Arjuna Awardees List





Arjun Awardees of All Sports till 2020

Arjuna Awards is conferred on the outstanding sports persons. Instituted in 1961, the award has been conferred on 764 sportsperson in 34 sports till the end of 2021. Here is a list of Arjuna Award recipients separated according to different sports and games.

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awards
History of Arjuna Awards

From the year 2001, the award is given only in disciplines falling under the following categories:

    1. Olympic Games / Asian Games / Commonwealth Games / World Cup / World Championship Disciplines and Cricket
      Indigenous Games
      Sports for the Physically Challenged

In mid-August 2011, 19 athletes were announced as Arjuna recipients; the high number due to the inclusion of both the 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2010 Asian Games in the Arjuna qualifying year.
In 2020, 27 sports persons were conferred with the Arjuna awards.
Source: Wikipedia

List of winners

    1. 1 1981 Krishna Das
      2 1989 Shyam Lal
      3 1991 Limba Ram
      4 1992 Sanjeev Kumar Singh
      5 2005 Tarundeep Rai
      6 2005 Dola Banerjee
      7 2006 Jayanta Talukdar
      8 2009 Mangal Singh Champia
      9 2011 Rahul Banerjee
      10 2011Deepika Kumari
      11 2011 Laishram Bombayla Devi
      12 2013 Chekrovolu Swuro
      13 2014 Abhishek Verma
      14 2015 Sandeep Kumar
      15 2016 Rajath Chauhan
      16. 2017 Jyothi Surekha Vennam
      17. 2020 Atanu Das

    1. 1. 1961 Gurbachan Singh Randhawa
      2. 1962 Tarlok Singh
      3. 1963 Stephie D’Souza
      4. 1964 Makhan Singh
      5. 1965 Kenneth Powell
      6. 1966 Ajmer Singh
      7. 1966 Bhogeswar Barua
      8. 1967 Praveen Kumar
      9. 1967 Bhim Singh
      10. 1968 Joginder Singh
      11. 1968 Manjit Walia
      12. 1969 Harnek Singh
      13. 1970 Mohinder Singh Gill
      14. 1971 Edward Sequeira
      15. 1972 Vijay Singh Chauhan
      16. 1973 Sriram Singh
      17. 1974 T. C. Yohannan
      18. 1974 Shivnath Singh
      19. 1975 Hari Chand
      20. 1975 V. Anusuya Bai
      21. 1976 Bahadur Singh
      22. 1976 Geeta Zutshi
      23. 1977-78 Satish Kumar
      24. 1978-79 Suresh Babu
      25. 1978-79 Angel Mary Joseph
      26. 1979-80 R. Gyanasekaran
      27. 1980-81 Gopal Saini
      28. 1981 Sabir Ali
      29. 1982 Charles Borromeo
      30. 1982 Chand Ram
      31. 1982 M. D. Valsamma
      32. 1983 Suresh Yadav
      33. 1983 P. T. Usha
      34. 1984 Raj Kumar
      35. 1984 Shiny Abraham
      36. 1985 Raghubir Singh Bal
      37. 1985 Asha Agarwal
      38. 1985 Adille Sumariwala
      39. 1986 Suman Rawat
      40. 1987 Balwinder Singh
      41. 1987 Vandana Rao
      42. 1987 Bagicha Singh
      43. 1987 Vandana Shanbagh
      44. 1988 Ashwini Nachappa
      45. 1989 Mercy Kuttan
      46. 1990 Deena Ram
      47. 1992 Bahadur Prasad
      48. 1993 K. Saramma
      49. 1994 Rosa Kutty
      50. 1995 Shakti Singh
      51. 1995 Jyotirmoyee Sikdar
      52. 1995 Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla (Para Athlete)
      53. 1996 Kallegowda (Para Athlete)
      54. 1996 Ajit Bhaduria
      55. 1996 Padmini Thomas
      56. 1997 M. Mahadeva (Para Athlete)
      57. 1997 Reeth Abraham
      58. 1998 Sirichand Ram
      59. 1998 Neelam Jaswant Singh
      60. 1998 S. D. Eshan
      61. 1998 Rachita Mistry
      62. 1998 Paramjit Singh
      63. 1999 Gulab Chand
      64. 1999 G. Venkataravanappa (Para Athlete)
      65. 1999 Gurmit Kaur
      66. 1999 Parduman Singh
      67. 1999 Sunita Rani
      68. 2000 K. M. Beenamol
      69. 2000 Yadvendra Vashishta (Para Athlete)
      70. 2000 Joginder Singh Bedi (Para Athlete) (For Life time Contribution)
      71. 2001 K.R. Shankar Iyer (Para Athlete)
      72. 2002 Anju Bobby George
      73. 2002 Saraswati Saha
      74. 2003 Soma Biswas
      75. 2003 Madhuri Saxena
      76. 2004 Anil Kumar
      77. 2004 J. J. Shobha
      78. 2004 Devendra Jhajharia (Physically Challenged)
      79. 2005 Manjit Kaur
      80. 2006 K. M. Binu
      81. 2007 Chitra K. Soman
      82. 2009 Sinimol Paulose
      83. 2010 Joseph Abraham (Athletics)
      84. 2010 Jagseer Singh (Para Athlete)
      85. 2010 Krishna Poonia
      86. 2011 Preeja Sreedharan
      87. 2012 Sudha Singh
      88. 2012 Kavita Ramdas Raut
      89. 2012 Deepa Mallick (Para Athlete)
      90. 2012 Ramkaran Singh (Para Athlete)
      91. 2013 Renjith Maheshwary
      92. 2013 Amit Kumar Saroha (Para Athlete)
      93. 2014 Tintu Luka
      94. 2015 M. R. Poovamma
      95. 2016 Lalita Babar
      96. 2016 Sandeep Singh Maan
      97. 2017 Khushbir Kaur
      98. 2017 Arokia Rajiv
      99. 2017 Mariyappan Thangavelu (Para Athlete)
      100. 2017 Varun Bhati (Para Athlete)
      101. 2018 Neeraj Chopra
      102. 2018 Ankur Dhama
      103. 2018 Hima Das
      104. 2018 Jinson Johnson
      105. 2019 Muhammed Anas
      106. 2019 Swapna Barman
      107. 2019 Sundar Singh Gurjar
      108. 2019 Tejinder Pal Singh Toor
      109. 2020 Dutee Chand

