List of Padma Shri award recipients in art
This is a list of recipients of the Padma Shri award in the field of Art. The Padma Shri is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted in 1954, the award is conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.[1]
As of 2025, a total of 916 individuals have been awarded Padma Shri for their contributions to art.[1]
1950–1959
| Year | Name | State | Field |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Nandalal Bose | West Bengal | Art |
| 1954 | Madurai Shanmugavadivu Subbalakshmi | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1954 | Jamini Roy | West Bengal | Art |
| 1955 | Thakore Pandit Onkar Nath | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1956 | Rukmini Devi Arundale | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1956 | Sthanam Narasimha Rao | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 1957 | Pt. Shrikrishna N. Ratanjankar | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1957 | T. Balasaraswathy | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1957 | Ustad Mushtaq Husain Khan | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 1957 | Dwaram Venkataswami Naidu | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 1957 | Sudhir Ranjan Khastgir | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1958 | Debi Prosad Roy-Choudhry | West Bengal | Art |
| 1958 | Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1958 | Ustad Allauddin Khan | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1958 | Kum. Nargis ( Fatima A Rasheed ) | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1958 | Debaki Kumar Bose | West Bengal | Art |
| 1958 | Satyajit Roy | West Bengal | Art |
| 1958 | Shambhoo Maharaj | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1958 | Devika Rani | Karnataka | Art |
| 1959 | Kankanhalli Vasudevacharya | Karnataka | Art |
| 1959 | Pammal Sambanda Mudaliar | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1959 | Sisir Kumar Bhaduri | West Bengal | Art |
1960–1969
| Year | Name | State | Field |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 1960 | Vir Vati | Delhi | Art |
| 1961 | Svetoslav Roerich | Russia | Art |
| 1961 | Bismillah Khan | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1961 | Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1961 | Raghunath Krishna Phadke | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 1962 | Bade Ghulam Ali Khan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1962 | Ashok Kumar Ganguly | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1963 | Mehboob Khan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1963 | Melville DeMellow | Rajasthan | Art |
| 1964 | Narayanrao Shripad Rajhans alias Bal Gandharva | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1964 | Adi Marzban | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1964 | Pratul Chandra Sorcar | West Bengal | Art |
| 1964 | Vinayak Pandurang Karmarkar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1965 | Satyajit Ray | West Bengal | Art |
| 1965 | Guru Kunju Kurup | Kerala | Art |
| 1965 | Ravishanker Mahashanker Raval | Gujarat | Art |
| 1965 | Vuppalathadiyam Nagayya | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1965 | Mrinalini Sarabhai | Gujarat | Art |
| 1966 | Shankar Pillai | Delhi | Art |
| 1966 | Zubin Mehta | Canada | Art |
| 1966 | Eswara Iyer Krishna Iyer | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1966 | Maqbool Fida Husain | Delhi | Art |
| 1966 | Villupuram Chinnaiya Ganesan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1966 | Bhanumati Ramakrishna | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1966 | Sumitra Charat Ram | Delhi | Art |
| 1967 | Ali Akbar Khan | West Bengal | Art |
| 1967 | Ravi Shankar | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1967 | Madras Lalithangi Vasanthakumari | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 1967 | Krishnachandra Moreshwar alias Daji Bhatawadekar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1967 | Mohammad Rafi | Punjab | Art |
| 1967 | Sasadhar Mukerji | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1967 | Vasant Desai | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1967 | Vinjamuri Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha Rao | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1967 | Siddheshwari Devi | Delhi | Art |
| 1968 | Bismillah Khan | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1968 | Kum. Yamini Krishnamurti | Delhi | Art |
| 1968 | Pt. Ayodhya Prasad | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1968 | Akkineni Nageswara Rao | Telangana | Art |
| 1968 | Devi Lal Samar | Rajasthan | Art |
| 1968 | Jaikishan Dahyabhai Panchal | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1968 | Joseph Harold | Delhi | Art |
| 1968 | Murlidhar Ramchandra Achrekar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1968 | Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 1968 | Nikhil Banerjee | West Bengal | Art |
| 1968 | Shankar Singh Raghuvanshi | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1968 | Sunil Dutt | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1968 | Akhtari Bai Faizabadi (Begum Akhtar) | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1968 | Durga Khote | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1968 | Vaijayantimala | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1968 | Sharan Rani Backliwal | Delhi | Art |
| 1969 | Kum. Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1969 | Prithvi Raj Kapoor | Punjab | Art |
| 1969 | Rahim-ud-din Khan Dagar | Delhi | Art |
| 1969 | Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1969 | Subramaniam Sreenivasan Vasan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1969 | Kesarbai Kerkar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1969 | Narayan Sridhar Bendre | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1969 | Balraj Sahni | Punjab | Art |
| 1969 | David Abraham | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1969 | Khwaja Ahmad Abbas | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1969 | Sukhdev | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1969 | Sachin Dev Burman | West Bengal | Art |
| 1969 | Sadashiva Rath Sharma | Odisha | Art |
| 1969 | Singannachar Narasimha Swamy | Telangana | Art |
| 1969 | Byrappa Saroja Devi | Karnataka | Art |
| 1969 | Indrani Rehman | Delhi | Art |
1970–1979
| Year | Name | State | Field |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Ahmad Jan Thirkawa | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1970 | Ramkinkar Baiz | West Bengal | Art |
| 1970 | Sombhu Mitra | West Bengal | Art |
| 1970 | Hirabai Barodekar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1970 | Kamala | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1970 | Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1970 | Avinash Anandrai Vyas | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1970 | Ezra Mir | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1970 | Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 1970 | Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair | Kerala | Art |
| 1970 | Karl Jamshed Khandalavala | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1970 | M. Krishnan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1970 | Maisnam Amubi Singh | Manipur | Art |
| 1970 | Mallikarjun Mansur | Karnataka | Art |
| 1970 | Pankaj Kumar Mullick | West Bengal | Art |
| 1970 | Prem Dhawan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1970 | Rajendra Kumar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1970 | Ram Chatur Mallik | Bihar | Art |
| 1970 | Ramaswamy Ganesan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1970 | Relangi Venkataramaiah | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 1970 | Ritwik Ghatak | West Bengal | Art |
| 1970 | Sukumar Bose | Delhi | Art |
| 1970 | T.R. Mahalingam | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1970 | Vedantam Satyanarayana Sarma | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 1970 | Vijaya Raghava Rao | West Bengal | Art |
| 1970 | Damayanti Joshi | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1970 | Kodumudi Balambal Sundarambal | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1970 | Ratna Fabri | Rajasthan | Art |
| 1971 | Uday Shankar | West Bengal | Art |
| 1971 | Ustad Allauddin Khan | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 1971 | Pichu Sambamoorthi | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1971 | Amir Khan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1971 | Jaishankar Sundari | Gujarat | Art |
| 1971 | Krishnarao Phulambrikar alias Krishnarao | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1971 | Musiri Subramania Iyer | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1971 | Nisar Husain Khan | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1971 | Palghat Tiruvillvamalai Seshan Mani Iyer | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1971 | Poyippilli Kalathil Kunju Kurup | Kerala | Art |
| 1971 | Raj Kapoor | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1971 | Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1971 | Damal Krishnaswami Pattamal | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1971 | Gangubai Hanagal | Karnataka | Art |
| 1971 | Pt. Siyaram Tiwari | Bihar | Art |
| 1971 | Chengannur Raman Pillai | Kerala | Art |
| 1971 | Karaola; Natesa Pillai Dhandayuthapani Pillai | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1971 | Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1971 | Manna Dey | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1971 | Qadri Ragi Aziz Ahmed Khan Warsi | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 1971 | Ravi Shankar Sharma | Haryana | Art |
| 1971 | Sankho Chaudhuri | Delhi | Art |
| 1971 | Trivandrum Kandaswami Pillai Shanmugam | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1971 | Vazhenkata Kunchu Nair | Kerala | Art |
| 1971 | Shantha Rao | Karnataka | Art |
| 1971 | Tripti Mitra | West Bengal | Art |
