In the year 2001, 32 people from different fields won the prestigious civilian award in India, the Padma Bhushan Award. The award is ranked third amongst all the civilian awards presented in India, just behind the Bharat Ratna Award and the Padma Vibhushan Award. The award is presented by the Government of India since the year 1954 and it is mainly presented to those, who have shown extraordinary performances in their respective fields. The Government actually recognised their great talents and appreciates their great achievements through this award.
An elaborated list of the 2001 Padma Bhushan Awardees is given below:
| Name | Field | State | Country |
| Yamini Krishnamurti | Arts | Delhi | India |
| Lakshminarayana Subramaniam | Arts | Karnataka | India |
| Paluvai Bhanumathi Ramakrishna | Arts | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Uma Sharma | Arts | Delhi | India |
| Amitabh Bachchan | Arts | Maharashtra | India |
| Baldev Raj Chopra | Arts | Maharashtra | India |
| Bhupen Hazarika | Arts | Maharashtra | India |
| Dev Anand | Arts | Maharashtra | India |
| Lalgudi Gopalaiyer Jayaraman | Arts | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Pran Sikand | Arts | Maharashtra | India |
| Raghunath Mohapatra | Arts | Orissa | India |
| Boyi Bhimanna | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh | India |
| Karimpumannil Mathai George | Literature & Education | Kerala | India |
| Shiv Kumar | Literature & Education | Andhra Pradesh | India |
| Aroon Purie | Literature & Education | Delhi | India |
| Chitranjan Singh Ranawat | Medicine | - | United States |
| Naresh Kumar Trehan | Medicine | Delhi | India |
| Rajendra Kumar Pachauri | Others | Delhi | India |
| Ashok Desai | Public Affairs | Delhi | India |
| Swadesh Chatterjee | Public Affairs | - | United States |
| Arun Netravali | Science & Engineering | - | United States |
| Palle Rama Rao | Science & Engineering | Andhra Pradesh | India |
| Raj Reddy | Science & Engineering | - | United States |
| Maulana Abdul Karim Parekh | Social Work | Maharashtra | India |
| Sundaram Ramakrishnan | Social Work | Maharashtra | India |
| Trimbak alias Balasaheb Shivram Bharade | Social Work | Maharashtra | India |
| Viswanathan Anand | Sports | Tamil Nadu | India |
| Bhupathiraju Vissam Raju | Trade & Industry | Andhra Pradesh | India |
| Amrita Patel | Trade & Industry | Gujarat | India |
| Badrinarayan Ramulal Barwale | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra | India |
| Mohan Singh Oberoi | Trade & Industry | Delhi | India |
| Rahul Bajaj | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra | India |
