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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[edit]

Main awards[edit]

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] 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

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

Special awards[edit]

1. 2007

2. 2008

3. 2009

4. 2010

5. 2011

6. 2012

7. 2013

8. 2014

8. 2015

10. 2017

12. 2022

13. 2023

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Leander Paes and Ramakant Achrekar named CNN-IBN Indian of the Year". Yahoo News. 22 December 2013. Archived from the original on 2014-01-04. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  2. ^ a b "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.
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