Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (2003 to 2021)

List of Recipients

Sr No. Country Name of the Awardees Year Field
1 Canada Shri Ujjal Dosanjh 2003 Public Affairs
2 Guyana Sir Shridath Surendranath Ramphal 2003 Public Affairs
3 Hong Kong Dr. Hari N. Harilela 2003 Business
4 Kenya Shri Manilal Premchand Chandaria 2003 Business
5 Malaysia Dato Seri S. Samyvellu 2003 Public Affairs
6 Mauritius R. T. Hon’ble Sir Anerood Jugnauth 2003 Public Affairs
7 Oman Shri Kanaksi Gokaldas Khimji 2003 Business
8 South Africa Prof. Fatima Meer 2003 Public Affairs
9 UK Lord Navnit Dholakia 2003 Public Affairs
10 USA Shri Rajat Gupta 2003 Management
11 Fiji Shri Mahendra Pal Chaudhry 2004 Public Affairs
12 Guyana H.E. Bharat Jagdeo 2004 Public Affairs
13 Kenya Shri Fitz Remedios Santana DE Souza 2004 Public Affairs
14 Kuwait Dr. Mariam Chisti 2004 Public Health
15 New Zealand Smt. Sukhi Turner 2004 Public Affairs
16 Oman Shri P. Mohammed Ali 2004 Business
17 UK Lord Meghnad Desai 2004 Public Affairs
18 USA Prof. Dipak C. Jain 2004 Management
19 USA Dr. Kalpana Chawla (Posthumously) 2004 Astronaut
20 USA Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany 2004 Business
21 USA Shri Shashi Tharoor 2004 Literature
22 Zimbabwe Justice Mr. Ahamed Mossa Ebrahim 2004 Public Affairs
23 Fiji Shri Vijay Singh 2005 Sports
24 Germany Prof Alokeranjan Dasgupta 2005 Poetry
25 Hong Kong Shri M. Arunachalam 2005 Business
26 Philippines Dr. Sant Singh Virmani 2005 Agricultural Science
27 South Africa Ms. Amina Cachalia 2005 Public Affairs
28 South Africa Shri Ahmed Kathrada 2005 Public Affairs
29 Tanzania Sir (Dr.) J.K. Chande 2005 Public Affairs
30 Trinidad & Tobago Shri Basdeo Panday 2005 Public Affairs
31 UAE Shri Yusuffali M.A. 2005 Business
32 UK Lord Bhikhu Chhotalal Parekh 2005 Political Science
33 UK Shri Vikram Seth 2005 Literature
34 USA Prof Sunil Khilnani 2005 Political Science
35 USA Dr. Sam Pitroda 2005 Technology
36 USA Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati 2005 Economics
37 USA Shri Manoj Night Shyamalan 2005 Films
38 Guyana Shri Yesu Persaud 2006 Business
39 Hong Kong Shri Rusy M. Shroff 2006 Business
40 Israel Shri Eliahu Bezalel 2006 Agriculture
41 Mauritius Shri Abdool Raouf Bundhun 2006 Public Affairs
42 Philippines Smt. Pratima Kale 2006 Rural Development
43 Qatar Shri C. K. Menon 2006 Community Leadership
44 Reunion Island Shri Jean-Paul Virapoulle 2006 Public Affairs
45 Saudi Arabia Dr. Majid Uddin Kazi 2006 Medicine
46 Seychelles Dr. V. Ramadoss 2006 Community Leadership
47 South Africa Shri Sisupal Rambharos 2006 Philanthropy
48 Thailand Shri Shivnath Rai Bajaj 2006 Business
49 UK Sir Gulam Kaderbhai Noon 2006 Business
50 USA Dr. Sudhir Parikh 2006 Community Leadership
51 USA Shri Niranjan S. Shah 2006 Community Leadership
52 USA Shri Fareed Zakaria 2006 Journalism
53 Canada Shri Dave Sukhdip Singh Hayer 2007 Public Affairs
54 Fiji Sir Moti Tikaram 2007 Public Affairs
55 Germany Shri Sibabrata Roy 2007 Community Affairs
56 Jamaica Shri Kenneth S. Benjamin 2007 Business
57 Kenya Shri Pheroze Nowrojee 2007 Community Affairs
58 Malaysia Tan Sri Dato Dr. K. R. Somasundram 2007 Public Affairs
59 Portugal Dr. Abdool Magid Abdool Karim Vakil 2007 Business
60 South Africa Shri Billy Nair 2007 Public Affairs
61 UAE Shri Syed M. Salahuddin 2007 Business
62 UAE Dr. B.R. Shetty 2007 Business
63 UK Lord Diljit Rana 2007 Business
