Dyan Chand Award - History

S.No Name Awarded Sports/Games
1 Aparna Ghosh 2002 Basketball
2 Ashok Diwan 2002 Hockey
3 Shahuraj Birajdar 2002 Boxing
4 Charles Cornelius 2003 Hockey
5 Dharm Singh Maan 2003 Hockey
6 Om Prakash 2003 Volleyball
7 Ram Kumar 2003 Basketball
8 Smita Yadav 2003 Rowing
9 Hardyal Singh 2004 Hockey
10 Labh Singh 2004 Athletics
11 Mehendale Parshuram 2004 Athletics
12 Manoj Kothari 2005 Billiards and Snooker
13 Maruti Mane 2005 Wrestling
14 Rajinder Singh 2005 Hockey
15 Harish Birajdar 2006 Wrestling
16 Nandy Singh 2006 Hockey
17 Uday Prabhu 2006 Athletics
18 Rajendra Singh 2007 Wrestling
19 Shamsher Singh 2007 Kabaddi
20 Varinder Singh 2007 Hockey
21 Gian Singh 2008 Wrestling
22 Hakam Singh 2008 Athletics
23 Mukhbain Singh 2008 Hockey
24 Ishar Singh Deol 2009 Athletics
25 Satbir Singh Dahya 2009 Wrestling

Padma Bhushan (1954-1960)

1954 Ajudhia Nath Khosla Science & Engineering Delhi India
1954 A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar Literature & Education Tamil Nadu India
1954 Homi Jehangir Bhabha Science & Engineering Maharashtra India
1954 J.C. Ghosh Science & Engineering West Bengal India
1954 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Science & Engineering Uttar Pradesh India
1954 M. S. Subbalakshmi Arts Tamil Nadu India
1954 Maharaj Kr. Palden T Namgyal Public Affairs Punjab India
1954 K.S. Thimayya Civil Service Karnataka India
1954 Amar Nath Jha Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh India
1954 Jamini Roy Arts West Bengal India
1954 K.S. Krishnan Science & Engineering Tamil Nadu India
1954 Mahadeva Iyer Ganapati Civil Service Orissa India
1954 Maithili Sharan Gupt Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh India
1954 Malihabadi Josh Literature & Education Delhi India
1954 Moulana Hussain Ahmed Madni Literature & Education Punjab India
1954 Pandyala Satyanarayan Rao Civil Service Andhra Pradesh India
1954 R.R. Handa Civil Service Punjab India
1954 Radha Krishan Gupta Civil Service Delhi India
1954 Satya Narayana Shastri Medicine Uttar Pradesh India
1954 Sukumar Sen Civil Service West Bengal India
1954 V. Narahari Raooo Civil Service Karnataka India
1954 V.L. Mehta Public Affairs Gujarat India
1954 Vallathol Narayana Menon Literature & Education Kerala India
1955 Lalit Mohan Banerjee Medicine West Bengal India
1955 Pran Krishna Parija Literature & Education Orissa India
1955 Suniti Kumar Chatterjee Literature & Education West Bengal India
1955 Vasant Ramji Khanolkar Medicine Maharashtra India
1955 Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker Literature & Education Delhi India
1955 Attur Rangaswami Venkatachari Civil Service Tamil Nadu India
1955 Fatah Chand Badhwar Civil Service Punjab India
1955 Madapati Hanumantha Rao Social Work Andhra Pradesh India
1955 Sunder Das Khungar Civil Service Punjab India
1955 Surinder Kumar Dey Civil Service United States
1955 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Social Work West Bengal India
1955 Rameshwari Nehru Social Work Uttar Pradesh India
1956 Bhai Vir Singh Literature & Education Punjab India
1956 Muthulakshmi Reddi Medicine Tamil Nadu India
1956 Triuvadi Sambasiva Venkataraman Science & Engineering Tamil Nadu India
1956 Cottari Kankaiyah Nayudu Sports Andhra Pradesh India
1956 Dhyan Chand Sports Punjab India
1956 Kanwar Sain Civil Service Rajasthan India
1956 Kasturi Srinivasan Literature & Education Tamil Nadu India
1956 Malur Srinivasa Thirumale Iyengar Civil Service Tamil Nadu India
1956 Nawab Zain Yar Jung Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh India
1956 Rajsekhar Bose Literature & Education West Bengal India
1956 Mahadevi Verma Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh India
