List of Indian Americans and Indians who have received a Nobel prize
The following are the Nobel laureates who were Indian citizens at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.
| Year | Field | Rationale | Ref. |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | Literature | Because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West. |
| 1930 | C. V. Raman | Physics | For his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him. |
| 1979 | Mother Teresa | Peace | In recognition of [her] work in bringing help to suffering humanity |
| 1998 | Amartya Sen | Economic Sciences | For his contributions to welfare economics. |
| 2014 | Kailash Satyarthi | Peace | For their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. |
Born in India
The following Nobel laureates were born as Indian citizens but were citizens of another country when they were awarded the prize.
| Year | Laureate | Nationality | Field | |
| 1968 | Har Gobind Khorana | United States | (born in Raipur, India) | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1983 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | United States | (born in Lahore, India) | Physics |
| 2009 | Venki Ramakrishnan | United Kingdom / United States | (born in Chidambaram, India) | Chemistry |
| 2019 | Abhijit Banerjee | United States | (born in Mumbai, India) | Economic Sciences |