64 USA Shri Gopal Raju 2007 Media
65 USA Shri Nirmal K. Sinha 2007 Community Affairs
66 USA Dr. P. Jayaraman 2007 Culture
67 USA Dr. M. Anirudhan 2007 Business
68 Australia Shri Neville Joseph Roach 2008 Community Service
69 Bahrain Dr. Ravi Pillai 2008 Business
70 Japan Shri A. P. S. Mani 2008 Community Service
71 Mauritius Dr. the Hon. Navinchandra Ramgoolam 2008 Public Service
72 New Zealand Judge Ajit Swaran Singh 2008 Public Service
73 Saudi Arabia Shri Rafiudin Shamsudin Fazulbhoy 2008 Community Service
74 Sweden Shri Bicky Chakraborty 2008 Business
75 Trinidad & Tobago National Council of Indian Culture (NCIC) 2008 Community Service
76 UAE Shri Krishnamurthy Kumar 2008 Community Service
77 UK Lord Karan Bilimoria 2008 Business
78 USA Dr. Thomas Abraham 2008 Community Service
79 USA Dr. Joy Cherian 2008 Public Service
80 Bahrain Shri Soman Baby 2009 Community Service
81 Canada Shri Deepak Obhrai 2009 Public Service
82 Madagascar Shri Ylias Akbaraly 2009 Community Service
83 Malaysia Tan Sri G. Vadiveloo 2009 Public Service
84 Mauritius Shri Angidi Veeriah Chettiar 2009 Public Service
85 Oman Shri P.N.C. Menon 2009 Philanthropy
86 South Africa Shri Parmananthan ‘Prema’ Naidoo 2009 Public Service
87 Suriname Shri Ramdien Sardjoe 2009 Public Service
88 The Netherlands Shri Ram Lakhina 2009 Community Service
89 UAE Shri J.R. Gangaramani 2009 Community Service
90 UK Baroness Shreela Flather 2009 Public Service
91 USA Prof. C.K. Prahalad 2009 Management
92 USA Prof. Sumit Ganguly 2009 Public Service
93 Brunei Darussalam Shri Mohinder Singh Bhullar 2010 Community Service
94 Fiji Shri Yanktesh Permal Reddy 2010 Community Service
95 Japan Shri Ryuko Hira 2010 Community Service
96 Japan (Smt.) Dr. Ruby Umesh Pawankar 2010 Medicine
97 Oman Shri Suresh Kumar Virmani 2010 Community Service
98 South Africa Shri Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan 2010 Public Service
99 South Africa Dr. Tholisiah Perumal Naidoo 2010 Community Service
100 Tanzania Dr. Rajni Kanabar 2010 Medicine
101 Thailand Shri Deepak Mittal 2010 Business
102 Trinidad & Tobago Dr. Lenny Krishendath Saith 2010 Public Service
103 UAE Dr. Azad Moopen 2010 Medicine
104 USA Dr. Mani Lal Bhaumik 2010 Community Service
105 USA Shri Ashok Kumar Mago 2010 Community Service
106 USA Shri Upendra J. Chivukula 2010 Public Service
107 Australia Prof. Veena Harbhagwan Sahajwalla 2011 Science
108 Canada Ms. Lata Pada 2011 Arts
109 Hong Kong Shri Harindrapal Singh Banga 2011 Business
110 Israel Shri Hohammad Munir Nazir Hassan Ansari 2011 Community Service
111 Liberia Shri Upjit Singh Sachdeva 2011 Community Service
112 Malaysia Tan Sri Dato’ Ajit Singh 2011 Public Affairs
113 New Zealand Sir Anand Satyanand 2011 Public Affairs
114 Qatar Indian Community Benevolent Forum, Qatar 2011 Community Service
115 Saudi Arabia Dr. Mohiaddin Syed Karimuddin 2011 Community Service
116 Sri Lanka Shri Mano Selvanathan 2011 Business
117 The Netherlands Shri Saleh Wahid 2011 Community Service
118 UAE Shri Mohan Jashanmal 2011 Community Service
119 UK Baroness (Dr.) Sandip Verma 2011 Public Affairs
120 USA Shri Ashook Kumar Ramsaran 2011 Community Service
121 USA Dr. Rajiv Shah 2011 Public Affairs
122 Bahrain Shri P.V. Radhakrishna Pillai 2012 Community Service
123 Cambodia Prof. Sachchidanand Sahai 2012 Promoting India
124 Canada Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce 2012 Public Service
