Three Bengali People have won Nobel prizes so far. The areas in which the prizes were won are-

Since the inauguration of Nobel Prize in 1901, till 2019 three Bengali persons and one Bengali origin person - - four in all, have won this award.

The first Bengali or first Indian as well as first Asian 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 Patankar, and Bengali father, Dipak Banerjee), won this award in Economics.