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One of the highest civilian Awards of India, Padma Awards are conferred in three categories, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri on the occasion of Republic day 2016. The awards are announced on the Republic Day occasion every year. Below is the list of awardees for 2016.
Winners of Padma Vibhushan 2016
Superstar Rajinikanth
The Reliance empire founder late Dhirubhai Ambani
Media baron Ramoji Rao
Founder of Art of Living, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Jagmohan
Former DRDO chief V K Aatre
Cancer specialist and chairperson of Adyar Cancer Institute Dr V Shanta
Eminent Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi dancer Yamini Krishnamurthi
Classical vocalist Girija Devi
Indian American economist Avinash Dixit
Eminent personalities who won Padma Bhushan 2016 are
Vinod Rai
Anupam Kher
Udit Narayan
Robert D Blackwill
Saina Nehwal
Sania Mirza
Indu Jain
Ram V. Sutar
Heisnam Kanhailal
Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad
N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya
Barjinder Singh Hamdard
Nageshwar Reddy
Hafeez Contractor
Ravindra Chandra Bhargava
Dr.Venkata Rama Rao Alla
Swami Dayanand Sarawasati (posthumous)
Pallonji Shapoorji
Padma Shri 2016 Award Winners
Ajay Devgn
Bhikhudan Gadhvi
Shri Sribhas Chandra Supakar
Prathibha Prahlad
Priyanka Chopra
Tulsidas Borkar
Soma Ghosh
Nila Madhab Panda
S.S. Rajamouli
Madhur Bhandarkar
M. Venkatesh Kumar
Barjinder Singh Hamdard
Gulabi Sapera
Mamta Chandrakar
Malini Awasthi
Jai Prakash Lekhiwal
K. Laxma Goud
Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe
Naresh Chander Lal
Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah
Prahlad Chandra Tasa
Ravindra Nagar
Dahyabhai Shastri
Santeshivara Bhyrappa
Haldar Nag
Kameshwaram Brahma
Prof. Pushpesh Pant
Jawaharlal Kaul
Ashok Malik
Mannam Gopi Chand
Ravi Kant
Ram Harsh Singh
Shiv Narain Kureel
Dr.Sabya Sachi Sarkar
Dr. Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale
T.K. Lahiri
Praveen Chandra
Daljeet Singh Gambhir
Dr.Chandrasekar Shesadri Thoguluva
Anil Kumari Malhotra
M.V. Padma Srivastava
Sudhir V. Shah
M. M. Joshi
John Ebnezar
Dr. Nayudamma Yarlagadda
Simon Oraon
Imitiaz Qureshi
Piyush Pandey
Subhash Palekar
Ravinder Kumar Sinha
H.R. Nagendra
M. C. Mehta
M. N. Krishna Mani
Ujjwal Nikam
Tokheho Sema
Satish Kumar
Dr.Mylswamy Annadurai
Dipankar Chatterji
Ganapati Dadasaheb Yadav
Veena Tandon
Onkar Nath Srivastava
Sunita Krishnan
Ajoy Kumar Dutta
M. Pandit Dasa
P. P. Gopinathan Nair
Madeleine Herman de Blic
Srinivasan Damal Kandalai
Sudhakar Olwe
T.V. Narayana
Arunachalam Murugantham
Deepika Kumari
Sushil Doshi
Mahesh Sharma
Saurabh Srivastava
Dilip Sanghvi
Dr. Keki Hormusji Gharda
Padma Shri (Foreigners/Posthumous)
Prakash Chand Surana (posthumous)
Michael Postel(Foreigner)
Salman Amin Sal Khan (NRI/PIO)
Hui Lan Zhang(Foreigner)
Predrag K. Nikic(Foreigner)
Dr.Sundar Aditya Menon(NRI/PIO)
Shri Ajaypal Singh Banga (NRI/PIO)
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