| 1972 | Vinayakbuwa Patwardhan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1972 | Birendra Nath Sircar | Bihar | Art |
| 1972 | Papanasam Ramayya Sivan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1972 | Gubbi Hampanna Veeranna | Karnataka | Art |
| 1972 | Kum. Waheeda Rahman | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1972 | Bhim Sen Joshi | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1972 | Hrishikesh Mukherji | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1972 | Krishna Reddy | France | Art |
| 1972 | Lalgudi Jayaraman | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1972 | Madras Kandaswamy Radha | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1972 | Mahendra Kapoor | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1972 | Chiranjit | Delhi | Art |
| 1972 | Raghu Rai | Delhi | Art |
| 1972 | Ram Kumar | Delhi | Art |
| 1972 | Samta Prasad | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1972 | Sunil Janah | Delhi | Art |
| 1972 | Surendra Nath Banerjee | West Bengal | Art |
| 1972 | Takhelehangbam Amudon Sharma | Manipur | Art |
| 1972 | Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1972 | Vazhuvoor Bagyalakshmi Ramiah Pillai | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1972 | Girija Devi | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1972 | Juthika Ray | West Bengal | Art |
| 1972 | Savitri Indrajit Parekh | Gujarat | Art |
| 1972 | Suchitra Sen | West Bengal | Art |
| 1973 | Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar | Kerala | Art |
| 1973 | Krishna Rao Shankar Pandit | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 1973 | Maqbool Fida Husain | Delhi | Art |
| 1973 | Kum. Uma Sharma | Delhi | Art |
| 1973 | Balasubramania Sastrigal alias Balu Bhagvathar | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1973 | Chellasami Sirchabai Murugabhupathy | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1973 | Kishan Maharaj | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1973 | S.G. Thakar Singh | Punjab | Art |
| 1973 | Shakoor Khan | Delhi | Art |
| 1973 | Thikkurussi Sukumaran Nair | Kerala | Art |
| 1973 | Tripunittura Narayanan Krishnan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1973 | Sitara Devi | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1974 | Binode Behari Mukherjee | Uttarakhand | Art |
| 1974 | Alice Bonner | Italy | Art |
| 1974 | B.Narsimha Reddy | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 1974 | Chintamani Kar | West Bengal | Art |
| 1974 | Dhiren Ganguli | West Bengal | Art |
| 1974 | Thakur Jaideva Singh | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1974 | Mogubai Kurdikar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1974 | Sriram Balkrishna Lagu | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1974 | Ali Hasan @ Kalloo Hafiz | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1974 | Emani Sankara Sastri | Delhi | Art |
| 1974 | Ghulam Qadir Lalla | Jammu and Kashmir | Art |
| 1974 | Girish Raghunath Karnad | Karnataka | Art |
| 1974 | Kelu Charan Mohapatra | Odisha | Art |
| 1974 | Kirpal Singh Shekhawat | Rajasthan | Art |
| 1974 | Manjapara Devesa Bhagavathar Ramanathan | Kerala | Art |
| 1974 | Mani Madhava Chakyar | Kerala | Art |
| 1974 | Thiruvizhimazhalai Subramania Pillai | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1974 | Manik Amar Varma | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1974 | Muryam Begum | Jammu and Kashmir | Art |
| 1974 | Nina Ripjit Singh @ Naina Devi | Delhi | Art |
| 1974 | Nutan Bahl | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1975 | Madurai Shanmugavadivu Subbalakshmi | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1975 | Begum Akhtar (posthumous) | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1975 | Kalpatthi Ganapathi Subramanyan | West Bengal | Art |
| 1975 | Pt. Jas Raj | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1975 | Amjad Ali Khan | Delhi | Art |
| 1975 | Basava Raja Mahanthaswamy Rajaguru | Karnataka | Art |
| 1975 | Gitchandra Tongbra | Manipur | Art |
| 1975 | Gopi Krishna | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1975 | Kettassery Joseph Jesudas | Kerala | Art |
| 1975 | Kalyanam Raghu Ramaiah | Telangana | Art |
| 1975 | M.S. Sathyu | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1975 | Madras Sundaram Iyer Gopalakrishnan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1975 | Jagdamba Devi | Bihar | Art |
| 1975 | Sanjukta Panigrahi | Odisha | Art |
| 1976 | Keshav Shankar Pillai | Delhi | Art |
| 1976 | Satyajit Ray | West Bengal | Art |
| 1976 | Mallikarjuna Bhimarayappa Mansoor | Karnataka | Art |
| 1976 | Pandit Ram Narayan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1976 | Balkrishna Raghunath Deodhar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1976 | Madurai S. Somasundaram | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1976 | Nimai Charan Harichandan | Odisha | Art |
| 1976 | Palghat Kollengode Viswanath Narayanaswamy | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1976 | Raghunath Mahapatro | Odisha | Art |
| 1976 | Rattehalli Nagendra Rao | Karnataka | Art |
| 1976 | Shyam Benegal | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1976 | Parveen Sultana | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1976 | Ustad Fayyaz Ahmed Khan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1977 | T. Balasaraswati | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1977 | Koduvayur Sivarama Narayanaswami | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1977 | Paramsukh J. Pandya | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1977 | Shivputra Sidhram Komkali Alias Kumar Gandharv | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 1977 | Annapurna Ravi Shankar | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1977 | Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika | Assam | Art |
| 1977 | Sheik Chinna Moulana | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1977 | Dhan Raj Bhagat | Delhi | Art |
| 1977 | Gulam Rasul Santosh | Delhi | Art |
| 1977 | Jehangir Ardeshir Sabavala | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1977 | Ustad Allarakha Khan Qureshi | Jammu and Kashmir | Art |
1980–1989
| Year | Name | State | Field |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Bismillah Khan | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1981 | Ravi Shankar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1981 | Mrinal Sen | West Bengal | Art |
| 1981 | Dr.(Kum.) Padma Subrahmanyam | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1981 | Babukudi Venkataramana Karanth | Karnataka | Art |
| 1981 | Dashrath Patel | Gujarat | Art |
| 1981 | Gambhir Singh Mura | West Bengal | Art |
| 1981 | Namagiripettai Kathasamy Krishnan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1981 | Sayed Haider Raza | France | Art |
| 1981 | Sita Devi | Delhi | Art |
| 1982 | S. Balachander | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1982 | Ustad Khadim Husain Khan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1982 | Jabbar Razak Patel | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1982 | Ammannur Madhava Chakyar | Kerala | Art |
| 1982 | Gautam Vaghela | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1982 | Virendra Prabhakar | Delhi | Art |
| 1982 | Sushree Hajjan Allah Jilai Bai | Rajasthan | Art |
| 1983 | Sringanellur Puttaswamaiah Muthuraj (Raj Kumar) | Karnataka | Art |
| 1983 | V. Doreswamy Iyengar | Karnataka | Art |
| 1983 | Pt Vishnu Govind Jog | West Bengal | Art |
| 1983 | Prem Nazir | Kerala | Art |
| 1983 | Sir Richard Samuel Attenborough | United Kingdom | Art |
| 1983 | Isai Mani' Seerkhazi S. Govindarajan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1983 | Miss Pamela Cullen | United Kingdom | Art |
| 1983 | Sardar Sohan Singh | Punjab | Art |
| 1983 | Gulam Mohammed Sheikh | Gujarat | Art |
| 1983 | Habib Tanvir | Delhi | Art |
| 1983 | Narain Singh Thapa | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1983 | Nepal Mahto | West Bengal | Art |
| 1983 | Prabhu Handel Manuel | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1983 | Raghubir Singh | France | Art |
| 1983 | Sobha Singh | Himachal Pradesh | Art |
| 1983 | Kanwal Sidhu (Nee Randhawa) | Punjab | Art |
| 1983 | Ustad Sharafat Hussain Khan | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1984 | Sripada Pinakapani | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 1984 | Bhavesh Chandra Sanyal | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 1984 | Jnan Prakash Ghosh | West Bengal | Art |
| 1984 | Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1984 | Villupuram Chinniah Ganesan (Shivaji Ganesan) | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1984 | (Smt.) N. Rajam | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1984 | Miss Roshan Kumari Faqir Mohammed | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1984 | Pt. Purushottam Das Pakhawaji | Rajasthan | Art |
| 1984 | Pt. Vinaya Chandra Maudalya | Delhi | Art |
| 1984 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Kerala | Art |
| 1984 | Amitabh Bachchan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1984 | Ben Kingsley | United Kingdom | Art |
| 1984 | Bhupen P. Khakhar | Gujarat | Art |
| 1984 | Hari Krishna Wattal | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1984 | Mavelikkara Krishnankutty Nair | Kerala | Art |
| 1984 | Nek Chand Saini | Chandigarh | Art |
| 1984 | Raja Reddy | Delhi | Art |
| 1984 | Ramgopal Vijaiwargiya | Rajasthan | Art |
| 1984 | Ganga Devi | Bihar | Art |
| 1984 | Radha Reddy | Delhi | Art |
| 1985 | Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1985 | Santidev Ghose | West Bengal | Art |
| 1985 | Kalanidhi Narayanan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1985 | Miss Elizabeth Brunner | Delhi | Art |
| 1985 | Miss Smita Shivajirao Patil | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1985 | Asa Singh Mastana | Delhi | Art |
| 1985 | Laxman Pai | Goa | Art |
