CNN-News18 Indian of the Year

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.

CNN–News18 Indian of the Year
Awarded for	An Honour That Embodies Greatness
Country	India
Presented by	CNN-News18
First award	2006
Website	indianoftheyear.com

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	Devi Prasad Shetty	---
2013	Stop Acid Attacks	Arvind Kejriwal	P. V. Sindhu[1]	Rajiv Bajaj	Kapil Sharma[2]	ADR & 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	---	---
2023	Shah Rukh Khan	Narendra Modi	Neeraj Chopra	Dinesh Kumar Khara	Mani Ratnam	---	---

Special awards

1. 2007

• Lifetime Achievement - R K Laxman

2. 2008

• Lifetime Achievement - Dilip Kumar

• Special Awards - Tukaram Omble
• Special Awards - Mumbai Police
• Special Awards - Sheila Dikshit

3. 2009

• Lifetime Achievement - Pandit Ravi Shankar

• Special Awards - Kamal Haasan
• Special Awards - Indian Cricket Team

4. 2010

• Lifetime Achievement - M. S. Swaminathan

5. 2011

• Lifetime Achievement - Verghese Kurien

• Outstanding Achievement - K J Yesudas
• Special Awards - Yuvraj Singh
• Special Awards - Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network
• Special Awards - Ronjan Sodhi

6. 2012

• Lifetime Achievement - Heroes of Rezang La, 1962
• Special Awards - Aamir Khan & Team Satyamev Jayate
• Special Awards - MC Mary Kom
• Special Awards - Tessy Thomas & Team DRDO

7. 2013

• Outstanding Achievement - Leander Paes^[1]
• 2013 Outstanding Achievement - Ramakant Achrekar^[1]
• Special Awards - Team ITBP and NDRF
• Special Awards - Deepika Padukone^[2]

8. 2014

• Lifetime Achievement Award: ISRO team
• Outstanding Achievement Award: Azim Premji, Kailash Satyarthi
• Special Achievement Award: Kangana Ranaut
• Popular Choice Award: Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, P Vijayan
• Public Service: Tongam Rina
• Politics: Arun Jaitley
• Global Indian: Satya Nadella

8. 2015

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Balbir Singh Dosanjh
• Outstanding Achievement Award: Dr.Bindeshwar Pathak, United Technologies (Make in India)
• Special Achievement Award: Kangana Ranaut, Ranveer Singh
• Public Service: People of Chennai
• Special Jury Award: Leander Paes

10. 2017

• Outstanding Achievement in Business: Adar Poonawalla
• Special Achievement Award: India women's national cricket team
• Special Achievement Award: Manushi Chhillar
• Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment (2017): Team Baahubali^[6][7]

12. 2022

• Outstanding Achievement - Sania Mirza, Ranveer Singh
• Special Achievement - Sonu Sood
• Climate Warrior - M. Yoganathan
• Social Change - Shankare Gowda
• Start-ups - Zoho Corporation
• Special Mention - Kulsum Shadab Wahab

13. 2023

• Outstanding Achievement - ISRO
• Youth Icon (Jury) - Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju
• Youth Icon (Popular) - Anirudh Ravichander
• Climate Warriors - Arun Krishnamurthy, Saalumarada Thimmakka
• Social Change - Ravi Kannan R
• Special Mention - Heroes of Uttarkashi

See also

• NDTV Indian of the Year

References

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2. "Kapil Sharma honoured with Indian of the Year award". The Times of India. 22 December 2013. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
3. "INDIAN OF THE YEAR 2013". CNN IBN. Archived from the original on 2014-11-08.
4. "Stop Acid Attacks is Indian of the Year, Arvind Kejriwal wins for politics". IBN LIVE. 21 December 2013. Archived from the original on 22 December 2013.
5. "News18.com: CNN-News18 Breaking News India, Latest News Headlines, Live News Updates". News18. Archived from the original on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
6. Upadhyaya, Prakash. "Baahubali 3 will happen in sometime in future, producer reveals after being honoured at CNN-News18 Awards". International Business Times, India Edition.
7. "Virat Kohli named CNN-NEWS18 Indian of the Year; says, 'Would love for cricket to be Olympic sport' LIVE News, Latest Updates, Live blog, Highlights and Live coverage - Firstpost". www.firstpost.com. 30 November 2017.