List of awardees
| Name of the Recipient[2] | District / Location | Category |
| Mahadeva Shankanapura | Chamarajanagar | Literature |
| Prof D T Rangaswamy | Chitradurga | Literature |
| Jayalakshmi Mangalamurthy | Raichur | Literature |
| Ajjampura Manjunath | Chikkamagaluru | Literature |
| Krishna Kulkarni | Vijayapura | Literature |
| Siddappa Bidari | Bagalkot | Literature |
| Fakirappa Ramappa Kodai | Haveri | Theatre |
| Prakash Belawadi | Chikkamagaluru | Theatre |
| Ramesh Gowda Patil | Ballari | Theatre |
| Malleshaiah N | Ramanagara | Theatre |
| Savitri Gowdar | Gadag | Theatre |
| R B Nayak | Vijayapura | Folklore |
| Gauramma Huchappa Mastar | Shivamogga | Folklore |
| Durgappa Chennadasara | Ballari | Folklore |
| Bananje Babu Amin | Udupi | Folklore |
| Mallikarjuna Rachappa Mudakavi | Bagalkot | Folklore |
| Venkappa Govindappa Bhajantri | Dharwad | Folklore |
| Maharudrappa Veerappa Itagi | Haveri | Folklore |
| Thyagaraju C | Kolar | Music |
| Harold Cyril D'Souza | Dakshina Kannada | Music |
| Dr G Jnananda | Chikkaballapur | Sculpture |
| Venkanna Chitragara | Koppal | Sculpture |
| Solagatti Yamunavva (Salamantapi) | Bagalkot | Social Service |
| Madalai Madaiah | Mysuru | Social Service |
| Muniyappa Domluru | Bengaluru City | Social Service |
| B L Patil Athani | Belagavi | Social Service |
| Dr J N Ramakrishnagowda | Mandya | Social Service |
| Dr Sulthan B Jagalur | Davanagere | Medicine |
| Dr Vyasa Deshpande | Dharwad | Medicine |
| Dr A R Pradeep | Bengaluru City | Medicine |
| Dr Suresh Rao | Dakshina Kannada | Medicine |
| Dr Shivanagowda Rudragowda Ramanagouder | Dharwad | Medicine |
| Dr Sudarshan | Bengaluru City | Medicine |
| Rohan Bopanna | Kodagu | Sports |
| K Gopinath | Bengaluru City | Sports |
| Rohith Kumar Kateel | Udupi | Sports |
| A Nagaraj | Bengaluru City | Sports |
| Devaraj | Bengaluru City | Cinema |
| Swami Lingappa | Mysuru | Education |
| Shridhar Chakravarthi | Dharwad | Education |
| Prof P V Krishna Bhat | Shivamogga | Education |
| Dr HS Savitri | Bengaluru City | Science and Technology |
| J U Kulkarni | Bengaluru City | Science and Technology |
| Dr C Nagaraj | Bengaluru Rural | Agriculture |
| Gurulingappa Meldoddi | Bidar | Agriculture |
| Shankarappa Ammanaghatta | Tumakuru | Agriculture |
| Mahadeva Velipa | Uttara Kannada | Environment |
| Bykampady Ramachandra | Dakshina Kannada | Environment |
| Patnam Anantha Padmanabha | Mysuru | Journalism |
| U B Rajalakshmi | Udupi | Journalism |
| Dr Sunitha | Mumbai | Horanadu Kannadiga |
| Chandrashekar Palthadi | Mumbai | Horanadu Kannadiga |
| Dr Siddameshwar Kantikar | (Non-Resident) | Horanadu Kannadiga |
| Praveen Shetty | Dubai | Horanadu Kannadiga |
| Ba Ma Shrikanta | Shivamogga | Yoga |
| Dr Raghavendra Shenoy | Bengaluru City | Yoga |
| Dr B Ambanna | Vijayanagar | Miscellaneous |
| Captain Rajarao | Ballari | Miscellaneous |
| Gangavathi Pranesh | Koppal | Miscellaneous |
| C V Keshava Murthy | Mysuru | Judiciary |
| H R Kasturi Rangan | Hassan | Administration |
| Naveen Nagappa | Haveri | Army/Defence |
| Gopalacharya | Shivamogga | Yakshagana |
| Ratnamma Shivappa Babalada | Yadagiri | Civic Work (Pourakarmika) |
| Mahadevalla Kadechooru | Kalaburagi | Hyderabad-Karnataka Unification |
| Shyamaraju | Bengaluru City | Entrepreneurship |