Most Powerful Indian 2023 Full List
Most Powerful Indian 2023 Full List PDF is released by the Indian Express from the official website @indianexpress.com or it can be directly downloaded from the link given at the bottom of this page. Indian Express every year released the Indian Powerful persons list. In this list BJP retained both, comprehensively, as the juggernaut of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah showed no sign of tiring, or retiring from their top perch on the power list.
IE 100 lists the top ranks composed interchangeably of government and Sangh Parivar bosses, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has surged to No. 3, ahead of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and BJP president JP Nadda. With G20 presidency and India’s foreign ties central to the Modi government’s 2024 campaign, Jaishankar is the muscular brain that fits the BJP bill just right.
Most Powerful Indian 2023 Full List
| Rank | Powerful Indian Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | Narendra Modi, Prime Minister |
| 2 | Amit Shah, Home Minister |
| 3 | S Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs |
| 4 | DY Chandrachud, Chief Justice of India |
| 5 | Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh |
| 6 | Mohan Bhagwat, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief |
| 7 | JP Nadda, National President, Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 8 | Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs |
| 9 | Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries Ltd |
| 10 | Ajit Doval, National Security Advisor |
| 11 | Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister of India |
| 12 | BL Santhosh, National General Secretary (Organisation), BJP |
| 13 | Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal Chief Minister |
| 14 | Nitish Kumar, Bihar Chief Minister |
| 15 | Rahul Gandhi, Congress leader |
| 16 | Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi Chief Minister |
| 17 | Himanta Biswa Sarma, Assam Chief Minister |
| 18 | Sanjay Kumar Mishra, Enforcement Directorate Chief |
| 19 | Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Railways, Telecom and IT |
| 20 | Kiren Rijiju, Minister of Law and Justice |
| 21 | Shaktikanta Das, Reserve Bank of India Governor |
| 22 | Natarajan Chandrasekharan, Tata Sons PVT LTD Chairman |
| 23 | Mallikarjun Kharge, Indian National Congress President |
| 24 | Manoj Sinha, Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor |
| 25 | Amitabh Khant, G20 Sherpa, Government of India |
| 26 | Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport and Highways |
| 27 | Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Chemicals and Fertilisers |
| 28 | Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commernce & Industry; Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution; Textiles |
| 29 | Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs (HUA) |
| 30 | Uday Kotak, Managing Director and CEO, Kotak Mahindra Bank |
| 31 | Bhupender Yadav, Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change; Labour & Employment |
| 32 | Gautam Adani, Chairman and founder, Adani Group |
| 33 | MK Stalin, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK chief |
| 34 | K Chandrasekhar Rao, Telangana Chief Minister |
| 35 | Anurag Thakur, Minister of Information & Broadcasting |
| 36 | Smriti Irani, Minister of Women & Child Development, Minority Affairs |
| 37 | Siddaramaiah, Leader of Opposition in Karnataka |
| 38 | Devendra Fadnavis, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister |
| 39 | Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister |
| 40 | Bhupesh Baghel, Chattisgarh Chief Minister |
| 41 | Naveen Patnaik, Odisha Chief Minister |
| 42 | Pinarayi Vijayan, Kerala Chief Minister |
| 43 | Uddhav Thackeray, Shiv Sena (UBT) president |
| 44 | Sunil Bharti Mittal, Bharati Enterprises Chairperson |
| 45 | CR Paatil, Gujarat BJP President and Lok Sabha MP |
| 46 | Jay Shah, BCCI secretary |
| 47 | Nita Ambani, Chairperson and founder, Reliance Foundation, co-owner of Mumbai Indians |
| 48 | Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Supreme Court judge |
| 49 | Shah Rukh Khan, Actor |
| 50 | Bhupendra Patel, Chief Minister, Gujarat |
| 51 | Eknath Shinde, Chief Minister, Maharashtra |
| 52 | Virat Kohli, cricketer |
| 53 | Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General of India |
| 54 | Vinai Kumar Saxena, Lieutenant Governor, Delhi |
| 55 | BV Nagarathna, Judge, Supeme Court of India |
| 56 | Sharad Pawar, President, Nationalist Congress Party |
| 57 | YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, Chief Minister, Andhra Pradesh |
| 58 | Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Education |
| 59 | Dattatreya Hosabale, General Secretary, RSS |
| 60 | Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chief Minister, Madhya Pradesh |
| 61 | Ashok Gehlot, Chief Minister, Rajasthan |
| 62 | Manohar Lal Khattar, Chief Minister, Haryana |
| 63 | Hemant Soren, Chief Minister, Jharkhand |
| 64 | Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, AICC general secretary in charge of UP |
| 65 | Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Minister, Jal Shakti |
| 66 | Basavaraj Bommai, Chief Minister, Karnataka |
| 67 | Bhagwant Mann, Chief Minister, Punjab |
| 68 | Azim Premji, Founder chairman, Wipro |
| 69 | General Anil Chauhan, Chief of Defence Staff |
| 70 | General Manoj Pande, Chief of the Army Staff |
| 71 | Rajiv Kumar, Chief Election Commissioner |
| 72 | PK Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister |
| 73 | Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Electronics and IT |
| 74 | Bimal Patel, Architect, MD, HCP |
| 75 | Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group |
| 76 | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Congress leader in Lok Sabha |
| 77 | Shashi Tharoor, Congress leader, author |
| 78 | Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, Chief Minister, Himachal Pradesh |
| 79 | Vasundhara Raje, Former Chief minister, Rajasthan |
| 80 | M Jagadesh Kumar, Chairperson , University Grants Commission |
| 81 | Asaduddin Owaisi, President, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) |
| 82 | Rohit Sharma, India cricket captain |
| 83 | Akhilesh Yadav, Samajwadi Party (SP) President |
| 84 | Dr Prathap C Reddy, Founder-chairman, Apollo Hospitals |
| 85 | Nandan Nilekani, Non-executive Chairman, Infosys |
| 86 | Amitabh Bachchan, actor |
| 87 | Mehbooba Mufti, J&K Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief |
| 88 | Farooq Abdullah, president, J&K National Conference |
| 89 | TV Somanathan, Finance and Expenditure Secretary |
| 90 | Sajjan Jindal, Chairman, JSW Group |
| 91 | V Anantha Nageswaran, Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) |
| 92 | Pushkar Singh Dhami, Chief Minister, Uttarakhand |
| 93 | Suman Bery, Vice Chairperson, Niti Aayog |
| 94 | SS Rajamouli, Filmmaker |
| 95 | Fali Nariman, Constitutional jurist |
| 96 | Deepika Padukone, Actor, producer, entrepreneur, brand ambassador |
| 97 | Yusuffali MA, Chairman, Lulu Group |
| 98 | Alia Bhatt, Actor, producer, entrepreneur |
| 99 | Ranveer Singh, Actor, brand ambassador |
