How many Indians have been awarded the Nobel Prize till now?

12 Indians (five Indian citizens and seven of Indian ancestry or residency) have been awarded the Nobel Prize till now.

Who was the first Indian citizen to be awarded the Nobel Prize?

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian citizen to be awarded and also first Asian to be awarded in 1913.

Who is the only Indian woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize?

Mother Teresa is the only woman among the list of recipients.

Which famous Indian personalities were nominated unsuccessfully for the Nobel Prize?

Sri Aurobindo, the Indian poet, philosopher, nationalist and developer of Integral yoga, was nominated unsuccessfully for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1943 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950.

On 1 December 1999, the Norwegian Nobel Committee confirmed that Mahatma Gandhi was nominated unsuccessfully for the Peace Prize five times (from 1937 to 1939, in 1947 and a few days before he was assassinated in January 1948).

Out of the 12 Indians how many were Indian citizens?

Three of the laureates were citizens of India (Mother Teresa, Sen, and Satyarthi) and four were Indian by birth (Khorana, Chandrasekhar, Ramakrishnan, and Banerjee) but subsequently non-citizens of India.

Two of the Nobel laureates (Tagore and Raman) were citizens of British India at the time they were awarded while two also were of foreign origin (Ross and Kipling).

One (Naipaul) was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British Nobel laureate of Indian origin

What are the different fields in which Indians have been awarded the Nobel Prize?

Nobel laureates : Field

Sir Ronald Ross (1902) : Physiology or Medicine

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1907) : Literature

Rabindranath Tagore (1913) : Literature

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1930) : Physics

Har Gobind Khorana (1968) : Physiology or Medicine

Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) (1979) : Peace

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1983) : Physics

Amartya Kumar Sen (1998) : Economics

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (2001) : Literature

Venkatraman “Venki” Ramakrishnan (2009) : Chemistry

Kailash Satyarthi (2014) : Peace

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (2019) : Economics