125 Cote D’ Ivoire Shri Deepak Naraindas Shivdasani 2012 Community Service
126 Germany Dr. Victor Shahed Smetacek 2012 Science
127 Indonesia Shri Sri Prakash Lohia 2012 Business
128 Mozambique Shri Jose Parayanken 2012 Business
129 Oman Shri Kiran Navinchandra Asher 2012 Community Service
130 Qatar Mr. Hassan Abdulkarim Chougule 2012 Community Service
131 Singapore H.E. Mr. S.R. Nathan 2012 Public Service
132 South Africa Dr. Khorshed Noshir Ginwala - Rustomjee 2012 Public Service
133 Trinidad & Tobago H.E. Ms. Kamla Persad Bissessar 2012 Public Service
134 Ukraine Shri Rajesh Kumar Saraiya 2012 Business
135 USA Prof. Surendra Kumar Kaushik 2012 Economics
136 USA Dr. Kalpalatha Kummamuri Guntupalli 2012 Medicine
137 Australia Australia India Society of Victoria 2013 Community Service
138 Germany Prof. Dr. Gursharan Singh Chhatwal 2013 Science
139 Guinea Mr. Ashok Shambhomal Vaswani 2013 Community Service
140 Kuwait Indian Doctors Forum, Kuwait 2013 Community Service
141 Malaysia Tan Sri Ravindran Menon 2013 Community Service
142 Mauritius Mr. Rajkeswur Purryag 2013 Public Service
143 Mexico Dr. Rasik Vihari Joshi 2013 Literature
144 New Zealand Dr. Satendra Kumar Singh 2013 Community Service
145 Reunion Island Mr. Gilbert Canabady Moutien 2013 Business
146 Saudi Arabia Mr. Mohammed Rabeeh Karuvanthodi 2013 Business
147 South Africa Mr. Ismail Ebrahim Ebrahim 2013 Public Service
148 UAE Mr. Bava Pandalingal 2013 Community Service
149 UK Ms. Patricia Maria Rozario 2013 Music
150 USA Dr. Narendra Ramakrishna Kumar 2013 Healthcare
151 USA Mr. Subash Razdan 2013 Public Service
152 Australia Ms. Senator Lisa Singh 2014 Public Service
153 Bahrain Mr. Kurian Varghese 2014 Business
154 Canada Mr. Vasdev Chanchlani 2014 Business & Public Service
155 Fiji Ramakrishna Mission 2014 Community Service
156 France Mr. Bikas Chandra Sanyal 2014 Education & Culture
157 Papua New Guinea Mr. Sasindran Muthuvel 2014 Public Service
158 Saudi Arabia Shri Shihabudeen Vava Kunju 2014 Community Service
159 South Africa Mrs. Ela Gandhi 2014 Public Service
160 The Netherlands Mr. Satnarainsing Rabin Baldew Singh 2014 Public Service
161 UAE Dr. Shamsheer Vayalil Parambath 2014 Healthcare Business
162 UK Mr. Shailesh lakhman Vara 2014 Public Service
163 USA Dr. Parthasarathy Chiramel Pillai 2014 Science
164 USA Ms. Renu Khator 2014 Education
165 Australia Mrs. Mala Mehta 2015 Education and Community Service
166 Guyana H.E. Mr. Donald Rabindernauth Ramotar 2015 Public Service
167 Mexico Dr.Rajaram Sanjaya 2015 Scientific Research
168 New Zealand Mr. Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi 2015 Public Service
169 Oman Mr. Rajmal Parakh 2015 Social Service
170 Seychelles Mr. Duraikannu Karunakaran 2015 Judicial Service
171 South Africa Dr. Essop Goolam Pahad 2015 Public Service
172 UAE Mr. Shah Bharathkumar Jayantilal 2015 Community Service
173 UAE Mr. Ashraf Palarakunnummal 2015 Social Service
174 Uganda Mr. Mahendra Nanji Mehta 2015 Public Service
175 UK Prof. Nathu Ram Puri 2015 Education and Community Service
176 UK Lord Raj Loomba 2015 Public Service
177 USA Mr. Satyanarayana Nadella 2015 Business Management
178 USA Dr. Lulla Kamalesh 2015 Scientific Research
179 USA Dr. (Mrs.) Nandini Tandon 2015 Management of Healthcare and Business
180 Australia Dr. Gorur Krishna Harinath 2017 Community Service
