GK - First Indian Awardees of International Awards

🥇1st Indian to be awarded the Nobel prize in any field (literature)

👮Rabindranath Tagore (1913)



🥇1st Indian to be featured as the Person of the Year by Time magazine

👮Mahatma Gandhi (1930)



🥇1st Indian to be awarded the UNESCO's Kalinga Prize

👮Jagjit Singh (1963)



🥇1st Indian to receive the Booker prize (British citizen)

👮Salman Rushdie



🥇1st Indian woman (and also first Indian citizen) to receive the Booker prize

👮Arundhati Roy



🥇1st Indian to receive the Pulitzer prize (Reporting category)

👮Gobind Behari Lal



🥇1st Indian recipient of International Cricket Council's Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy

👮Rahul Dravid



🥇1st Indian scientist to be awarded the Nobel prize

👮CV Raman (1930)



🥇1st Indian to be awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan

👮Morarjee Desai



🥇1st Indian to be awarded Magsaysay Award

👮Vinoba Bhave



🥇1st Indian to be awarded the Bangladesh Swadhinata Sammanona

👮Indira Gandhi



🥇1st Indian and Indian Organisation to be awarded the Right Livelihood Award

👮Ela Bhatt of SEWA (Self-Employed Women's Association) (1984)



🥇1st recipient of World Food Prize instituted By Norman Borlaug

👮MS Swaminathan (1987)



🥇1st Asian recipient of Hoover Medal (America's prestigious award for outstanding extra-career services by engineers to humanity)

👮APJ Abdul Kalam (2008)



🥇1st Indian recipient of DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

👮Jeet Thayil (2013)



🥇1st Indian recipient of Priztker Prize (referred to as Nobel Prize of Architechture)

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