The document lists recipients of the Padma Awards for 2016, India's highest civilian honors. It provides tables of recipients for the Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Vibhushan awards. Some notable recipients of the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, include actor Rajinikanth, media baron Ramoji Rao, and economist Avinash Dixit. The tables also recognize foreigners, NRIs, and posthumous awards for their contributions in various fields.

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Table 1: Padma Shri Award
Ajay Devgan Prof. Pushpesh Pant
Bhikhudan Gadhvi Jawaharlal Kaul
Shri Sribhas Chandra Supakar Ashok Malik
Prathibha Prahlad Mannam Gopi Chand
Priyanka Chopra Ravi Kant
Tulsidas Borkar Ram Harsh Singh
Soma Ghosh Shiv Narain Kureel
Nila Madhab Panda Dr.Sabya Sachi Sarkar
S.S. Rajamouli Dr. Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhaley
Madhur Bhandarkar T.K. Lahiri
M. Venkatesh Kumar Praveen Chandra
Barjinder Singh Hamdard Daljeet Singh Gambhir
Gulabi Sapera Dr.Chandrasekar Shesadri Thoguluva
Mamta Chandrakar Anil Kumari Malhotra
Malini Awasthi M.V. Padma Srivastava
Jai Prakash Lekhiwal Sudhir V. Shah
K. Laxma Goud M. M. Joshi
Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe John Ebnezar
Naresh Chander Lal Dr. Nayudamma Yarlagadda
Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah Simon Oraon
Prahlad Chandra Tasa Imitiaz Qureshi
Ravindra Nagar Piyush Pandey
Dahyabhai Shastri Subhash Palekar
Santeshivara Bhyrappa Ravinder Kumar Sinha
Haldar Nag H.R. Nagendra
Kameshwaram Brahma M. C. Mehta

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M. N. Krishna Mani
Ujjwal Nikam Padma Shri (Foreigners/Posthumous)
Tokheho Sema Prakash Chand Surana (posthumous)
Satish Kumar Michael Postel(Foreigner)
Dr.Mylswamy Annadurai Salman Amin Sal Khan (NRI/PIO)
Dipankar Chatterji Hui Lan Zhang(Foreigner)
Ganapati Dadasaheb Yadav Predrag K. Nikic(Foreigner)
Veena Tandon Dr.Sundar Aditya Menon(NRI/PIO)
Onkar Nath Srivastava Shri Ajaypal Singh Banga (NRI/PIO)
Sunita Krishnan
Ajoy Kumar Dutta
M. Pandit Dasa
P. P. Gopinathan Nair
Madeleine Herman de Blic
Srinivasan Damal Kandalai
Sudhakar Olwe
T.V. Narayana
Arunachalam Murugantham
Deepika Kumari
Sushil Doshi
Mahesh Sharma
Saurabh Srivastava
Dilip Sanghvi
Dr. Keki Hormusji Gharda
Table 1: Padma Shri Award

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Table 2: Padma Bhushan
Vinod Rai
Anupam Kher
Udit Narayan
Robert D Blackwill
Saina Nehwal
Sania Mirza
Indu Jain
Ram V. Sutar
Heisnam Kanhailal
Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad
N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya
Barjinder Singh Hamdard
Nageshwar Reddy
Hafeez Contractor
Ravindra Chandra Bhargava
Dr.Venkata Rama Rao Alla
Swami Dayanand Sarawasati (posthumous)
Pallonji Shapoorji
Table 3: Padma Vibhushan
Rajinikanth
Ramoji Rao
Jagmohan
Shri Shri Ravi Shankar
Yamini Krishnamurthy
Girija Devi

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V K Aatre
Dhirubhai Ambani
Avinash Dixit
Viswanathan Shanta
Table 3: Padma Vibhushan