| Name | Category | Year | Motivation |
|---|
| Abhijit Banerjee | Economics | 2019 | poverty reduction |
| Har Gobind Khorana | Medicine | 1968 | "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis" |
| Rudyard Kipling | Literature | 1907 | "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author" |
| Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | Chemistry | 2009 | "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" |
| Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman | Physics | 1930 | "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him" |
| Ronald Ross | Medicine | 1902 | "for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful research on this disease and methods of combating it" |
| Kailash Satyarthi | Peace | 2014 | "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education" |
| Amartya Sen | Economics | 1998 | "for his contributions to welfare economics" |
| Rabindranath Tagore | Literature | 1913 | "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" |