List of Bengali Nobel laureates

Since the inauguration of Nobel Prize in 1901, till 2019 only three Bengali persons and one Bengali Origin person -- Four in all, have won this award. The first Bengali 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 to Marathi mother - Nirmala and Bengali father - Dipak Banerjee), won this award in Economics. 12 more Bengali persons have been nominated.

---

List of nominees

The following is a list of Nobel Prize nominees who have never won. Taslima Nasrin is the only Bangladeshi nominated and the first woman whereas Mahashweta Devi is the most nominated woman (3). Meghnad Saha was the most nominated (7) but failed to win ever. Bengalis received the highest number of nominations between 1936 and 1940s, at least once in these five consecutive years. The number of multiple nominations by a person in the same year is given in the bracket.

Year	Picture	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

Year	Name	Field
1913	Ravi Dutt (2 times)	Literature
1929	Upendranath Brahmachari	Medicine
1930	Meghnad Saha (2 times)	Physics
1934	Hari Mohan Banerjee (2 times)	Peace
1936	Hari Mohan Banerjee (2 times)	Peace
1936	Hari Mohan Banerjee	Literature
1937	Nalini Kumar Mukherjee	Peace
1937	Basandhar Majumder	Literature
1937	Meghnad Saha	Physics
1938	Nalini Kumar Mukherjee Hari Mohan Banerjee	Peace
1938	Sanjib Chowdhury	Literature
1939	Basandhar Majumdar Sanjiv Chaudhary	Literature
1939	Nalini Kumar Mukherjee	Peace
1939	Meghnad Saha	Physics
1940	Meghnad Saha	Physics
1942	Upendranath Brahmachari (5 times)	Medicines
1943	Sri Aurobindo	Literature
1950	Sri Aurobindo Sanjib Chowdhury	Peace
1951	Sanjib Chowdhury	Peace
1951	Meghnad Saha	Physics
1955	Meghnad Saha	Physics
1955	Sanjib Chowdhury	Peace
1956	Satyendra Nath Bose	Physics
1959	Satyendra Nath Bose	Physics
1962	Satyendra Nath Bose (2 times)	Physics
1967	Sanjib Chowdhury Binaj Narayan Sen Dasmani Roy	Peace