Rabindranath Tagore

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 1930. He had been knighted only the year before and worked extensively on acoustics and light. He was also deeply interested in the physiology of the human eye. A traditionally-dressed man, he headed an institute that is today named after him: the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore.

Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen (born 1933) was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, awarded to him in 1998 for his work on welfare economics. He has made several key contributions to research in this field, such as to the axiomatic theory of social choice; the definitions of welfare and poverty indexes; and the empirical studies of famine. All are linked by his interest in distributional issues and particularly in those most impoverished.[2] Whereas Kenneth Arrow's "impossibility theorem" suggested that it was not possible to aggregate individual choices into a satisfactory choice for society as a whole, Sen showed that societies could find ways to alleviate such a poor outcome.

Foreign citizens born in India

Rudyard Kipling Ronald Ross

Ronald Ross, born in Almora, India, in 1857 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on malaria.

Rudyard Kipling, born in Mumbai, 1865 (then Bombay in British India), was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907.

Foreign born Indian Citizens

Mother Teresa
Noble Prize for "Humanitarian work."

Mother Teresa (19101997) was born in Skopje, then a city in Ottoman Empire. She is of Albanian origin. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

Indian born Foreign Citizens

Mohammad Abdus Salam Noble Prize for : "...for his work on the electroweak unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces". Mohammad Abdus Salam was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 1979. He was born in 1926, in Jhang, Punjab, India (now Pakistan). He founded the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics in Triste, Italy. The work for which he won the Nobel Prize was carried out at ICTP.

Indian born Foreign Citizens

Hargobind Khorana

Noble Prize for : "...for their [Khorana's, Robert W. Holley's and Marshall W. Nirenberg's] interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis". Hargobind Khorana (born 1922), a person of Indian origin, shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on genes. He had left India in 1945 and became a naturalised United States citizen in the 1970s. He continues to head a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.

Indian born Foreign Citizens

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars" Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983

Venkatraman 'Venki' Ramakrishnan Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, born in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is now a US Citizen

Foreign Citizens of Indian Origin

V.S. Naipaul Noble Prize for : "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories".