CNN-IBN Indian of the Year

The CNN-News18 Indian of the Year (originally 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 forAn Honour That Embodies Greatness
CountryIndia
Presented byCNN-News18
First awarded2006
Websiteindianoftheyear.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
Year Person Politics Sports Business Entertainment Public Service Global Indian
2006Manmohan SinghManmohan SinghJeev Milkha SinghRatan TataRajkumar HiraniArvind KejriwalIndra Nooyi
2007E. SreedharanP. ChidambaramViswanathan AnandO. P. BhattShimit Amin and Jaideep SahniE SreedharanArun Sarin
2008ChandrayaanNitish KumarAbhinav BindraAditya PuriAamir KhanTeam ChandrayaanA. R. Rahman
2009A R RahmanRahul GandhiSaina NehwalSatyam Revival TeamA. R. RahmanPratham---
2010Nitish KumarNitish KumarSushil KumarKumar Mangalam BirlaS. ShankarLadakh Ecological Development Group & Seeds India---
2011Anna HazareMamata BanerjeeMahendra Singh DhoniDilip ShanghviAmitabh Bachchan and team KBCBinalakshmi Nepram, Founder of the Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network---
2012Viswanathan AnandManohar ParrikarViswanathan AnandYusuf HamiedIrrfan KhanDr. Devi Prasad Shetty---
2013Stop Acid AttacksArvind KejriwalP. V. Sindhu[1]Rajiv BajajKapil Sharma[2]ADR & Lily Thomas[3][4]---
2014[5]Narendra ModiArun JaitleyJitu RaiN ChandrasekaranChetan BhagatTongam RinaSatya Nadella
2015People of Chennai---Sania MirzaBandhan BankSS RajamouliPeople of Chennai---

Special awards

1. 2007 Lifetime Achievement - R K Laxman Cartoonist
2. 2008 Lifetime Achievement - Dilip Kumar Actor

3. 2009 Lifetime Achievement - Pandit Ravi Shankar

  • Special Awards - Kamal Haasan Completing 50 years in cinema 2009
  • Special Awards - Indian Cricket Team Test cricket to break on through to the number one spot for the first time ever.

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

7. 2013 Outstanding Achievement - Leander Paes[1]

8. 2014 Winners

8. 2015 Winners

10. 2017 Winners

See also

NDTV Indian of the Year

References
  1. "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. "Kapil Sharma honoured with Indian of the Year award". Times of India. 22 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.
  5. "News18.com: CNN-News18 Breaking News India, Latest News Headlines, Live News Updates". News18. 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.
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