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The second highest civilian award after Bharat Ratna is Padma Vibhushan which comes under Padma awards. Padma awards are granted under three categories Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. They are announced on the occasion of Republic day every year.
In 2022, the President has approved bestowal of 128 Padma Awards including 2 duo case (in which case, the Award is counted as one) as per given list below. The list consists 4 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri Awards. 34 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 13 Posthumous awardees.
Padma Awards 2022 – List of Padma Award Winners
Padma Vibhushan (4)
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| Name | State/Country | Field |
| Ms. Prabha Atre | Maharashtra | Art |
| Shri Radheyshyam Khemka (Posthumous) | U.P. | Literature and Education |
| General Bipin Rawat (Posthumous) | Uttarakhand | Civil Service |
| Shri Kalyan Singh (Posthumous) | Uttar Pradesh | Public Affairs |
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| Name | State/Country | Field |
| Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad | Jammu and Kashmir | Public Affairs |
| Shri Victor Banerjee | West Bengal | Art |
| Ms. Gurmeet Bawa (Posthumous) | Punjab | Art |
| Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee | West Bengal | Public Affairs |
| Shri Natarajan Chandrasekaran | Maharashtra | Trade and Industry |
| Shri Krishna Ella and
Smt. Suchitra Ella* (Duo) |
Telangana | Trade and Industry |
| Ms. Madhur Jaffery | USA | Others-Culinary |
| Shri Devendra Jhajharia | Rajasthan | Sports |
| Shri Rashid Khan | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| Shri Rajiv Mehrishi | Rajasthan | Civil Service |
| Shri Satya Narayana Nadella | USA | Trade and Industry |
| Shri Sundararajan Pichai | USA | Trade and Industry |
| Shri Cyrus Poonawalla | Maharashtra | Trade and Industry |
| Shri Sanjaya Rajaram (Posthumous) | Mexico | Sci and Engg |
| Ms. Pratibha Ray | Odisha | Literature and Education |
| Swami Sachidanand | Gujarat | Literature and Education |
| Shri Vashishth Tripathi | Uttar Pradesh | Literature ane Education |
Padma Shri (107)
| Name | State/Country | Field |
| Shri Prahlad Rai Agarwala | West Bengal | Trade and Industry |
| Prof. Najma Akhtar | Delhi | Literature and Education |
| Shri Sumit Antil | Haryana | Sports |
| Shri T Senka Ao | Nagaland | Literature and Education |
| Ms. Kamalini Asthana and
Ms. Nalini Asthana* (Duo) |
Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| Shri Subbanna Ayyappan | Karnataka | Science and Engineering |
| Shri J K Bajaj | Delhi | Literature and Education |
| Shri Sirpi Balasubramaniam | Tamil Nadu | Literature and Education |
| Srimad Baba Balia | Odisha | Social Work |
| Ms. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay | West Bengal | Science and Engineering |
| Ms. Madhuri Barthwal | Uttarakhand | Art |
| Shri Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat | Ladakh | Literature and Education |
| Dr. Himmatrao Bawaskar | Maharashtra | Medicine |
| Shri Harmohinder Singh Bedi | Punjab | Literature and Education |
| Shri Pramod Bhagat | Odisha | Sports |
| Shri S Ballesh Bhajantri | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| Shri Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia | Sikkim | Art |
| Shri Maria Christopher Byrski | Poland | Literature and Education |
| Acharya Chandanaji | Bihar | Social Work |
| Ms. Sulochana Chavan | Maharashtra | Art |
| Shri Neeraj Chopra | Haryana | Sports |
| Ms. Shakuntala Choudhary | Assam | Social Work |
| Shri Sankaranarayana Menon Chundayil | Kerala | Sports |
| Shri S Damodaran | Tamil Nadu | Social Work |
| Shri Faisal Ali Dar | J&K | Sports |
| Shri Jagjit Singh Dardi | Chandigarh | Trade and Industry |
| Dr. Prokar Dasgupta | U.K. | Medicine |
| Shri Aditya Prasad Dash | Odisha | Science and Engineering |
| Dr. Lata Desa | Gujarat | Medicine |
| Shri Malji bhai Desai | Gujarat | Public Affairs |
| Ms. Basanti Devi | Uttarakhand | Social Work |
| Ms. Lourembam Bino Devi | Manipur | Art |
| Ms. Muktamani Devi | Manipur | Trade and Industry |
| Ms. Shyamamani Devi | Odisha | Art |
| Shri Khalil Dhantejvi (Posthumous) | Gujarat | Lit. and Education |
