First Noble Prize Winner

Rabindranath Tagore for the Noble Prize in Literature, 1913.

He was also the first Asian to get the Prize.

First Noble Prize in Physics

C.V. Raman in 1930

First Noble Prize in Medicine

Har Gobind Khorana in 1968. (Indian Born US Citizen)

First Noble Peace Prize

Mother Teresa in 1979. (Albanian nun, Indian Citizen)

First Noble Prize in Economics

Amartya Sen in 1998