Nobel Laurates of West Bengal

1.    Amartya Sen, Economic Sciences, 1998, 

Born: Bolpur Santiniketan, West Bengal

2.    Rabindranath Tagore *, Born: Calcutta , 

British India, He was a Bengali poet, 

philosopher, artist, playwright, composer 

and 

novelist. He is famous for his book Gitanjali. 

He won Nobel Prize in Literature for the 

year 

1913. He became the first non-European to 

win this Award.