List of Tamils conferred Padma Shri till 2007

Padma Shri is India's fourth highest civilian honour.

Distinguished personalities from Tamil Nadu have been awarded 190 Padma Shris out of the 1945 awarded since it was established in 1954.

This list will be expanded after awards conferred each year by the Government of India FOR ARTS
Sivaji Ganesan, 1966.
Eswara Iyer Krishna Iyer, 1966.
Vyjayanthimala, 1968.
Yamini Krishnamurthy, 1968.
T. R. Mahalingam, 197.
Gemini Ganesan, 1970.
Madaviah Krishnan, 1970.
K. B. Sundarambal, 1970.
* Palaniandi Kandaswamy, 1971.
Natesa Dandayudapani Pillai, 1971.
Vazhuvoor B. Ramiah, 1972.
Madras Kandaswamy Radha, 1972.
Lalgudi Jayaraman, 1972.
V. B. Shastrigal, 1973.
T. N. Krishnan, 1973.
Chellaswamy Sirchabai Murugabhoopathy, 1973.
Thiruvizhimazhalai Subramania Pillai, 1974.
Madras Sundram I. Gopalakrishnan, 1975.
Kalapati Ganapathi Subrahmanyan, 1975.
Madurai S. Somasundaram, 1976.
Padma Subramanyam, 1981.
Namagiripettai Krishnan, 1981.
Prabhu Handel Manuel, 1983.
Sirkazhi Govindarajan, 1983.
N. Rajam, 1984.
Dr. N. Ramani,1987[1]
U. Kasiviswanatha Sivaraman, 1988.
Sudharani Raghupathy, 1988.
L. Subramaniam, 1989.
Adyar K. Lakshman, 1989.
Maharajapuram Santhanam, 1990.
Madurai Ponnusamy Sethuraman Natesan, 1990.
Kamal Hasan, 1990.
Alarmel Valli, 1991.
Srirangam Gopalarathnam, 1992.
Muthiah Sthapathi, 1992.
M. N. Krishnan, 1992.
Chitra Visweswaran, 1992.
Hema Malini, 2000.
A. R. Rahman, 2001.
Avadhanam Sita Raman, 2001.
Vinayakram, 2002.
Saroja Vaidyanathan, 200.
Navaneetham Padmanabha Seshadri, 2002.
Manorama, 2002.
Mani Ratnam, 2002.
Mani Krishnaswami, 2002.
T. M. Sounderarajan, 200.
Malavika Sarukkai, 2003.
Sudha Raghunathan, 2004.
Sikkil Natesan Neela, 2004.
Sikkil Venkatraman Kunjumani, 2004.
A. K. Palanivel, 2004.
Bharathi Raja, 2004.
Hariharan, 2004.
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, 2005.
Kavita Krishnamurti, 2005.
Shobana Chandrakumar, 2006.
Gayatri Sankaran, 2006.
Kanaka Srinivasan, 2006.
Geeta Chandran, 2007.
P. R. Thilagam, 2007.
Valayapatti A.R. Subramaniam, 2007.
S. Dhakshinamurthy Pillai, 2007.


Civil Service
Narayanswamy Dharmarajan, 1957.
Vaidyanathan Subrahmanyan, 1961.
Agram Krishnamachar, 1961.
Vellore Ponnurangam Appadurai, 1962.
Joseph Durai Raj, 1962.
Nori Gopal Krishnamurty, 1963.
Subramanyam Parmanandan, 1971.
Ramamurthi Badrinath, 1972.
P Ramanathan Rajagopal, 1972.
Venkataraman Krishnamurthy, 1973.
R.V. Ramaswami, 1973.
Chinnaswamy Rajan Subramanian, 1973.
Balasubramanian Ramadorai, 1973.
Kooram Chakravarthy Kannan, 1974.
Subramanya Iyer Balakrishnan, 1974.
N.S. Venkatesan, 1975.
Rangaswamy Narasimhan, 1977.
Palligarnai Thirumalai Venugopal, 1982.
Srinivasan Parthasarthy, 1982.
S.V.S. Raghavan, 1985.
Somasundaram Subramanian, 1986.


