Padma Bhushan 2001 Winners List

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Name	Padma Bhushan
Type	Civilian Awards
Award For	Distinguished Service of a High order
Award By	Goverment of India
First	1954
Last	26th January 2026
Status	Active
Country	India

About Padma Bhushan Award 2001

With 32 recipients, 2001 was a bumper year led by Bollywood icons Amitabh Bachchan and Dev Anand and director B. R. Chopra (cinema), chess world champion Viswanathan Anand, and singer Bhupen Hazarika. It stood out for honoring many overseas Indians, including Bell Labs scientist Arun Netravali, robotics pioneer Raj Reddy, and surgeon Chitranjan Ranawat, all based in the United States. Amrita Patel, architect of India's dairy "White Revolution," was among the few women recognized that year.

The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service of a high order, without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex".

Padma Bhushan Award 2001 Winners List

This Winners List features 32 winners of the Padma Bhushan Award 2001, in 2001.

Year	Recipient Name	Gender	State, Country	Fields

2001	Dev Anand	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2001	Viswanathan Anand Also won: Padma Vibhushan (2008)	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Sports
2001	Amitabh Bachchan Also won: Padma Vibhushan (2015)	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2001	Rahul Bajaj Also won: Lokmanya Tilak National Award (2000)	male	Maharashtra, India	Trade & Industry
2001	Badrinarayan Ramulal Barwale Also won: World Food Prize (1998)	male	Maharashtra, India	Trade & Industry
2001	Trimbak alias Balasaheb Shivram Bharade	male	Maharashtra, India	Social Work
2001	Dr. Boyi Bhimanna Also won: Sahitya Akademi Award (1975)	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Literature & Education
2001	Swadesh Chatterjee	male	New York, United States	Public Affairs
2001	Baldev Raj Chopra	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2001	Ashok Haribhai Desai	male	Delhi, India	Public Affairs
2001	Dr. Karimpumannil Mathai George Also won: Ezhuthachan Puraskaram (1996)	male	Kerala, India	Literature & Education
2001	Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Also won: Padma Vibhushan (2012)	male	Assam, India	Arts
2001	Lalgudi Gopalaiyer Jayaraman	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
2001	Dr. Yamini Krishnamurti Also won: Padma Vibhushan (2016)	female	Delhi, India	Arts
2001	Prof. Shiv Kumar Kumar Also won: Sahitya Akademi Award (1987)	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Literature & Education
2001	Raghunath Mohapatra Also won: Padma Vibhushan (2013)	male	Odisha, India	Arts
2001	Dr. Arun Netravali	male	Texas, United States	Science & Engineering
2001	Mohan Singh Oberoi	male	Delhi, India	Trade & Industry
2001	Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri Also won: Padma Vibhushan (2008)	male	Delhi, India	Others
2001	Maulana Abdul Karim Parekh	male	Maharashtra, India	Social Work
2001	Dr. Amrita Patel	female	Gujarat, India	Trade & Industry
2001	Pran Sikand	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2001	Aroon Purie	male	Delhi, India	Literature & Education
2001	Dr. Bhupathiraju Vissam Raju	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Trade & Industry
2001	Dr. Paluvai Bhanumathi Ramakrishna	female	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
2001	Sundaram Ramakrishnan	male	Maharashtra, India	Social Work
2001	Dr. Chitranjan Singh Ranawat	male	New York, United States	Medicine
2001	Dr. Palle Rama Rao Also won: Padma Vibhushan (2011) , Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (1979)	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Science & Engineering
2001	Dr. Raj Reddy	male	New York, United States	Science & Engineering
2001	Ms. Uma Sharma	female	Delhi, India	Arts
2001	Dr. Lakshminarayana Subramaniam Also won: Padma Vibhushan (2025)	male	Karnataka, India	Arts
2001	Dr. Naresh Kumar Trehan	male	Delhi, India	Medicine