The following Indians (or individuals of Indian origin) have been honoured with the Nobel:
- Rabindranath Tagore (Literature, 1913)
- C V Raman (Physics, 1930)
- Hargobind Khorana (Medicine, 1968)
- Mother Teresa (Peace, 1979)
- Subramanian Chandrashekhar (Physics, 1983)
- Dalai Lama (Peace, 1989)
- Amartya Sen (Economics, 1998)
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009)
- Kailash Satyarthi (Peace, 2014).
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) under the chairmanship of R K Pachauri won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.