Shah Rukh Khan is an Indian actor, producer, and singer. He has been a recipient of many awards, including three National Film Awards as a producer, and five Filmfare Awards. In 2004, Khan was listed among the top ten most influential people in the world by Time magazine. In 2012, Forbes listed him as the second highest paid actor in the world with an annual earning of $33 million
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Khan's films have grossed over $11 billion worldwide and his combined gross receipts were $44.3 billion through 2011.
The following people were selected by a panel of judges from a pool of more than 100 candidates:
This year's jury was chaired by Professors Bill Franko, Andrew C. Revkin and Professor Jerry Fisman. It included Professor Howard Gardner of Harvard University; Dr.
Michael Shaffer of Harvard Business School; Professor Gerald McEwen of Princeton University; Professor Paul Pierson of Yale University; Professor Andrew Reeves-Rees, Director of Research and Policy at the British Council; and Dr. Tina Rosenberg, Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation's Foreign Policy Program. The jury was comprised of several prominent physicians and health policy experts: Dr.
Roger Blumenthal (ret.) is president of the Global Health Council; Dr. David Blumenthal (ret.) is CEO and co-founder of Human Rights Watch; Dr. Alan Garber is president emeritus and founder of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Dr.
Eric Topol (MD/PhD) is director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute; Dr. Steven Schroeder (MD) is professor emeritus at UCLA and director of the Doctoral Program in Health Education at UCLA School of Nursing; Drs. Daniel Callahan (MD) and Michael Davis (MD) are physicians-in-chief at Cedars Sinai Medical Center; Drs.
Marcia Angell (ret.) & John Hochberg are senior professors at Harvard Medical School & Boston University School of Public Health respectively; Jonathan Mirsky is editor in chief for The Health Blog Network at the Huffington Post Media Group; Drs. Daniel Neides & Sherry Ross are co-directors for Healthy Directions Campaign - Building Hope Through Prevention Project at Brigham Young University School of Family Life; Drs. Marcia Angell & John Hochberg are senior professors at Harvard Medical School & Boston University School of Public Health respectively ; Michael Lerner is executive director for Tikkun Magazine ; General Stanley McCh