    1. 1 1961 Nandu Natekar
      2 1962 Meena Shah
      3 1965 Dinesh Khanna
      4 1967 Suresh Goel
      5 1969 Dipu Ghosh
      6 1970 D. V. Tambay
      7 1971 S. Moorthy
      8 1972 Prakash Padukone
      9 1974 Raman Ghosh
      10 1975 Davinder Ahuja
      11 1976 Ami Ghia
      12 1977-78 Ms. K.T. Singh
      13 1980-81 Syed Modi
      14 1982 P. Ganguli
      15 1982 Madhumita Bisht
      16 1991 Rajeev Bagga
      17 2000 Pullela Gopichand
      18 1999 George Thomas
      19 2002 Ramesh Tikaram (Physically Challenged)
      20 2003 Madasu Srinivas Rao (Physically Challenged)
      21 2004 Abhinn Shyam Gupta
      22 2005 Aparna Popat
      23 2006 Chetan Anand
      24 2006 Rohit Bhakar (Physically Challenged)
      25 2008 Anup Sridhar
      26 2009
      Saina Nehwal
      27 2011 Jwala Gutta
      28 2012 Ashwini Ponnappa
      29 2012 Parupalli Kashyap
      30 2013 PV Sindhu
      31 2014 Valiyaveetil Diju
      32 2015 Kidambi Srikanth Nammalwar
      33 2016 Raj Kumar
      34 2018 N Sikki Reddy
      35 2018 Manoj Sarkar
      36 2019 Pramod Bhagat
      37 2019 B. Sai Praneeth
      38 2020 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
      39 2020 Chirag Shetty

    1. 1 1970 J. Pitchyya
      2 1972 Ms. J. Srinivasan
      3 1973 A. Kareem
      4 1975 L.A. Iqbal
      5 1976 A. Sam Christ Das
      6 1984 D. Rajaraman

    1. 1 1961 Sarbjit Singh
      2 1967 Khushi Ram
      3 1968 Gurdial Singh
      4 1969 Hav. Hari Dutt
      5 1970 Gulam Abbas Moontasir
      6 1971 Man Mohan Singh
      7 1973 S. K. Kataria
      8 1974 A.K. Punj
      9 1975 Hanuman Singh
      10 1977-78 T. Vijayaragavan
      11 1979-80 Om Prakash
      12 1982 Ajmer Singh
      13 1991 Radhey Shyam
      14 1991 Ms. S Sharma
      15 1999 Sajjan Singh Cheema
      16 2001 Parminder Singh
      17 2003 Satya (Sports)
      18 2014 Geetu Anna Rahul (Jose)
      19 2017 Prashanti Singh
      20 2020 Vishesh Bhriguvanshi

    1. 1 1973 Michael Ferreira
      2 1983 Subhash Agarwal
      3 1986 Geet Sethi
      4 2002 Alok Kumar
      5 2003 Pankaj Advani
      6 2005 Anuja Prakash Thakur
      7 2012 Aditya S. Mehta
      8 2013 Rupesh Shah
      9 2016 Sourav Kothari

    1. 1. 1978-79 Shri Moloy Roy
      2. 1979-80 Shri S. K. Patra
      3. 1986 Shri Prem Chand

