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| Padma Shri Awards 2018 Winners |
Padma Shri was instituted in 1954 along with Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan. The award is given to any individual to honour his or her distinguished contribution in his or her field.
As of 2018, 2912 people have received this award. In 2018 alone, 72 individuals received Padma Shri award for their outstanding work in their specific fields.
Freedom fighter and educationist Asha Devi Aryanayakam was the first person to refuse the Padma Shri in 1954 citing the personal grounds.
Mother Teresa initially refused the Padma Shri twice in 1960 and 1961 as she felt it is inappropriate to receive any award for the service in the name of God. It was Archbishop of Kolkata who persuaded her and she finally accepted the award in 1962.
In 1977, Phanishwar Nath 'Renu' returned the Padma Shri, he had received in 1970, as a protest against the Emergency imposed by the Indira Gandhi Government.
| Name of the Recipient | Field | State/Region |
|---|---|---|
| Abhay and Rani Bang | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| Damodar Bapat | Social Work | Chhattisgarh |
| Prafulla Baruah | Literature & Education | Assam |
| Mohan Swaroop Bhatia | Arts | Uttar Pradesh |
| Sudhanshu Biswas | Social Work | West Bengal |
| Saikhom Mirabai Chanu | Sports | Manipur |
| Shyamlal Chaturvedi | Literature & Education | Chhattisgarh |
| Jose Ma Joey Concepcion III | Trade & Industry | Philippines |
| Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi | Arts | Manipur |
| Somdev Devvarman | Sports | Tripura |
| Yeshi Dhoden | Medicine | Himachal Pradesh |
| Arup Kumar Dutta | Literature & Education | Assam |
| Doddarange Gowda | Arts | Karnataka |
| Arvind Gupta | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| Digamber Hansda | Literature & Education | Jharkhand |
| Ramli Bin Ibrahim | Arts | Malaysia |
| Anwar Jalapuri | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| Piyong Temjen Jamir | Literature & Education | Nagaland |
| Sitavva Joddati | Social work | Karnataka |
| Manoj Joshi | Arts | Maharashtra |
| Malti Joshi | Literature & Education | Madhya Pradesh |
| Rameshwarlal Kabra | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| Pran Kishore Kaul | Arts | Jammu & Kashmir |
| Bounlap Keokanga | Public Affairs | Laos |
| Vijay Kichlu | Arts | West Bengal |
| Tommy Koh | Public Affairs | Singapore |
| Lakshmikutty | Medicine | Kerala |
| Joyasree Goswami Mahanta | Literature & Education | Assam |
| Narayan Das Maharaj | Others | Rajasthan |
| Pravakara Maharana | Arts | Orissa |
| Hun Many | Public Affairs | Cambodia |
| Nouf Marwaai | Others | Saudi Arabia |
| Zaverilal Mehta | Literature & Education | Gujarat |
| Krishna Bihari Mishra | Literature & Education | West Bengal |
| Sisir Mishra | Arts | Maharashtra |
| Subhasini Mistry | Social work | West Bengal |
| Tomio Mizokami | Literature & Education | Japan |
| Somdet Phra Maha Muniwong | Others | Thailand |
| Keshav Rao Musalgaonkar | Literature & Education | Madhya Pradesh |
| Thant Myint-U | Public Affairs | Myanmar |
| V. Nanammal | Others | Tamil Nadu |
| Sulagitti Narasamma | Social work | Karnataka |
| Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan | Arts | Tamil Nadu |
| I Nyoman Nuarta | Arts | Indonesia |
| Malai Haji Abdullah Bin Malai Haji Othman | Social work | Brunei |
| Gobardhan Panika | Arts | Odisha |
| Bhabani Charan Pattanayak | Public Affairs | Orissa |
| Murlikant Petkar | Sports | Maharashtra |
| Habibullo Rajabov | Literature & Education | Tajikistan |
| M. R. Rajagopal | Medicine | Kerala |
| Sampat Ramteke | Social work | Maharashtra |
| Chandra Sekhar Rath | Literature & Education | Orissa |
| S. S. Rathore | Civil Service | Gujarat |
| Amitava Roy | Science & Engineering | West Bengal |
| Sanduk Ruit | Medicine | Nepal |
| Vagish Shastri | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| R Sathyanarayana | Arts | Karnataka |
| Pankaj M Shah | Medicine | Gujarat |
| Bhajju Shyam | Arts | Madhya Pradesh |
| Maharao Raghuveer Singh | Literature & Education | Rajasthan |
| Srikanth Kidambi | Sports | Andhra Pradesh |
| Ibrahim Sutar | Arts | Karnataka |
| Lentina Ao Thakkar | Social Work | Nagaland |
| Vikram Chandra Thakur | Science & Engineering | Uttarakhand |
| Rudrapatnam Brothers | Arts | Karnataka |
| Nguyen Tien Thien | Others | Vietnam |
| Rajagopalan Vasudevan | Science & Engineering | Tamil Nadu |
| Manas Bihari Verma | Science & Engineering | Bihar |
| Panatawane Gangadhar Vithobaji | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| Romulus Whitaker | Others | Tamil Nadu |
| Baba Yogendra | Arts | Madhya Pradesh |
| A Zakia | Literature & Education | Mizoram |