List of Elle (India) cover models

List of Elle cover models attempts to catalogue a complete enumeration of people who have appeared as cover models on the cover of the Indian edition of Elle magazine, starting with the magazine's first issue in December 1996.

1996-1997

Month	Cover model	Notes
December 1996
January 1997
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

1998

Month	Cover model	Notes
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August	Shahrukh Khan	[1][2]
September
October
November
December

1999

Month	Cover model(s)	Notes
January	Viveka Babajee
February	Bipasha Basu & Dino Morea	[3][4]
March	Karisma Kapoor
April
May	Malaika Arora Khan
June
July
August	Pregnant model.	[5]
September
October
November
December	3 models.	3rd Anniversary Issue.[6]

2000

Month	Cover model(s)	Notes
January	Aishwarya Rai
February
March
April
May
June	Bipasha Basu & John Abraham
July
August	Sushmita Sen
September
October	Ujjwala Raut	[7]
November
December	Female model & Shahrukh Khan	4th Anniversary Issue.

2001

Month	Cover model(s)	Notes
January	Britney Spears
February	Nina Manuel	[8]
March
April	Udita Goswami
May	Riya Sen
June
July	Aishwarya Rai
August
September	Tabu
October	Ujjwala Raut	[9]
November
December		5th Anniversary Issue. Designer Special.[10]

2002

Month	Cover model(s)	Notes
January
February	Riya Sen
March	Yana Gupta
April	Nina Manuel	[8][11]
May
June	Sameera Reddy
July	Ujjwala Raut
August	Shivani Kapoor	[12][13][14][15][16]
September	Sapna Kumar	[17]
October	Dipannita Sharma	[18][19]
November
December	Kareena Kapoor	6th Anniversary Issue.

2003

Month	Cover model(s)	Notes
January
February
March	Jennifer Lopez
April	Lakshmi Menon	[20][21]
May
June
July	Malaika Arora Khan
August	Rekha
September	Preity Zinta
October	Ujjwala Raut
November	Udita Goswami
December	Dannii Minogue	7th Anniversary Issue.

2004

Month	Cover model(s)	Notes
January	Beyoncé
February
March	Yana Gupta
April	Charlize Theron
May	Anoushka Shankar
June
July	Sushmita Sen
August	Soha Ali Khan
September	Kylie Minogue
October	Bipasha Basu
November	Katrina Kaif
December		8th Anniversary Issue.

2005

Month	Cover model(s)	Notes
January	Saira Mohan
February	Elizabeth Jagger
March
April
May	Sonalika Sahay	[22]
June	Deepika Padukone
July	2 models
August	Monikangana Dutta	[23][24]
September	Mallika Sherawat
October	Bipasha Basu
November	Eva Longoria
December	Linda Evangelista	9th Anniversary Issue.[25]

2006

Month	Cover model(s)	Notes
January	Neha Kapur
February	Priyanka Chopra	[26][27][28]
March	Madonna
April	Monikangana Dutta	[29][30][31]
May
June	Ujjwala Raut	[32][33][34]
July	Neha Kapur	[35]
August	Keira Knightley
September	Sapna Kumar	[17]
October	Kareena Kapoor
November
December	Ujjwala Raut	10th Anniversary Issue.

2007

Month	Cover model(s)	Notes
January	Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann
February
March	Kylie Minogue
April
May	Ujjwala Raut
June	Monikangana Dutta
July	Tamara Moss	[36]
August	Natasha Gilbert	[37]
September	Deepika Padukone
October
November	Monikangana Dutta
December	Diana Penty	11th Anniversary Issue.

2008

Month	Cover model(s)	Notes
January	Melissa Mehra	[38][39][40][41]
February	Sonalika Sahay	[42]
March	Mia Uyeda	[43]
April
May	Lisa Haydon	[44]
June	Madonna
July
August	Sonam Kapoor
September	Priyanka Chopra
October	Gabriella Wright	[45]
November	Lakshmi Menon
December	Deepika Padukone	12 Fabulous Years of Fashion. The Anniversary Issue.

2009

Month	Cover model(s)	Notes
January	Bojana Tatarska	[46][47][48][49]
February	Tamara Moss
March	Sonam Kapoor
April	Lisa Haydon
May	Kareena Kapoor
June	Diana Penty
July	Megan Fox
August	Katrina Kaif
September	Jyothsna Chakravarthy
October	Giselli Monteiro
November	Lara Dutta
December	Smita Lasrado, Jyothsna Chakravarthy, Rebecca Tyagi	13th Anniversary Special.[50][51]

2010

Month	Cover model(s)	Notes
January	Shruti Haasan
February	Freida Pinto
March	Lady Gaga
April	Lakshmi Menon
May	Lisa Haydon
June	Tamara Moss	[52][53]
July	Genelia D'Souza
August	Sonam Kapoor
September	Diana Penty
October	Lisa Ray
November	Sonia Dara & Sendhil Ramamurthy
December	Aishwarya Rai Bachchan	14th Anniversary Issue.