| 1985 | Naseeruddin Shah | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1985 | Palghat Ramaswami Raghu | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1985 | Shanti Dave | Gujarat | Art |
| 1986 | Birju Maharaj | Delhi | Art |
| 1986 | Ustad Nasir Aminuddin Dagar | West Bengal | Art |
| 1986 | Hisamudin Usta | Rajasthan | Art |
| 1986 | Rajkumar Singhajit Singh | Delhi | Art |
| 1986 | S.M. Shinde @ Shankar Bapuji Appegaonkar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1986 | Shaik Nazar | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 1986 | Subrata Mitra | West Bengal | Art |
| 1986 | Kanika Bandyopadhyaya | West Bengal | Art |
| 1987 | Late Shri Nikhil Ranjan Banerjee | West Bengal | Art |
| 1987 | Kishori Ravindra Amonkar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1987 | Natesan Ramani | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1987 | Badri Narayan | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 1987 | Kailasam Balachander | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1987 | Naresh Sohal | United Kingdom | Art |
| 1987 | Aparna Sen | West Bengal | Art |
| 1987 | Kumudini Lakhia | Gujarat | Art |
| 1987 | Vijaya Farrokh Mehta | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1988 | Akkineni Nageswara Rao | Telangana | Art |
| 1988 | Kelu Charan Mohapatra | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1988 | Bikash Bhattacharjee | West Bengal | Art |
| 1988 | Jitendra Bhikaji Abhisheki | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1988 | Kudrat Singh | Rajasthan | Art |
| 1988 | Sudarshan Sahoo | Odisha | Art |
| 1988 | Umayalpuram Kasiviswanatha Sivaraman | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1988 | Zakir Hussain | United States of America | Art |
| 1988 | Chindodi Leela | Karnataka | Art |
| 1988 | Shabana Azmi | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1988 | Sudharani Raghupathy | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1988 | Teejan Bai | Chhattisgarh | Art |
| 1989 | Ustad Ali Akbar Khan | West Bengal | Art |
| 1989 | Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1989 | Girija Devi | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1989 | L. Subramaniam | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1989 | Adyar K. Lakshman | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1989 | Hakubhai Vajubhai Shah | Gujarat | Art |
| 1989 | Ratan Thiyam | Manipur | Art |
| 1989 | Sheikh Shams Uddin | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1989 | Upendra Jethalal Trivedi | Gujarat | Art |
1990–1999
| Year | Name | State | Field |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Sammangudi Radhakrishnier Srinivasier | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1990 | Shivputra Sindhram Komkali Alias Kumar Gandharv | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 1990 | Pt. Jasraj | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1990 | Pt. Nikhil Ghosh | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1990 | Purushottam Laxman Deshpande | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1990 | (Smt.) Kanak Yatindra Rele | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1990 | (Smt.) Kapila Vatsyayan | Delhi | Art |
| 1990 | Mohan Mahadeo Agashe | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1990 | Dr.(Smt.) Prabha Atre | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1990 | Kum. Leela Samson | Delhi | Art |
| 1990 | Pandit Balwantrai Gulabrai Bhatt 'Bhavrang' | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1990 | Allu Ramalingaiah | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1990 | Bishamber Khanna | Delhi | Art |
| 1990 | Govindan Nair Aravindaan | Kerala | Art |
| 1990 | Jagdish Chandra Mittal | Telangana | Art |
| 1990 | Kamal Haasan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1990 | Krishen Khanna | Delhi | Art |
| 1990 | Madurai Ponnusamy Natesan-Sethuraman | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1990 | Maharajapuram Viswanatha Santhanam | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1990 | Om Puri | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1990 | Raj Risaria | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1990 | Sattanatha Muthaiah Ganapathy | Telangana | Art |
| 1990 | Tarun Majumder | West Bengal | Art |
| 1990 | Asghari Bai | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 1990 | Diwaliben Punjabhai Bhil | Gujarat | Art |
| 1990 | Gulab Bai | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1990 | Madhavi Mudgal | Delhi | Art |
| 1991 | Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1991 | Maqbool Fida Hussain | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1991 | Basavaraj Rajguru | Karnataka | Art |
| 1991 | Narayan Shridhar Bendre | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1991 | Pt. Ram Narayan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1991 | Pt. Samta Prasad alias Gudai Maharaj | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1991 | Amjad Ali Khan | Delhi | Art |
| 1991 | Ebrahim Alkazi | Delhi | Art |
| 1991 | Mohammad Yusuf Khan alias Dilip Kumar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1991 | Shyam Benegal | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1991 | Amala Shankar | West Bengal | Art |
| 1991 | (Smt.) Shanno Khurana | Delhi | Art |
| 1991 | Kum. Alarmel Valli | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1991 | Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1991 | Prof.(Smt.) Sharda Sinha | Bihar | Art |
| 1991 | Sardar Gurcharan Singh | Punjab | Art |
| 1991 | Bharat Gopy | Kerala | Art |
| 1991 | Maharaj Krishan Kumar | Delhi | Art |
| 1991 | Manu Parekh | Delhi | Art |
| 1991 | Rajkumar Suddhendra Narayan Singh Deo | Jharkhand | Art |
| 1991 | Ranbir Singh Bisht | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 1991 | Mani Narayan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1991 | Pratima Barua Pandey | Assam | Art |
| 1991 | Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1991 | Ustad Hafeez Ahmed Khan | Delhi | Art |
| 1992 | Satyajit Ray (Posthumous) | West Bengal | Art |
| 1992 | Mallikarjun Bheemaryappa Mansoor | Karnataka | Art |
| 1992 | Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre Alias Dr. V. Shantaram (Posthumous) | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1992 | Kaloji Narayana Rao | Telangana | Art |
| 1992 | Dr.(Smt.) Kadur Venkatalakshamma | Karnataka | Art |
| 1992 | Trippunithura Narayan Krishnan | Delhi | Art |
| 1992 | Pt. Chintaman Raghunath Vyas | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1992 | Pt. Devabrata Chaudhuri (Debu) | Delhi | Art |
| 1992 | Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1992 | Adusumalli Radha Krishna | Telangana | Art |
| 1992 | Girish Karnad | Karnataka | Art |
| 1992 | Kongara Jaggaiah | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1992 | Naushad Ali Wahid Ali | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1992 | Talat Manzoor Mahmood | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1992 | Byrappa Saroja Devi Sri Harsha | Karnataka | Art |
| 1992 | Mrinalini Sarabhai | Gujarat | Art |
| 1992 | Sonal Mansingh | Delhi | Art |
| 1992 | Nataraja Ramakrishna | Telangana | Art |
| 1992 | Guru Pankaj Charan Das | Odisha | Art |
| 1992 | Kum. Asha Bachubhai Parekh | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1992 | Kum. Srirangam Gopalarathnam | Telangana | Art |
| 1992 | Anandji Virji Shah | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1992 | Bhagaban Sahu | Odisha | Art |
| 1992 | Biren De | Delhi | Art |
| 1992 | Chittu Tudu | Bihar | Art |
| 1992 | Kalyanji Virji Shah | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1992 | Kasinadhuni Vishwanath | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1992 | Madurai Narayanan Krishnan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1992 | Manoj Kumar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1992 | Muthu Muthiah Sthapathi | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1992 | Tadepalli Venkanna | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 1992 | Tapan Sinha | West Bengal | Art |
| 1992 | Chitra Visweswaran | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1992 | Jaya Bachchan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1992 | Meera Mukherjee | West Bengal | Art |
| 1992 | Shovana Narayan | Delhi | Art |
| 1992 | Sunita Kohli | Delhi | Art |
| 1992 | Ustad Sabri Khan | Delhi | Art |
| 1998 | Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbalakshmi | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1998 | Vempati Chinna Satyam | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1998 | Kongbrailatpam Ibomcha Sharma alias Abhiramshaba Sharma | Manipur | Art |
| 1998 | Krishnarao Ganpatrao Sable alias Shahir Sable | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1998 | Kunja Bihari Meher | Odisha | Art |
| 1998 | P.I. Mohammed Kutty (Mammootty) | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1998 | Uppalapu Shrinivas | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1998 | Dipali Borthakur | Assam | Art |
| 1998 | Zohra Segal | Delhi | Art |
| 1999 | Pandit Ravi Shankar | United States of America | Art |
| 1999 | Kum. Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1999 | Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1999 | Satish Gujral | Delhi | Art |
| 1999 | Damal Krishnaswamy Pattammal | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 1999 | Ashok Kumar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1999 | (Smt.) Sumati Mutatkar | Delhi | Art |
| 1999 | Dr.(Smt.) Saryu Vinod Doshi | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1999 | Jaganmoy Mitra alias Jagmohan Sursagar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1999 | Javed Akhtar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1999 | Ram Vanji Sutar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 1999 | Tsering Wangdus | Ladakh | Art |
| 1999 | Shobha Deepak Singh | Delhi | Art |
| 1999 | Sulochana Shankarrao Latkar | Maharashtra | Art |
2000–2009