181 Bahrain Rajasekharan PillaiValavoor Kizhakkathil 2017 Business
182 Belgium Antwerp Indian Association 2017 Community Service
183 Brunei Nazeer AhmedMohamed Zackiriah 2017 Community Service
184 Canada Mukund Bhikhubhai Purohit 2017 Business
185 Djibouti Nalinkumr Sumanlal Kothari 2017 Community Service
186 Doha Dr. Raghavan Seetharaman 2017 Business Management
187 Fiji Vinod Chandra Patel 2017 Social Service
188 France Raghunath Marie Antonin Manet 2017 Arts & culture
189 Israel Dr.Lael Anson E.Best 2017 Medicine Science
190 Japan Prof. Sandip Kumar Tagore 2017 Arts & Culture
191 Libya Ariful Islam 2017 Community service
192 Malaysia Dr. MuniandyThambirajah 2017 Education & Community service
193 Mauritius Hon’ble Pravind Kumar Jugnauth 2017 Public Service
194 Portugal H.E.Mr.Antonio Luis Santos da Costa 2017 Public service
195 Saudi Arabia Ms. Zeenat Musarrat Jafri 2017 Education
196 Singapore Singapore Indian Association 2017 Community service
197 Sweden Mr. Carni Balaraman Sanjeev 2017 Medicine
198 Thailand Susheel Kumar Saraff 2017 Business
199 Trinidad & Tobago Winston Chandarbhan Dookeran 2017 Public Service
200 UAE Vasudev Shamdas Shroff 2017 Community Service
201 UAE India Social and Cultural Centre,Abu Dhabi 2017 Philanthropy and Community Service
202 UK Rt. Hon’ble Priti Patel 2017 Public Service
203 UK Neena Gill 2017 Public Service
204 USA Hari Babu Bindal 2017 Environmental Engineering
205 USA Dr.Bharat haridas Barai 2017 Community Service
206 USA Nisha Desai Biswal 2017 Public Affairs
207 USA Dr. Mahesh Mehta 2017 Community Service
208 USA Ramesh Shah 2017 Community Service
209 USA Dr. Sampatkumar shidramapa Shivangi 2017 Community Leadership
210 Australia Nihal Singh Agar 2019 Social Service
211 Bhutan Rajinder Nath Khazanchi 2019 Civil Engineering
212 Canada Ramesh Chotai 2019 Business
213 China Amit Waikar 2019 Business
214 Egypt Indian Community Association in Egypt 2019 Community Service
215 France Malini Ranganathan 2019 Academics & Arts
216 Guyana Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha 2019 Community Service
217 Italy Bitthal Das Maheshwari 2019 Business
218 Jamaica Guna Sekhar Muppuri 2019 Medical Science &Entrepreneurship
219 Kenya P. V. Sambasiva Rao 2019 Technology
220 Kenya Prakash Madhavdas Heda 2019 Medical Science
221 Kuwait Rajpal Tyagi 2019 Architecture
222 Myanmar Banwarilal Satya Narayan Goenka 2019 Business Management
223 New Zealand Bhavdeep Singh Dhillon 2019 Business
224 Norway Himanshu Gulati 2019 Public Service
225 Oman Vinodan Verambally Thazhikuniyil 2019 Business
226 Poland Jagadeswara Rao Maddukuri 2019 Entrepreneurship
227 Qatar Purnendu Chandra Tiwary 2019 Training & Simulation
228 South Africa Swami Saradaprabhananda 2019 Community Service
229 South Africa Anil Sooklal 2019 Diplomacy
230 Switzerland Rajendra Kumar Joshi 2019 Science
231 Tanzania Shamim Parkar Khan 2019 Public Service
232 UAE Surender Singh Kandhari 2019 Business
233 UAE Zulekha Daud 2019 Medical Science & Business
234 UAE Girish Pant 2019 Business
235 Uganda Rajesh Chaplot 2019 Chartered Accountancy
236 USA Gita Gopinath 2019 Academics
237 USA Chandra Shekhar Mishra 2019 Science
238 USA Kiran Chhotubhai Patel 2019 Medical Science
239 USA Gitesh Jayantilal Desai 2019 Structural Engineering
240 Armenia NGO Cultural Diversity for Peaceful Future 2021 Promoting Indian culture
241 Azerbaijan Dr. Rajani Chandra D’Mello 2021 Medicine
