Important Awards, their Fields and First Awardees

Check out the list of important national and international awards from which one can expect questions in the government exams like SSC CGL, State PCS, SSC CHSL, SSC CPO, UPSC CSE, IBPS PO Mains, etc. The given below list contains the name of the award, the field in which these are given and the year in which the award was instituted.

Awards Name	Awards field	Establishment Year	First Awardee
Bharat Ratna	Any field of Human Endeavour	Instituted in 1954	Sarvepalli Radhakrishan C.Rajagopalachari C.V.Raman
Padma Vibhushan	Exceptional and distinguished service	Instituted in 1954	Satyendra Nath Bose Nandalal Bose Zakir Husain Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher V.K. Krishna Menon Jigme Dorji Wangchuck
Padma Bhushan	Distinguished service of a high order	Instituted in 1954	Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Padma Shri	Distinguished service	Instituted in 1954	Balbir Singh Dosanjh
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award	Sports (Highest Sports honour in India)	Started in 1991-1992	Viswanathan Anand
Dhyan Chand Award	Sports and games	Started in 2002	Shahuraj Birajdar Ashoka Diwan Aparna Ghosh
Dronacharya Award	Outstanding Coaches in Sports and Games	Started in 1985	Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat Om Prakash Bhardwaj O. M. Nambiar
Jnanpith Award	Literature	Started in 1961	G. Sankara Kurup
Saraswati Samman	Poetry	Started in 1991	Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Moorti Devi Award	Literature	Started in 1983	C.K. Nagaraja Rao
Vyas Samman	Hindi literature	First awarded in 1991	Dr Ram Vilas Sharma for Bharat ke Pracheen bhasha parivar aur Hindi
Sahitya Akademi Award	Literature (24 Indian languages)	Started in 1954	R.K. Narayan (English- The Guide in 1960) Makhanlal Chaturvedi (Hindi- Him-Tarangini in 1955)
Dadasaheb Phalke Award	Outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema	Started in 1969	Devika Rani
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize	Science and technology	Started in 1958	Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan
Noble prize	Literature, Medicine, Chemistry, Physics, Peace, Economic Sciences	First awarded in 1901	Frédéric Passy and Henry Dunant (Peace)
Oscar Award (Academy Award)	Cinematic/Best in Film	Started in 1929	Best picture award (Wings) Best actor (Emil Jannings)
Arjuna Award	Sports and games	Started in 1961	Saleem Durrani (Cricket) Gurucharan Singh Randhawa (Athletics) Sarabjeet Singh (Basketball) Manuel Aaron (Chess) Nandu Natekar (Badminton) LB D'souza (Boxing)
Right livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel Prize)	Practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today; Given in fields like environmental protection, human rights, sustainable development, health, education, and peace	Started in 1980	Hassan Fathy Stephen Gaskin/ Plenty International
UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education	Human rights awareness	Started in 1978	Mumtaz Soysal (Turkey)
World Food prize (Nobal Prize in agriculture)	Agriculture and food	Started in 1986	Dr. Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (India)
Stirling Prize (replaced the RIBA Building of the Year Award)	Excellence in Architecture	Started in 1996	Stephen Hodder for Centenary Building, University of Salford, Salford
R.D Birla Award	Physics	Started in 1980	Professor Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy
Pritzker Architecture Prize	Architecture	Started in 1979	Philip Johnson
Grammy Award	Outstanding achievements in the music industry	Started in 1959	RECORD OF THE YEAR- Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) ALBUM OF THE YEAR-The Music from Peter Gunn SONG OF THE YEAR- Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)
Abel Prize	Outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics	Instituted in 2002	Jean-Pierre Serre (2003) First Indian to get Abel Prize - professor Srinivasa SR Varadhan (2007)
Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award	Excellence in public administration, Academics and Management	Started in 2000	Prof. C.K. Prahalad (2000)
Green Star Award	Excellence in preventing, preparing for and responding to environmental emergencies	Started in 2009	Mike Cowing, United Nations Environment Programme Center for Scientific Support in Disaster Situations (CENACID) of Paraná Federal University in Brazil Spiez Laboratory, Switzerland Government of the Netherlands Government of Sweden
Manthan Award	Outstanding contributions in digital content creation	Started in 2004	e-Entertainment- World Cup Cricket, DELHI e-Health- Sisu Samrakshak, ANDHRA PRADESH e-Science- Electrophoresis e-Lab e-Culture- Honeybee Network, GUJARAT
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award	Award for performing arts in India	Instituted in 1951	Mushtaq Hussain Khan-Music- (Hindustani - Vocal) Alauddin Khan- Music (Hindustani - Sarod) Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar- Music (Carnatic - Vocal) Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer- Music (Carnatic - Veena)