J K Bajaj
A physicist turned policy researcher who co-founded the Centre for Policy Studies in Chennai, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Delhi
Padma Awards 2022
Recipients announced for 2022 that we have profiled so far (4 Padma Vibhushan, 13 Padma Bhushan, 101 Padma Shri). The official list is published by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
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Jagjit Singh Dardi
A Punjabi newspaperman who founded the daily Chardikla in 1969 and the channel Chardikla Time TV, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Chandigarh
Jayantkumar Maganlal Vyas
A forensic scientist who founded the world's first university of forensic science, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Gujarat
K V Rabiya
A wheelchair-using activist from Malappuram who led a village literacy drive and founded Chalanam for disabled children; Padma Shri, 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Kerala
Kaajee Singh
A Kalimpong musician who devised a notation system for the madal drum and wrote six books on it, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022. He died in 2025.
- Padma Shri 2022
- West Bengal
Kali Pada Saren
A Santali writer and dramatist known as Kherwal Saren, whose plays toured Santal villages against illiteracy, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- West Bengal
Kamalini Asthana and Nalini Asthana
Kathak dancers of the Banaras gharana, sisters who have performed and taught together for five decades, jointly honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Uttar Pradesh
Kamlakar Tripathi
A BHU professor of medicine and nephrologist who treated patients for decades and still sees the poor free of charge, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Uttar Pradesh
Khalil Dhantejvi
A Gujarati ghazal poet, novelist and film-maker from Dhantej, beloved for his ghazals in Gujarati and Urdu, honoured posthumously with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022 (posthumous)
- Gujarat
Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia
A Sikkim thangka painter who has painted monastery murals and taught about 350 poor children free since 1982, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Sikkim
Konsam Ibomcha Singh
A Manipur doll and toy maker, son of national award-winning craftspeople, who has trained others in the traditional craft, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Manipur
Lalita Vakil
A Chamba embroiderer who has helped revive the double-sided Chamba rumal and trained thousands of women in it, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Himachal Pradesh
Lata Desai
A paediatrician who co-founded SEWA Rural in Jhagadia in 1980 to bring health care to tribal Gujarat, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Gujarat
Lourembam Bino Devi
The senior-most master of leeba, Manipur's appliqué craft, who has trained women for over five decades, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Manipur
Madhuri Barthwal
A Garhwali folk musician who became All India Radio's first woman music composer in 1979 and teaches folk music free, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Uttarakhand
Malji bhai Desai
A Gandhian from Patan who founded the Gandhi Ashram at Zilia in 1964 and has set up more than 30 schools in north Gujarat, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Gujarat
Moti Lal Madan
An animal scientist whose team produced the world's first IVF buffalo calf, Pratham, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Haryana
Muktamani Devi
A Kakching entrepreneur who began by knitting shoes for her daughter and built Mukta Shoes, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Manipur
Najma Akhtar
An education administrator who became Jamia Millia Islamia's first woman vice-chancellor, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Delhi
Narasimha Rao Garikapati
A Telugu scholar, orator and avadhani known for the epic poem Sagaraghosha and thousands of lectures, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Andhra Pradesh
Narasingha Prasad Guru
A retired headmaster who compiled a 17,000-word Koshali-Odia dictionary and has championed the Koshali language; Padma Shri, 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Odisha
Narendra Prasad Misra
A Bhopal physician and medical college dean who led the medical response to the 1984 gas disaster, honoured posthumously with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022 (posthumous)
- Madhya Pradesh
Neeraj Chopra
The javelin thrower from Panipat who won India's first Olympic gold in athletics at Tokyo 2020, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Haryana
Om Prakash Gandhi
A physics professor who retired early to build schools and a college for girls in rural Yamunanagar, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.
- Padma Shri 2022
- Haryana