Rabindranath Tagore - The first Indian to win a Nobel Prize was Rabindranath Tagore, for his collection of poems Gitanjali. He was given the prestigious award in 1913.
CV Raman - Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for the discovery of “Raman Scatter” and “Raman Effect”. His discovery is now known as the “Raman Effect”.
Har Gobind Khorana - Professor Har Gobind Khorana won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1968 along with two other scientists: Robert W. Holley and Marshall Nirenberg.
Mother Teresa - Mother Teresa came to India in 1948. She adopted Indian citizenship in 1950. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. The official rationale to award her Nobel Prize reads: “In recognition of [her] work in bringing help to suffering humanity.”
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Professor Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the nephew of Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 along with William A. Fowler.
Amartya Sen - Professor Amartya Sen is an economist, whose main areas of research are welfare economics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. The official rationale for giving him the prize reads: “For his contributions to welfare economics”.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with Thomas A. Steitz and Ana E. Yonath. The official rationale for giving him the prize reads: “For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”.
Kailash Satyarthi - In 1980, Kailash Satyarthi founded Bachpan Bachao Andolan which is a non-profit organization campaigning for the rights of children. Along with Malala Yousafzai (the youngest Nobel Prize winner), Kailash Satyarthi was awarded the Noble Peace Prize in 2014.
Abhijit Banerjee - Abhijit Banerjee is the most recent Noble Prize winner of Indian origin. He completed his MA in economics from JNU in 1983 and did his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1988. He was awarded the Noble Prize in economics along with Esther Duflo (his wife) and Michael Kremer.