| Year | Name | State | Field |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra | Odisha | Art |
| 2000 | Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2000 | Pandit Jasraj Motiram | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2000 | Raja Reddy | Delhi | Art |
| 2000 | Rajini Kanth | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2000 | Radha Reddy | Delhi | Art |
| 2000 | Sharan Rani Backliwal | Delhi | Art |
| 2000 | Ramanand Sagar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2000 | Allah Rakka Rahman | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2000 | Alyque Padamsee | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2000 | Kanhai Chitrakar | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2000 | Shekhar Kapur | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2000 | Anjolie Ela Menon | Delhi | Art |
| 2000 | Hema Malini | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2000 | Shubha Mudgal | Delhi | Art |
| 2001 | Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2001 | Ustad Bismillah Khan | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2001 | Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2001 | Ustad Amjad Ali Khan | Delhi | Art |
| 2001 | Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2001 | Zubin Mehta | United States of America | Art |
| 2001 | (Ms.) Yamini Krishnamurti | Delhi | Art |
| 2001 | Bhupen Hazarika | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2001 | Lakshminarayana Subramaniam | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2001 | Dr.(Smt.) Paluvai Bhanumathi Ramakrishna | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2001 | Uma Sharma | Delhi | Art |
| 2001 | Amitabh Bachchan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2001 | Baldev Raj Chopra | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2001 | Dev Anand | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2001 | Lalgudi Gopalaiyer Jayaraman | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2001 | Pran Sikand | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2001 | Raghunath Mohapatra | Odisha | Art |
| 2001 | Avadhanam Sita Raman | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2001 | Nerella Venumadhav | Telangana | Art |
| 2001 | Siramdasu Venkata Rama Rao | Telangana | Art |
| 2001 | Sunil Manilal Kothari | Delhi | Art |
| 2001 | Aamir Raza Husain | Haryana | Art |
| 2001 | Daatla Venkata Suryanarayana Raju | Telangana | Art |
| 2001 | Mohammed Tayab Khan | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2001 | Sripathi Panditharadhyula Balasubrahmanyam | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2001 | Thota Tharani | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2001 | Viswanathan Mohanlal | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2001 | Padmaja Phenany Joglekar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2001 | Sobha Naidu | Telangana | Art |
| 2002 | Dr.(Smt.) Gangubai Hangal | Karnataka | Art |
| 2002 | Pandit Kishan Maharaj | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2002 | Kishori Ravindra Amonkar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2002 | Prabha Atre | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2002 | Habib Ahmed Khan Tanvir | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2002 | Ismail Merchant | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2002 | Kattassery Joseph Yesudas | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2002 | Zakir Hussain | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2002 | Shobha V. Gurtu | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2002 | Kim Yang Shik | South Korea | Art |
| 2002 | Saroja Vaidyanathan | Delhi | Art |
| 2002 | Darshana Navnitlal Jhaveri | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2002 | Kiran Segal | Delhi | Art |
| 2002 | Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2002 | Fazal Mohammad | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2002 | Govind Nihalani | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2002 | Mani Ratnam | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2002 | Dr, Navaneetham Padmanabha Seshadri | Delhi | Art |
| 2002 | Rajan Devadas | United States of America | Art |
| 2002 | Thettagudi Hariharasarma Vinayakram | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2002 | Wannakuwattawaduge Don Amardeva | Sri Lanka | Art |
| 2002 | Mani Krishnaswami | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2002 | Manorama | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2002 | Pushpa Bhuyan | Assam | Art |
| 2002 | Raj Begum | Jammu and Kashmir | Art |
| 2002 | Ustad Abdul Latif Khan | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2003 | Sonal Mansingh | Delhi | Art |
| 2003 | Dr.(Kum.) Padma Subrahmanyam | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2003 | Ammannur Madhava Chakyar | Kerala | Art |
| 2003 | Balasubramania Rajam Iyer | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2003 | Jagjit Singh | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2003 | Madurai Narayanan Krishnan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2003 | Naseeruddin Shah | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2003 | Puliyur Subramaniam Narayanaswamy | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2003 | Tiruvalangadu Vembu Iyer Sankaranarayanan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2003 | Trichur Vaidyanatha Ramachandran | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2003 | Umayalpuram Kasiviswanatha Sivaraman | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2003 | Swapnasundari | Delhi | Art |
| 2003 | Teejan Bai | Chhattisgarh | Art |
| 2003 | Malavika Sarukkai | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2003 | Ranjana Gauhar | Delhi | Art |
| 2003 | (Smt.) Rita Ganguly | Delhi | Art |
| 2003 | Pandit Satish Chintaman Vyas | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2003 | Ram Gopal Bajaj | Telangana | Art |
| 2003 | Aamir Khan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2003 | Danny Denzongpa | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2003 | Nemichandra Jain | Delhi | Art |
| 2003 | Om Prakash Jain | Delhi | Art |
| 2003 | Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2003 | Thoguluva Meenakshi Iyengar Sounderarajan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2003 | Kshetrimayum Ongbi Thouranisabi Devi | Manipur | Art |
| 2003 | Rakhee Gulzar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2003 | Sukumari Sathyabhama | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2003 | Ustad Shafaat Ahmed Khan | Delhi | Art |
| 2004 | (Smt.) N. Rajam | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2004 | Komal Kothari (Posthumous) | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2004 | Madurai Thirumalai Nambi Seshagopalan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2004 | Gulzar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2004 | Soumitra Chatterjee | West Bengal | Art |
| 2004 | Alarmel Valli | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2004 | Guru Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair | Kerala | Art |
| 2004 | Guru Shri Veeranala Jayarama Rao | Delhi | Art |
| 2004 | Pandit Bhajan Sopori | Delhi | Art |
| 2004 | Pandit Surinder Singh | Delhi | Art |
| 2004 | Pt. Damodar Keshav Datar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2004 | A. Hariharan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2004 | Anupam Pushkarnath Kher | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2004 | Bharathi Rajaa | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2004 | Haridwaramangalam A. Kumarvel Palanivel | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2004 | Heisnam Kanhailal | Manipur | Art |
| 2004 | Kadri Gopalnath | Karnataka | Art |
| 2004 | Kantibhai Baldevbhai Patel | Gujarat | Art |
| 2004 | Krishn Kanhai | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2004 | Maguni Charan Das | Odisha | Art |
| 2004 | Manoranjan Das | Odisha | Art |
| 2004 | Morup Namgial | Ladakh | Art |
| 2004 | Neyyattinkara Vasudevan | Kerala | Art |
| 2004 | Purshottam Das Jalota | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2004 | Bharati Shivaji | Delhi | Art |
| 2004 | Sikkil Natesan Neela | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2004 | Sikkil Venkatraman Kunjumani | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2004 | Sudha Raghunathan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2005 | Pandit Ram Narayan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2005 | Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Laxman | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2005 | Yash Raj Chopra | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2005 | A. Ramachandran | Delhi | Art |
| 2005 | Probodh Chandra Manna Dey | Karnataka | Art |
| 2005 | Guru Kedar Nath Sahoo | Jharkhand | Art |
| 2005 | Raasacharya Swami Ram Swaroop Sharma | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2005 | Chaturbhuj Meher | Odisha | Art |
| 2005 | Kunnakudi Ramaswami Sastri Vaidyanathan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2005 | Manuel Santana Aguiar alias M. Boyer | Goa | Art |
| 2005 | Muzaffar Ali | Delhi | Art |
| 2005 | Punaram Nishad | Chhattisgarh | Art |
| 2005 | Puran Chand Wadali | Punjab | Art |
| 2005 | Shah Rukh Khan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2005 | Sougaijam Thanil Singh | Manipur | Art |
| 2005 | Kavita Krishnamurti Subramaniam | Karnataka | Art |
| 2005 | Komala Varadan | Delhi | Art |
| 2005 | Krishnan Nair Santhakumari Chithra | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2005 | Kumkum Mohanty | Odisha | Art |
| 2005 | Shameem Dev Azad | Delhi | Art |
| 2005 | Yumlembam Gambhini Devi | Manipur | Art |
| 2005 | Ustad Ghulam Sadiq Khan | Delhi | Art |
| 2006 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Kerala | Art |
| 2006 | Dr.(Smt.) Shanno Khurana | Delhi | Art |
