He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his collection of poems titled "Gitanjali".
He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory.
Although born in Macedonia, Mother Teresa was an Indian citizen and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work in Kolkata (Calcutta) and beyond.
He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his discovery of the Raman effect, which demonstrated the scattering of light and confirmed the quantum nature of light.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for his work on the interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of stars.
He was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
He shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 with Malala Yousafzai for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.
He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for his studies of the structure and function of the ribosome, a cellular structure essential for protein synthesis.
He won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2019 along with his wife Esther Duflo for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.