# List of Bengali Nobel laureates

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. 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, and in 2019 Abhijit Banerjee (born in India), won this award in Economics.

## List

| 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 |
| Amartya Sen | Born: 3 November 1933 Shantiniketan, Bengal, British India | India | Economics | 1998 | For his contributions to welfare economics 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.Shared the Prize with Grameen Bank. |
| Abhijit Banerjee | Born: 21 February 1961 Krishnanagar, West Bengal, India | USA | Economics | 2019 | For their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty Use of RCTs in development economics |

## Nominees

The following list consists of individuals who were nominated for the Nobel Prize but never won it.
| 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. Nominated by: Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944) 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 |
| 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. Nominated by: Sudhamoy Ghosh (1890–1970) U P Basu M N Bose Subodh Chandra Mahalanobis (1867–1953) C C Bose |
| 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. Nominated by: Debendra Mohan Bose (1885–1975) Sisir Kumar Mitra (1890–1963) Arthur Compton (1892–1962) |
| Harimohan Banerjee | — | 3 September 1960 Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 1934, 1936, 1938 | PeaceLiterature | British India | For his book "Secrets of Religion and Way to Peace". Nominated by: Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar (1875–1950) S K Gupta He also wrote a pamphlet called "View of Peace". |
| 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 |
| Sanjib Kumar Chaudhuri | 5 September 1902 British India | — | 1938, 1939, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1959, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971 | PeaceLiterature | 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. Nominated by: Mahmoud Hasan (1897–?) K Danungo R. C. Majumdar (1888–1980) Lord John Boyd Orr (1880 – 1971) Lalita Rajya Laxmi Bateshwar Singh Primatha Chaudhuri D. P. Roy Choudhury 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 | PeaceLiterature | British India India | Nominated by Francis Younghusband (1863–1942) Saileswar Sen |
| 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. Nominated by: Kedareswar Banerjee (1900–1975) Daulat Singh Kothari (1906–1993) Shibapratim Bagchi (?) Anindya Dutta (?) M. G. K. Menon (1928–2016) |
| Sudhindra Nath Ghose | 30 July 1899 Bardhaman, Bengal, British India | 30 December 1965 London, England | 1965 | Literature | United Kingdom | Nominated by: Henri de Ziégler (1885–1970) |
| Das Moni Roy | 12 February 1895 Memari, Bengal, British India | — | 1967 | Peace | India | Nominated by: Subimal Kunnar Mukherjee |
| 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). Nominated by: Rakel Seweriin (1906–1995) Maurice Sauvé (1923–1992) |
| 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. Nominated posthumously by: Jugal Kishore Mundal |
| Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay | 27 July 1898 Labhpur, Birbhum, Bengal, British India | 14 September 1971 Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 1971, 1972, 1973 | Literature | India | Nominated by: Krishna Kripalani (1907–1992) The Swedish Academy’s Nobel Committee |
| Suniti Kumar Chatterji | 26 November 1890 Shibpur, Howrah, Bengal, British India | 29 May 1977 Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 1972, 1973 | Literature | India | Nominated by: Pratul Chandra Gupta (1910–1990) The Swedish Academy’s Nobel Committee |
| Sri Chinmoy | 27 August 1931 Boalkhali, Chittagong, Bengal, British India (present-day Bangladesh) | 11 October 2007 New York City, United States | 1972, 1973, 1974 | PeaceLiterature | India | Nominated by: Bernard O´Kelly (1926–2005) Norman Holmes Pearson (1909–1975) Joseph Axelrod (1915–2010) Karl Kroeber (1926–2009) Peter A Pitzele (1941–) Francis C. Cady |
| Mujibur Rahman | 17 March 1920 Tungipara, Bengal, British India (present-day Bangladesh) | 15 August 1975 Dhaka, Bangladesh | 1975 | Peace | Bangladesh | Nominated by: Abdul Malek Ukil (1924–1987) Assassinated before the only chance to be rewarded. |
| Mahasweta Devi | 14 January 1926 Dhaka, Bengal, British India (present-day Bangladesh) | 28 July 2016 Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 2012 | Literature | India | |
| Taslima Nasrin | 25 August 1962 Mymensingh, East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) | (aged 62) | 2005 | Peace | Bangladesh | |
| Muhammad Yunus | 28 June 1940 Hathazari, Chittagong, Bengal, British India | (aged 84) | 2006 | Peace | Bangladesh | For his contribution of the concept of the microcredit concept. and creating economic and social development from below. Shared the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize with Grameen Bank. |