| 2006 | Porayath Leela (Posthumous) | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2006 | Sai Paranjpye | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2006 | Kalapathi Ganapathi Subramanyan | Gujarat | Art |
| 2006 | A.K. Hangal | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2006 | Konidala Chiranjeevi | Telangana | Art |
| 2006 | Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2006 | Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2006 | Ustad Sabri Khan | Delhi | Art |
| 2006 | Yashodhar Mathpal | Uttarakhand | Art |
| 2006 | Dr.(Ms.) Ileana Citaristi | Odisha | Art |
| 2006 | Dr.(Smt.) Surinder Kaur | Haryana | Art |
| 2006 | Shobana Chandrakumar | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2006 | Pandit Guru Shyama Charan Pati | Jharkhand | Art |
| 2006 | Aribam Syam Sharma | Manipur | Art |
| 2006 | Kavungal Chathunni Panicker | Kerala | Art |
| 2006 | Madhup Mudgal | Delhi | Art |
| 2006 | Mahmood Dhaulpuri | Delhi | Art |
| 2006 | Pankaj Keshubhai Udhas | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2006 | Prasad Sawkar | Goa | Art |
| 2006 | Shree Lal Joshi | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2006 | Gayatri Sankaran | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2006 | Kanaka Srinivasan | Delhi | Art |
| 2006 | Vasundhara Komkali | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2006 | Swami Harigovind | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2006 | Ustad Rashid Khan | West Bengal | Art |
| 2007 | Somnath Hore (Posthumous) | West Bengal | Art |
| 2007 | Pandit Rajan Misra | Delhi | Art |
| 2007 | Pandit Sajan Misra | Delhi | Art |
| 2007 | Kavalam Narayana Panikkar | Kerala | Art |
| 2007 | Ramankutty Nair | Kerala | Art |
| 2007 | Syed Haider Raza | France | Art |
| 2007 | Tyeb Mehta | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2007 | (Smt.) Ananda Shankar Jayant | Telangana | Art |
| 2007 | M. Mohan Babu | Telangana | Art |
| 2007 | Pandit Gajendra Narayan Singh | Bihar | Art |
| 2007 | Rajmata Goverdan Kumarri | Gujarat | Art |
| 2007 | Astad Aderbad Deboo | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2007 | P. Gopinathan | Kerala | Art |
| 2007 | Pannuru Sripathy | Telangana | Art |
| 2007 | Remo Fernandes | Goa | Art |
| 2007 | S. Dakshinamurthy Pillai | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2007 | S.Balachandra Menon | Kerala | Art |
| 2007 | Sonam Skalzang | Jammu and Kashmir | Art |
| 2007 | Sonam Tshering Lepcha | Sikkim | Art |
| 2007 | Thingbaijam Babu Singh | Manipur | Art |
| 2007 | Valayapatti A.R. Subramaniyam | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2007 | Waman Thakre | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2007 | Geeta Chandran | Delhi | Art |
| 2007 | Naorem Ongbi Neelamani Devi | Manipur | Art |
| 2007 | P.R. Thilagam | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2007 | Pushpa Hans | Delhi | Art |
| 2007 | Shanti Hiranand | Delhi | Art |
| 2007 | Shashikala Jawalkar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2008 | (Smt.) Asha Bhosle | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2008 | (Smt.) P. Susheela | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2008 | Amar Nath Sehgal Posthumous) | Delhi | Art |
| 2008 | (Dr.) Sushil Kumar Saxena | Delhi | Art |
| 2008 | Ustad Asad Ali Khan | Delhi | Art |
| 2008 | Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Khan Dagar | Delhi | Art |
| 2008 | (Smt.) Helen Giri | Meghalaya | Art |
| 2008 | Pandit Gokulotsavji Maharaj | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2008 | Sirkazhi G. Siva Chidambaram | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2008 | Guru Moozhikkulam Kochukuttan Chakyar | Kerala | Art |
| 2008 | Gennadi Mikhailovich Pechnikov | Russia | Art |
| 2008 | Manoj Night Shyamalan | United States of America | Art |
| 2008 | Pandit Pratap Pawar | United Kingdom | Art |
| 2008 | Kochampilli Narayanan Nambiar | Kerala | Art |
| 2008 | Yella Venkateswara Rao | Telangana | Art |
| 2008 | Gangadhar Pradhan | Odisha | Art |
| 2008 | Hans Raj Hans | Punjab | Art |
| 2008 | Jatin Goswami | Assam | Art |
| 2008 | Jawahar Wattal | Delhi | Art |
| 2008 | John Martin Nelson | Chhattisgarh | Art |
| 2008 | Jonnalagadda Gurappa Chetty | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 2008 | Kekoo M. Gandhy | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2008 | Mangala Prasad Mohanty | Jharkhand | Art |
| 2008 | Tom Alter | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2008 | Heisnam Sabitri | Manipur | Art |
| 2008 | Madhuri Dixit Nene | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2008 | Meenakshi Sabanayagam Chitharanjan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2008 | Sentila T. Yanger | Nagaland | Art |
| 2009 | Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2009 | G. Krishna | Telangana | Art |
| 2009 | Vaidyanathan Ganapati Sthapati | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2009 | R.C. Mehta | Gujarat | Art |
| 2009 | V.P. Dhananjayan & Smt. Shanta Dhananjayan (Duo) | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2009 | Shamshad Begum | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2009 | Bhai Nirmal Singh 'Khalasa' | Punjab | Art |
| 2009 | (Smt.) Leela Omchery | Delhi | Art |
| 2009 | Ameena Ahmad Ahuja | Delhi | Art |
| 2009 | Kanneganti Brahmanandam | Telangana | Art |
| 2009 | Kiran Seth | Delhi | Art |
| 2009 | Pratapaditya Pal | United States of America | Art |
| 2009 | S. Krishnaswamy | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2009 | Skendrowell Syiemlieh (Posthumous) | Meghalaya | Art |
| 2009 | Tafazzul Ali (Posthumous) | Assam | Art |
| 2009 | Geeta Kapur | Delhi | Art |
| 2009 | Devayani | France | Art |
| 2009 | Penaz Doli Masani | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2009 | Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2009 | A. Vivekh | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2009 | Akshay Kumar Hariom Bhatia | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2009 | Gobind Ram Nirmalkar | Chhattisgarh | Art |
| 2009 | Gurumayum Gourakishor Sharma | Manipur | Art |
| 2009 | Hashmat Ullah Khan | Jammu and Kashmir | Art |
| 2009 | Iravatham Mahadevan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2009 | K.P. Udayabhanu | Kerala | Art |
| 2009 | Kalamandalam Gopi | Kerala | Art |
| 2009 | Kumar Sanu | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2009 | Mattannoor Sankarankutty Marar | Kerala | Art |
| 2009 | Thilakan | Kerala | Art |
| 2009 | Niranjan Goswami | West Bengal | Art |
| 2009 | Prakash Narain Dubey | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2009 | Ramkishore Chhipa (Derawala) | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2009 | Suresh Dutta | West Bengal | Art |
| 2009 | Udit Narayan Jha | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2009 | Aishwarya Rai Bachchan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2009 | Aruna Sairam | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2009 | Helen Khan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2009 | Hemi Bawa | Delhi | Art |
| 2009 | Saoli Mitra | West Bengal | Art |
2010–2019
| Year | Name | State | Field |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2010 | Ebrahim Alkazi | Delhi | Art |
| 2010 | Zohra Segal | Delhi | Art |
| 2010 | Mallika V. Sarabhhai | Gujarat | Art |
| 2010 | Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana | Telangana | Art |
| 2010 | Pandit Puttaraj Kavi Gavaigalavaru | Karnataka | Art |
| 2010 | Pandit Chhannulal Mishra | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2010 | Madhusudan Amilal Dhaky | Gujarat | Art |
| 2010 | A.R. Rahman | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2010 | Aamir Khan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2010 | Akbar Padamsee | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2010 | Kuzhur Narayana Marar | Kerala | Art |
| 2010 | Ilaiyaraaja | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2010 | Ram Kumar | Delhi | Art |
| 2010 | Shrinivas Vinayak Khale | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2010 | Kumudini Lakhia | Gujarat | Art |
| 2010 | Ustad Sultan Khan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2010 | Mukund Lath | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2010 | Ram Dayal Munda | Jharkhand | Art |
| 2010 | Shobha Raju | Telangana | Art |
| 2010 | Guru Mayadhar Raut | Delhi | Art |
| 2010 | Carmel Berkson | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2010 | Rekha Ganeshan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2010 | Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi | Odisha | Art |
| 2010 | Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar | West Bengal | Art |
| 2010 | Arjun Prajapati | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2010 | Hari Uppal | Bihar | Art |
| 2010 | K. Raghavan | Kerala | Art |
| 2010 | Nemai Ghosh | West Bengal | Art |
| 2010 | Rajkumar Achouba Singh | Manipur | Art |
| 2010 | Resul Pookutty | Kerala | Art |
| 2010 | Saif Ali Khan Pataudi | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2010 | Arundhati Nag | Karnataka | Art |
| 2010 | Gul Bardhan | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2010 | Haobam Ongbi Ngangbi Devi | Manipur | Art |
| 2010 | Sumitra Guha | Delhi | Art |
| 2010 | Ustad Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar | Delhi | Art |
| 2011 | (Smt.) Kapila Vatsyayan | Delhi | Art |
| 2011 | Akkineni Nageswara Rao | Telangana | Art |
| 2011 | Homai Vyarawalla | Gujarat | Art |
| 2011 | Rudrapatna Krishna Sastry Srikantan | Karnataka | Art |
| 2011 | Arpita Singh | Delhi | Art |
| 2011 | C. V. Chandrasekhar | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2011 | Dasharath Patel (Posthumous) | Gujarat | Art |
| 2011 | Dwijen Mukherjee | West Bengal | Art |
| 2011 | Krishen Khanna | Haryana | Art |
| 2011 | Madavoor Vasudevan Nair | Kerala | Art |
| 2011 | Khayyam | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2011 | S. P. Balasubrahmanyam | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2011 | Satyadev Dubey | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2011 | Shashi Kapoor | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2011 | Waheeda Rehman | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2011 | Girish Kasaravalli | Karnataka | Art |