    1. 1 1961 L. Buddy D’ Souza
      2 1962 Hav. P. Badadur Mal
      3 1966 Hawa Singh
      4 1968 Hav. Dennis Swamy
      5 1971 Hav. Muniswamy Venu
      6 1972 Hav. Chandranarayanan
      7 1973 Hav. Mehatab Singh
      8 1977-78 B.S. Thapa
      9 1978-79 C.C. Machaiah
      10 1979-80 B. Singh
      11 1980-81 Issac Amaldas
      12 1981 Hav. G. Manoharan
      13 1982 Hav. Kaur Singh
      14 1983 Jas Lal Pradhan
      15 1986 Jai Pal Singh
      16 1987 Seeva Jayaram
      17 1989 Gopal Dewang
      18 1991 D.S. Yadav
      19 1992 Rajender Prasad
      20 1993 Manoj Pingale
      21 1993 Mukund Killekar
      22 1995 V. Devarajan
      23 1996 Raj Kumar Sangwan
      24 1998 N.G. Dingko Singh
      25 1999 Gurcharan Singh
      26 1999 Jitender Kumar
      27 2002 Mohammed Ali Qamar
      28 2003 Ms. Mangte Chungneijang Marykom
      29 2005 Akhil Kumar
      30 2006 Vijender Kumar
      31 2008 Verghese Johnson
      32 2009 L. Sarita Devi
      33 2010 Dinesh Kumar
      34 2011 Suranjoy Singh
      35 2012 Vikas Krishan
      36 2013 Kavita Chahal
      37 2014 Manoj Kumar
      38 2015 Mandeep Jangra
      39 2016 Shiva Thapa
      40 2017 LaishramDebendro Singh
      41 2018 Satish Kumar
      42 2019 Sonia Lather
      43 2020 Lovlina Borgohain
      44 2020 Manish Kaushik

1996 Anthony Maria Irudayam

    1. 1 1961 Manuel Aaron
      2 1980-81 Rohini Khadilkar
      3 1983 Dibyendu Barua
      4 1984 Pravin Thipsay
      5 1985 Vishwanathan Anand
      6 1987 D. V. Prasad
      7 1987 Bhagyashree Thipsay
      8 1990 Anupama Gokhale
      9 2000 Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi
      10 2002 Krishnan Sasikiran
      11 2003 Koneru Humpy
      12 2005 Surya Shekhar Ganguly
      13 2006 Pentyala Harikrishna
      14 2008 Dronavalli Harika
      15 2009 Tania Sachdev
      16 2010 Parimrajan Negi
      17 2013 Abhijeet Gupta

    1. 1 1961 Saleem Durani
      2 1964 Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi
      3 1965 Vijay Manjrekar
      4 1966 Chandu Borde
      5 1967 Ajit Wadekar
      6 1968 E.A.S. Prasanna
      7 1969 Bishan Singh Bedi
      8 1970 Dilip Sardesai
      9 1971 Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
      10 1972 Eknath Solkar
      11 1972 B.S. Chandrashekhar
      12 1975 Sunil Gavaskar
      13 1976 Shanta Rangaswamy
      14 1977-78 Gundappa Vishwanath
      15 1979-80 Kapil Dev Nikhanj
      16 1980-81 Chetan Chauhan
      17 1980-81 Syed Kirmani
      18 1981 Dilip Vengsarkar
      19 1982 Mohinder Amarnath
      20 1983 Diana Edulji
      21 1984 Ravi Shastri
      22 1985 Shubhangi Kulkarni
      23 1986 Mohammad Azharuddin
      24 1986 Sandhya Agarwal
      25 1989 Madan Lal
      26 1993 Manoj Prabhakar
      27 1993 Kiran More
      28 1994 Sachin Tendulkar
      29 1995 Anil Kumble
      30 1996 Javagal Srinath
      31 1997 Ajay Jadeja
      32 1997 Sourav Ganguly
      33 1998 Rahul Dravid
      34 1998 Nayan Mongia
      35 2000 B.K. Venkatesh Prasad
      36 2001 VVS Laxman[1]
      37 2002 Virender Sehwag
      38 2003 Harbhajan Singh
      39 2003 Mithali Raj
      40 2005 Anju Jain
      41 2006 Anjum Chopra
      42 2009 Gautam Gambhir
      43 2010 Jhulan Goswami
      44 2011 Zaheer Khan
      45 2012 Yuvraj Singh
      46 2013 Virat Kohli
      47 2014 Ravichandran Ashwin
      48 2015 Rohit Sharma
      49 2016 Ajinkya Rahane
      50 2017 Cheteshwar Pujara
      51 2017 Harmanpreet Kaur
      52 2018 Smriti Mandhana
      53 2019 Ravindra Jadeja
      54 2019 Poonam Yadav
      55 2020 Deepti Sharma
      56 2020 Ishant Sharma