Literature & Education
S. R. Ranganathan, 1957.
Nayyadupakkam Duraiswamy Sundaravadivelu, 1961.
Vairamuthu Pillai Subbish Pillai, 1969.
Muthia Thiagarajan, 1969.
Srinivasa Natarajan, 1969.
Chandra David Devenasan, 1970.
Mahalingayyar Subramaniam, 1971.
Vadakantara Subramanian Krishnan, 1972.
Mylapore Ponnuswamy Sivaganam, 1972.
Rasipuram Machhlisheshri, 1973.
Manickam Narayanan, 1976.
A. K. Ramanujan, 1976.
Ahalya Chari, 1983.
Vanaja Iyengar, 1987.
V. Venkatachalam, 1989.
Muthukumar Swamy Aram, 1990.
Purohita Thirunarayana Iyengar, 1991.
B.K.S Iyengar, 1991.
V C Kulandaiswamy, 1992.
Bala V. Balachandran, 2001.
M. Anandakrishnan, 2002.
Vairamuthu, 2003.
Gowri Ishwaran, 2004.
T.S. Rangarajan alias Kavignar Vaali, 2007.


Medicine
Natteri Veeraraghavan, 1967.
Coluthur Gopalan, 1970.
R. Krishnamurthi, 1971.
Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi, 1971.
Balu Sankaran, 1972.
B. Ramamurthi, 1972.
Govindapan Venkataswamy, 1973.
Venkatarama Narayana Swamy, 1974.
K. Vardachari Thiruvengadam, 1981.
S. S. Badrinath, 1983.
Hariharan Srinivasan, 1984.
V. Shantha, 1986.
P.V.A. Mohandas, 1992.
G.S. Venkataraman, 1992.
Kurudamanni A. Abraham, 1999.
K.M. Ramakrishnan, 2002.
G. Bakthavathsalam, 2005.
Mohan Kameswaran, 2006.
B. Palaniappan, 2006.
K.R. Palaniswamy, 2007.
Mayilvahanan Natarajan, 2007.
Perumalsamy Namperumalsamy, 2007.


Public Affairs
Ramanath Iyer Mathrubutham, 1971.
Jothi Vencatachalam, 1974.


Science & Engineering
Lakshminarayanapuram Ananthakrishnan Ramdas, 1958.
Mritanjaya Vaidyanathan, 1965.
M. S. Swaminathan, 1967.
Guduru Venkatachalam, 1967.
A. Ramaswami Ayengar Gopal Ayengar, 1967.
S.Ramaswamy Balasubramanyam, 1968.
T. Venkatarama Mahalingam, 1969.
Tiruvadi Venkataraman Ramamurti, 1971.
Raghavachari Krishinan, 1973.
Sekharipuram Narayana Aiyar Seshadri, 1975.
R. Chidambaram, 1975.
R. M. Vasagam, 1982.
Krishnaswami Kasturirangan, 1982.
Malur Ramaswamy Srinivasan, 1984.
K. Narayanan, 1984.
Ramanatha Venkata Ramani, 1988.
Geneshan Venkataraman, 1991.
M. S. Ramakumar, 1999.
G. Govindarajan, 2000.
T. N. Ramakrishnan, 2001.
Sanjaya Rajaram, 2001.
Thirumalachari Ramasami, 2001.
Paul Ratnasamy, 2001.
M. S. Raghunathan, 2001.
P. Balaram, 2002.
Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, 2002.
Dorairajan Balasubramanian, 2002.
Nagarajan Vedachalam, 2003.
Manthiram Natarajan, 2003.
R. Balasubramanian, 2006.
Swaminathan Sivaram, 2006.
Thanu Padmanabhan, 2007.


Social Work
Thackkadu Natesasastrigal Jagadisan, 1957.
R.S. Subbalakshmi, 1958.
Punamalai Ekambaramanthan, 1958.
N. Ramaswami Iyer, 1962.
Srinivasa Ambujammal, 1964.
Dr. S. Narasimhan, 1968.
T.Varadachari Ramanujam, 1969.
Rajam Ramaswamy, 1969.
Vaidyanatha Vaidyasubramanya Iyer, 1971.
Sarojini Varadappan, 1973.
M.P. Nachimuthu, 1983.
Jaya Arunachalam, 1987.
Vedaratnam Appakutti, 1989.
Krishnammal Jagannathan, 1989.
Venkatasan Padmanabhan, 1991.
Shanthi Ranganathan, 1992.
Janaky Athi Nahappan, 2000.
Sivananda Rajaram, 2002.


Sports
Ramanathan Krishnan, 1962.
M. J. Gopalan, 1964.
Vasudevan Baskaran, 1981.
Vijay Amritraj, 1983.
Viswanathan Anand, 1988.
Ramesh Krishnan, 1998.
Mahesh Bhupathi, 2001.
Dhanraj Pillay, 2001.
S. Venkataraghavan, 2003.

Trade & Industry
A. Nagapa Chettiar, 1967.
K.S.A. Khader Ghulam Mohideen, 1969.
Nalli Kuppuswami Chettiar, 2003.
Suresh Krishna, 2006.
A. Sivasailam, 2007.

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