List of Tamils conferred Padma Shri

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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.

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[edit] Arts

[edit] 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.

[edit] Literature & Education

[edit] Medicine

[edit] Public Affairs

  • Ramanath Iyer Mathrubutham, 1971.
  • Jothi Vencatachalam, 1974.

[edit] Science & Engineering

[edit] 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.

[edit] Sports

[edit] 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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