    1. 1 1975 Amar Singh
      2 1978-79 Ms. M. Mahapatra
      3 1983 A.R. Arthna

    1. 1 1973 Dafadar Khan M. Khan
      2 1976 Lt. Col. H.S. Sodhi
      3 1982 Maj. R. Singh Brar
      4 1982 Raghubir Singh (Equestrian)
      5 1984 Capt. G. Mohd. Khan
      6 1987 Maj. J.S. Ahluwalia
      7 1991 Capt. Adhiraj Singh
      8 2003 Capt. Rajesh Pattu
      9 2003 Capt. Rajesh Pattu
      10 2004 Maj. Deep Kumar Ahlawat
      11 2019 Fouaad Mirza
      12 2020 Sawant Ajay Anant

    1. 1 1961 P. K. Banerjee
      2 1962 Tulsidas Balaram
      3 1963 Chuni Goswami
      4 1964 Jarnail Singh
      5 1965 Arun Lal Ghosh
      6 1966 Yusuf Khan
      7 1967 Peter Thangaraj
      8 1969 Inder Singh
      9 1970 Syed Naeemuddin
      10 1971 C. P. Singh
      11 1973 Magan Singh
      12 1978-79 Gurdev Singh Gill
      13 1979-80 Prasun Banerjee
      14 1980-81 Mohammed Habib
      15 1981 Sudhir Karmakar
      16 1983 Shanti Mullick
      17 1989 S. Bhattacharjee
      18 1997 Brahmanand Sankhwalkar
      19 1998 Baichung Bhutia
      20 2002 I. M. Vijayan
      21 2003 Deepak Kumar Mandal
      22 2010 Deepak Kumar Mondal
      23 2011 Sunil Chettri
      24 2016 Subrata Paul
      25 2017 Oinam Bembem Devi
      26 2019 Gurpreet Singh Sandhu
      25 2020 Sandesh Jhingan

    1. 1 1961 P. G. Sethi
      2 1963 Shri A. S. Malik
      3. 1967 Shri R. K. Pitamber
      4. 1972 Smt. A. N. Desai
      5. 1973 Shri Vikramjit Singh
      6. 1975 Shri S. K. Jamshed
      7. 1977-78 Smt. Sita Rawlley
      8. 1982 Lakshman Singh
      9. 1987 Ms. N. Lal
      10. 1991 Shri Ali Sher
      11. 1996 Shri Amit Krishan Luthra
      12. 1997 Shri Harmeet Kahlon
      13. 1999 Chiranjeev Milkha Singh (Jeev Milkha Singh)
      14 2002 Shiv Kapur
      15 2004 Jyotinder Singh Randhawa (Jyoti Randhawa)
      16 2007 Arjun Atwal
      17 2013 Gaganjeet Bhullar
      18 2014 Anirban Lahiri
      19 2017 SSP Chawrasia
      20 2018 Shubhankar Sharma
      20 2020 Aditi Ashok

    1. 1 1961 Shyam Lal
      2 1975 Montu Debnath
      3 1985 Ms. S. Sharma
      4 1989 Ms. Krupali Patel
      5 2000 Dr. (Ms.) Kalpna Debnath
      6 2011 Ashish Kumar
      7 2015 Dipa Karmakar

