CNN–News18 Indian of the Year

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CNN–News18 Indian of the Year
Awarded forAn Honour That Embodies Greatness
CountryIndia
Presented byCNN-News18
First awarded2006
Websiteindianoftheyear.com

The CNN–News18 Indian of the Year (initially CNN–IBN Indian of the Year) is an award presented annually to various Indians for their work in their respective fields by the Indian media house CNN–News18. The awards are presented in various categories of Politics, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Public Service and Global Indian. The idea of the award was originated by journalists: Rajdeep Sardesai and Sagarika Ghose.

In addition to the traditional award categories of Politics, Business, Sports, Entertainment, Public Service and Global Indian, a new category, that of a 'CNN-IBN Indian of the Year – Popular Choice' was introduced in the ninth edition, where one awardee was chosen from the 35 nominees across categories basis the votes received from public through Facebook.

Winners

Main awards

Year Person Politics Sports Business Entertainment Public Service
Global Indian
2006 Manmohan Singh Manmohan Singh Jeev Milkha Singh Ratan Tata Rajkumar Hirani Arvind Kejriwal Indra Nooyi
2007 E. Sreedharan P. Chidambaram Viswanathan Anand O. P. Bhatt Shimit Amin and Jaideep Sahni
E Sreedharan
Arun Sarin
2008
Chandrayaan
Nitish Kumar Abhinav Bindra Aditya Puri Aamir Khan Team Chandrayaan A. R. Rahman
2009
A R Rahman
Rahul Gandhi Saina Nehwal
Satyam Revival Team
A. R. Rahman Pratham ---
2010 Nitish Kumar Nitish Kumar
Sushil Kumar
Kumar Mangalam Birla S. Shankar Ladakh Ecological Development Group & Seeds India ---
2011 Anna Hazare Mamata Banerjee
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Dilip Shanghvi Amitabh Bachchan and team KBC Binalakshmi Nepram, Founder of the Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network ---
2012 Viswanathan Anand Manohar Parrikar Viswanathan Anand Yusuf Hamied Irrfan Khan Dr.
Devi Prasad Shetty
---
2013 Stop Acid Attacks Arvind Kejriwal P. V. Sindhu[1] Rajiv Bajaj
Kapil Sharma[2]
Lily Thomas[3][4]
---
2014[5] Narendra Modi Arun Jaitley Jitu Rai
N Chandrasekaran
Chetan Bhagat Tongam Rina Satya Nadella
2015 People of Chennai --- Sania Mirza Bandhan Bank S. S. Rajamouli People of Chennai ---
2017 Virat Kohli
Kidambi Srikanth
Acharya Balkrishna
Raj Kumar Rao
Afroz Shah
2022 Neeraj Chopra Yogi Adityanath Neeraj Chopra ---

Allu Arjun

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2023 Shah Rukh Khan Narendra Modi Neeraj Chopra Dinesh Kumar Khara Mani Ratnam --- ---

Special awards

1. 2007

  • Lifetime Achievement -
    R K Laxman

2. 2008

3. 2009

  • Lifetime Achievement -
    Pandit Ravi Shankar
  • Special Awards - Kamal Haasan
  • Special Awards -
    Indian Cricket Team

4. 2010

5. 2011

6. 2012

  • Lifetime Achievement - Heroes of Rezang La, 1962
  • Special Awards -
    Team Satyamev Jayate
  • Special Awards -
    MC Mary Kom
  • Special Awards -
    DRDO

7. 2013

8. 2014

8. 2015

10. 2017

12. 2022

13. 2023

See also

References