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List of Bengali Nobel laureates

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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.[1] 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,[2] and in 2019 Abhijit Banerjee (born in India), won this award in Economics.[3]

List

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Portrait Name Born & Died Country Field Year Rational
Rabindranath Tagore Born: 7 May 1861
Kolkata, Bengal, British India

Died: 7 August 1941
Kolkata, Bengal, British India 		British India Literature 1913 For his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West[4]
Amartya Sen Born: 3 November 1933

Shantiniketan, Bengal, British India

India Economics 1998 For his contributions to welfare economics[5]

Human development theory, Capability approach

Muhammad Yunus Born: 28 June 1940
Hathazari, Chittagong, Bengal, British India 		Bangladesh Peace 2006 For his contribution of the concept of the microcredit concept. and creating economic and social development from below.[6]Shared the Prize with Grameen Bank.[7]
Abhijit Banerjee FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011 (cropped) Abhijit Banerjee Born: 21 February 1961
Krishnanagar, West Bengal, India 		USA Economics 2019 For their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty[8]

Use of RCTs in development economics

Nominees

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The following list consists of individuals who were nominated for the Nobel Prize but never won it.

Portrait Nominee Born Died Year(s) Field Country Note
Rabindranath Tagore 7 May 1861

Kolkata, Bengal, British India

7 August 1941

Kolkata, Bengal, British India

1913 Literature British India For his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West.[4]
Nominated by:

Won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Rabindranath Datta 1 October 1883

Kolkata, Bengal, British India

6 July 1917

Kolkata, Bengal, British India

1916 Literature British India Nominated by:
  • Mano M Gangedy
  • Raya Yatindra N Chondhury[10]
Upendranath Brahmachari 19 December 1873

Sardanga, Purbasthali, Bengal, British India

6 February 1946

Kolkata, Bengal, British India

1929, 1942 Physiology or Medicine British India Discovered Urea Stibamine (antimonial compound for treatment of kala-azar) and a new disease, Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis.[11]
Nominated by:
  • Sudhamoy Ghosh (1890–1970)
  • U P Basu
  • M N Bose
  • Subodh Chandra Mahalanobis (1867–1953)
  • C C Bose[11]
Meghnad Saha 6 October 1893

Seoratali, Dhaka, Bengal, British India
(now in Gazipur, Bangladesh)

16 February 1956
New Delhi 		1930, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1951, 1955 Physics British India
India 		For developing the Saha ionization equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars.[12]
Nominated by:
Harimohan Banerjee — 3 September 1960

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

1934, 1936, 1938 Peace
Literature 		British India For his book "Secrets of Religion and Way to Peace".[13]
Nominated by:

He also wrote a pamphlet called "View of Peace".[13]

Bijay Chandra Majumdar 27 October 1861

Khanakul, Faridpur, British India

(present-day Bangladesh)

30 December 1942

Kolkata, Bengal, British India

1937, 1939 Literature British India Nominated by:
  • Sen Satyendranath (1909–?)
  • Mukundadeb Chatterjee[14]
Sanjib Kumar Chaudhuri 5 September 1902

British India

— 1938, 1939, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1959, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971 Peace
Literature 		British India
India 		For his work for World Order, World Peace and World Federalism Movement and for his book "A Constitution for World Government" and for his authorship of treaties important to the world order and his services to humanity.[15]
Nominated by:

He was the Vice-President of the Asian Congress for World Federation held at Hiroshima in 1952, and Chairman of a Commission in the special Session of the People's World Convention held in Paris in 1951.

Sri Aurobindo Ghose 15 August 1872
Kolkata, Bengal, British India 		5 December 1950
Pondicherry, French India

(present-day Pondicherry, Puducherry Union Territory, India)

1943, 1950 Peace
Literature 		British India
India 		Nominated by
Satyendra Nath Bose 1 January 1894

Kolkata, Bengal, British India

4 February 1974

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

1956, 1959, 1962, 1968, 1969, 1970 Physics India For developing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate in Quantum Mechanics.[17]
Nominated by:
Sudhindra Nath Ghose 30 July 1899

Bardhaman, Bengal, British India

30 December 1965

London, England[18]

1965 Literature United Kingdom Nominated by:
Das Moni Roy 12 February 1895

Memari, Bengal, British India

— 1967 Peace India Nominated by:
  • Subimal Kunnar Mukherjee[20]
Binay Ranjan Sen 1 January 1898

Dibrugarh, Assam, India

12 June 1993

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

1967, 1968 Peace India For his exceptional contribution to the peace of the world through his work at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).[21]
Nominated by:
Jogesh Chandra Bhattacharya c. 1895

British India

2 April 1960

India

1969 Peace India For his dedication to the propagation of spiritualism through which alone, he believes, peace will dawn on Earth. His book "Prayers for a New Advent" is groundbreaking in the field of propagation of the ideals of peace.[23]
Nominated posthumously by:
  • Jugal Kishore Mundal[23]
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay 27 July 1898

Labhpur, Birbhum, Bengal, British India

14 September 1971

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

1971, 1972, 1973 Literature India Nominated by:
Suniti Kumar Chatterji 26 November 1890

Shibpur, Howrah, Bengal, British India

29 May 1977

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

1972, 1973 Literature India Nominated by:
Sri Chinmoy 27 August 1931

Boalkhali, Chittagong, Bengal, British India

(present-day Bangladesh)

11 October 2007

New York City, United States

1972, 1973, 1974 Peace
Literature 		India Nominated by:
Mujibur Rahman 17 March 1920

Tungipara, Bengal, British India

(present-day Bangladesh)

15 August 1975

Dhaka, Bangladesh

1975 Peace Bangladesh Nominated by:

Assassinated before the only chance to be rewarded.[28]

Mahasweta Devi 14 January 1926

Dhaka, Bengal, British India

(present-day Bangladesh)

28 July 2016

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

2012 Literature India [29]
Taslima Nasrin 25 August 1962

Mymensingh, East Pakistan

(present-day Bangladesh)

(aged 62) 2005 Peace Bangladesh [30][31]
Muhammad Yunus 28 June 1940
Hathazari, Chittagong, Bengal, British India 		(aged 85) 2006 Peace Bangladesh For his contribution of the concept of the microcredit concept. and creating economic and social development from below.[6]

Shared the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize with Grameen Bank.[7]

Dr Ruhul Abid 1961

Dhaka, Bangladesh

(aged 63–64) 2020 Peace United States
Bangladesh 		For his humanitarian healthcare initiatives through HAEFA, providing critical medical services to underprivileged communities, Rohingya refugees, and garment workers in Bangladesh, alongside pioneering digital health innovations like the Nirog system and COVID-19 response efforts.[32][33]

Jointly Nominated with HAEFA by:

Ryan Saadi 6 December 1964

Ishwardi Upazila, Pabna, Bangladesh

(aged 60) 2023 Peace United States
Bangladesh 		For his leadership in advancing accessible medical innovation and biotech solutions impacting global health equity through his role as CEO founder of Tevogen Bio.[34][35]

Nominated by:

  • Dr. Curtis Patton (1940–)[36]

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