The President of India has approved conferment of Padma Awards 2012, the country’s highest civilian awards. This year 109 recipients will get the awards including 14 in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous and 19 women awardees. These comprise 5 Padma Vibhushan, 27 Padma Bhushan and 77 Padma Shri Awards.
Below is the list of Padma Bhushan award winners of this year.
Padma Bhushan Awards 2012
| 1 | Shabana Azmi – Art – Cinema – Maharashtra |
| 2 | Khaled Choudhury – Art – Theatre – West Bengal |
| 3 | Jatin Das – Art – Painting – Delhi |
| 4 | Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta – Art – Instrumental Music – Sarod – West Bengal |
| 5 | Dharmendra Singh Deol alias Dharmendra – Art – Cinema – Maharashtra |
| 6 | Trippunithwra Viswanathan Gopalkrishnan – Art – Classical music – Tamil Nadu |
| 7 | Mira Nair – Art – Cinema – Delhi |
| 8 | M.S. Gopalakrishnan – Art – Instrumental Music – Violin – Tamil Nadu |
| 9 | Anish Kapoor – Art – Sculpture – UK |
| 10 | Satya Narayan Goenka – Social Work – Maharashtra |
| 11 | Dr. (Judge) Patibandla Chandrasekhar Rao – Public Affairs – Germany |
| 12 | eorge Yong-Boon Yeo – Public Affairs – Singapore |
| 13 | Shashikumar Chitre – Science and Engineering – Maharashtra |
| 14 | Dr. M S Raghunathan – Science and Engineering – Maharashtra |
| 15 | Subbiah Murugappa Vellayan – Trade and Industry – Tamil Nadu |
| 16 | Balasubramanian Muthuraman – Trade and Industry – Maharashtra |
| 17 | Dr. Suresh H. Advani – Medicine – Oncology – Maharashtra |
| 18 | Dr. Noshir H Wadia – Medicine – Neurology – Maharashtra |
| 19 | Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty – Medicine – Cardiology – Karnataka |
| 20 | Dr.Shantaram Balwant Mujumdar – Literature and Education – Maharashtra |
| 21 | Prof. Vidya Dehejia – Literature and Education – USA |
| 22 | Prof. Arvind Panagariya – Literature and Education – USA |
| 23 | Dr. Jose Pereira – Literature and Education – USA |
| 24 | Dr. Homi K. Bhabha – Literature and Education – UK |
| 25 | N Vittal – Civil Service – Kerala |
| 26 | Mata Prasad – Civil Service – Uttar Pradesh |
| 27 | Ronen Sen – Civil Service – West Bengal |
Find the list of Padma Bhushan award winners of last year( Year 2011 )
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