma Vibhushan recipients

This is a list of recipients of Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award of India, and it is preceded only by the Bharat Ratna.

1. Salim Ali (ornithologist)
2. Kishori Amonkar
3. A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar
4. Arun Shridhar Vaidya
5. Pandurang Shastri Athavale
6. Bal Ram Nanda
7. Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna
8. Bhimsen Joshi
9. Ghanshyam Das Birla
10. Norman Borlaug
11. C. Narayanareddy
12. Hariprasad Chaurasia
13. Charles Correa
14. Nanaji Deshmukh
15. Dharma Vira
16. Satish Dhawan
17. John Kenneth Galbraith
18. Sivaji Ganesan
19. Adoor Gopalakrishnan
20. H M Seervai
21. Gangubai Hangal
22. Hans Raj Khanna
23. Jagdish Bhagwati
24. Pandit Jasraj
25. Ali Yavar Jung
26. K.B. Lall
27. Abdul Kalam
28. Krishnaswami Kasturirangan
29. Amjad Ali Khan
30. Bismillah Khan
31. Kishan Maharaj
32. Daulat Singh Kothari
33. Verghese Kurien
34. Kuvempu
35. Pratap Chandra Lal
36. Lala Hansraj Gupta
37. Lallan Prasad Singh
38. R. K. Laxman
39. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
40. Birju Maharaj
41. Mahasweta Devi
42. Sam Manekshaw
43. Lata Mangeshkar
44. Mallikarjun Mansur
45. Zubin Mehta
46. Mohan Sinha Mehta
47. Kelucharan Mohapatra
48. Hrishikesh Mukherjee
49. R. K. Narayan
50. Jayant Narlikar
51. Braj Kumar Nehru
52. Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam
53. D. K. Pattammal
54. Amrita Pritam
55. Rajagopala Chidambaram
56. Raja Ramanna
57. C. Rangarajan
58. Lakshmi Sahgal
59. Vikram Sarabhai
60. Sarvepalli Gopal
61. Satish Gujral
62. Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
63. Ravi Shankar
64. Uday Shankar
65. Man Mohan Sharma
66. Shivkumar Sharma
67. H. D. Shourie
68. Obaid Siddiqui
69. Sikander Bakht
70. Arjan Singh
71. Khushwant Singh
72. Tarlok Singh (economist)
73. Soli Sorabjee
74. Sonal Mansingh
75. M. S. Subbulakshmi
76. George Sudarshan
77. Swami Ranganathananda
78. M. S. Swaminathan
79. Prakash Narain Tandon
80. J. R. D. Tata
81. V. R. Krishna Iyer
82. Vaidya Brihaspati Dev Triguna
83. M. N. Venkatachaliah
84. Vilayat Khan