List of Bengali Nobel laureates

Since the inauguration of Nobel Prize in 1901, until 2020, 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 CALCUTTA India, now KOLKATA), in literature.^[1] Later in 1998, Amartya Sen (born in India) in Economics, in 2006 Muhammad Yunus (born in British India, now Bangladesh) in Peace,^[2] and in 2019 Abhijit Banerjee (born in India to Marathi mother, Nirmala Patankar, and Bengali father, Dipak Banerjee), won this award in Economics.^[3]

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Year	Name	Country	The reason for the award is
1913	Rabindranath Tagore	British India	For his extremely sensitive, refined, and well-written line of poetry, through which he has been able to express his poetic thinking in his own English words, which has become a part of Western literature.
1998	Amartya Sen	India	For fundamental contribution to the welfare economy
2006	Muhammad Yunus	Bangladesh	Muhammad Yunus and his founding Grameen Bank jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for the contribution of the concept of the microcredit concept.
2019	Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)	USA (Born in Mumbai brought up in Kolkata)	Awarded for his outstanding work to eradicate poverty in the field of Economics^[4]