Padma awards 2016 declared, Rajinikants gets Padma Vibhushan

Padma awards 2016 have been declared and Tamil superstar cultural icon Shri Rajinikant received much awaited Padma Vibhushan. His daughters Aiswarya and Soundarya congratulated him on twitter.

PADMA VIBHUSHAN RAJINIKANTH ☺??????????????super proud daughter !!!!

— Aishwaryaa.R.Dhanush (@ash_r_dhanush) January 25, 2016

Proud daughter !!!!! Appa is now Padma vibhushan shri Rajinikanth ???????????? — soundarya rajnikanth (@soundaryaarajni) January 25, 2016

Tennis player and Wimbledon champion Sania Mirza and Badminton player Saina Nehrwal received Padma Bhushan each. Bollywood actors Ajay Devgan and Priyanka Chopra received Padma Shri each.  Complete list of winners: Padma Vibhushan 1. Ms. Yamini Krishnamurthi — Art-Classical dance — Delhi 2. Shri Rajinikanth — Art-Cinema — Tamil Nadu 3. Smt Girija Devi — Art-Classical Vocal — West Bengal 4. Shri Ramoji Rao — Literature & Education-Journalism — Andhra Pradesh 5. Dr Viswanathan Shanta — Medicine-Oncology — Tamil Nadu 6. Shri Shri Ravi Shankar — Others-Spiritualism — Karnataka 7. Shri Jagmohan — Public Affairs — Delhi 8. Dr Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre — Science & Engineering — Karnataka 9. Shri Avinash Dixit(Foreigner) — Literature & Education — USA 10.Late Shri Dhiru Bhai Ambani (Posthumous) — Trade & Industry — Maharashtra Padma Bhushan 11. Shri Anupam Kher — Art-Cinema — Maharashtra 12. Shri Udit Narayan Jha — Art-Playback Singing — Maharashtra 13. Shri Ram V Sutar — Art-Sculpture — Uttar Pradesh 14. Shri Heisnam Kanhailal — Art-Theatre — Manipur 15. Shri Vinod Rai — Civil Service — Kerala 16. Dr Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad — Literature & Education — Andhra Pradesh 17. Prof NS Ramanuja Tatacharya — Literature & Education — Maharashtra 18. Dr Barjinder Singh Hamdard — Literature & Education – Journalism — Punjab 19. Prof D Nageshwar Reddy — Medicine-Gastroenterology — Telangana 20. Swami Tejomayananda — Other-Spiritualism — Maharashtra 21. Shri Hafeez Contractor — Others-Architecture — Maharashtra 22. Shri Ravindra Chandra Bhargava — Public Affairs — Uttar Pradesh 23. Dr Venkata Rama Rao — Alla Science & Engineering — Andhra Pradesh 24. Ms Saina Nehwal — Sports-Badminton — Telangana 25. Ms Sania Mirza — Sports-Tennis — Telangana 26. Ms Indu Jain — Trade & Industry — Delhi 27. Late Swami Dayanand Sarawasati (Posthumous) — Others-Spiritualism — Uttarakhand 28. Shri Robert Blackwill (Foreigner) — Public Affairs — USA 29. Shri Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry (NRI/PIO) — Trade & Industry — Ireland Padma Shri 30. Smt Prathibha Prahlad — Art- Classical Dance — Delhi 31. Shri Bhikhudan Gadhvi — Art- Folk Music — Gujarat 32. Shri Sribhas Chandra Supakar — Art- Textile Designing — Uttar Pradesh 33. Shri Ajay Devgn — Art-Cinema — Maharashtra 34. Ms Priyanka Chopra — Art-Cinema — Maharashtra 35. Pt Tulsidas Borkar — Art-Classical Music — Goa 36. Dr Soma Ghosh — Art-Classical Vocal — Uttar Pradesh 37. Shri Nila Madhab Panda — Art-Film Direction and Production — Delhi 38. Shri SS Rajamouli — Art-Film Direction and Production — Karnataka 39. Shri Madhur Bhandarkar — Art-Film Direction and Production — Maharashtra 40. Prof M Venkatesh Kumar — Art-Folk Artist — Karnataka 41. Ms Gulabi Sapera — Art-Folk Dance — Rajasthan 42. Smt Mamta Chandrakar — Art-Folk Music — Chhattisgarh 43. Ms Malini Awasthi — Art-Folk Music — Uttar Pradesh 44. Shri Jai Prakash Lekhiwal — Art-Miniature Painting — Delhi 45. Shri K Laxma Goud — Art-Painting — Telangana 46. Shri Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe — Art-Photography — Madhya Pradesh 47. Shri Naresh Chander Lal — Art-Theatre & Cinema — Andaman & Nicobar 48. Shri Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah — Literature & Education — Assam 49. Shri Prahlad Chandra Tasa — Literature & Education — Assam 50. Dr Ravindra Nagar — Literature & Education — Delhi 51. Shri Dahyabhai Shastri — Literature & Education — Gujarat 52. Dr Santeshivara Bhyrappa — Literature & Education — Karnataka 53. Shri Haldar Nag — Literature & Education — Odisha 54. Shri Kameshwaram Brahma — Literature & Education -Journalism — Assam 55. Prof Pushpesh Pant — Literature & Education-Journalism — Delhi 56. Shri Jawaharlal Kaul — Literature & Education-Journalism — Jammu & Kashmir 57. Shri Ashok Malik — Literature & Education — Delhi 58. Dr Mannam Gopi Chand — Medicine-Cardio Thoracic Surgery — Telangana 59. Prof Ravi Kant — Medicine-Surgery — Uttar Pradesh 60. Prof Ram Harsh Singh — Medicine- Ayurveda — Uttar Pradesh 61. Prof Shiv Narain Kureel — Medicine- Paediatric Surgery — Uttar Pradesh 62. Dr Sabya Sachi Sarkar — Medicine -Radiology — Uttar Pradesh 63. Dr Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale — Medicine-Cardiac Surgery — Andhra Pradesh 64. Prof TK Lahiri — Medicine-Cardio Thoracic Surgery — Uttar Pradesh 65. Dr Praveen Chandra — Medicine-Cardiology — Delhi 66. Prof (Dr) Daljeet Singh Gambhir — Medicine-Cardiology — Uttar Pradesh 67. Dr Chandrasekar Shesadri Thoguluva — Medicine-Gastroenterology — Tamil Nadu 68. Dr (Mrs) Anil Kumari Malhotra — Medicine-Homeopathy — Delhi 69. Prof MV Padma Srivastava — Medicine-Neurology — Delhi 70. Dr Sudhir V Shah — Medicine-Neurology — Gujarat 71. Dr MM Joshi — Medicine-Ophthalmology — Karnataka 72. Prof (Dr) John Ebnezar — Medicine-Orthopaedic Surgery — Karnataka 73. Dr Nayudamma Yarlagadda — Medicine-Paediatric Surgery — Andhra Pradesh 74. Shri Simon Oraon — Other -Environment Conservation — Jharkhand 75. Shri Imitiaz Qureshi — Other-Culinary — Delhi 76. Shri Piyush Pandey — Others-Advertising & Communication — Maharashtra 77. Shri Subhash Palekar — Others-Farming — Maharashtra 78. Shri Ravinder Kumar Sinha — Others-Wildlife Conservation — Bihar 79. Dr HR Nagendra — Others-Yoga — Karnataka 80. Shri MC Mehta — Public Affairs — Delhi 81. Shri MN Krishna Mani — Public Affairs — Delhi 82. Shri Ujjwal Nikam — Public Affairs — Maharashtra 83. Shri Tokheho Sema — Public Affairs — Nagaland 84. Dr Satish Kumar — Science & Engineering — Delhi 85. Dr Mylswamy Annadurai — Science & Engineering — Karnataka 86. Prof Dipankar Chatterji — Science & Engineering — Karnataka 87. Prof(Dr) Ganapati Dadasaheb Yadav — Science & Engineering — Maharashtra 88. Smt (Prof) Veena Tandon — Science & Engineering — Meghalaya 89. Shri Onkar Nath Srivastava — Science and Engineering — Uttar Pradesh 90. Ms Sunita Krishnan — Social Work — Andhra Pradesh 91. Shri Ajoy Kumar Dutta — Social Work — Assam 92. Shri M Pandit Dasa — Social Work — Karnataka 93. Shri PP Gopinathan Nair — Social Work — Kerala 94. Smt Madeleine Herman de Blic — Social Work — Puducherry 95. Shri Srinivasan Damal Kandalai — Social work — Tamil Nadu 96. Shri Sudhakar Olwe — Social Work — Maharashtra 97. Dr TV Narayana — Social Work — Telangana 98. Shri Arunachalam Murugantham — Social Work — Tamil Nadu 99. Ms Deepika Kumari — Sports-Archery — Jharkhand 100. S Shri Sushil Doshi — Sports-commentary — Madhya Pradesh 101. Shri Mahesh Sharma — Trade & Industry — Delhi 102. Shri Saurabh Srivastava — Trade & Industry — Delhi 103. Sh Dilip Sanghvi — Trade & Industry — Maharashtra 104. Dr Keki Hormusji Gharda — Trade & Industry — Maharashtra 105. Late Shri Prakash Chand Surana (Posthumous) — Art -Classical Music — Rajasthan 106. Late Shri Saeed Jaffrey (NRI/PIO/Posthumous) — Art-Cinema — UK 107. Shri Michael Postel (Foreigner) — Art-Archaeology — France 108. Shri Salman Amin Sal Khan (NRI/PIO) — Literature & Education — USA 109. Smt Hui Lan Zhang (Foreigner) — Others-Yoga — China 110. Shri Predrag K Nikic (Foreigner) — Others-Yoga — Serbia 111. Dr Sundar Aditya Menon (NRI/PIO) — Social Work — UAE 112. Shri Ajaypal Singh Banga (NRI/PIO) — Trade & Industry — US Karthika Photo Courtesy : Google/ images may be subject to copyright