List of Bengali Nobel laureates

Since the inauguration of Nobel Prize in 1901, until 2024, three Bengali persons and one Bengali origin person—four in all, have won this award. The first Bengali as well as the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913, was Rabindranath Tagore (born in British India, now India), in literature. Later in 1998, Amartya Sen (born in British India, now India) in Economics, in 2006 Muhammad Yunus (born in British India, now Bangladesh) in Peace, and in 2019 Abhijit Banerjee (born in India), won this award in Economics.

List

Year	Picture	Name	Country	The reason for the award is
1913		Rabindranath Tagore (Kolkata, West Bengal, India)	India	Won the Nobel Prize literature for his extremely sensitive, refined, and well-written line of poetry, through which he has been able to express his poetic thinking in his own English words, which has become a part of Western literature.
1998		Amartya Sen (Kolkata, West Bengal, India)	India	Awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for fundamental contribution to the welfare economy
2006		Muhammad Yunus (Chattogram district, Bengal, now Bangladesh)	Bangladesh	Muhammad Yunus and his founding Grameen Bank jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for the contribution of the concept of the microcredit concept.
2019		Abhijit Banerjee (Hooghly district, West Bengal)	USA	Awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his outstanding work to eradicate poverty in the field of Economics

Nominees

Image	Laureate	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Citation	Nominator(s)
	Meghnad Saha	6 October 1893 Dhaka, then India, present day of Bangladesh	16 February 1956 New Delhi	1930, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1951, 1955	"for developing the Saha ionization equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars."	Debendra Mohan Bose (1885–1975) Sisir Kumar Mitra (1890–1963) Arthur Compton (1892–1962)
	Satyendra Nath Bose	1 January 1894 Kolkata, West Bengal	4 February 1974 Kolkata, West Bengal	1956, 1959, 1962, 1968, 1969	"for developing the foundation for Bose statistics and the theory of the Bose condensate in quantum mechanics."	Kedareswar Banerjee (1900–1975) Daulat Singh Kothari (1906–1993) Shibapratim Bagchi (?) Anindya Dutta (?) M. G. K. Menon (1928–2016)
	Rabindranath Tagore	7 May 1861 Kolkata, West Bengal	7 August 1941 Kolkata, West Bengal	1913		Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944)
	Rabindranath Datta	1 October 1883 Kolkata, West Bengal	6 July 1917 Kolkata, West Bengal	1916		Mano Gangedy (?) Raya Yatindra Chondhury (?)
	Hari Mohan Banerjee			1936		Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar (1875–1950)
	Bensadhar Majumdar			1937, 1939		Sen Satyendranath (1909–?) Mukundadeb Chatterjee (?)
	Sri Aurobindo Ghose	15 August 1872 Kolkata, West Bengal	5 December 1950 Pondicherry, Union Territory of Puducherry	1943		Francis Younghusband (1863–1942)
	Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay	27 July 1898 Labhpur, West Bengal	14 September 1971 Kolkata, West Bengal	1971		Krishna Kripalani (1907–1992)