    1. 1 1961 Prithipal Singh
      2 1961 Ann Lumsden
      3 1963 Charanjit Singh
      4 1964 S. Laxman
      5 1965 Udham Singh
      6 1965 E. Britto
      7 1966 V. J. Peter
      8 1966 Sunita Puri
      9 1966 Gurbaksh Singh
      10 1967 Harbinder Singh
      11 1967 Mohinder Lal
      12 1968 Balbir Singh Kular
      13 1970 Ajit Pal Singh
      14 1971 P. Krishnamurthy
      15 1972 Michael Kindo
      16 1973 M. P. Ganesh
      17 1973 O. Mascarenhas
      18 1974 Ashok Kumar
      19 1974 A. Kaur
      20 1975 B. P. Govinda
      21 1975 R. Saini
      22 1977-78 Capt. Harcharan Singh
      23 1977-78 L. L. Fernandes
      24 1979-80 Vasudevan Baskaran
      25 1979-80 R. B. Mundphan
      26 1980-81 Mohammed Shahid
      27 1980-81 Eliza Nelson
      28 1981 Versha Soni
      29 1983 Zafar Iqbal
      30 1984 Rajbir Kaur
      31 1984 S. Maney
      32 1985 Prem Maya Sonir
      33 1985 M. M. Somaya
      34 1986 J.M. Carvalho
      35 1988 M. P. Singh
      36 1989 Pargat Singh
      37 1990 Jagbir Singh
      38 1992 Mervyn Fernandes
      39 1994 Jude Felix Sabastain
      40 1995 Dhanraj Pillai
      41 1995 Mukesh Kumar
      42 1996 A. B. Subbaiah
      43 1996 Ashish Kumar Ballal
      44 1997 Harmik Singh
      45 1997 Surinder Singh Sodhi
      46 1997 Rajinder Singh
      47 1998 S. Surjit Singh
      48 1998 Pritam Rani Siwach
      49 1998 B. S. Dhillon
      50 1998 S. Omana Kumari
      51 1998 Mohammed Riaz
      52 1998 Baldev Singh
      53 1998 Maharaj Krishna Kaushik
      54 1999 Balbir Singh Kullar
      55 1998 Lt. Col. Haripal Kaushik
      56 1998 Ramandeep Singh
      57 1998 V. J. Phillips
      58 2000 Baljeet Singh Saini
      59 2000 Tingonleima Chanu
      60 2000 Gp. Capt. R. S. Bhola
      61 2000 Balkishan Singh
      62 2000 Jalaluddin Rizvi
      63 2000 Madhu Yadav
      64 2002 Dilip Tirkey
      65 2002 Gagan Ajit Singh
      66 2002 Mamta Kharab
      67 2003 Devesh Chauhan
      68 2003 Suraj Lata Devi
      69 2004 Deepak Thakur
      70 2004 Innocent Helen Mary
      71 2005 Viren Rasquinha
      72 2006 Jyoti Sunita Kullu
      73 2008 Prabhjot Singh
      74 2009 Surinder Kaur
      75 2009 Ignace Tirkey
      76 2010 Jasjeet Kaur Handa
      77 2011 Rajpal Singh
      78 2012 Sardar Singh
      79 2013 Saba Anjum
      80 2015 Sreejesh Ravindran
      81. 2016 V. R. Raghunath
      82. 2016 Rani
      83. 2017 S.V. Sunil
      84. 2018 Savita Punial
      85. 2018 Manpreet Singh
      86. 2019 Chinglensana Kangujam
      87. 2020 Akashdeep Singh
      88. 2020 Deepika Thakur

    1. 1 1992 Sandeep Byala
      2 1993 Cawas Billimoria
      3 1996 Ms. Poonam Chopra
      4 1998 Narender Singh
      5 2003 Akram Shah
      6 2004 Ms. Angom Anita Chanu
      7 2007 Ms. Tombi Devi
      8 2012 Yashpal Solanki

    1. 1. 1994 Subbiah Rajarathinam
      2. 1995 Perumal Ganesan
      3. 1996 Raju Bhavsar1
      4. 1998 Ashan Kumar
      5. 1998 Biswajit Palit
      6. 1999 Balwinder Singh
      7. 1999 Tirath Raj
      8. 2000 C. Homonappa
      9. 2002 Ram Mehar Singh
      10. 2003 Sanjeev Kumar
      11. 2004 Sunder Singh
      12. 2005 Ramesh Kumar
      13. 2006 Naveen Gautam
      14. 2008 Pankaj Navnath Shrisat
      15. 2010 Dinesh Kumar
      16. 2011 Tejaswini bai
      17. 2011 Rakesh kumar
      18. 2012 Anup Kumar
      19. 2014 Mamta Pujari
      20. 2015 Manjeet Chhillar
      21. 2015 Abhilasha Mhatre
      22. 2017 Jasvir Singh
      23. 2019 Ajay Thakur
      24. 2020 Deepak Niwas Hooda

    1. 1 1970 Shri S. B. Parab
      2 1971 Ms. A. S. Devere
      3 1973 Ms. B. H. Parikh
      4 1974 Shri R. J. Inamdar
      5 1974 Ms. U. V. Nagarkar
      6 1976 Shri Shekhar Dharwardkar
      7 1981 Shri H. M. Takalkar
      8 1981 Ms. S. Solkar
      9 1983 Ms. V. N. Parab
      10 1984 Shri S. Prakash
      11 1985 Ms. S. B. Kulkarni
      12 1998 Ms. Shobha Naryan
      13 2020 Kale Sarika Sudhakar

    1. 1 1961 Ramanathan Krishnan
      2 1962 Naresh Kumar
      3 1966 Jaidip Mukerjea
      4 1967 Premjit Lall
      5 1974 Vijay Amritraj
      6 1978-79 Nirupama Mankad
      7 1980-81 Ramesh Krishnan
      8 1985 Anand Amritraj
      9 1990 Leander Paes
      10 1995 Mahesh Bhupathi
      11 1996 Gaurav Natekar
      12 1997 Asif Ismail
      13 2000 Akhtar Ali
      14 2004 Sania Mirza
      15 2011 Somdev Devvarman
      16 2017 Saketh Myneni
      17 2018 Rohan Bopanna
      18 2020 Divij Sharan