| 2011 | Neelam Man Singh Chowdhry | Chandigarh | Art |
| 2011 | Tabu | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2011 | S. R. Janakiraman | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2011 | Ajoy Chakrabarty | West Bengal | Art |
| 2011 | Dadi Dorab Pudumjee | Delhi | Art |
| 2011 | Gajam Govardhana | Telangana | Art |
| 2011 | Jayaram Subramaniam | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2011 | Jiyva Soma Mhase | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2011 | Khangembam Mangi Singh | Manipur | Art |
| 2011 | Makar Dhwaj Darogha | Jharkhand | Art |
| 2011 | Peruvanam Kuttan Marar | Kerala | Art |
| 2011 | Prahlad Singh Tipanya | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2011 | Sahabzade Irrfan Ali Khan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2011 | Shaji Neelakantan Karun | Kerala | Art |
| 2011 | Kajol Devgan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2011 | Kshemavathy Pavithran | Kerala | Art |
| 2011 | Madras Kaderivelu Saroja | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2011 | Mahasundari Devi | Bihar | Art |
| 2011 | Sunayana Hazarilal | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2011 | Usha Uthup | West Bengal | Art |
| 2012 | Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika (Posthumous) | Assam | Art |
| 2012 | Kalpathi Ganapathi Subramanyan | Gujarat | Art |
| 2012 | Mario de Miranda (Posthumous) | Goa | Art |
| 2012 | T. V. Gopalakrishnan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2012 | Shabana Azmi | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2012 | Anish Kapoor | United Kingdom | Art |
| 2012 | Buddhadev Das Gupta | West Bengal | Art |
| 2012 | Jatin Das | Delhi | Art |
| 2012 | Khaled Choudhury | West Bengal | Art |
| 2012 | M.S. Gopalakrishnan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2012 | Dharmendra Deol | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2012 | Sunil Janah | United States of America | Art |
| 2012 | Mira Nair | Delhi | Art |
| 2012 | Minati Mishra | Odisha | Art |
| 2012 | Laila Tyabji | Delhi | Art |
| 2012 | Pandit Shri Gopal Prasad Dubey | Jharkhand | Art |
| 2012 | Anup Jalota | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2012 | Kalamandalam Sivan Namboothiri | Kerala | Art |
| 2012 | Mohan Lal Kumhar | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2012 | Moti Lal Kemmu | Jammu and Kashmir | Art |
| 2012 | N. Muthuswamy | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2012 | Ramachandra Subraya Hegde Chittani | Karnataka | Art |
| 2012 | Umakant Gundeecha and Shri Ramakant Gundecha (Duo) | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2012 | Sakar Khan Manganiar | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2012 | Satish Vasant Alekar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2012 | Shahid Parvez Khan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2012 | Soman Nair Priyadarsan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2012 | Vanraj Bhatia | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2012 | Vijay Sharma | Himachal Pradesh | Art |
| 2012 | Joy Michael | Delhi | Art |
| 2012 | Nameirakpam Ibemni Devi | Manipur | Art |
| 2012 | R. Nagarathnamma | Karnataka | Art |
| 2012 | Yamunabai Vikram Jawle (Waikar) | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2013 | Raghunath Mohapatra | Odisha | Art |
| 2013 | Sayed Haider Raza | Delhi | Art |
| 2013 | D. Ramanaidu | Telangana | Art |
| 2013 | Saroja Vaidyanathan | Delhi | Art |
| 2013 | Dr.(Smt) Kanak Yatindra Rele | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2013 | Jaspal Singh Bhatti (Posthumous) | Chandigarh | Art |
| 2013 | Rajesh Khanna (Posthumous) | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2013 | Sharmila Tagore | Delhi | Art |
| 2013 | Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan | West Bengal | Art |
| 2013 | Maharukh Tarapor | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2013 | Pandit Suresh Talwalkar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2013 | Apurba Kishore Bir | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2013 | Balwant Thakur | Jammu and Kashmir | Art |
| 2013 | Brahmdeo Ram Pandit | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2013 | Gajam Anjaiah | Telangana | Art |
| 2013 | Ghanakanta Bora Borbayan | Assam | Art |
| 2013 | Kailash Chandra Meher | Odisha | Art |
| 2013 | Nana Gajanan Patekar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2013 | P. Madhavan Nair (Madhu) | Kerala | Art |
| 2013 | Pablo Bartholomew | Delhi | Art |
| 2013 | Purna Chandra Das | West Bengal | Art |
| 2013 | R. Nageswara Rao (Babji) | Telangana | Art |
| 2013 | Rajendar Kumar Tiku | Jammu and Kashmir | Art |
| 2013 | Ramesh Gopaldas Sippy | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2013 | S. Lakshminarayana (Bapu) | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2013 | S. Shakir Ali | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2013 | B. Jayashree | Karnataka | Art |
| 2013 | Hilda Mit Lepcha | Sikkim | Art |
| 2013 | Jaymala Jayram Shiledar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2013 | Sridevi Kapoor | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2013 | Sudha Malhotra Motwane | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2013 | Swami G. C. D. Bharti (Bharti Bandhu) | Chhattisgarh | Art |
| 2013 | Ustad Ghulam Mohammed Saznawaz | Jammu and Kashmir | Art |
| 2014 | Begum Parween Sultana | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2014 | Gulammohammed Sheikh | Gujarat | Art |
| 2014 | Kamal Haasan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2014 | T.H. Vikku Vinayakram | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2014 | Sabitri Chatterjee | West Bengal | Art |
| 2014 | Sooni Taraporevala | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2014 | Supriya Devi | West Bengal | Art |
| 2014 | Vidya Balan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2014 | Pandit Vijay Ghate | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2014 | Biman Bihari Das | Delhi | Art |
| 2014 | Kalamandalam Sathyabhama | Kerala | Art |
| 2014 | Anuj (Ramanuj) Sharma | Chhattisgarh | Art |
| 2014 | Bansi Kaul | Delhi | Art |
| 2014 | Mohammad Ali Baig | Telangana | Art |
| 2014 | Musafir Ram Bhardwaj | Himachal Pradesh | Art |
| 2014 | Paresh Maity | Delhi | Art |
| 2014 | Paresh Rawal | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2014 | Ram Mohan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2014 | Santosh Sivan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2014 | Sudarsan Pattnaik | Odisha | Art |
| 2014 | Sunil Das | West Bengal | Art |
| 2014 | Elam Indira Devi | Manipur | Art |
| 2014 | Geeta Mahalik | Delhi | Art |
| 2014 | Naina Apte Joshi | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2014 | Rani Karnaa Nayak | West Bengal | Art |
| 2014 | Ustad Moinuddin Khan | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2015 | Amitabh Bachchan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2015 | Mohammed Yusuf Khan alias Dilip Kumar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2015 | Pandit Gokulotsavji Maharaj | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2015 | Jahnu Barua | Assam | Art |
| 2015 | Sudha Ragunathan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2015 | Prafulla Kar | Odisha | Art |
| 2015 | Kanyakumari Avasarala | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2015 | Kota Srinivasa Rao | Telangana | Art |
| 2015 | Mahesh Rajsoni | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2015 | Naresh Bedi | Delhi | Art |
| 2015 | Neil Herbert Nongkynrih | Meghalaya | Art |
| 2015 | Pran Kumar Sharma (Posthumous) | Delhi | Art |
| 2015 | Prasoon Joshi | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2015 | Rahul Jain | Delhi | Art |
| 2015 | Ravindra Jain | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2015 | Sanjay Leela Bhansali | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2015 | Shekhar Sen | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2015 | Tripti Mukherjee | United States of America | Art |
| 2016 | Girija Devi | West Bengal | Art |
| 2016 | Yamini Krishnamurti | Delhi | Art |
| 2016 | Rajinikanth | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2016 | Anupam Pushkarnath Kher | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2016 | Heisnam Kanhailal | Manipur | Art |
| 2016 | Ram Vanji Sutar | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2016 | Udit Narayan Jha | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2016 | Soma Ghosh | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2016 | Priyanka Chopra | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2016 | Pandit Tulsidas Borkar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2016 | M. Venkateshkumar | Karnataka | Art |
| 2016 | Ajay Devgn | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2016 | Bhalu Mondhe | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2016 | Bhikhudan Govindbhai Gadhvi | Gujarat | Art |
| 2016 | Jai Prakash Lakhiwal | Delhi | Art |
| 2016 | Kalal Laxma Goud | Telangana | Art |
| 2016 | Madhur R. Bhandarkar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2016 | Michel Postel | France | Art |
| 2016 | Naresh Chander Lal | Andaman And Nicobar Islands | Art |
| 2016 | Nila Madhab Panda | Delhi | Art |
| 2016 | Prakash Chandji Surana (Posthumous) | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2016 | S.S. Rajamouli | Telangana | Art |
| 2016 | Saeed Jaffrey (Posthumous) | United Kingdom | Art |
| 2016 | Sribhas Chandra Supakar | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2016 | Gulabi Sapera | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2016 | Malini Awasthi | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2016 | Mamta Chandrakar | Chhattisgarh | Art |
| 2016 | Prathibha Prahlad | Delhi | Art |
