India's music maestros A.R. Rahman (who rose to the top of world music last year by winning two Academy Awards) and veteran Ilayaraja have been conferred with the Padma Bhushan in this year's Republic Day awards. Bollywood star Aamir Khan was also conferred with the Padma Bhushan.

Bollywood veteran Rekha, Saif Ali Khan, sound engineer Resul Pookutty and Arundhati Nag have been conferred the Padma Shri.

The other Padma awardees are:

Padma Vibhushan

Ebrahim Alkazi (Art)
Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (Art)
Zohra Segal (Art)
Dr. Yaga Venugopal Reddy (Public Affairs)
Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Science and Engineering)
Dr. Prathap Chandra Reddy (Trade and Industry)

Padma Bhushan

Ilayaraja (Art)
Aamir Khan (Art)
Akbar Padamsee (Art)
Allah Rakha Rahman (Art)
Pandit Chhannulal Mishra (Art)
Kumudini Lakhia (Art)
Kuzhur Narayana Marar (Art)
Prof. Madhusudan Amilal Dhaky (Art)
Ms. Mallika Sarabhai (Art)
Prof. Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana (Art)
Pandit (Dr.) Puttaraj Gavai (Art)
Ram Kumar (Art)
Shrinivas Vinayak Khale (Art)
Ustad Sultan Khan (Art)
B.K. Chaturvedi (Civil Service)
Moosa Raza (Civil Service)
Dr. P.R. Dubhashi (Civil Service)
Fareed Zakaria (Journalism)
Anil Bordia (Literature and Education)
Prof. Bipan Chandra (Literature and Education)
G.P. Chopra (Literature and Education)
Prof. Mohammad Amin (Literature and Education)
Prof. Satya Vrat Shastri (Literature and Education)
Prof. Tan Chung (Literature and Education)
Prof. Belle Monappa Hegde (Medicine)
E.T. Narayanan Mooss (Medicine)
Dr. Noshir M. Shroff (Medicine)
Dr. Panniyampilly Krishna Warrier (Medicine)
Dr. Ramakant Madanmohan Panda (Medicine)
Prof. (Dr.) Satya Paul Agarwal (Medicine)
Prof. Abhijit Sen (Public Affairs)
Sailesh Kumar Bandyopadhyay (Public Affairs)
Sant Singh Chatwal (Public Affairs)
Prof. Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj (Science and Engineering)
Prof. Bikash Chandra Sinha (Science and Engineering)
Jagdish Chandra Kapur (Science and Engineering)
Dr. Balagangadharanatha Swamiji (Social Work)
Eknath Rao alias Balasaheb Vikhe Patil (Social Work)
Capt. C.P. Krishnan Nair (Trade and Industry)
Dr. Kushal Pal Singh (Trade and Industry)
Manvinder Singh Banga alias Vindi Banga (Trade and Industry)
Narayanan Vaghul (Trade and Industry)
S.P. Oswal (Trade and Industry)

Padma Shri

Gulam Mohammed Mir (Public Service)
Ms.  Rekha (Art)
Arjun Prajapati (Art)
Ms. Arundhati Nag (Art)
Ms. Carmel Berkson (Art)
Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar (Art)
Gul Bardhan (Art)
Haobam Ongbi Ngangbi Devi (Art)
Hari Uppal (Art)
K. Raghavan (Art)
Guru Mayadhar Raut (Art)
Mukund Lath (Art)
Nemai Ghosh (Art)
Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi (Art)
Rajkumar Achouba Singh (Art)
Dr. Ram Dayal Munda (Art)
Resul Pokutty (Art)
Saif Ali Khan (Art)
Dr. (Smt.) Shobha Raju (Art)
Ms. Sumitra Guha (Art)
Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar (Art)
D.R. K(Art)hikeyan (Civil Service)
Dr. Ranjit Bhargava (Environment Protection)
Arun Sarma (Literature and Education)
Prof. Arvind Kumar (Literature and Education)
Ms. Bertha Gyndykes Dkhar (Literature and Education)
Prof. Govind Chandra Pande (Literature and Education)
Prof. Hamidi Kashmiri (Literature and Education)
Prof. (Dr.) Hermann Kulke (Literature and Education)
Janaki Ballav Shastri (Literature and Education)
Dr. Jitendra Udhampuri (Literature and Education)
Dr. Lal Bahadur Singh Chauhan (Literature and Education)
Lalzuia Colney (Literature and Education)
Ms. Maria Aurora Couto (Literature and Education)
Dr. Rajalakshmi P(Art)
Hasarathy alias Y.G. P (Art)
Hasarathy (Literature and Education)
Prof. Ramaranjan Mukherji (Literature and Education)
Fr. Romuald D’Souza (Literature and Education)
Prof. Sadiq - Ur - Rahman Kidwai (Literature and Education)
Mr. Sheldon Pollock (Literature and Education)
Dr. Surendra Dubey (Literature and Education)
Dr. Anil Kumar Bhalla (Medicine)
Dr. Arvinder Singh Soin (Medicine)
Dr. B. Ramana Rao (Medicine)
Dr. Jalakantapuram Ramaswamy Krishnamoorthy (Medicine)
Dr. K.K. Aggarwal (Medicine)
Prof. Kodaganur S. Gopinath (Medicine)
Dr. Laxmi Chand Gupta (Medicine)
Dr. Philip Augustine (Medicine)
Dr. Rabindra Narain Singh (Medicine)
Dr. Vikas Mahatme (Medicine)
Dr. Rafael Iruzubieta Fernandez (Public Affairs)
Prof. M.R. Satyanarayana Rao (Science and Engineering)
Prof. (Dr.) Palpu Pushpangadan (Science and Engineering)
Prof. Ponisseril Somasundaran (Science and Engineering)
Prof. Pucadyil Ittoop John (Science and Engineering)
Dr. Vijay Prasad Dimri (Science and Engineering)
Dr.(Ms.) Vijaylakshmi Ravindranath (Science and Engineering)
Ms. Anu Aga (Social Work)
Ayekpam Tomba Meetei (Social Work)
Deep Joshi (Social Work)
Dr. J.R. Gangaramani (Social Work)
Kranti Shah (Social Work)
Dr. Kurian John Melamparambil (Social Work)
Baba Sewa Singh (Social Work)
Ms. Sudha Kaul (Social Work)
Dr. Sudhir M. Parikh (Social Work)
Ignace Tirkey (Sports)
Kumar Ram Narain K (Art)
Hikeyan (Sports)
Ramakant Vithal Achrekar (Sports)
Ms. Saina Nehwal (Sports)
Vijender Singh (Sports)
Virendra Sehwag (Sports)
Dr. Alluri Venkata Satyanarayana Raju (Trade and Industry)
Dr. B. Raveendran Pillai (Trade and Industry)
Deepak Puri (Trade and Industry)
Irshad Mirza (Trade and Industry)
Brig. Dr. Kapil Mohan (Trade and Industry)
Dr. Karsanbhai Khodidas Patel (Trade and Industry)
T.N. Manoharan (Trade and Industry)
Venu Srinivasan (Trade and Industry)