1. Man Booker Prize 2013 - Eleanor
Catton (for The Luminaries)
2. Man Booker International Prize -
Lydia Davis
3. Asia Pacific International Award
- Dr. Mujeeb Athar
4. Cecil B Demile Award - Woody
Allen
5. Champion for Global Change
Award 2013 - Malala Yousafzai
6. First Mahathir Award for Global
Peace - Nelson Mandela
7. German Whistleblower Prize
2013 - Edward Snowden
8. Golden Lion at Venice Film
Festival - Sacro GRA (Italy)
9. Grand Prize at Cuba's
International Radio and Telivision
Festival
- Baraksat (Lebanese Documentary)
10. IMPAC Dublin Literary Award -
Kevin Barry
11. INDEX Design Award - Kavitha
Shukla
12. ISRO Young Scientist Award -
Jenita Mary
13. Jnanpith Award 2012 - Ravuri
Bharadhwaja
14. Knighthood, which is the
highest honour of Britain - Anish
Kapoor (sculptor)
15. Lata Mangeshkar Samman
Alankaran - Hariharan
16. 'Legend of Planet' award -
Bindeshwar Pathak (Sulabh
movement founder)
17. Library of Congress Gershwin
Award - Carole King (first woman)
18. National Literacy Award -
Chattisgarh
19. NSS Wernher von Braun
Memorial Award - Abdul Kalam
20. NTR National Literary Award -
Manoj Das
21. Sree Narayan Guru Global
Secular & Peace Award 2013 -
Shashi Tharoor
22. Presidential medal of freedom -
Dr. Sally Ride
23. Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2013
- Adam Johnson (for the novel “The
Orphan Master’s son”)
24. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna -
Ranjan Sodhi
25. Saraswati Samman (2013) –
Sugathakumari
26. Skoch Group Award -
Jharkhand
27. Tagore Award for Cultural
Harmony - Zubin Mehta
28. Tagore Peace Prize - Shihab
Ghanem (first Arab)
29. The Simón Bolívar National
Award of Journalism 2013
- Hugo Chavez (late Venezuelan
President )
30. U. N. Champions of the Earth
Award - V. Ramanathan
31. UEFA Best Player in Europe
Award - Franck Ribéry
32. UN’s Public Service Award -
Omen Chandi (Kerala CM)
33. Unique Female Leader Award -
Madeleine Albrite (former US
Secratary)
34. United Nation's Public Service
Award - Oommen Chandy (Chief
Minister of Kerala)
35. US "woman of courage" award
- Nirbhaya (Dehli gang rape victim)
36. Vyas Samman (2012) –
Narendra Kohli
37. Whitley award (Green Oscar) -
Dr. Aparajita Datta
38. Women’s Prize for Fiction - AM
Homes (for her book, May We Be
Forgiven)
39. Youngest Indian to scale the
Mount Everest - Raghav Joneja