1956 Pushpavati Janardenrai Mehta Public Affairs Maharashtra India
1956 Rukmini Devi Arundale Arts Tamil Nadu India
1957 Abid Hussain Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh India
1957 Hazari Prasad Dwivedi Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh India
1957 K. Covilagam Kutti Ettan Raja Civil Service Kerala India
1957 RM. Alagappa Chettair Social Work Tamil Nadu India
1957 Radha Kumud Mookherjee Public Affairs West Bengal India
1957 Shikan Lal Atreya Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh India
1957 Siddheshwar Verma Literature & Education Chandigarh India
1957 Shrikrishna N. Ratanjankar Arts Uttar Pradesh India
1957 Bosi Sen Science & Engineering West Bengal India
1957 Govind Sakharam Sardesai Literature & Education Maharashtra India
1957 K.A. Nilakanta Sastri Literature & Education Tamil Nadu India
1957 Shyamanandan Sahaya Literature & Education Bihar India
1957 Andal Venkatasuba Rao Social Work Andhra Pradesh India
1957 Lakshmi Nandan Menon Public Affairs Kerala India
1957 T. Balasaraswathy Arts Tamil Nadu India
1957 Mushtaq Hussain Khan Arts Madhya Pradesh India
1958 Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia Science & Engineering Maharashtra India
1958 Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa Literature & Education Karnataka India
1958 Rustom Jal Vakil Medicine Maharashtra India
1958 Vijaya Anand Sports Uttar Pradesh India
1958 Poola Tirupati Raju Literature & Education Rajasthan India
1958 Arathil C. Narayanan Nambiar Civil Service Kerala India
1958 Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar Arts Tamil Nadu India
1958 D.P. Roy Choudhury Arts West Bengal India
1958 Jeahangir Ghandy Trade & Industry Maharashtra India
1958 Kumar Padma Siva Shankara Menon Civil Service Kerala India
1958 Narayan Subarao Hardikar Social Work Karnataka India
1958 Rao Raja Hanut Singh Public Affairs Rajasthan India
1958 Salim-Mozuddin Abdul Ali Science & Engineering Maharashtra India
1958 Surya Narayan Vyas Literature & Education Madhya Pradesh India
1958 Kamalendumati Shah Social Work Delhi India
1958 Allauddin Khan Arts Uttar Pradesh India
1959 Ghulam Yazdan Science & Engineering Andhra Pradesh India
1959 Jal Gawashaw Paymaster Medicine Maharashtra India
1959 Ali Yavar Jung Civil Service Maharashtra India
1959 Bhargavram Vithal Warerkar Public Affairs Maharashtra India
1959 Bhaurao Payagounda Patil Social Work Maharashtra India
1959 Mysore Kankanhalli Vasudevachary Arts Karnataka India
1959 Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta Literature & Education West Bengal India
1959 Pammal Sambanda Mudaliar Arts Tamil Nadu India
1959 Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Literature & Education Bihar India
1959 Sisir Kumar Bhaduri Arts West Bengal India
1959 Tenzing Norgay Sherpa Sports West Bengal India
1959 Tiruppattur R. Venkatachala Murthi Literature & Education Tamil Nadu India
1959 Dhanvanthi Rama Rau Social Work Maharashtra India
1959 Hansa Jivraj Manubhai Mehta Social Work Maharashtra India
1960 Nilkantha Das Public Affairs Orissa India
1960 Rabindra Nath Chaudhuri Medicine West Bengal India
1960 Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar Medicine Maharashtra India
1960 Kazi Nazrul Islam Literature & Education West Bengal India
1960 Bal Krishna Navin Literature & Education Delhi India
1960 Ayyadevara Kaleswara Rao Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh India
1960 Haridas Siddhanta Vagish Literature & Education West Bengal India
1960 Raj Rajeshwardatt Shastri Dravid Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh India
1960 Shiv Pujan Sahai Literature & Education Bihar India
1960 Hafiz Ali Khan Arts Madhya Pradesh India

