The President has approved the awards for 85 individuals, which includes 3 Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan and 73 Padma Shri. Fourteen of the awardees are women and 3 persons have been awarded posthumously. In sports personalities, former India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and multiple world champion cueist Pankaj Advani have been conferred with the third-highest civilian award, Padma Bhushan.
The 2017 World Weightlifting Champion Saikhom Mirabai Chanu and former Asian Games gold medallist tennis player Somdev Devvarman have been conferred with the Padma Shri. The awards are announced on the eve of the Republic Day every year.
Padma Vibhushan
Illaiyaraja
Ghulam Mustafa Khan
P. Parameswaran
Padma Bhushan
Pankaj Advani
Philipose Mar Chrysostom
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
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
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