    1. 1. 1961 Shri Maharaja Prem Singh
      2. 1963 Maj. Thakur Kishen Singh
      3. 1964 Shri Raoraja Hanut Singh
      4. 1975 Maj. V. P. Singh
      5. 1983 Lt. Col. R. S. Sodhi
      6. 1987 Lt. Col. K. S. Garcha
      7. 2007 Shri Arjun Atwal
      8. 2012 Samir Suhag
      9. 2018 Ravi Rathore
      8. 2019 Simran Singh Shergill
      8. 2012 Samir Suhag

    1. 1. 1978-79 Shri Subrata Dutta
      2. 1984 Shri P. J. Joseph
      3. 1988 Shri P. K. Yashodharn
      4. 1992 Shri E.S. Bhaskar
      5. 2005 Shri Rajinder Singh Rahelu
      6. 2007 Shri Farman Basha

2015 Anup Kumar Yama

    1. 1 1981 Maj. Parveen Oberoy
      2 1984 Capt. M.A. Naik
      3 1991 Naib Subedar Dalvir Singh
      4 1994 Major R.S. Bhanwala
      5 1996 Surender Singh Waldia
      6 1999 Jagjit Singh
      7 2000 Surender Singh Kanwasi
      8 2004 Jenil Krishnan
      9 2008 Bajrang lal Thakkar
      10 2009 Satish Joshi
      11 2014 Saji Thomas
      12 2015 Swarna Singh Virk
      13 2020 Dattu Baban Bhokanal

    1. 1 1961 Karni Singh
      2 1968 Rajyashree Kumari
      3 1969 Bhuvaneshwari Kumari
      4 1971 Bhim Singh
      5 1972 Udyan Chinubhai
      6 1978-79 Randhir Singh
      7 1981 S. P. Chauhan
      8 1983 Mohinder Lal
      9 1983 Soma Dutta
      10 1985 A. J. Pandit
      11 1986 Bhagirath Samai
      12 1993 Mansher Singh
      13 1994 Jaspal Rana
      14 1996 Moraad A. Khan
      15 1997 Satendra Kumar
      16 1997 Shilpi Singh
      17 1997 Naresh Kumar Sharma (PH)
      18 1998 Manavjit Singh
      19 1998 Roopa Unnikrishnan
      20 1999 Vivek Singh
      21 2000 Anjali Vedpathak Bhagwat
      22 2000 Abhinav Bindra
      23 2000 Gurbir Singh
      24 2002 Anwer Sultan
      25 2002 Suma Shirur
      26. 2002 Samresh Jung
      27 2003 Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
      28 2004 Deepali A. Deshpande
      29 2005 Gagan Narang
      30 2006 Vijay Kumar
      31 2008 Avneet Kaur Sidhu
      32 2009 Ronjan Sodhi
      33 2010 Sanjeev Rajput
      34 2011 Tejaswini Sawant
      35 2012 Annu Raj Singh
      36 2012 Omkar Singh
      37 2012 Joydeep Karmakar
      38 2013 Rajkumari Rathore
      39 2014 Heena Sidhu
      40 2015 Jitu Rai
      41. 2016 Apurvi Chandela
      42. 2016 Gurpreet Singh
      43. 2017 PN Prakash
      44. 2018 Ankur Mittal
      45. 2018 Shreyasi Singh
      46. 2018 Rahi Sarnobat
      47. 2019 Anjum Moudgil
      48. 2020 Manu Bhaker
      49. 2020 Saurabh Chaudhary
      50. 2020 Manish Narwal

    1. 1. 1961 Capt. K. S. Jain
      2. 1967 Shri Anil Nayar
      3. 1979-80 Maj. R. K. Manchanda
      4. 1982 Ms. Bhuvenshwari
      5. 1990 Shri M. R. Dharuvala
      6. 1997 Ms. Misha Grewal
      7. 2006 Sourav Ghosal
      8. 2012 Deepika Pallikal
      9. 2013 Joshna Chinappa
      10. 2014 Anaka Alankamony

    1. 1 1961 Jam. Bajarangi Prasad
      2 1966 Rima Datta
      3 1967 Arun Shaw
      4 1969 Baidyanath Nath
      5 1971 Bhanwar Singh
      6 1973 D. (Tingoo) Khatau
      7 1974 A.B. Sarang (Long Distance)
      8 1974 Manjari Bhargava (Diving)
      9 1975 M.S. Rana
      10 1975 Smita Desai
      11 1982 Persis Madan
      12 1983 Anita Sood
      13 1984 Khajan Singh
      14 1988 Wilson Cherian
      15 1990 Bula Choudhury
      16 1996 Master V. Kutraleeshwaran
      17 1998 Bhanu Sachdeva
      18 1999 Nisha Millet
      19 2000 Sebastian Xavier
      20 2000 J. Abhijith
      21 2005 Shikha Tandon
      22 2010 Rehan Jehangir Poncha
      23 2011 Virdhawal Khade
      24 2011 Prasanta Karmakar
      25 2012 Sandeep Sejwal
      26 2015 Sharath Gayakwad (Para swim)
      27 2020 Suyash Narayan Jadhav (Para swim)

