# List of Chinese Nobel laureates

Since 1957, there have been thirteen Chinese (including Chinese-born) winners of the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel. It was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. An associated prize, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was instituted by Sweden's central bank in 1968 and first awarded in 1969.
Following is a list of Nobel laureates who have been citizens of the Republic of China or the People's Republic of China and of overseas birth.

## Laureates
### Chinese citizens
#### Citizens of Republic of China (Taiwan)

The following are the Nobel laureates who are or were citizens of Republic of China (currently capital in Taipei City) at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.
| Year | Chinese name | English name | Category | Life | Rationale | Place of Birth |
| 1957 | 楊振寧 | Yang Chen-Ning | Physics | 1922– | "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles" | Hefei, Anhui, China |
| 1957 | 李政道 | Tsung-Dao Lee | Physics | 1926–2024 | "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles" | Shanghai, China |
| 1976 | 丁肇中 | Samuel C. C. Ting | Physics | 1936– | "for pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind." | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Dual-citizen of United States and Republic of China |
| 1986 | 李遠哲 | Yuan T. Lee | Chemistry | 1936– | "for contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes". | Shinchiku City, Shinchiku Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan |

#### Citizens of People's Republic of China

The following are the Nobel laureates who were citizens of People's Republic of China at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.
| Year | Chinese name | English name | Category | Life | Rationale | Place of Birth |
| 2010 | 劉曉波 | Liu Xiaobo | Peace | 1955–2017 | "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China". | Changchun, Jilin, China |
| 2012 | 莫言 | Mo Yan | Literature | 1955– | "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". | Gaomi, Shandong, China |
| 2015 | 屠呦呦 | Tu Youyou | Physiology or Medicine | 1930– | "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria". | Ningbo, Zhejiang, China |

### Chinese diaspora

| Year | Chinese name | English name | Category | Life | Rationale | Place of Birth |
| 1976 | 丁肇中 | Samuel C. C. Ting | Physics | 1936– | "for pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind" | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States |
| 1997 | 朱棣文 | Steven Chu | Physics | 1948– | "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light". | St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
| 1998 | 崔琦 | Daniel C. Tsui | Physics | 1939– | "for discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations" | Pingdingshan, Henan, China |
| 2000 | 高行健 | Gao Xingjian | Literature | 1940– | "for an œuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama". | Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China |
| 2008 | 錢永健 | Roger Y. Tsien | Chemistry | 1952–2016 | "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP" | New York City, New York, United States |
| 2009 | 高錕 | Charles K. Kao | Physics | 1933–2018 | "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication" | Shanghai, China |

## Others
### Tibetan

The following are the Nobel laureates who were of uncertain citizenship at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.
| Year | Laureate | Laureate | Laureate | Category | Life | Rationale | Place of Birth |
| 1989 | | བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ | 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) | Peace | 1935– | "for advocating peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people." | Taktser, Qinghai, China |