| 2017 | K J Yesudas | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2017 | Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2017 | Aekka Yadagiri Rao | Telangana | Art |
| 2017 | Kailash Kher | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2017 | Sadhu Meher | Odisha | Art |
| 2017 | Tilak Gitai | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2017 | Chemancheri Kunhiraman Nair | Kerala | Art |
| 2017 | Jitendra Haripal | Odisha | Art |
| 2017 | Pt. Krishna Ram Choudhary | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2017 | Laishram Birendrakumar Singh | Manipur | Art |
| 2017 | Mukund Nayak | Jharkhand | Art |
| 2017 | Purushottam Upadhyay | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2017 | T K Murthy | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2017 | Wareppa Naba | Manipur | Art |
| 2017 | Anuradha Paudwal | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2017 | Aruna Mohanty | Odisha | Art |
| 2017 | Baoa Devi | Bihar | Art |
| 2017 | Basanti Bisht | Uttarakhand | Art |
| 2017 | Bharathi Vishnuvardhan | Karnataka | Art |
| 2017 | Parassala B Ponnammal | Kerala | Art |
| 2017 | Sukri. Bommu Gouda | Karnataka | Art |
| 2018 | Ilaiyaraaja | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2018 | Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2018 | Laxman Pai | Goa | Art |
| 2018 | Pandit Arvind Parikh | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2018 | Dr.(Smt.) Sharda Sinha | Bihar | Art |
| 2018 | Yogendra | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2018 | Mohan Swaroop Bhatia | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2018 | L.Subadani Devi | Manipur | Art |
| 2018 | Doddarangegowda | Karnataka | Art |
| 2018 | Manoj Navneet Joshi | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2018 | Pran Kishore Kaul | Jammu and Kashmir | Art |
| 2018 | Vijay Kumar Kichlu | West Bengal | Art |
| 2018 | Pravakar Maharana | Odisha | Art |
| 2018 | Sissir Purushottam Mishra | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2018 | Vijayalakshmi Navaneetha Krishnan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2018 | Gobardhan Panika | Odisha | Art |
| 2018 | Dr.R Sathyanarayana | Karnataka | Art |
| 2018 | Bhajju Shyam | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2018 | Ibrahim Nabisaheb Sutar | Karnataka | Art |
| 2018 | Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Tharanathan and Shri Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Thyagarajan (Duo) | Karnataka | Art |
| 2018 | Datuk Ramli Ibrahim | Malaysia | Art |
| 2018 | Bapak Nyoman Nuarta | Indonesia | Art |
| 2019 | Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika (Posthumous) | Assam | Art |
| 2019 | Dr.(Smt.)Teejan Bai | Chhattisgarh | Art |
| 2019 | Babasaheb alias Balwant Moreshwar Purandare | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2019 | Budhaditya Mukherjee | West Bengal | Art |
| 2019 | Viswanathan Mohanlal | Kerala | Art |
| 2019 | Rajeshwar Acharya | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2019 | Manoj Bajpayee | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2019 | Pritam Bhartwan | Uttarakhand | Art |
| 2019 | Jyoti Manshanker Bhatt | Gujarat | Art |
| 2019 | Swapan Chaudhuri | United States of America | Art |
| 2019 | Dinyar R Contractor | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2019 | Thanga Darlong | Tripura | Art |
| 2019 | Prabhu Deva | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2019 | Godawari Dutta | Bihar | Art |
| 2019 | Joravarsinh Danubhai Jadav | Gujarat | Art |
| 2019 | Fayaz Ahmad Jan | Jammu and Kashmir | Art |
| 2019 | Kadamputharamadom Gopalan Thanthri Jayan | Kerala | Art |
| 2019 | Waman Kendre | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2019 | Kader Khan (Posthumous) | Canada | Art |
| 2019 | Abdul Gaful Khatri | Gujarat | Art |
| 2019 | Shankar Mahadevan Narayan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2019 | Narthaki Nataraj | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2019 | Anup Ranjan Pandey | Chhattisgarh | Art |
| 2019 | Anup Sah | Uttarakhand | Art |
| 2019 | Milena Salvini | France | Art |
| 2019 | Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry Chembolu | Telangana | Art |
| 2019 | Anandan Sivamani | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2019 | Rajeev Taranath | Karnataka | Art |
| 2019 | Heera Lal Yadav | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
2020–2029
| Year | Name | State | Field |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Pandit Chhannulal Mishra | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2020 | Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty | West Bengal | Art |
| 2020 | Shashadhar Acharya | Jharkhand | Art |
| 2020 | Indira P. P. Bora | Assam | Art |
| 2020 | Madan Singh Chauhan | Chhattisgarh | Art |
| 2020 | Lalitha Chidambaram and Smt. Saroja Chidambaram (Duo) | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2020 | Deshabandu (Dr.) Vajira Chitrasena | Sri Lanka | Art |
| 2020 | Purushottam Dadheech (Puru Dadheech) | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2020 | Utsav Charan Das | Odisha | Art |
| 2020 | Manohar Devadoss | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2020 | Yadla Gopala Rao | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 2020 | Mitrabhanu Gountia | Odisha | Art |
| 2020 | Madhu Mansuri Hasmukh | Jharkhand | Art |
| 2020 | Shanti Jain (Posthumous) | Bihar | Art |
| 2020 | Karan Johar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2020 | Sarita Joshi | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2020 | Ekta Kapoor | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2020 | Yazdi Naoshirwan Karanjia | Gujarat | Art |
| 2020 | V. K. Munusamy | Puducherry | Art |
| 2020 | Manmohan Mahapatra (Posthumous) | Odisha | Art |
| 2020 | Ustad Anwar Khan Mangniyar | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2020 | Munna Master | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2020 | Pandit Manilal Nag | West Bengal | Art |
| 2020 | Pankajakshi M.S. | Kerala | Art |
| 2020 | Kangana Ranaut | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2020 | Dalavayi Chalapathi Rao | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 2020 | Adnan Sami Khan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2020 | Shyam Sunder Sharma | Bihar | Art |
| 2020 | Daya Prakash Sinha | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2020 | Kaleeshabi Mahaboob and Shri Sheik Mahaboob Subhani (Duo) | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2020 | Suresh Wadkar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2021 | Sripathi Panditharadhyula Balasubrahmanyam (Posthumous) | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2021 | Sudarshan Sahoo | Odisha | Art |
| 2021 | Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra | Kerala | Art |
| 2021 | Ustad Gulfam Ahmed | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2021 | Annavarapu Ramaswamy | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 2021 | Subbu Arumugam | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2021 | Bhuri Bai | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2021 | Radheshyam Barle | Chhattisgarh | Art |
| 2021 | Biren Kumar Basak | West Bengal | Art |
| 2021 | Peter Brook | United Kingdom | Art |
| 2021 | Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat | Assam | Art |
| 2021 | Narayan Debnath | West Bengal | Art |
| 2021 | Dulari Devi | Bihar | Art |
| 2021 | Hanjabam Ongbi Radhe Sharmi | Manipur | Art |
| 2021 | (Dr.) I. Wayan Dibia | Indonesia | Art |
| 2021 | Parshuram Vishram Gangavane | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2021 | Purnamasi Jani | Odisha | Art |
| 2021 | Matha B. Manjamma Jogati | Karnataka | Art |
| 2021 | Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri | Kerala | Art |
| 2021 | Mahesh Kumar Kanodia (Posthumous) and Shri Naresh Kanodia (Posthumous) (Duo) | Gujarat | Art |
| 2021 | K Kesavasamy | Puducherry | Art |
| 2021 | Haji Ghulam Rasool Khan | Jammu and Kashmir | Art |
| 2021 | Lakha Khan Manganiar | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2021 | Sanjida Khatun | Bangladesh | Art |
| 2021 | Vinayak Vishnu Khedekar | Goa | Art |
| 2021 | Lajwanti | Punjab | Art |
| 2021 | Ramachandra Manjhi | Bihar | Art |
| 2021 | Dulal Manki | Assam | Art |
| 2021 | Guru Rewben Mashangva | Manipur | Art |
| 2021 | K K Ramachandra Pulavar | Kerala | Art |
| 2021 | Kanaka Raju | Telangana | Art |
| 2021 | Bombay Jayashri Ramnath | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2021 | Maitya Ram Reang | Tripura | Art |
| 2021 | Kartar Singh | Punjab | Art |
| 2021 | Kartar Singh Sonkhle | Himachal Pradesh | Art |
| 2021 | K C Sivasankar (Posthumous) | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2021 | Dandamudi Sumathi Rama Mohan Rao | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 2022 | Prabha Atre | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2022 | Victor Banerjee | West Bengal | Art |
| 2022 | Gurmeet Bawa (Posthumous) | Punjab | Art |
| 2022 | Rashid Khan | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2022 | Kamalini Asthana and Ms. Nalini Asthana (Duo) | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2022 | Madhuri Barthwal | Uttarakhand | Art |
| 2022 | Pandit (Dr.) S. Ballesh Bhajantri | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2022 | Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia | Sikkim | Art |
| 2022 | Sulochana Chavan | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2022 | Lourembam Bino Devi | Manipur | Art |
| 2022 | Shyamamani Devi | Odisha | Art |
| 2022 | Arjun Singh Dhurwey | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2022 | Chandraprakash Dwivedi | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2022 | Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan Sahieb (Posthumous) | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 2022 | Sowcar Janaki | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2022 | H R Keshavamurthy | Karnataka | Art |
