List of Indian Nobel laureates



First instituted in 1901, as of 2018 the Nobel Prize has been awarded to a total of 904 individuals (852 men and 52 women) and 24 organizations. Among the recipients, 12 are Indians (five Indian citizens and eight of Indian ancestry or residency). Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian citizen to be awarded and also first Asian to be awarded in 1913. Mother Teresa is the only woman among the list of recipients. 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). In 2006, Geir Lundestad, the Secretary of Norwegian Nobel Committee, cited it as "the greatest omission in our 106-year history".

Citizens of British India
The following are the Nobel laureates who were citizens of British India at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.

Citizens of the Republic of India
The following are the Nobel laureates who were citizens of the Republic of India at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.

Overseas citizens of Indian origin
The following are the Nobel laureates of Indian origin who were born in India but subsequently non-citizens of India. However, they are still often included in the list of Indian Nobel laureates.

Birth-residents of British India
The following are the Nobel laureates of foreign origin who were either born in India or were residents in India when they became recipients of the Nobel Prize but were not Indian citizens.