# 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.
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 | Rajiv Bajaj | Kapil Sharma | ADR & Lily Thomas | --- |
| 2014 | 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
* 2013 Outstanding Achievement - Ramakant Achrekar
* Special Awards - Team ITBP and NDRF
* Special Awards - Deepika Padukone
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
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