List of Padma Awards 2012 - Padma Vibhusha, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri Awards
- Padma Awards, the India’s highest civilian awards, are conferred in 3 categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.
- The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day(26 January) every year.
- The awards are conferred by the President of India at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhawan sometime around March-April.
- This year the President has approved 109 awards including one duo case (counted as one) and 14 in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous.
- These comprise 5 Padma Vibhushan, 27 Padma Bhushan and 77 Padma Shri Awards.
- There are 19 ladies among the awardees.
Full List of Padma Awards 2012
| Padma Vibhushan | |||
| S.No. | Name | Discipline | State/ Domicile |
| 1 | Shri K G Subramanyan | Art - Painting & Sculpture | West Bengal |
| 2 | Late Shri Mario De Miranda | Art - Cartoonist | Goa* |
| 3 | Late (Dr.)Bhupen Hazarika | Art - Vocal Music | Assam* |
| 4 | Dr. Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti | Medicine - Orthopedics | Maharashtra |
| 5 | Shri T V Rajeswar | Civil Service | Delhi |
| Padma Bhushan | |||
| S.No. | Name | Discipline | State/ Domicile |
| 1 | Smt. Shabana Azmi | Art - Cinema | Maharashtra |
| 2 | Shri Khaled Choudhury | Art - Theatre | West Bengal |
| 3 | Shri Jatin Das | Art - Painting | Delhi |
| 4 | Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta | Art - Instrumental Music - Sarod | West Bengal |
| 5 | Shri Dharmendra Singh Deol alias Dharmendra | Art - Cinema | Maharashtra |
| 6 | Dr. Trippunithwra Viswanathan Gopalkrishnan | Art - Classical vocal and instrumental music | Tamil Nadu |
| 7 | Ms. Mira Nair | Art - Cinema | Delhi |
| 8 | Shri M.S. Gopalakrishnan | Art - Instrumental Music - Violin | Tamil Nadu |
| 9 | Shri Anish Kapoor | Art - Sculpture | UK* |
| 10 | Shri Satya Narayan Goenka | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 11 | Dr. (Judge) Patibandla Chandrasekhar Rao | Public Affairs | Germany* |
| 12 | Shri George Yong | Boon Yeo - Public Affairs | Singapore* |
| 13 | Prof. Shashikumar Chitre | Science and Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 14 | Dr. M S Raghunathan | Science and Engineering | Maharashtra |
| 15 | Shri Subbiah Murugappa Vellayan | Trade and Industry | Tamil Nadu |
| 16 | Shri Balasubramanian Muthuraman | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra |
| 17 | Dr. Suresh H. Advani | Medicine - Oncology | Maharashtra |
| 18 | Dr. Noshir H Wadia | Medicine - Neurology | Maharashtra |
| 19 | Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty | Medicine - Cardiology | Karnataka |
| 20 | Prof. (Dr.) Shantaram Balwant Mujumdar | Literature and Education | Maharashtra |
| 21 | Prof. Vidya Dehejia | Literature and Education | USA* |
| 22 | Prof. Arvind Panagariya | Literature and Education | USA* |
| 23 | Dr. Jose Pereira | Literature and Education | USA* |
| 24 | Dr. Homi K. Bhabha | Literature and Education | UK * |
| 25 | Shri N Vittal | Civil Service | Kerala |
| 26 | Shri Mata Prasad | Civil Service | Uttar Pradesh |
| 27 | Shri Ronen Sen | Civil Service | West Bengal |
| Padma Shri | |||
| S.No. | Name | Discipline | State/ Domicile |
| 1 | Shri Vanraj Bhatia | Art - Music | Maharashtra |
| 2 | Shri Zia Fariduddin Dagar | Art - Music - vocal | Maharashtra |
| 3 | Smt. Nameirakpam Ibemni Devi | Art - Music - Khongjom Parba | Manipur |
| 4 | Shri Ramachandra Subraya Hegde Chittani | Art - Yakshagana dance drama | Karnataka |
| 5 | Shri Moti Lal Kemmu | Art - Playwright | Jammu and Kashmir |
| 6 | Shri Shahid Parvez Khan | Art - Instrumental Music - Sitar | Maharashtra |
| 7 | Shri Mohan Lal Kumhar | Art - Terracotta | Rajasthan |
| 8 | Shri Sakar Khan Manganiar | Art - Rajasthani Folk Music | Rajasthan |
| 9 | Smt. Joy Michael | Art - Theatre | Delhi |
| 10 | Dr. Minati Mishra | Art - Indian Classical Dance - Odissi. | Orissa |
| 11 | Shri Natesan Muthuswamy | Art - Theatre. | Tamil Nadu |
| 12 | Smt. R. Nagarathnamma | Art - Theatre | Karnataka |
| 13 | Shri Kalamandalm Sivan Nambootiri | Art - Indian Classical Dance - Kutiyattam | Kerala |
| 14 | Smt. Yamunabai Waikar | Art - Indian Folk Music - Lavani. | Maharashtra |
| 15 | Shri Satish Alekar | Art - Playwright | Maharashtra |
| 16 | Pandit Gopal Prasad Dubey | Art - Chhau dance and choreography | Jharkhand |
