<page_title> List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2000–2009) </page_title> <section_title> Recipients </section_title> <table> <cell> 2001 <col_header> Year </col_header> </cell> <cell> Sundaram Ramakrishnan <col_header> Recipient </col_header> <col_header> Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre </col_header> <col_header> Anil Kumar Agarwal </col_header> <col_header> Ram Narain Agarwal </col_header> <col_header> Sharan Rani Backliwal </col_header> <col_header> Kalyan Dev </col_header> <col_header> Veerendra Heggade </col_header> <col_header> Pavaguda V. Indiresan </col_header> <col_header> Wahiduddin Khan </col_header> <col_header> B. B. Lal </col_header> <col_header> Raghunath Anant Mashelkar </col_header> <col_header> H. Y. Sharada Prasad </col_header> <col_header> Rajinikanth </col_header> <col_header> Begum Aizaz Rasul </col_header> <col_header> Radha Reddy </col_header> <col_header> Raja Reddy </col_header> <col_header> Pakkiriswamy Chandra Sekharan </col_header> <col_header> Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya# </col_header> <col_header> S. Srinivasan# </col_header> <col_header> Ratan Tata </col_header> <col_header> Harbans Singh Wasir </col_header> <col_header> Dev Anand </col_header> <col_header> Viswanathan Anand </col_header> <col_header> Amitabh Bachchan </col_header> <col_header> Rahul Bajaj </col_header> <col_header> B. R. Barwale </col_header> <col_header> Balasaheb Bharde </col_header> <col_header> Boyi Bhimanna </col_header> <col_header> Swadesh Chatterjee </col_header> <col_header> Baldev Raj Chopra </col_header> <col_header> Ashok Desai </col_header> <col_header> Karimpumannil Mathai George </col_header> <col_header> Bhupen Hazarika </col_header> <col_header> Lalgudi Jayaraman </col_header> <col_header> Yamini Krishnamurthy </col_header> <col_header> Shiv K. Kumar </col_header> <col_header> Raghunath Mohapatra </col_header> <col_header> Arun Netravali </col_header> <col_header> Mohan Singh Oberoi </col_header> <col_header> Rajendra K. Pachauri </col_header> <col_header> Abdul Karim Parekh </col_header> <col_header> Amrita Patel </col_header> <col_header> Pran </col_header> <col_header> Aroon Purie </col_header> <col_header> Bhupathiraju Vissam Raju </col_header> <col_header> Bhanumathi Ramakrishna </col_header> </cell> <cell> Social Work <col_header> Field </col_header> <row_header> Sundaram Ramakrishnan </row_header> </cell> </table>
Ramakrishnan was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2001 for social work.