List of Padma awardees 2017: 70 personalities including Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli, Olympic heroes Sakshi Malik, Dipa Karmakar, Paralympian Deepa Malik and Singer Kailash Kher were awarded prestigious Padma Shri this year.
Not only they got Padma Bhushan award but it was also awarded people including Thailand’s Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. Journalist and political satirist Cho Ramaswamy was also bestowed the posthumously.
The Padma Vibhushan is India’s second highest prestigious civilian award was conferred to NCP chief Sharad Pawa, BJP Veteran Murli Manohar Joshi and Singer KJ Yesudas amid seven awardees.
President of India had approved conferment of Padma Awards this year to 89 persons which include 7 Padma Vibhushan, 7 Pama Bhushan and 75 Padma Shri Awardees. Besides these, 19 awardees are women and list of 5 persons are from the category of NRIs, PIOs, foreigners and 6 posthumous awardees.
Here is a list of List of Padma awardees 2017 who had conferred with the prestigious award:
List of Padma awardees 2017 in category of Padma Vibhushan
| Awardee | Field of Prominence |
| Sharad Pawar | Public Affairs |
| Murli Manohar Joshi | Public Affairs |
| P.A. Sangma (posthumous) | Public Affairs |
| Sunder Lal Patwah (posthumous) | Public Affairs |
| K.J.Yesudas | Art – Music |
| Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev | Others – Spiritualism |
| Udipi Ramachandra Rao | Science & Engineering |
Padma Bhushan
| Awardee | Field of Prominence |
| Vishwa Mohan Bhatt | Art – Music |
| Devi Prasad Dwivedi | Literature & Education |
| Tehemton Udwadia | Medicine |
| Ratna Sundar Maharaj | Others-Spiritualism |
| Swami Niranjana Nanda Saraswati | Others-Yoga |
| H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (Foreigner) | Literature & Education |
| Cho Ramaswamy (Posthumous) | Literature & Education –Journalism |
Padma Shri
| Awardee | Field of Prominence |
| Basanti Bisht | Art-Music |
| Chemanchery Kunhiraman Nair | Art-Dance |
| Aruna Mohanty | Art-Dance |
| Bharathi Vishnuvardhan | Art-Cinema |
| Sadhu Meher | Art-Cinema |
| T K Murthy | Art-Music |
| Laishram Birendrakumar Singh | Art-Music |
| Krishna Ram Chaudhary | Art-Music |
| Baoa Devi | Art-Painting |
| Tilak Gitai | Art-Painting |
| Aekka Yadagiri Rao | Art-Sculpture |
| Jitendra Haripal | Art-Music |
| Kailash Kher | Art-Music |
| Parassala B Ponnammal | Art-Music |
| Sukri Bommagowda | Art-Music |
| Mukund Nayak | Art-Music |
| Purushottam Upadhyay | Art-Music |
| Anuradha Paudwal | Art-Music |
| Wareppa Naba Nil | Art-Theatre |
| Tripuraneni Hanuman Chowdary | Civil Service |
| T.K. Viswanathan | Civil Service |
| Kanwal Sibal | Civil Service |
| Birkha Bahadur Limboo Muringla | Literature & Education |
| Eli Ahmed | Literature & Education |
| Narendra Kohli | Literature & Education |
| G. Venkatasubbiah | Literature & Education |
| Akkitham Achyuthan Namboothiri | Literature & Education |
| Kashi Nath Pandita | Literature & Education |
| Chamu Krishna Shastry | Literature & Education |
| Harihar Kripalu Tripathi | Literature & Education |
| Michel Danino | Literature & Education |
| Punam Suri | Literature & Education |
| VG Patel | Literature & Education |
| V Koteswaramma | Literature & Education |
| Balbir Dutt | Literature & Education-Journalism |
| Bhawana Somaaya | Literature & Education-Journalism |
| Vishnu Pandya | Literature & Education-Journalism |
| Subroto Das | Medicine |
| Bhakti Yadav | Medicine |
| Mohammed Abdul Waheed | Medicine |
| Madan Madhav Godbole | Medicine |
| Devendra Dayabhai Patel | Medicine |
| Harkishan Singh | Medicine |
| Mukut Minz | Medicine |
| Arun Kumar Sharma | Others-Archaeology |
| Sanjeev Kapoor | Others-Culinary |
| Meenakshi Amma | Others-Martial Art |
| Genabhai Dargabhai Patel | Others-Agriculture |
| Chandrakant Pithawa | Science & Engineering |
| Ajoy Kumar Ray | Science & Engineering |
| Chintakindi Mallesham | Science & Engineering |
| Jitendra Nath Goswami | Science & Engineering |
| Daripalli Ramaiah | Social Work |
| Girish Bhardwaj | Social Work |
| Karimul Hak | Social Work |
| Bipin Ganatra | Social Work |
| Nivedita Raghunath Bhide | Social work |
| Appasaheb Dharmadhikari | Social Work |
| Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal | Social Work |
| Virat Kohli | Sports-Cricket |
| Shekar Naik | Sports-Cricket |
| Vikasa Gowda | Sports-Discus Throw |
| Deepa Malik | Sports-Athletics |
| Mariyappan Thangavelu | Sports-Athletics |
| Dipa Karmakar | Sports-Gymnastics |
| P. R. Shreejesh | Sports-Hockey |
| Sakshi Malik | Sports-Wrestling |
| Mohan Reddy Venkatrama Bodanapu | Trade & Industry |
| Imrat Khan (NRI/PIO) | Art-Music |
| Anant Agarwal (NRI/PIO) | Literature & Education |
| H.R. Shah (NRI/PIO) | Literature & Education-Journalism |
| Suniti Solomon (Posthumous) | Medicine |
| Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya (Posthumous) | Others-Archaeology |
| Dr. Mapuskar (Posthumous) | Social Work |
| Anuradha Koirala (Foreigner) | Social Work |