Shining Hockey .........Olympics

India's record in the 1928 Olympics
Played : 5 Won : 5 Goals For : 29 Goals Against : 0 Members of the 1928 Indian Olympic Team : Jaipal Singh (captain) (from London) Broome Eric Pinniger (vice captain) (Punjab) Shaukat Ali (Bengal) Richard J. Allen (goalkeeper) (Bengal) Dhyan Chand (United Provinces) Maurice A. Gateley (Delhi) William James Goodsir-Cullen (United Provinces) Leslie C. Hammond (United Provinces) Feroze Khan (Punjab) George E. Marthins (United Provinces) Rex A. O. Norris (Central Provinces) Nawab of Pataudi (from London) Michael E. Rocque (Central Provinces) Frederick S. Seaman (United Provinces) Kher Singh (Punjab) Syed M. Yusuf (from London) A. R. Rosser (manager) (Bengal) 1928 Olympics at Amsterdam
India's record in the 1932 Olympics:
Played : 2 Won : 2 Goals For : 35 Goals Against : 2 Members of the 1932 Indian Olympic Team : Lal Shah Bokhari (Captain) Richard J. Allen (goalkeeper) Syed Mohammed Jafar Mohammed Aslam Frank Brewin Richard J. Carr Dhyan Chand Leslie C. Hammond Arthur C. Hind Masud Minhas Broome Eric Pinniger Gurmeet Singh Kullar Roop Singh Carlyle C. Tapsell William Sullivan 1932 Olympics at  Los Angeles
India's record in the 1936 Olympics
Played : 5 Won : 5 Goals For : 38 Goals Against : 1 Members of the 1936 Indian Olympic Team Dhyan Chand (captain) Richard J. Allen (goalkeeper) Ali Iqtidar Shah Dara Lionel C. Emmett Paul Peter Fernandes Joseph Galibardy Earnest John Goodsir-Cullen Mohammed Hussain Syed Mohammed Jafar Ahsan Mohammed Khan Ahmed Sher Khan Mirza Nasir-ud-din Masud Cyril J. Mitchie Babu Narsoo Nimal Joseph Philips Shabban Shahab-ud-din Gurcharan Singh Garewal Roop Singh Carlyle C. Tapsell 1936 Olympics at  Berlin
India's record in the 1948 Olympics
Played : 5 Won : 5 Goals For : 25 Goals Against : 2 Members of the 1948 Indian Olympic Team Kishan Lal (captain) Kunwar Digvijay Singh (Babu) (vice captain) Leslie Claudius Walter D'Souza Keshav Dutt Lawrie Fernandes Ranganathan Francis Randhir Singh Gentle Gerry Glacken Akhtar Hussain Patrick Jansen Amir Kumar Leo Pinto Jaswant Singh Rajput Latif-ur-Rehman Reginald Rodrigues Balbir Singh Grahanandan Singh Trilochan Singh Maxie Vaz 1948 Olympics at London
India's record in the 1952 Olympics
Played : 3 Won : 3 Goals For : 13 Goals Against : 2 Members of the 1952 Indian Olympic Team Kunwar Digvijay Singh 'Babu' (captain) Balbir Singh (vice captain) Ranganathan Francis Chinnadorai Deshmuthu Randhir Singh Gentle Dharam Singh Swarup Singh Govind Perumal Keshav Dutt Leslie Claudius Jaswant Singh Rajput Meldric Daluz Raghbir Lal Udham Singh Muniswamy Rajagopal G. S. Dubey Grahanandan Singh C. S. Gurung 1952 Olympics at Helsinki
India's record in the 1956 Olympics
Played : 5 Won : 5 Goals For : 38 Goals Against : 0 Members of the 1956 Indian Olympic Team Balbir Singh Sr. (captain) Shankar Lakshman (goalkeeper) Ranganathan Francis Bakshish Singh Randhir Singh Gentle Leslie Claudius Amir Kumar Govind Perumal Charles Stephen Gurdev Singh Udham Singh Raghbir Singh Bhola Balkrishan Singh Haripal Kaushik Raghbir Lal O. P. Malhotra Hardayal Singh Amit S. Bakshi 1956 Olympics at Melbourne
India's record in the 1964 Olympics
Played : 9 Won : 7 Drawn : 2 Goals For : 22 Goals Against : 5 Members of the 1964 Indian Olympic Team : Charanjit Singh (captain) Shankar Lakshman (goalkeeper) Rajendran Christie Prithipal Singh Dharam Singh Gurbux Singh Mohinder Lal Jagjit Singh Rajinder Singh Joginder Singh Haripal Kaushik Harbinder Singh Bandu Patil Victor John Peter Udham Singh Darshan Singh Syed Ali 1964 Olympics at Tokyo
India's record in the 1980 Olympics
Played : 6 Won : 4 Drawn : 2 Goals For : 43 Goals Against : 9 Members of the 1980 Indian Olympic Team Vasudevan Bhaskaran (captain) Allen Schofield (goalkeeper) Bir Bahadur Chhetri Sylvanus Dung Dung Rajinder Singh Davinder Singh Gurmail Singh Ravinder Pal Singh Sommayya Maneypande Maharaj Krishan Kaushik Charanjit Kumar Merwyn Fernandes Amarjit Singh Rana Mohammed Shahid Zafar Iqbal Surinder Singh Sodhi 1980 Olympics at Moscow

Hockey: Current Squad & Famous Players

Current Squad

The following players form the current squad of the Indian hockey team.

• Prabodh Tirkey

 

• Baljit Singh

 

• Adrian D'Souza

 

• V. R. Raghunath*

 

• Gurbaz Singh

 

• Sardara Singh

 

• Ignace Tirkey

 

• Rajpal Singh

 

• Tushar Khandekar

 

• Prabjodh Singh

 

• Shivendra Singh

 

• Dilip Tirkey

 

• S. V. Sunil

 

• Arjun Halappa

 

• Vikram Pillay

 

• Deepak Thakur

• Sandeep Singh

 

Famous ex-players

• Dhyan Chand

 

• Balbir Singh

 

• Dhanraj Pillay

 

• Pargath Singh

 

• Sabu Varkey

 

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