First Indian Awardees of International Awards

 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)
Balkrishna Doshi(2018)