| 2022 | Pandit Shivnath Mishra | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2022 | Darshanam Mogilaiah | Telangana | Art |
| 2022 | Kongampattu A. V. Murugaiyan | Puducherry | Art |
| 2022 | R Muthukkannammal | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2022 | Tsering Namgyal | Ladakh | Art |
| 2022 | A. K. C. Natarajan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2022 | Sonu Nigam | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2022 | Ram Sahay Pandey | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2022 | Sheesh Ram | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2022 | Sakini Ramachandraiah | Telangana | Art |
| 2022 | Gaddam Padmaja Reddy | Telangana | Art |
| 2022 | Pandit Ram Dayal Sharma | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2022 | Kaajee Singh 'Vidyaarthee' | West Bengal | Art |
| 2022 | Konsam Ibomcha Singh | Manipur | Art |
| 2022 | Ajita Srivastava | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2022 | Lalita Vakil | Himachal Pradesh | Art |
| 2022 | Durga Bai Vyam | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2023 | Zakir Hussain | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2023 | Vani Jairam (Posthumous) | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2023 | Suman Kalyanpur | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2023 | Jodhaiya Bai Baiga | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2023 | Premjit Baria | Dadra And Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | Art |
| 2023 | Usha Barle | Chhattisgarh | Art |
| 2023 | Hemant Chauhan | Gujarat | Art |
| 2023 | Bhanubhai Chunilal Chitara | Gujarat | Art |
| 2023 | Hemoprova Chutia | Assam | Art |
| 2023 | Subhadra Devi | Bihar | Art |
| 2023 | Hem Chandra Goswami | Assam | Art |
| 2023 | Pritikana Goswami | West Bengal | Art |
| 2023 | Ustad Ahmed Hussain and Ustad Mohd Hussain (Duo) | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2023 | Dilshad Hussain | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2023 | Mahipatrai Kavi | Gujarat | Art |
| 2023 | Marakathamani Keeravaani | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 2023 | Parshuram Komaji Khune | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2023 | Maguni Charan Kuanr | Odisha | Art |
| 2023 | Domar Singh Kunvar | Chhattisgarh | Art |
| 2023 | Risingbor Kurkalang | Meghalaya | Art |
| 2023 | Iymudiyanda Rani Machaiah | Karnataka | Art |
| 2023 | Ajay Kumar Mandavi | Chhattisgarh | Art |
| 2023 | Nadoja Pindipapanahalli Munivenkatappa | Karnataka | Art |
| 2023 | Ramesh Parmar and Smt. Shanti Parmar (Duo) | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2023 | Krishna Patel | Odisha | Art |
| 2023 | Guru Thiruvidaimarudur Kuppiah Kalyanasundaram | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2023 | Kapil Dev Prasad | Bihar | Art |
| 2023 | Shah Rasheed Ahmed Quadri | Karnataka | Art |
| 2023 | Chintalapati Venkatapathi Raju | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 2023 | Paresh Rathwa | Gujarat | Art |
| 2023 | Mangala Kanti Roy | West Bengal | Art |
| 2023 | K C Runremsangi | Mizoram | Art |
| 2023 | Pandit (Dr.) Ritwik Sanyal | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2023 | Kota Satchidananda Sastry | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 2023 | Kakchingtabam Shanathoiba Sharma | Manipur | Art |
| 2023 | Neihunuo Sorhie | Nagaland | Art |
| 2023 | Moa Subong | Nagaland | Art |
| 2023 | Raveena Ravi Tandon | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2023 | Coomi Nariman Wadia | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2023 | Ghulam Muhammad Zaz | Jammu and Kashmir | Art |
| 2024 | Vyjayantimala Bali | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2024 | Konidela Chiranjeevi | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 2024 | Padma Subrahmanyam | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2024 | Mithun Chakraborty | West Bengal | Art |
| 2024 | Dattatray Ambadas Mayaloo alias Rajdutt | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2024 | Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2024 | Usha Uthup | West Bengal | Art |
| 2024 | Captain Vijayakant (Posthumous) | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2024 | Khalil Ahamad | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2024 | M. Badrappan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2024 | Kaluram Bamniya | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2024 | (Dr.) Rezwana Choudhury Bannya | Bangladesh | Art |
| 2024 | Naseem Bano | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2024 | Ramlal Bareth | Chhattisgarh | Art |
| 2024 | Gita Ray Barman | West Bengal | Art |
| 2024 | Som Datt Battu | Himachal Pradesh | Art |
| 2024 | Takdira Begam | West Bengal | Art |
| 2024 | Drona Bhuyan | Assam | Art |
| 2024 | Ashok Kumar Biswas | Bihar | Art |
| 2024 | Smriti Rekha Chakma | Tripura | Art |
| 2024 | Velu Anandachari | Telangana | Art |
| 2024 | Ghulam Nabi Dar | Jammu and Kashmir | Art |
| 2024 | Mahabir Singh Guddu | Haryana | Art |
| 2024 | Anupama Hoskere | Karnataka | Art |
| 2024 | Janki Lal Bhand | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2024 | Ratan Kahar | West Bengal | Art |
| 2024 | Dasari Kondappa | Telangana | Art |
| 2024 | Jorden Lepcha | Sikkim | Art |
| 2024 | Binod Maharana | Odisha | Art |
| 2024 | Daliparthi Umamaheshwari | Telangana | Art |
| 2024 | Pandit Ram Kumar Mallick | Bihar | Art |
| 2024 | Pandit Surendra Mohan Mishra (Posthumous) | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2024 | Ali Mohammed and Shri Ghani Mohammed (Duo) | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2024 | Kiran Nadar | Delhi | Art |
| 2024 | Narayanan E. P. | Kerala | Art |
| 2024 | Bhagabat Padhan | Odisha | Art |
| 2024 | Sanatan Rudra Pal | West Bengal | Art |
| 2024 | Binod Kumar Pasayat | Odisha | Art |
| 2024 | Silbi Passah | Meghalaya | Art |
| 2024 | Shanti Devi and Shri Shivan Paswan (Duo) | Bihar | Art |
| 2024 | Romalo Ram | Jammu and Kashmir | Art |
| 2024 | Nirmal Rishi | Punjab | Art |
| 2024 | Pran Sabharwal | Punjab | Art |
| 2024 | Gaddam Sammaiah | Telangana | Art |
| 2024 | Machihan Sasa | Manipur | Art |
| 2024 | Pandit Omprakash Sharma | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2024 | Godawari Singh | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2024 | Seshampatti Thirthagiri Sivalingam | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2024 | Urmila Srivastava | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2024 | Nepal Chandra Sutradhar (Posthumous) | West Bengal | Art |
| 2024 | Guru Gopinath Swain | Odisha | Art |
| 2024 | Pandit Shri Laxman Bhatt Tailang (Posthumous) | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2024 | Jagdish Trivedi | Gujarat | Art |
| 2024 | Sadanam Puthiyaveetil Balakrishnan | Kerala | Art |
| 2024 | Baburam Yadav | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2025 | Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia | Gujarat | Art |
| 2025 | Lakshminarayana Subramaniam | Karnataka | Art |
| 2025 | Sharda Sinha (Posthumous) | Bihar | Art |
| 2025 | Anant Nag | Karnataka | Art |
| 2025 | Jatin Goswami | Assam | Art |
| 2025 | Nandamuri Balakrishna | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 2025 | Pankaj Udhas (Posthumous) | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2025 | S Ajith Kumar | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2025 | Shekhar Kapur | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2025 | Shobana Chandrakumar | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2025 | Adwaita Charan Gadanayak | Odisha | Art |
| 2025 | Achyut Ramchandra Palav | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2025 | Arijit Singh | West Bengal | Art |
| 2025 | Ashok Laxman Saraf | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2025 | Ashwini Bhide Deshpande | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2025 | Barry Godfray John | Delhi | Art |
| 2025 | Begam Batool | Rajasthan | Art |
| 2025 | Bharat Gupt | Delhi | Art |
| 2025 | Bheru Singh Chouhan | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2025 | Bhimavva Doddabalappa Shillekyathara | Karnataka | Art |
| 2025 | Durga Charan Ranbir | Odisha | Art |
| 2025 | Farooq Ahmad Mir | Jammu and Kashmir | Art |
| 2025 | Gokul Chandra Das | West Bengal | Art |
| 2025 | Guruvayur Dorai | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2025 | Harchandan Singh Bhatty | Madhya Pradesh | Art |
| 2025 | Harjinder Singh Srinagar Wale | Punjab | Art |
| 2025 | Hassan Raghu | Karnataka | Art |
| 2025 | Jaspinder Narula | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2025 | Joynacharan Bathari | Assam | Art |
| 2025 | K Omanakutty Amma | Kerala | Art |
| 2025 | Madugula Nagaphani Sarma | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 2025 | Mahabir Nayak | Jharkhand | Art |
| 2025 | Mamata Shankar | West Bengal | Art |
| 2025 | Miriyala Apparao (Posthumous) | Andhra Pradesh | Art |
| 2025 | Naren Gurung | Sikkim | Art |
| 2025 | Nirmala Devi | Bihar | Art |
| 2025 | P Datchanamoorthy | Puducherry | Art |
| 2025 | Pandi Ram Mandavi | Chhattisgarh | Art |
| 2025 | Parmar Lavjibhai Nagjibhai | Gujarat | Art |
| 2025 | Purisai Kannappa Sambandan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2025 | Radhakrishnan Devasenapathy | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2025 | Ranendra Bhanu Majumdar | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2025 | Ratan Kumar Parimoo | Gujarat | Art |
| 2025 | Reba Kanta Mahanta | Assam | Art |
| 2025 | Ricky Gyan Kej | Karnataka | Art |
| 2025 | Shyam Bihari Agrawal | Uttar Pradesh | Art |
| 2025 | Tejendra Narayan Majumdar | West Bengal | Art |
| 2025 | Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi | Manipur | Art |
| 2025 | Vasudeo Kamath | Maharashtra | Art |
| 2025 | Velu Aasaan | Tamil Nadu | Art |
| 2025 | Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar | Karnataka | Art |
References
- ^ a b "Padma Awards Dashboard". padmaawards.gov.in. Ministry of Home Affairs (Govt. of India). Retrieved 31 July 2025.