Rabindranath Tagore is the sole Indian laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature awarded in 1913. He was the composer of India’s national anthem, Jana Gana Mana.
Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 by the Norwegian Nobel Committee for her efforts in aiding those in need and combating poverty and hardship.
Sir C.V. Raman, the sole Indian Nobel laureate in Physics (1930), discovered the Raman effect—light’s wavelength change through transparent materials.
Amartya Sen, an Indian philosopher and economist born on November 3, 1933, in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, on the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998.
Kailash Satyarthi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. He won the award alongside Malala Yousafzai for their efforts to eliminate the oppression of children and youth.
Har Gobind Khorana was a biochemist of Indian-American origin. While serving on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he jointly received the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine along with Marshall W. Nirenberg.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is an Indian origin structural biologist from the UK and the USA. He received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath for their work on the structure and function of ribosomes.

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