Rabindra Nath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore of India was the first person to receive a Nobel Prize is Asia. He received it in Literature for Gitanjali.
The first Nobel Prize was won by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941).
Mother Teresa of Calcutta was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
The first Asian to win a Nobel Prize was Rabindranath Tagore from India. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his work "Gitanjali."
Rabindhranadh Tagore, the great Indian poet
Rabindranath Tagore was the first nobel prize winner in India for literature in 1913
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (C.V. Raman) was the first Indian scientist to win Nobel Prize. he won it in 1990.
Marie Curie was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics. She was the sole winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and she is the only woman to win the award in two different fields.
Mother Teressa was the first Indian to get the Nobel prize for Peace.
Rabindranath Tagore for literature
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was the first person to ever win the nobel prize in physics in 1901 for inventing the X-ray.
Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen were the first to win the Nobel prize in economics in 1969.