- – WSIS Prizes 2025 (Digital governance)
- – IESA Industry Excellence Award (Battery manufacturing)
- – Poligras Magic Skill Award (Hockey)
- – Chintha Raveendran Award
- – UN Population Award 2025 (after Indira Gandhi, JRD Tata)
- – 1st Indian actor with star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- – Citation by New York City Mayor office (spiritual/social service)
- – India: 2 gold (Devesh Pankaj Bhaiya, Sandeep Kuchi), 2 silver
- – 2023: Aditi Sen De (Quantum technology), 2024: Subi Jacob George (supermolecular chemistry)
- – ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan
- – Bibi Fatima SHG, Karnataka
- – Educate Girls NGO
- – National Youth Award 2025
- – UN Robotics 2024
- – 32ⁿᵈ Eklavya Award
- – The New York Times
- – La Prensa
- – The Hindu
- – EASE 6.0
- – Sustainability Award
- – Digital Transformation
- – OBE
- – Fred Darrington Award
- – Macau International Comedy Festival
- – American Music Award 2025
- – Abel Prize 2025
- – Stockholm Water Prize
- – Sastra Ramanujan Prize 2024
- – Knighthood UK 2025
- – Honorary Knighthood
- – Global Vanguard
- – Japan
- – Indonesia
- – Bhutan
- – Vietnam
- – Thailand
- : 139 (7 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan, 113 Padma Shri)
- , ,
- 1954, on Republic Day
- (Posthumous, Bihar) – Art
- – Telangana, Medicine
- – Chandigarh, Public Affairs
- – Gujarat, Art
- – Karnataka, Art
- (Posthumous, Kerala) – Literature & Education
- (Posthumous, Japan) – Trade & Industry
- – Sushil Kumar Modi (Bihar), Manohar Joshi (Maharashtra)
- – Bibek Debroy (Delhi), Rambahadur Rai (UP, Journalism)
- – Jatin Goswami (Assam, Dance), Pankaj Udas (Maharashtra, Music), Shekhar Kapur (Maharashtra, Cinema), Shobana Chandrakumar (Kerala, Dance)
- – Kailash Nath Dikshit (UP, Archaeology), S Ajith Kumar (Kerala, Nuclear Science), Vinod Dham (USA/Delhi, Technology)
- – P R Sreejesh (Kerala, Hockey)
- – Sadhvi Ritambhara (UP, Durga Wahini)
- – John Hopfield & Geoffrey Hinton
- – David Baker, Demis Hassabis & John Jumper
- – Victor Ambros & Gary Ruvkun
- – Han Kang (South Korea, first from country)
- – Nihon Hidankyo (Japan, Nuclear Disarmament)
- – Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson & James Robinson
- – Banu Mushtaq (Heart Lamp, Kannada, tr. Deepa Bhasthi)
- – Samantha Harvey (Orbital)
- – Hindi: Gagan Gill (Main Jab Tak Aai Baher), English: Easterine Kire (Spirit Nights), Maithili: Mahendra Malangia (Prabandh Sangrah)
- – Advait Kottary (English), Parvati Tirkey (Hindi)
- – Nitin Kushalappa (English), Sushil Shukla (Hindi)
- – Upamanyu Chatterjee (Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life)
- – Mahamhopadhyay Sadhu Bhadreshdas (Swaminarayan Siddhanta Sudha)
- – Suryabala (Kaun Des Ko Vasi: Venu Ki Diary)
- – 2023: Jagadguru Rambhadracharya & Gulzar; 2024: Vinod Kumar Shukla
- – 2025: Leila Aboulela; 2024: Arundhati Roy
- – Film: Anora, Actor: Adrian Brody, Actress: Mikey Madison, Director: Sean Baker
