The awards — Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri — are announced on the eve of the Republic Day every year.
Padma Vibhushan Winners 2018
- Illaiyaraja
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan
- P. Parameswaran
Padma Bhushan Winners 2018
- Pankaj Advani
- Philipose Mar Chrysostom
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni
- Alexander Kadakin (Foreigner/Posthumous)
- Nagaswamy
- Ved Prakash Nanda (Overseas Citizen of India)
- Laxman Pai
- Arvind Parikh
- Sharda Sinha
Padma Shri Winners 2018
- Abhay and Rani Bang
- Damodar Ganesh Bapat
- Prafulla Govinda Baruah
- Mohan Swaroop Bhatia
- Sudhanshu Biswas
- Saikhom Mirabai Chanu
- Pandit Shyamlal Chaturvedi
- Jose Ma Joey Concepcion III (Foreigner)
- Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi
- Somdev Devvarman
- Yeshi Dhoden
- Arup Kumar Dutta
- Doddarange Gowda
- Arvind Gupta
- Digamber Hansda
- Ramli Bin Ibrahim (Foreigner)
- Anwar Jalalpuri (Posthumous)
- Piyong Temjen Jamir
- Sitavva Joddati
- Malti Joshi
- Manoj Joshi
- Rameshwarlal Kabra
- Pran Kishore Kaul
- Bounlap Keokangna (Foreigner)
- Vijay Kichlu
- Tommy Koh (Foreigner)
- Lakshmikutty
- Joyshree Goswami Mahanta
- Narayan Das Maharaj
- Pravakara Maharana
- Hun Many (Foreigner)
- Nouf Marwaai (Foreigner)
- Zaverilal Mehta
- Krishna Bihari Mishra
- Sisir Purushottam Mishra
- Subhasini Mistry
- Tomio Mizokami (Foreigner)
- Somdet Phra Maha Muniwong (Foreigner)
- Keshav Rao Musalgaonkar
- Thant Myint – U (Foreigner)
- V Nanammal
- Sulagitti Narasamma
- Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan
- I Nyoman Nuarta (Foreigner)
- Malai Haji Abdullah Bin Malai Haji Othman (Foreigner)
- Gobaradhan Panika
- Bhabani Charan Pattanaik
- Murlikant Petkar
- Habibullo Rajabov (Foreigner)
- M R Rajagopal
- Sampat Ramteke (Posthumous)
- Chandra Sekhar Rath
- SS Rathore
- Amitava Roy
- Sanduk Ruit (Foreigner)
- R Sathyanarayana
- Pankaj M Shah
- Bhajju Shyam
- Maharao Raghuveer Singh
- Kidambi Srikanth
- Ibrahim Sutar
- Siddeshwara Swamiji
- Lentina Ao Thakkar
- Vikram Chandra Thakur
- Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Tharanathan – Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Thyagarajan
- Nguyen Tien Thien
- Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi
- Rajagopalan Vasudevan
- Manas Bihari Verma
- Panatawane Gangadhar Vithobaji
- Romulus Whitaker
- Baba Yogendra
- A Zakia
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