5 Indian citizens have won the Nobel Prize so far
The Nobel Prize has been awarded to 5 Indian citizens since its inception in 1901. Indian Nobel laureates are Rabindranath Tagore in Literature, CV Raman in Physics, Mother Teresa in Peace, Amartya Sen in Economic Sciences and Kailash Satyarthi in Peace. The Prize has been awarded 574 times, including the one recently awarded to Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi in Medicine.