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CNN-News18 Indian of the Year

Indian annual award

Field	Value
name	CNN–News18 Indian of the Year
awarded_for	An Honour That Embodies Greatness
presenter	CNN-News18
country	India
year	2006
website	indianoftheyear.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

Ceremony	Year	Person	Politics	Sports	Business	Entertainment	Public Service	Global Indian
1st	2006	Manmohan Singh	Manmohan Singh	Jeev Milkha Singh	Ratan Tata	Rajkumar Hirani	Arvind Kejriwal	Indra Nooyi
2nd	2007	E. Sreedharan	P. Chidambaram	Viswanathan Anand	O. P. Bhatt	Shimit Amin and Jaideep Sahni	E. Sreedharan	Arun Sarin
3rd	2008	Chandrayaan	Nitish Kumar	Abhinav Bindra	Aditya Puri	Aamir Khan	Team Chandrayaan	A. R. Rahman
4th	2009	A. R. Rahman	Rahul Gandhi	Saina Nehwal	Satyam Revival Team	A. R. Rahman	Pratham	---
5th	2010	Nitish Kumar	Nitish Kumar	Sushil Kumar	Kumar Mangalam Birla	S. Shankar	Ladakh Ecological Development Group & Seeds India	---
6th	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	---
7th	2012	Viswanathan Anand	Manohar Parrikar	Viswanathan Anand	Yusuf Hamied	Irrfan Khan	Devi Prasad Shetty	---
8th	2013	Stop Acid Attack	Arvind Kejriwal	P. V. Sindhu	Rajiv Bajaj	Kapil Sharma	ADR & Lily Thomas	---
9th	2014	Narendra Modi	Arun Jaitley	Jitu Rai	N. Chandrasekaran	Chetan Bhagat	Tongam Rina	Satya Nadella
10th	2015	People of Chennai	---	Sania Mirza	Bandhan Bank	S. S. Rajamouli	People of Chennai	---
11th	2017	Virat Kohli		Kidambi Srikanth	Acharya Balkrishna	Raj Kumar Rao	Afroz Shah
——	2018–2021	Not held
12th	2022	Neeraj Chopra	Yogi Adityanath	Neeraj Chopra		---			---	---
13th	2023	Shah Rukh Khan	Narendra Modi	Neeraj Chopra	Dinesh Kumar Khara	Mani Ratnam	---	---
14th	2024	Kartik Aryan	---	Jasprit Bumrah	Sangita Reddy	Lapata Ladies	---	---
15th	2025	Harmanpreet Kaur		Suruchi Phogat	Baba Kalyani	Arijit Singh		Chef Vijay Kumar

Special awards

2007

Lifetime Achievement - R K Laxman

2008

Lifetime Achievement - Dilip Kumar
Special Awards - Tukaram Omble
Special Awards - Mumbai Police
Special Awards - Sheila Dikshit

2009

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

2010

Lifetime Achievement - M. S. Swaminathan

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

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

2013

Outstanding Achievement - Leander Paes
2013 Outstanding Achievement - Ramakant Achrekar
Special Awards - Team ITBP and NDRF
Special Awards - Deepika Padukone

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

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

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

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

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

References

(22 December 2013). "Kapil Sharma honoured with Indian of the Year award". [[The Times of India]].
"INDIAN OF THE YEAR 2013". CNN IBN.
(21 December 2013). "Stop Acid Attacks is Indian of the Year, Arvind Kejriwal wins for politics". IBN LIVE.
"Virat Kohli Biography".
"News18.com: CNN-News18 Breaking News India, Latest News Headlines, Live News Updates".
(22 December 2013). "Leander Paes and Ramakant Achrekar named CNN-IBN Indian of the Year". [[Yahoo.
Upadhyaya, Prakash. "Baahubali 3 will happen in sometime in future, producer reveals after being honoured at CNN-News18 Awards". International Business Times, India Edition.
(30 November 2017). "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".

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