Wangari Maathai was the first African womand and the first Kenyan to win a Nobel prize. She won the Peace prize in 2004, for her environmental work.
Theodore Roosevelt, in his work for a peace treaty in the Russo Japanese War (Nobel Peace Prize)
rabintharanath tagore was the first indian to get nobel prize for his poetry.cv.Raman was the first indian to get nobel prize for science.
Yasunari Kawabata won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968.
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."
Mother Teressa was the first Indian to get the Nobel prize for Peace.
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.
Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen were the first to win the Nobel prize in economics in 1969.
In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for fashioning a peace treaty between Russia and Japan during the Russo-Japanese War. He was the first American (not just president) to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Desmond Tutu, the first South African to win a Nobel prize, won it in 1984.
Marie Curie won her first Nobel Prize in 1903.
Luiz Alvarez was the first Hispanic to win the Nobel Prize in the year 1869
He won the Nobel Peace prize in 1906, for helping to negotiate the peace treaty at the end of the Russo-Japanese war.