| Shri Savaji Bhai Dholakia | Gujarat | Social Work |
| Shri Arjun Singh Dhurve | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| Dr. Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre | Maharashtra | Medicine |
| Shri Chandraprakash Dwivedi | Rajasthan | Art |
| Shri Dhaneswar Engti | Assam | Lit. and Education |
| Shri Om Prakash Gandhi | Haryana | Social Work |
| Shri Narasimha Rao Garikapati | Andhra Pradesh | Lit. and Education |
| Shri Girdhari Ram Ghonju (Posthumous) | Jharkhand | Lit. and Education |
| Shri Shaibal Gupta (Posthumous) | Bihar | Lit. and Education |
| Shri Narasingha Prasad Guru | Odisha | Lit. and Education |
| Shri Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan (Posthumous) | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| Shri Ryuko Hira | Japan | Trade and Industry |
| Ms. Sosamma Iype | Kerala | Animal Husbandry |
| Shri Avadh Kishore Jadia | Madhya Pradesh | Lit. and Education |
| Ms. Sowcar Janaki | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| Ms. Tara Jauhar | Delhi | Lit and Education |
| Ms. Vandana Kataria | Uttarakhand | Sports |
| Shri H R Keshavamurthy | Karnataka | Art |
| Shri Rutger Kortenhorst | Ireland | Lit and Education |
| Shri P Narayana Kurup | Kerala | Lit and Education |
| Ms. Avani Lekhara | Rajasthan | Sports |
| Shri Moti Lal Madan | Haryana | Sci and Engineering |
| Shri Shivnath Mishra | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| Dr. Narendra Prasad Misra (Posthumous) | Madhya Pradesh | Medicine |
| Shri Darshanam Mogilaiah | Telangana | Art |
| Shri Guruprasad Mohapatra (Posthumous) | Delhi | Civil Service |
| Shri Thavil Kongampattu A V Murugaiyan | Puducherry | Art |
| Ms. R Muthukannammal | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| Shri Abdul Khader Nadakattin | Karnataka | Grassroots Innovation |
| Shri Amai Mahalinga Naik | Karnataka | Agriculture |
| Shri Tsering Namgyal | Ladakh | Art |
| Shri A K C Natarajan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| Shri V L Nghaka | Mizoram | Lit. and Education |
| Shri Sonu Nigam | Maharashtra | Art |
| Shri Ram Sahay Panday | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| Shri Chirapat Prapandavidya | Thailand | Lit and Education |
| Ms. K V Rabiya | Kerala | Social Work |
| Shri Anil Kumar Rajvanshi | Maharashtra | Sci and Engineering |
| Shri Sheesh Ram | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| Shri Ramachandraiah | Telangana | Art |
| Dr. Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao | Andhra Pradesh | Medicine |
| Ms. Gamit Ramilaben Raysingbhai | Gujarat | Social Work |
| Ms. Padmaja Reddy | Telangana | Art |
| Guru Tulku Rinpoche | Arunachal Pradesh | Spiritualism |
| Shri Brahmanand Sankhwalkar | Goa | Sports |
| Shri Vidyanand Sarek | Himachal Pradesh | Lit and Education |
| Shri Kali Pada Saren | West Bengal | Lit. and Education |
| Dr. Veeraswamy Seshiah | Tamil Nadu | Medicine |
| Ms. Prabhaben Shah | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | Social Work |
| Shri Dilip Shahani | Delhi | Lit and Education |
| Shri Ram Dayal Sharma | Rajasthan | Art |
| Shri Vishwamurti Shastri | J&K | Lit. and Education |
| Ms. Tatiana Lvovna Shaumyan | Russia | Lit. and Education |
| Shri Siddhalingaiah (Posthumous) | Karnataka | Lit. and Education |
| Shri Kaajee Singh | West Bengal | Art |
| Shri Konsam Ibomcha Singh | Manipur | Art |
| Shri Prem Singh | Punjab | Social Work |
| Shri Seth Pal Singh | Uttar Pradesh | Agriculture |
| Ms. Vidya Vindu Singh | Uttar Pradesh | Lit. and Education |
| Baba Iqbal Singh Ji | Punjab | Social Work |
| Dr. Bhimsen Singhal | Maharashtra | Medicine |
| Shri Sivananda | Uttar Pradesh | Yoga |
| Shri Ajay Kumar Sonkar | Uttar Pradesh | Sci and Engineering |
| Ms. Ajita Srivastava | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| Sadguru Brahmeshanand Acharya Swami | Goa | Spiritualism |
| Dr. Balaji Tambe (Posthumous) | Maharashtra | Medicine |
| Shri Raghuvendra Tanwar | Haryana | Lit and Education |
| Dr. Kamlakar Tripathi | Uttar Pradesh | Medicine |
| Ms. Lalita Vakil | Himachal Pradesh | Art |
| Ms. Durga Bai Vyam | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| Shri Jyantkumar Maganlal Vyas | Gujarat | Sci and Engineering |
| Ms. Badaplin War | Meghalaya | Lit and Education |
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