242 Bahrain Mr. Baburajan Vava Kalluparambil Gopalan 2021 Community Service
243 Botswana Mrs. Jamal Ahmad 2021 Business
244 Cameroon Mr. Janakiraman Ravikumar 2021 Closer ties with India
245 Czech Republic Mr. Debashish Chaudhuri 2021 Art and Culture
246 Ethiopia Mr. Mohammed Husein Hasanali Sardharwala 2021 Business
247 Fiji Sai Prema Foundation 2021 Community Service
248 Germany Dr. Balasubramanian Ramani 2021 Education
249 Hong Kong Mr. Lal Lokumal Chellaram 2021 Business
250 Japan Dr. (Prof.) Muralidhar Miryala 2021 Science & Technology
251 Japan Mr. Rajib Shaw 2021 Education
252 Maldives Mr. Salil Panigrahi 2021 Tourism
253 Mexico Dr. Ravi Prakash Singh 2021 Science & Technology
254 Netherlands H.E. Mr. Eugene Rhuggenaath# 2021 Public Service
255 New Zealand Hon’bleMs. PriyancaRadhakrishnan** 2021 Public Service
256 Nigeria Indian Cultural Association (ICA) 2021 Community Service
257 Qatar Dr. Mohan Thomas Lazarus Pakalomattom 2021 Medicine
258 Reunion(France) Mr. Jean Regis Ramsamy 2021 Media & Community Service
259 Saudi Arabia Mr. Siddeek Ahmed 2021 Business
260 Sudan Dr. Anil Kumar Chotalal Mithani 2021 Medical
261 Suriname H.E. Shri Chandrika persad Santokhi* 2021 Public Service
262 Switzerland Dr. Sachi Gurumayun 2021 Biotech Agronomy
263 Thailand Mr. Vashdev Tikamdas Purswani 2021 Business
264 UK Resham Singh Sandhu 2021 Public Service
265 USA Mr. Arvind Phukan 2021 Environment Technology
266 USA Ms. Nilu Gupta 2021 Promoting Indian Culture
267 USA Federation of Indian Associations NY, NJ & CT 2021 Community Service
268 USA Dr. Sudhakar Jonnalagadda 2021 Medicine
269 USA/ Singapore Dr.MukeshAghi 2021 Business
270 Australia Prof. Jagadish Chennupati 2023 Science & Technology/Education
271 Bhutan Prof. Sanjeev Mehta 2023 Education
272 Brazil Prof. Dilip Loundo 2023 Art & Culture/Education
273 Brunei Darussalam Dr. Alexander Maliakel John 2023 Medicine
274 Canada Dr. Vaikuntam Iyer Lakshmanan 2023 Community Welfare
275 Croatia Mr. Joginder Singh Nijjar 2023 Art & Culture/Education
276 Denmark Prof. Ramjee Prasad 2023 Information Technology
277 Ethiopia Dr. Kannan Ambalam 2023 Community Welfare
278 Germany Dr. Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay 2023 Community Welfare/Medicine
279 Guyana H.E. Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali 2023 Politics/Community Welfare
280 Israel Ms. Reena Vinod Pushkarna 2023 Business/Community Welfare
281 Japan Dr. Maqsooda Sarfi Shiotani 2023 Education
282 Mexico Dr. Rajagopal 2023 Education
283 Poland Mr. Amit Kailash Chandra Lath 2023 Business/Community Welfare
284 Republic of Congo Mr. Parmanand Sukhumal Daswani 2023 Community Welfare
285 Singapore Mr. Piyush Gupta 2023 Business
286 South Africa Mr. Mohanlal Hira 2023 Community Welfare
287 South Sudan Mr. Sanjaykumar Shivabhai Patel 2023 Business/Community Welfare
288 Sri Lanka Mr. Sivakumar Nadesan 2023 Community Welfare
289 Suriname Dr. Dewanchandrebhose Sharman 2023 Community Welfare
290 Switzerland Dr. Archana Sharma 2023 Science & Technology
291 Trinidad & Tobago Justice Frank Arthur Seepersad 2023 Community Welfare/Education
292 UAE Mr. Siddharth Balachandran 2023 Business/Community Welfare
293 UK Mr. Chandrakant Babubhai Patel 2023 Media
294 USA Dr. Darshan Singh Dhaliwal 2023 Business/Community Welfare
295 USA Mr. Rajesh Subramaniam 2023 Business
296 Uzbekistan Mr. Ashok Kumar Tiwary 2023 Business