- – Film: The Brutalist, Director: Corbet, Actor: Adrien Brody, Actress: Fernanda Torres
- – Film: Conclave, Director: Corbet, Actor: Adrian Brady, Actress: Mikey Madison
- – Jafar Panahi (It Was Just An Accident), Hasan Hadi (The President Cake), Neeraj Ghaywan (Homebound)
- – Vikrant Massey, Toxic (Film), Lampan (Web Series), Phillip Noyce (Lifetime)
- – Lapata Ladies: Film, Dir. Kiran Rao, Actor Kartik Aryan, Actress Nitanshi Goel, Supp. Actor Ravi Kishan
- – Attam (Film), Gulmohar (Hindi Film), Rishabh Shetty (Actor), Nithya Menen & Manasi Parekh (Actress), Suraj Badjatya (Director), A. R. Rahman (Music)
- – Shahrukh Khan (Actor), Rani Mukherjee (Actress), Mithun Chakraborty (Lifetime), Film: Jawan
- – 12th Fail (Film), Ranveer Kapoor (Actor), Alia Bhatt (Actress), Vidhu Vinod Chopra (Director)
- – Beyoncé (Cowboy Carter), Kendrick Lamar (Not like us), Chandrika Tandon (Triveni)
- – Kumar Mangalam Birla
- – R.K. Shriram Kumar
- – Urmila Satyanarayana
- – Sonal Mansingh
- – Ajanta-Ellora Festival 2025
- – Raj Kapoor Lifetime Achievement Award
- – Annecy Animation Festival 2025
- – Opal Suchata Chuangsri (Thailand), Nandini Gupta (India), Sonu Sood (Humanitarian)
- – Victoria Kjaer Theilvig (Denmark), Riya Singha (India)
- – Dhruvi Patel
- – Nikita Porwal
- – Rechal Gupta
- – Indore, Surat, Navi Mumbai; Prayagraj (Best Ganga Town), UP Govt. (Waste Management)
- – Odisha, UP, Puducherry, Gujarat; Surat (ULB), Pullampara (Village Panchayat)
- – INCOIS Hyderabad
- – Hubballi Airport, Karnataka
- – Madhav Gadgil
- – Anant Ambani’s Vantara
- – Indian Oil
- – Jaishree Venkatesan
- – Acharya Prashant
- – Mariangela Hungria
- – Dr. Purnima Devi Barman
- – Anant Darshan Shankar
- – Alok Shukla
- – NitroCapt (Sweden)
- Order of the Dragon King – Bhutan
- Order of St. Andrew – Russia
- Grand Commander of Niger – Nigeria
- Dominica Award of Honour – Dominica
- Order of Excellence of Guyana – Guyana
- Order of Mubarak Al Kabeer – Kuwait
- Order of Freedom of Barbados – Barbados
- Grand Commander of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean 2025 – Mauritius
- Mitra Vibhushana 2025 – Sri Lanka
- Grand Cross of the Order of Makarios III 2025 – Cyprus
- Order of the Star of Ghana – Ghana
- Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago – Trinidad & Tobago
- Grand Collar of the National Order of the Southern Cross 2025 – Brazil
- Order of the Most Ancient Welwitschia Mirabilis 2025 – Namibia
- – Gukesh D., Harmanpreet Singh, Praveen Kumar, Manu Bhaker
- – 32 Players (Athletics, Boxing, Hockey, Para-sports, etc.)
- – S. Murlidharan, Armando Colaco, Subhash Rana, Deepali Deshpande, Sandeep Sangwan
- – Chandigarh University (first private university)
- – Bumrah, Omarzai, Mandhana, Arshdeep Singh, Meili Kerr
- – Sachin Tendulkar, Bumrah, Mandhana, Ashwin
- – Bumrah, Mandhana
- – Mondo Duplantis, Simone Biles
- – Vinicius Jr, Aitana Bonmati, Pep Guardiola, Sarina
- – Shubhashish Bose, Saumya Guguloth
- – Harmanpreet Singh, Savita Puniya
- – Rodri, Aitana Bonmati