    1. 1 1961 J.C. Vohra
      2 1965 G. R. Deewan
      3 1966 U. Sundararaj
      4 1967 F. R. Khodaiji
      5 1969 Mir Kasim Ali
      6 1970 G. Jagannath
      7 1971 K. F. Khodaiji
      8 1973 N. R. Bajaj
      9 1976 Shailja Salokhe
      10 1979-80 Indu Puri
      11 1980-81 Manjit Dua
      12 1982 V. Chandrasekhar
      13 1985 Kamlesh Mehta
      14 1987 Monalisa Barua
      15 1989 Niyati Shah
      16 1990 M. S. Walia
      17 1997 Chetan Baboor
      18 1998 Subramaniam Raman
      19 2002 Mantu Ghosh
      20 2004Achanta Sharath Kamal
      21 2005 Soumyadeep Roy
      22 2006 Subhajit Saha
      23 2009 Poulomi Ghatak
      24 2013 Mouma Das
      25 2016 Soumyajit Ghosh
      26 2017 Anthony Amalraj
      27 2018 Manika Batra
      26 2018 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
      26 2019 Harmeet Desai
      26 2020 Madhurika Patkar

    1. 1 1961 A. Palanisamy
      2 1962 Nripjit Singh
      3 1972 Balwant Singh “Ballu”
      4 1973 G.M. Reddy
      5 1974 M.S. Rao
      6 1975 Sub. Insp. R. Singh
      7 1975 K.C. Elamma
      8 1976 Jimmy George
      9 1977-78 A. Ramana Rao
      10 1978-79 Kutty Krishnan
      11 1979-80 S.K. Mishra
      12 1982 G.E. Sridharan
      13 1983 R.K. Purohit
      14 1984 Saley Joseph
      15 1986 Cyril C. Valloor
      16 1989 Abdul Basith
      17 1990 Dalel Singh Ror
      18 1991 K. Udaya Kumar
      19 1999 Sukhpal Singh
      20 2000 P.V. Ramana
      21 2001 Amir Singh
      22 2002 Ravikant Reddy
      23 2010 K. J. Kapil Dev
      24 2011 Sanjay kumar
      25 2014 Tom Joseph

    1. 1 1961 A.N. Ghosh
      2 1962 L.K. Dass
      3 1963 K.E. Rao
      4 1965 B.S. Bhatia
      5 1966 Mohan Lal Ghosh
      6 1967 S. John Gabriel
      7 1970 Arun Kumar Dass
      8 1971 S.L. Salwan
      9 1972 Anil Kumar Mandal
      10 1974 S. Vellaiswamy
      11 1975 Dalbir Singh
      12 1976 K. Balamuruganandam
      13 1977-78 M.T. Selvan
      14 1978-79 E. Karaunakaran
      15 1981 B.K. Satpathy
      16 1982 Tara Singh
      17 1983 Vispy K. Daroga
      18 1985 Mehar Chand Bhaskar
      19 1986 Jag Mohan Sapra
      20 1987 G. Devan
      21 1989 Jyotsna Dutta
      22 1990 R. Chandra
      23 1990 N. Kunjarani
      24 1991 Chhaya Adak
      25 1993 Bharati Singh
      26 1994 K. Malleswari
      27 1997 Paramjit Sharma
      28 1997 N. Laxmi
      29 1998 Satheesha Rai
      30 1999 Dalbir Singh
      31 2000 Sanamacha Chanu Thingbaijan
      32 2002 Thandava Murthy Muthu
      33 2006 Geeta Rani
      34 2011 Katulu Ravi Kumar
      35 2012 Ngangbam Soniya Chanu
      36 2014 Renubala Chanu
      37 2015 Sathish Sivalingam

