sosuserThis is a list of recipients of Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award of India.
- Pandit Satya Narayan Shastri (Ayurvedic Vaidya)
- A. Ramachandran
- PRAVIN BHOYAR
- Gary Ackerman
- H. P. S. Ahluwalia
- Horace Alexander
- Salim Ali (ornithologist)
- Aruna Asaf Ali
- Ebrahim Alkazi
- Amritlal Nagar
- Dev Anand
- Viswanathan Anand
- U. R. Ananthamurthy
- B. B. Lal
- B. R. Barwale
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan
- Sundaram Balachander
- Banoo Jehangir Coyaji
- Banumathi
- Shyam Benegal
- Chembai
- Prabhu Lal Bhatnagar
- Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
- Ela Bhatt
- Chandu Borde
- Boyi Bhimanna
- Dhyan Chand
- Lokesh Chandra
- Chandrika Prasad Srivastava
- Soumitra Chatterjee
- Hariprasad Chaurasia
- Chiranjeevi
- Sarvadaman Chowla
- Girija Devi
- B. Saroja Devi
- Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon
- Durgabai Deshmukh
- Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
- Faquir Chand Kohli
- Sunil Gavaskar
- Gopichand Narang
- Gulzar
- Shobha Gurtu
- Irfan Habib
- Madapati Hanumantha Rao
- Veerendra Heggade
- Henning Holck-Larsen
- Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani
- Zakir Hussain (musician)
- Jagat Singh Mehta
- Kongara Jaggayya
- Jagmohan
- Devaki Jain
- Joginder Singh Dhillon
- Bhimsen Joshi
- Ali Yavar Jung
- Anil Kakodkar
- Abdul Kalam
- Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
- Kapil Dev
- Prithviraj Kapoor
- K. Shivaram Karanth
- Girish Karnad
- Krishnaswami Kasturirangan
- Gopinath Kaviraj
- Surashri Kesarbai Kerkar
- Daulat Singh Kothari
- Komal Kothari
- Devulapalli Krishnasastri
- Guru Kunchu Kurup
- Mogubai Kurdikar
- Verghese Kurien
- Kuvempu
- Pratap Chandra Lal
- Kasturbhai Lalbhai
- R. K. Laxman
- Laxmi Mall Singhvi
- M. L. Vasanthakumari
- M.P. Periasamy Thooran
- M.V. Kamath
- Madhav Gadgil
- Talat Mahmood
- Josh Malihabadi
- Sam Manekshaw
- Lata Mangeshkar
- Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
- Ismail Merchant
- Waman Bapuji Metre
- Vidya Niwas Mishra
- Kelucharan Mohapatra
- Yoshiro Mori
- Mrinal Miri
- Brijmohan Lall Munjal
- C.Sivarama Murti
- N. Mahalingam
- Akkineni Nageswara Rao
- Roddam Narasimha
- H. Narasimhaiah
- C. K. Nayudu
- Arun Netravali
- Nandan Nilekani
- Rajendra K. Pachauri
- Palghat Mani Iyer
- Frank Pallone
- D. K. Pattammal
- Swaraj Paul
- Ramanujam Varatharaja Perumal
- Poornima Arvind Pakvasa
- Prabha Atre
- Prabhu Chawla
- Azim Premji
- R.D. Pradhan
- Rajinikanth
- Rajkumar
- Narasimhan Ram
- T.N.Ramachandran
- Subramaniam Ramadorai
- Raja Ramanna
- Rani Gaidinliu
- Muthulakshmi Reddi
- Raj Reddy
- Svetoslav Roerich
- Sagat Singh
- Bhisham Sahni
- Mrinalini Sarabhai
- Vikram Sarabhai
- Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
- Mihir Sen
- Naseeruddin Shah
- Man Mohan Sharma
- Shivmangal Singh Suman
- Arun Shourie
- Jagjit Singh (singer)
- Khushwant Singh
- Gurbachan Singh Talib
- Vijaypat Singhania
- P. Siva Reddy
- M. S. Subbulakshmi
- L. Subramaniam
- George Sudarshan
- Swami Kalyandev
- M. S. Swaminathan
- T. V. R. Shenoy
- Ratan Tata
- Romila Thapar
- Mark Tully
- V C Kulandaiswamy
- Vaidya Brihaspati Dev Triguna
- Mahadevi Varma
- M. N. Venkatachaliah
- Vishnu Prabhakar
- Yamini Krishnamurthy
- K. J. Yesudas
- Yusuf Hamied