The Trust Survey was conducted by Reader’s Digest magazine. A cross section of 750 people were surveyed online and asked to rank the shortlisted individuals and professions they have the most faith in.
- Former president APJ Abdul Kalam has been voted the Most Trusted in a list of 100 public figures from across the country.
- Chairman of the Tata Group Ratan Tata
- Former police official and TV personality Kiran Bedi
- Co-founder of Infosys and author Narayan Murthy
- Oscar winning music director AR Rahman comes fifth in the Trust Survey, conducted for the first time in India.
- Chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand
- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is ranked
- Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar
- Cartoonist R K Laxman
- Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is ranked at 10th place along with Wipro chairman Azim Premji and former Indian Space Research Organisation chief M. Madhavan Nair.