List of Tamil recipients of the Padma Bhushan

Padma Bhushan is India's third highest civilian honour.
Distinguished Tamils have been awarded 131 Padma Bhushans out of the 1003 (as of 2008) awarded since it was established in 1954.
Arts
* M.S. Subbulakshmi, 1954.
* Rukmini Devi Arundale, 1956.
* T. Balasaraswathy, 1957.
* Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, 1958.
* Pammal Sambanda Mudaliar, 1959.
* M. L. Vasanthakumari, 1967.
* Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, 1969.
* S. S. Vasan, 1969.
* Kamala, 1970.
* R.K. Laxman, 1971.
* P. Sambamoorthy, 1971.
* Palghat Mani Iyer, 1971.
* D. K. Pattammal, 1971.
* Papanasan Sivam, 1972.
* Chembai, 1973.
* S. Balachander, 1982.
* Sivaji Ganesan, 1984.
* Kalanidhi Narayanan, 1985.
* T. N. Krishnan, 1992.
* L. Subramaniam, 2001.
* Lalgudi Jayaraman, 2001.
* Yamini Krishnamurti, 2001.
* T. V. Sankaranarayanan, 2003.
* Trichur V. Ramachandran, 2003.
* Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, 2003.
* Puliyur Subramaniam Narayanaswamy, 2003.
* Madurai Narayanan Krishnan, 2003.
* Padma Subramanyam, 2003.
* Balasubramania Rajam Iyer, 2003.
* Alarmel Valli, 2004.
* T. N. Seshagopalan, 2004.
* N. Rajam, 2004.
* P. Leela, 2006.
* A. Ramachandran, 2006.
Civil Service
* Mahadeva Iyer Ganapati, 1954.
* A. R. Venkatachari, 1955.
* M. S. Thirumalai Iyengar, 1956.
* L. Venkatakrishnaiyer, 1961.
* R. Rajaram, 1965.
* Nilkanta Krishnan, 1972.
* Malcolm Adiseshiah, 1976.
* S. Varadarajan, 1985.
* V. Srinivasa Raghavan Arunachalam, 1986.
* V. Krishnamurthy, 1986.
* T. L. Sankar, 2004.
* Gopichettipalayam Venkataramana Iyer Ramakrishna, 2005.
Literature & Education
* A. Lakshmanasamy Mudaliar, 1954.
* Kasturi Srinivasan, 1956.
* K.A. Nilakanta Sastri, 1957.
* T. R. Venkatachala Murthi, 1959.
* V. Raghavan, 1962.
* T. R. Seshadari, 1963.
* R.K. Narayan, 1964.
* T.M.Ponnambalam Mahadevan, 1967.
* G. Narasimhan, 1968.
* M.P. Periasamy Thooran, 1968.
* Mariadas Ruthnaswamy, 1968.
* T.S. Avinashilingam Chettair, 1970.
* N. Ramaswami Ayyar, 1971.
* V. Ramalingam Pillai, 1971.
* K. Swaminathan, 1972.
* T. P. Meenakshi Sundaram, 1977.
* K. G. Ramanathan, 1983.
* S. Dhandapani Desikar, 1990.
* N. Ram, 1990.
* K. R. Srinivasan, 1991.
* B.K.S. Iyengar, 2002.
* T. N. Srinivasan, 2007.
* S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, 2008.
Medicine
* Muthulakshmi Reddi, 1956.
* R. Duraiswamy Ayyar, 1962.
* P. K. Duraiswami, 1966.
* C. K. Lakshmanan, 1967.
* S. Padamavati Iyer, 1967.
* V. Ramalingeswami, 1971.
* R. Viswanthan, 1974.
* K. S. Sanjivi, 1976.
* B. Ramamurthi, 1977.
* A. S. Ramakrishnan, 1982.
* M. R. Girinath, 1998.
* S. S. Badrinath, 1999.
* Muthu Krishna Mani, 1991.
* N. Rangabashyam, 2002.
* Coluthur Gopalan, 2003.
* V. Shanta, 2006.
Public Affairs
* K. Balasubramanai Iyer, 1965.
* T.S. Ramaswami Aiyer, 1966.
* Parasaran Kesava Iyengar, 2003.
Science & Engineering
* K.S. Krishnan, 1954.
* T. S. Venkataraman, 1956.
* T. N. Ramachandran, 1964.
* K. R. Ramanathan, 1965.
* M. Sitaram Krishnan, 1970.
* K. Ramaiah, 1970.
* M.S. Swaminathan, 1972.
* T. S. Sadasivan, 1974.
* A. Sreenivasan, 1974.
* P. K. Iyengar, 1975.
* A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, 1981.
* Manali. Vainu Bappu, 1981.
* Sivaraj Ramaseshan, 1985.
* C. V. Sundaram, 1986.
* M. S. Narasimhan, 1990.
* M. R. Srinivasan, 1990.
* L. K. Doraiswamy, 1990.
* K. Kasturirangan, 1992.
* Ranjan Roy Daniel, 1992.
* V. Rajaraman, 1998.
* K. Santhanam, 1999.
* P. Chandra Sekharan, 2000.
* R. V. Perumal, 2002.
* V. C. Kulandaiswamy, 2002.
* Narayanan Srinivasan, 2003.
* Arcot Ramachandran, 2003.
* Govindarajan Padmanaban, 2004.
* V. S. Ramamurthy, 2005.
* V.S. Ramachandran, 2007.
Social Work
* R. Allagappa Chettair, 1957.
* Saundram Ramachandran, 1962.
* G. Ramanujam, 1985.
* N.S. Ramaswamy, 2006.
Sports
* Ramanathan Krishnan, 1967.
* Viswanathan Anand, 2001.
Trade & Industry
* K. Venkataraman, 1961.
* K. Sreenivasan, 1969.
* M. Annamalai Muthiah Chettiar, 1973.
* S. Ramadorai, 2006.
* N. Mahalingam, 2007.
* Indra Nooyi, 2007.
* Shiv Nadar, 2008.

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