2011

Month	Cover model(s)	Notes
January	Shraddha Kapoor
February	Nidhi Sunil & Nicole Faria
March	Maddison McKay	[54]
April	Lisa Haydon	[55][56][57]
May	Angela Jonsson	[58][59]
June	Tamara Moss
July	Deepika Padukone
August	Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
September	Katrina Kaif
October	Kim Johnson
November	Jyothsna Chakravarthy	[60][61][62][63]
December	Shreiyah Sabharwal & 2 other models	15th Anniversary Issue.[64][65]

2012

Month	Cover model(s)	Notes
January	Ashika Pratt	[66]
February	Lady Gaga	[66]
March	Sonam Kapoor	[66]
April	Kanishtha Dhankar & Erika Packard	[67][68][69][70]
May	Nargis Fakhri	[66]
June	Jyothsna Chakravarthy	[66]
July	Ninja Singh	[66]
August	Lisa Haydon	[66]
September	Jacqueline Fernandez	[66]
October	Diana Penty	[66]
November	Katy Perry	[66]
December	Kanishtha Dhankhar & Anuj Choudhry	[66][71]

2013

Month	Cover model(s)	Notes
January	Isabelle Farias	[72][73]
February	Carol Gracias, Bhavna Sharma, Indrani Dasgupta, Sapna Kumar & 1 model	Issue has 2 covers featuring 6 models - 3 on each cover.[74][75]
March	Anushka Sharma
April	Kalki Koechlin
May	Deborah Priya Henry	[76][77][78]
June	Rihanna
July	Rasika Navare & Archana Akhil Kumar	[79]
August	Deepika Padukone
September	Lakshmi Menon
October	Sonam Kapoor	[80]
November	Diana Penty
December	Archana Akhil Kumar

2014

Month	Cover Model(s)	Notes
January	Alia Bhatt
February	Gia Johnson & Tamara Moss
March	Freida Pinto
April	Katheleno Kenze
May	Esha Gupta
June	Angelina Jolie
July	Smita Lasrado	[81]
August	Kiran Rao
September	Neelam Johal
October	Shraddha Kapoor
November	Parineeti Chopra
December	Sonam Kapoor

2015

Month	Cover Model(s)	Notes
January	Kalki Koechlin
February	Kim Kardashian
March	Lisa Haydon
April	Kanishtha Dhankar
May	Anushka Sharma
June	Radhika Nair & Monica Tomas
July	Twinkle Khanna
August	Kajol
September	Pernia Qureshi
October	Parineeti Chopra
November	Lakshmi Menon
December	Alia Bhatt

2016

Month	Cover Model(s)	Notes
January	Jacqueline Fernandez
February	Kareena Kapoor
March	Sayani Gupta
April	Diya Prabhakar
May	Padma Lakshmi
June	Diana Penty
July	Arundhati Roy
August	Kalki Koechlin
September	Sonam Kapoor
October	Anushka Sharma
November	Alia Bhatt
December	Deepika Padukone

2017

Month	Cover Model(s)	Notes
January	Vaani Kapoor
February	Radhika Nair
March	Kangana Ranaut
April	Bhumika Arora
May	Lisa Haydon
June	Sonakshi Sinha
July	Ujjwala Raut
August	Anushka Sharma
September	Freida Pinto
October
November	Jacqueline Fernandez
December	Alia Bhatt

2018

Month	Cover Model(s)	Notes
January	Sonam Kapoor
February	Zayn Malik
March	Priyanka Chopra
April	Archana Akil Kumar, Malaika Arora, Dipannita Sharma, Ujjwala Raut & Mehr Jesia
May	Mindy Kaling
June	Zadie Smith
July	Aditi Rao Hydari & Rajkummar Rao
August	Twinkle Khanna
September	Deepika Padukone
October	Padmanabh Singh
November	Anushka Sharma
December	Oprah Winfrey

2019

Month	Cover Model(s)	Notes
January	Vicky Kaushal	Digital Cover: Naomi Janumala, Tashi Pedy, Namita
February	Alia Bhatt & Karan Johar
March	Sonam Kapoor
April	Ananya Pandey
May	Katrina Kaif
June	Naomi Scott
July	Kangana Ranaut	Digital Cover: Sonakshi Sinha
August	Taapsee Pannu
September	Dipti Sharma, Ishaan Khatter, Sara Ali Khan, Jasprit Bumrah	Four different covers
October	Kareena Kapoor
November
December

2020

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External links

• Elle India Cover Archive