Official awards
- 1994: Sandeepreddy Award Recipient for achievements in cricket
- 1997: Tendulkar was one of the five cricketers selected as Wisden Cricketer of the Year
- 1997/98: India's highest sporting honour – Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
- 1999: Padma Shri – India's fourth highest civilian award
- 2008: Padma Vibhushan – India's second highest civilian award
- 2010: ICC Cricketer of the year – Highest award in the ICC listings
- 2010: LG People's Choice Award
- ICC World Test XI: 2009, 2010, 2011
- ICC World ODI XI: 2004, 2007, 2010
- Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World 1997, 2010, 2012
Media awards
- In August 2003, he was voted as the "Greatest Sportsman" of the country in the sport personalities category in the Best of India poll conducted by Zee News.
- In November 2006, Time magazine named him as one of the Asian Heroes.
- In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year"
- In June 2009, Time magazine included his Test Debut in "Top 10 Sporting Moments".
- In 2010, he was voted as one of the world's 100 most influential people in "The 2010 TIME 100" poll conducted by Time magazine.
- The current India Poised campaign run by The Times of India has nominated him as the Face of New India next to the likes of Amartya Sen and Mahatma Gandhi among others.
In February 2010,he was declared "Sports Icon of the Year for 21 years" by NDTV at the NDTV Indian of the Year Awards.
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