2020 Shiva Keshavan

    1. 1 1961 Hav. Udey Chanf
      2 1962 Malwa
      3 1963 G. Andalkar
      4 1964 Bishamber Singh
      5 1966 Bhim Singh
      6 1967 Mukhtiar Singh
      7 1969 Master Chandgi Ram (Indian style wrestling)
      8 1970 Sudesh Kumar
      9 1972 Prem Nath
      10 1973 Jagroop Singh
      11 1974 Satpal
      12 1978-79 Rajinder Singh
      13 1980-81 Jagminder Singh
      14 1982 Kartar Singh
      15 1985 Mahabir Singh
      16 1987 Subhash
      17 1988 Rajesh Kumar
      18 1989 Satywan
      19 1990 Ombir Singh
      20 1992 Pappu Yadav
      21 1993 Ashok Kumar
      22 1997 Jagdish Singh
      23 1997 Sanjay Kumar
      24 1998 Kaka Pawar
      25 1998 Rohtas Singh Dahiya
      26 1999 Ashok Kumar
      27 2000 Randhir Singh
      28 2000 Kripa Shakar Patel
      29 2000 K.D. Jadhav (Posthumously)
      30 2000 Naresh Kumar
      31 2002 Palwinder Singh Cheema
      32 2002 Sujeet Mann
      33 2003 Shokhinder Tomar
      34 2004 Anuj Kumar
      35 2005Sushil Kumar
      36 2006 Geetika Jakhar
      37 2008 Alka Tomar
      38 2009 Yogeshwar Dutt
      39 2010 Rajeev Tomar
      40 2011 Ravinder singh
      41 2012 Narsingh Yadav
      42 2012 Rajinder Kumar
      43 2012 Geeta Phogat
      44 2013 Dharmendra Dalal
      45 2013 Neha Rathi
      46 2014 Sunil Kumar Rana
      47 2015 Bajrang Punia
      48 2015 Babita Kumari
      49 2016 Vinesh Phogat
      50 2016 Amit Kumar Saroha
      51 2016 Virender Singh
      52 2017 Satyawart Kadian
      53 2018 Sumit Malik
      54 2019 Pooja Dhanda
      55 2020 Divya Kakran
      56 2020 Rahul Aware

    1. 1 2011 W. Sandhyarani Devi
      2 2012 M. Bimoljit Singh
      3 2015 Yumnam Santhoi Devi
      4 2018 Pooja Kadian

    1. 1 1970 Lt. Cdr. S. J. Contractor
      2 1973 Afsar Hussain
      3 1978-79 Cdr. S. K. Mongia
      4 1981 Zarir Karanjia
      5 1982 Farokh Tarapore
      6 1982 Fali Unwalla
      7 1982 Jeeja Unwalla
      8 1986 Lt. Dhruv Bhandari
      9 1987 C. S. Pradipak
      10 1990 P. K. Garg
      11 1993 Cdr. Homi Motiwala
      12 1996 Lt. Cdr. Kelly Subbanand Rao (Posthumously)
      13 1999 Aashim Mongia
      14 2002 Nitin Mongia
      15 2009 Girdhari Lal Yadav
      16 2010 Shri Rajesh Chaudhary


16 Comments

  1. I am a Arjun Awardee of 1976 for the Indian Sport of Kho-Kho.
    I am surprised that On many sites including this, the list of Kho-Kho players Which is around 20 to 25 starting from 1971 onwards is missing.
    Please investigate and inform me accordingly.
    Shekhar Dharwadkar

    • Hello Shekhar Sir!
      First of all, thanks a lot for bringing this to our notice. The list is generally compiled on websites from wiki page and unfortunately it did not have it. But based on your message, we explored the web and found out exact details from government website, which is again unfortunately not showing the latest updates. Still, it has complete details of Kho Kho Awardees. We have updated the details now.
      Thanks again for your big help in keeping the information correct and updated.
      If possible, do let us know if you would like to share some information about Kho Kho with us. If you can, it would be great if someone like you can write on Kho Kho and we can publish for Kho Kho lovers of our country.
      Thanks,

  2. Awesome job @Admin in keeping the records.

    I wanted the list of arjuna award winners in shooting from the state up.

    Looking forward for a reply.

  3. hi,
    i want to know that there is no one who win arjun award in taekwondo and dhronacharaya award in taekwondo.. if it is having anyone .. plz.. give me his or her name immediately. so i can compleye my homework… plzzz give me full detail on that… plz give me the name of players and coach who win that.. my no. is 8800641001.. plz its very imp..

  4. Dear Admin,
    Plz Share full detail of arjun awadee.

    Bhim Singh in 1966 Wrestling won arjun award
    is my Grandfather So plzz give me full detail if you have ….

    Thnx nd regards
    Manoj Bainsla

    • Nice to know you Manoj. We feel proud to know the grandson of such a great Indian sportsperson. Now as you have requested, we will try our best to write an article with complete detail about Bhim Singh.

      Thanks for comments.

  5. In kabaddi 1st Arjuna Award received 1972. But u r published only after 1998. Can u publish the full list.

    • As per the official record the first Arjuna Award for Kabaddi was conferred in 1994. In 1972, among the 11 recipients of Arjuna Awards, none belonged to Kabaddi. If you have any official link, please share, we will update.

      Thanks for your comment.

  6. 19 2002 Ramesh Tikaram (Physically Challenged)
    This person is not a Athlete or Badminton Player. He used all the Duplicate certificates to get the award. If you go throw the certificates you will come to know that.

    Plse verify/enquire all his athletic and Badminton certificates.

    • Thanks for sharing the details. But we are only posting the official list of awardees. We would be glad to remove the name if the charge is officially proved, and the award is taken back.

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