Padma Shri (also Padmashree) is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Awarded by the Government of India, it is announced every year on India's Republic Day.citizens of India in recognition of their distinguished contribution in various spheres of activity including the Arts, Education, Industry, Literature, Science, Sports, Medicine, Social Service and Public Affairs. It has also been awarded to some distinguished individuals who were not citizens of India but did contribute in various ways to India.The words "Padma", meaning lotus in Sanskrit, and "Shri", a Sanskrit-derived honorific equivalent to 'Mr.' or 'Ms.', appear in Devanagari above and below a lotus flower. The geometrical pattern on either side is in burnished bronze. All embossing is in white gold.

Padma Shri Awardees 2016
Sl. No	Name	Field	State
1	Smt. Prathibha Prahlad	Art- Classical Dance	Delhi
2	Shri Bhikhudan Gadhvi	Art- Folk Music	Gujarat
3	Shri  Sribhas Chandra Supakar	Art- Textile Designing	Uttar Pradesh
4	Shri Ajay Devgn	Art-Cinema	Maharashtra
5	Ms. Priyanka Chopra	Art-Cinema	Maharashtra
6	Pt. Tulsidas Borkar	Art-Classical Music	Goa
7	Dr. Soma Ghosh	Art-Classical Vocal	Uttar Pradesh
8	Shri  Nila Madhab Panda	Art-Film Direction and Production	Delhi
9	Shri S.S. Rajamouli	Art-Film Direction and Production	Karnataka
10	Shri Madhur Bhandarkar	Art-Film Direction and Production	Maharashtra
11	Prof. M. Venkatesh Kumar	Art-Folk Artist	Karnataka
12	Ms. Gulabi Sapera	Art-Folk Dance	Rajasthan
13	Smt. Mamta Chandrakar	Art-Folk Music	Chhattisgarh
14	Ms. Malini Awasthi	Art-Folk Music	Uttar Pradesh
15	Shri Jai Prakash Lekhiwal	Art-Miniature Painting	Delhi
16	Shri  K. Laxma Goud	Art-Painting	Telangana
17	Shri Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe	Art-Photography	Madhya Pradesh
18	Shri Naresh Chander Lal	Art-Theatre & Cinema	Andaman & Nicobar
19	Shri Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah	Literature & Education	Assam
20	Shri Prahlad Chandra Tasa	Literature & Education	Assam
21	Dr.Ravindra Nagar	Literature & Education	Delhi
22	Shri Dahyabhai Shastri	Literature & Education	Gujarat
23	Dr.Santeshivara Bhyrappa	Literature & Education	Karnataka
24	Shri  Haldar Nag	Literature & Education	Odisha
25	Shri Kameshwaram Brahma	Literature & Education -Journalism	Assam
26	Prof. Pushpesh Pant	Literature & Education-Journalism	Delhi
27	Shri Jawaharlal Kaul	Literature & Education-Journalism	Jammu & Kashmir
28	Shri Ashok Malik	Literature &Education	Delhi
29	Dr.Mannam Gopi Chand	Medicine-Cardio Thoracic Surgery	Telangana
30	Prof. Ravi Kant	Medicine-Surgery	Uttar Pradesh
31	Prof. Ram Harsh Singh	Medicine- Ayurveda	Uttar Pradesh
32	Prof. Shiv Narain Kureel	Medicine- Paediatric Surgery	Uttar Pradesh
33	Dr.Sabya Sachi Sarkar	Medicine –Radiology	Uttar Pradesh
34	Dr. Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale	Medicine-Cardiac Surgery	Andhra Pradesh
35	Prof. T.K. Lahiri	Medicine-Cardio Thoracic Surgery	Uttar Pradesh
36	Dr. Praveen Chandra	Medicine-Cardiology	Delhi
37	Prof. (Dr) Daljeet Singh Gambhir	Medicine-Cardiology	Uttar Pradesh
38	Dr.Chandrasekar  Shesadri  Thoguluva	Medicine-Gastroenterology	Tamil Nadu
39	Dr. (Mrs.) Anil Kumari Malhotra	Medicine-Homeopathy	Delhi
40	Prof. M.V. Padma Srivastava	Medicine-Neurology	Delhi
41	Dr. Sudhir V. Shah	Medicine-Neurology	Gujarat
42	Dr. M. M. Joshi	Medicine-Ophthalmology	Karnataka
43	Prof. (Dr) John Ebnezar	Medicine-Orthopaedic Surgery	Karnataka
44	Dr. Nayudamma Yarlagadda	Medicine-Paediatric Surgery	Andhra Pradesh
45	Shri  Simon Oraon	Other –Environment Conservation	Jharkhand
46	Shri Imitiaz Qureshi	Other-Culinary	Delhi
47	Shri Piyush Pandey	Others-Advertising & Communication	Maharashtra
48	Shri Subhash Palekar	Others-Farming	Maharashtra
49	Shri Ravinder Kumar Sinha	Others-Wildlife Conservation	Bihar
50	Dr. H.R. Nagendra	Others-Yoga	Karnataka
51	Shri M. C. Mehta	Public Affairs	Delhi
52	Shri M. N. Krishna Mani	Public Affairs	Delhi
53	Shri Ujjwal Nikam	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
54	Shri Tokheho Sema	Public Affairs	Nagaland
55	Dr. Satish Kumar	Science & Engineering	Delhi
56	Dr.Mylswamy Annadurai	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
57	Prof. Dipankar Chatterji	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
58	Prof.(Dr.) Ganapati Dadasaheb  Yadav	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
59	Smt. (Prof.) Veena Tandon	Science & Engineering	Meghalaya
60	Shri Onkar Nath Srivastava	Science and Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
61	Ms. Sunita Krishnan	Social Work	Andhra Pradesh
62	Shri Ajoy Kumar Dutta	Social Work	Assam
63	Shri  M. Pandit  Dasa	Social Work	Karnataka
64	Shri  P. P. Gopinathan Nair	Social Work	Kerala
65	Smt. Madeleine Herman de Blic	Social Work	Puducherry
66	Shri Srinivasan Damal Kandalai	Social work	Tamil Nadu
67	Shri Sudhakar Olwe	Social Work	Maharashtra
68	Dr. T.V. Narayana	Social Work	Telangana
69	Shri Arunachalam Murugantham	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
70	Ms. Deepika Kumari	Sports-Archery	Jharkhand
71	Shri Sushil Doshi	Sports-commentary	Madhya Pradesh
72	Shri Mahesh Sharma	Trade & Industry	Delhi
73	Shri Saurabh Srivastava	Trade & Industry	Delhi
74	Sh Dilip Sanghvi	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
75	Dr. Keki Hormusji Gharda	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
76	Late Shri Prakash Chand Surana  (Posthumous)	Art  -Classical Music	Rajasthan
77	Late Shri  Saeed Jaffrey	Art-Cinema	UK
	(NRI/PIO/Posthumous)
78	Shri  Michael Postel	Art-Archaeology	France
	(Foreigner)
79	Shri  Salman  Amin Sal Khan (NRI/PIO)	Literature & Education	USA
80	Smt. Hui Lan Zhang	Others-Yoga	China
	(Foreigner)
81	Shri  Predrag K. Nikic	Others-Yoga	Serbia
	(Foreigner)
82	Dr.Sundar Aditya Menon	Social Work	UAE
	(NRI/PIO)
83	Shri  Ajaypal Singh  Banga (NRI/PIO)	Trade & Industry	USA