NDTV Indian of the Year

NDTV's Indian of the Year
Country	India
Presented by	NDTV
First awarded	2005

NDTV Indian of the Year is the annual award given by the NDTV group.

Winners of the Award

Ceremony	Year	Indian	Politics	Sports	Business	Entertainment	Global Indian
1st	2005[1]	Sonia Gandhi	Sonia Gandhi			Amitabh Bachchan
2nd	2006	Sanjay Dutt
3rd	2007[2]	Indian Soldiers	Manmohan Singh	Viswanathan Anand	Mukesh Ambani	Rajinikanth and Shah Rukh Khan	Rajendra K. Pachauri
4th	2008[3]	Team Chandrayaan	Sheila Dikshit	Abhinav Bindra	Deepak Parikh	Aamir Khan	Cast of Slumdog Millionaire
5th	2009[4]		Nitish Kumar	Saina Nehwal	Anand Mahindra	Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra
6th	2010	Sachin Tendulkar	Nitish Kumar			Rajinikanth and Trisha Krishnan
7th	2011[5]	Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal	Shivraj Singh Chauhan	Mahendra Singh Dhoni		Cast of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
8th	2013	Nirbhaya (anonymous name of the victim of 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder		Gagan Narang and Yogeshwar Dutt	Natarajan Chandrasekaran	Sridevi and Kareena Kapoor
9th	2014 [6]	Amjad Ali Khan and Satish Gujral	Election Commission of India	P. V. Sindhu	Rajiv Bajaj and Roshni Nadar	Kangana Ranaut, Deepika Padukone and Ranbir Kapoor
10th	2015	Siddharth Narayan		Sania Mirza	Dilip Shanghvi	Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, and Irrfan Khan	Satya Nadella

Seventh NDTV Indian of the Year

The Seventh NDTV Indian of the Year was held at the Taj Palace Hotel on 18 October 2011. The winners were:[5]

• Indian of the Year – Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal
• India's Heroes – India national cricket team
• Entertainer of the Year (Movie) – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
• Entertainer of the Year (Music) – Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy
• Lifetime Achievement Award – Dev Anand and Rahul Dravid
• LIC Unsung Hero of the Year – RTI activists Amit Jethwa, Dattatreya Patil, Vishram Dodiya, Satish Shetty and Vitthal Gite
• Transformational Idea of the Year Award – Nandan Nilekani
• Icon of India – N. R. Narayana Murthy

Eighth NDTV Indian of the Year

The Eighth NDTV Indian of the Year was held on 15 April 2013 dedicated to the Daughters of India and celebrating the 25th Silver Jubilee of the news channel. The winners were:

• Daughter of India – Nirbhaya
• Justice for the Indian Woman – Justice J. S. Verma Committee
• Entertainer of the Year – Sridevi
• Entertainer of the Decade – Kareena Kapoor
• Lifetime Achievement Award – Yash Chopra and Pandit Ravi Shankar and Prathap C. Reddy
• LIC Unsung Hero of the Year – Rajni Sekhri Sibal
• Sportspersons the Year Award – Gagan Narang and Yogeshwar Dutt
• Achievement in Health – Apollo Group

Ninth NDTV Indian of the Year

The Ninth NDTV Indian of the Year Award Ceremony was held on 29 April 2014.[7]

• Lifetime Achievement Award - Amjad Ali Khan and Satish Gujral
• Business leader of the year - Rajiv Bajaj
• Sportsperson of the year - P. V. Sindhu
• Actor of the year- Kangana Ranaut[8][6]
• Bollywood youth icon of the year - Ranbir Kapoor
• Entertainer of the year - Deepika Padukone

The other winners include T. Raja of New Ark Mission of India.[9][10]

See also

• CNN-IBN Indian of the year

References

1. Sonia chosen NDTV Indian of the Year – Express India ^[dead link‍]
2. NDTV presents Indian of the Year 2007
3. NDTV.com ::: Indian Of The Year 2008 :::
4. NDTV Indian of the year 2009 Awards | indianewz.com – Hot and Latest Indian news
5. "NDTV Indian of the Year 2011". ndtv.com. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
6. "Indian Of The Year Award: awardees". NDTV.com. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
7. "Amjad Ali Khan, Satish Gujral honored with NDTV Indian of the Year Award". IANS. news.biharprabha.com. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
8. "NDTV Indian Of The Year: Kangana Ranaut named Actor Of The Year". NDTV.com. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
9. "T. Raja at TEDxREC". YouTube. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
10. Saxena, Koshika Mira Saxena Mira (19 June 2017). "Earlier A Rowdy, Now A Person Who Takes Care Of Destitutes By Bringing Them To His Home". thelogicalindian.com. Retrieved 31 May 2020.