| 17 | Shri Ramakant Gundecha | Art - Indian Classical Music - Vocal | Madhya Pradesh |
| Shri Umakant Gundecha# | Art - Indian Classical Music - Vocal | Madhya Pradesh | |
| 18 | Shri Anup Jalota | Art - Indian Classical Music - Vocal | Maharashtra |
| 19 | Shri Soman Nair Priyadarsan | Art - Cinema - Direction | Kerala |
| 20 | Shri Sunil Janah | Art - Photography | Assam |
| 21 | Ms. Laila Tyebji | Art - Handicrafts | Delhi |
| 22 | Shri Vijay Sharma | Art - Painting | Himachal Pradesh |
| 23 | Smt. Shamshad Begum | Social Work | Chattisgarh |
| 24 | Smt. Reeta Devi | Social Work | Delhi |
| 25 | Dr. P.K. Gopal | Social Work | Tamil Nadu |
| 26 | Smt. Phoolbasan Bai Yadav | Social Work | Chattisgarh |
| 27 | Dr. G. Muniratnam | Social Work | Andhra Pradesh |
| 28 | Shri Niranjan Pranshankar Pandya | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 29 | Dr. Uma Tuli | Social Work | Delhi |
| 30 | Shri Sat Paul Varma | Social Work | Jammu and Kashmir |
| 31 | Smt.Binny Yanga | Social Work | Arunachal Pradesh |
| 32 | Shri Yezdi Hirji Malegam | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 33 | Shri Pravin H. Parekh | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 34 | Dr. V. Adimurthy | Science and Engineering | Kerala |
| 35 | Dr. Krishna Lal Chadha | Science and Engineering - Agriculture | Delhi |
| 36 | Prof. Virander Singh Chauhan | Science and Engineering | Delhi |
| 37 | Prof. Rameshwar Nath Koul Bamezai | Science and Engineering | Jammu and Kashmir |
| 38 | Dr. Vijaypal Singh | Science and Engineering - Agricultural Research | Uttar Pradesh |
| 39 | Dr. Lokesh Kumar Singhal | Science and Engineering | Punjab |
| 40 | Dr. Yagnaswami Sundara Rajan | Science and Engineering | Karnataka |
| 41 | Prof. Jagadish Shukla | Science and Engineering | USA* |
| 42 | Ms. Priya Paul | Trade and Industry | Delhi |
| 43 | Shri Shoji Shiba | Trade and Industry | Japan* |
| 44 | Shri Gopinath Pillai | Trade and Industry | Singapore* |
| 45 | Shri Arun Hastimal Firodia | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra |
| 46 | Dr. Swati A. Piramal | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra |
| 47 | Prof. Mahdi Hasan | Medicine - Anatomy | Uttar Pradesh |
| 48 | Dr. Viswanathan Mohan | Medicine - Diabetology | Tamil Nadu |
| 49 | Dr. J. Hareendran Nair | Medicine - Ayurveda | Kerala |
| 50 | Dr. Vallalarpuram Sennimalai Natarajan | Medicine - Geriatrics | Tamil Nadu |
| 51 | Dr. Jitendra Kumar Singh | Medicine - Oncology | Bihar |
| 52 | Dr. Shrinivas S. Vaishya | Medicine - Healthcare | Daman and Diu |
| 53 | Dr. Nitya Anand | Medicine - Drugs Research | Uttar Pradesh |
| 54 | Late Dr. Jugal Kishore | Medicine - Homoeopathy | Delhi * |
| 55 | Dr. Mukesh Batra | Medicine - Homeopathy | Maharashtra |
| 56 | Dr. Eberhard Fischer | Literature and Education | Switzerland* |
| 57 | Shri Kedar Gurung | Literature and Education | Sikkim |
| 58 | Shri Surjit Singh Patar | Literature and Education - Poetry | Punjab |
| 59 | Shri Vijay Dutt Shridhar | Literature and Education - Journalism | Madhya Pradesh |
| 60 | Shri Irwin Allan Sealy | Literature and Education | Uttarakhand |
| 61 | Ms. Geeta Dharmarajan | Literature and Education | Delhi |
| 62 | Prof. Sachchidanand Sahai | Literature and Education | Haryana |
| 63 | Smt. Pepita Seth | Literature and Education | Kerala |
| 64 | Dr. Ralte L. Thanmawia | Literature and Education | Mizoram |
| 65 | Shri Ajeet Bajaj | Sports - Skiing | Delhi |
| 66 | Smt. Jhulan Goswami | Sports - Women's Cricket | West Bengal |
| 67 | Shri Zafar Iqbal | Sports - Hockey | Uttar Pradesh |
| 68 | Shri Devendra Jhajrija | Sports - Athletics - Paralympics | Rajasthan |
| 69 | Shri Limba Ram | Sports - Archery | Rajasthan |
| 70 | Shri Syed Mohammed Arif | Sports - Badminton | Andhra Pradesh |
| 71 | Prof. Ravi Chaturvedi | Sports - Commentary | Delhi |
| 72 | Shri Prabhakar Vaidya | Sports - Physical Education | Maharashtra |
| 73 | Shri T. Venkatapathi Reddiar | Others - Horticulture | Puducherry |
| 74 | Dr. K. (Kota) Ullas Karanth | Others - Wildlife Conservation and Environment Protection | Karnataka |
| 75 | Shri K Paddayya | Others - Archaeology | Maharashtra |
| 76 | Shri Swapan Guha | Others - Ceramics | Rajasthan |
| 77 | Dr. Kartikeya V. Sarabhai | Others - Environmental Education | Gujarat |
Note: * indicates awardees in the category of Foreigners / NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous.
# indicates duo case.
