Excellence by Saikat Sir

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)

✅ Major countries of the world and their highest honors.

Major countries of the world and their highest honors.

☞ Argentina - The Order of San Martín

☞ Cambodia - Royal Order of Cambodia

☞ Indonesia - Star of the Republic of Indonesia (Witang Republik Indonesia)

☞ Kuwait - Mubarak Al Kabir Medal

☞ Canada - Order of Canada

☞ Germany - Pol Le Merite Iron Cross

☞ China - Order of Brilliant Jade

☞ Japan - Order of Molownia Sun

☞ Turkey - Order of Democracy

☞ Denmark - Order of Diana Brog

☞ Nicaragua - Augusto Cesar Sandino Ayer

☞ Netherlands - Order of the Netherlands Lion

☞ Nepal - Jewel of Nepal (Main title)

☞ Norway - Order of St Olave

☞ New Zealand - The Order of New Zealand

☞ Pakistan - Nishan-e-Pakistan

☞ Poland - Cross of Merit

☞ Philippines - Quezon Service Cross

☞ France - Lane of Honor

☞ Bangladesh - Bangladesh Swadhinata Sammanona (Bangladesh Freedom Honour)

☞ India - Bharat Ratna

☞ Bhutan – Eye of Great Victory of Thugair Dragon

☞ Mongolia - Best Worker

☞ United Kingdom - Order of Merit

☞ Russia – Order of St. Andrew the Apostle

☞ Vietnam - The Order of the Golden Star

☞ Sri Lanka - Pride of Sri Lanka (Sri Lankabhimanya)

☞ United States of America - Language of Merit

☞ Saudi Arabia - King Abdul Aziz Medal

☞ Spain - Order of Isabella the Catholic

☞ Palestine - End Collar

☞ Hungary - The Order of the Banner