Padma Awards 2018: 85 personalities honored, here's the full list of winners

Each year, the Ministry of Home Affairs honors personalities from various fields with the Padma Awards, which is one of the country's highest civilian awards. And the 2018 list comprises 85 personalities from various fields of activities such as art, public affairs, social work, trade and industry, and medicine to name a few.

Over 15 awardees belong to marginalised communities and several awardees have also made contributions in the field of vernacular languages such as Odia, Braj, and Kashmiri.

The list also included a 99-year-old freedom fighter and a 75-year-old woman who makes herbal medicines to cure people of insect and snake bites. The awards are divided into three categories -- Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. Here's the complete list.

Padma Vibhushan

Illaiyaraja

Ghulam Mustafa Khan

#PresidentKovind presents Padma Vibushan to Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan in the field of music. Doyen of the Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana, he is a
Hindustani classical singer, music director, scholar and teacher to a long list of notable singers pic.twitter.com/6WE5Au6dWX

— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 20, 2018

P. Parameswaran

Padma Bhushan

Pankaj Advani

Philipose Mar Chrysostom

#PresidentKovind presents Padma Bhushan to Dr Philipose Mar Chrysostom, India’s longest serving Bishop. Dr Chrysostom formulated and implemented various projects to improve the social and economic conditions of the poor and deprived pic.twitter.com/04AK67SKbt

— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 20, 2018

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Alexander Kadakin (Foreigner/Posthumous)

R. Nagaswamy

Ved Prakash Nanda (Overseas Citizen of India)

Laxman Pai

Arvind Parikh

Sharda Sinha

Padma Shri

Abhay and Rani Bang

Damodar Ganesh Bapat

Prafulla Govinda Baruah

Mohan Swaroop Bhatia

Sudhanshu Biswas

Saikhom Mirabai Chanu

Pandit Shyamlal Chaturvedi

Jose Ma Joey Concepcion III (Foreigner)

Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi

Somdev Devvarman

A sportsman who has excelled at the world stage. #PeoplesPadma pic.twitter.com/YGqLko0Ryd

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) March 20, 2018

Yeshi Dhoden

Arup Kumar Dutta

Doddarange Gowda

Arvind Gupta

Digamber Hansda

Ramli Bin Ibrahim (Foreigner)

Anwar Jalalpuri (Posthumous)

Piyong Temjen Jamir

Sitavva Joddati

Malti Joshi

Manoj Joshi

Rameshwarlal Kabra

Pran Kishore Kaul

Bounlap Keokangna (Foreigner)

Vijay Kichlu

Tommy Koh (Foreigner)

Lakshmikutty

Joyshree Goswami Mahanta

Narayan Das Maharaj

Pravakara Maharana

Hun Many (Foreigner)

Nouf Marwaai (Foreigner)

Zaverilal Mehta

Krishna Bihari Mishra

Sisir Purushottam Mishra

Subhasini Mistry

Tomio Mizokami (Foreigner)

Somdet Phra Maha Muniwong (Foreigner)

Keshav Rao Musalgaonkar

Thant Myint – U (Foreigner)

V Nanammal

Sulagitti Narasamma

Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan

I Nyoman Nuarta (Foreigner)

Malai Haji Abdullah Bin Malai Haji Othman (Foreigner)

Gobaradhan Panika

Bhabani Charan Pattanaik

Murlikant Petkar

Habibullo Rajabov (Foreigner)

M R Rajagopal

Sampat Ramteke (Posthumous)

Chandra Sekhar Rath

S S Rathore

Amitava Roy

Sanduk Ruit (Foreigner)

R Sathyanarayana

Pankaj M Shah

Bhajju Shyam

Maharao Raghuveer Singh

Kidambi Srikanth

An athlete who has made India repeatedly proud. #PeoplesPadma pic.twitter.com/3tXwWu9sXK

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) March 20, 2018

Ibrahim Sutar

Siddeshwara Swamiji

Lentina Ao Thakkar

Vikram Chandra Thakur

Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Tharanathan - Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Thyagarajan

Nguyen Tien Thien

Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi

Rajagopalan Vasudevan

Manas Bihari Verma

Panatawane Gangadhar Vithobaji

Romulus Whitaker

Baba Yogendra

A Zakia