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PHYSICS

• 1930 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, British India (First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate in Science)
• 1949 Hideki Yukawa, Japan (First Japanese Nobel laureate)
• 1957 Chen Ning Yang, China (First Chinese Nobel laureate)
• 1957 Tsung-Dao Lee, China (First Chinese Nobel laureate)
• 1965 Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Japan 
• 1973 Leo Esaki, Japan
• 1976 Samuel C. C. Ting, United States (Dual-citizen of US and China)
• 1979 Abdus Salam, Pakistan (First Pakistani Nobel laureate)
• 1983 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, United States (Born in India)
• 1998 Daniel C. Tsui, United States (Born in China)
• 2002 Masatoshi Koshiba, Japan
• 2008 Yoichiro Nambu, United States (Born in Japan)
• 2008 Makoto Kobayashi, Japan 
• 2008 Toshihide Maskawa, Japan 
• 2009 Charles K. Kao, United Kingdom and United States (First Hong Kong resident Nobel laureate)
• 2014 Isamu Akasaki, Japan 
• 2014 Hiroshi Amano, Japan 
• 2014 Shuji Nakamura, United States (Born in Japan)
• 2015 Takaaki Kajita, Japan 
• 2021 Syukuro Manabe, United States (Born in Japan)

CHEMISTRY 

• 1981 Kenichi Fukui, Japan (First Asian and Japanese Nobel laureate in Chemistry)
• 1986 Yuan T. Lee, Taiwan and United States (First Taiwanese Nobel laureate)
• 1987 Charles J. Pedersen, United States (Born in Korea)
• 2000 Hideki Shirakawa, Japan
• 2001 Ryōji Noyori, Japan
• 2002 Koichi Tanaka, Japan 
• 2004 Aaron Ciechanover, Israel 
• 2004 Avram Hershko, Israel 
• 2008 Osamu Shimomura, Japan 
• 2009 Venki Ramakrishnan, United Kingdom and United States (Born in India)
• 2009 Ada Yonath, Israel 
• 2010 Ei-ichi Negishi, Japan 
• 2010 Akira Suzuki, Japan 
• 2011 Dan Shechtman, Israel 
• 2013 Arieh Warshel, Israel and United States 
• 2015 Aziz Sancar, Turkey and United States (First Turkish Nobel laureate in science)
• 2019 Akira Yoshino, Japan 

PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE 

• 1968 Har Gobind Khorana, United States (Born in India; first Asian and Indian Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1987 Susumu Tonegawa, Japan (First Japanese Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine)
• 2012 Shinya Yamanaka, Japan 
• 2015 Satoshi Ōmura, Japan 
• 2015 Tu Youyou, China (First Chinese woman Nobel laureate)
• 2016 Yoshinori Ohsumi, Japan 
• 2018 Tasuku Honjo, Japan 

LITERATURE 

• 1913 Rabindranath Tagore, British India (First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate)
• 1968 Yasunari Kawabata, Japan
• 1994 Kenzaburō Ōe, Japan
• 2000 Gao Xingjian, France (Born in China)
• 2001 V. S. Naipaul, United Kingdom, Indian origin. Born in Trinidad and Tobago.
• 2006 Orhan Pamuk, Turkey (First Turkish Nobel laureate)
• 2012 Mo Yan, China 
• 2017 Kazuo Ishiguro, United Kingdom (Born in Japan)
• 2024 Han Kang, South Korea (First Asian woman Nobel laureate for literature)  

PEACE

• 1973 Lê Đức Thọ (declined award), North Vietnam (First Asian and Vietnamese Nobel laureate in Peace)
• 1974 Eisaku Satō, Japan
• 1978 Menachem Begin, Israel
• 1979 Mother Teresa, India (First Asian woman Nobel laureate)
• 1989 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, India, China, and Tibet (First Tibetan Nobel laureate)
• 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma (First Burmese Nobel laureate)
• 1994 Yasser Arafat, Palestine (First Palestinian Arab Nobel laureate)
• 1994 Shimon Peres, Israel
• 1994 Yitzhak Rabin, Israel 
• 1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Timor-Leste (First Timorese Nobel laureate)
• 1996 José Ramos-Horta, Timor-Leste (First Timorese Nobel laureate)
• 2000 Kim Dae-jung, South Korea (First Korean Nobel laureate)
• 2003 Shirin Ebadi, Iran (First Iranian Nobel laureate)
• 2006 Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh (First Bangladeshi Nobel laureate)
• 2010 Liu Xiaobo, China
• 2011 Tawakkol Karman, Yemen (First Arab Woman and First Yemeni Nobel laureate)
• 2014 Kailash Satyarthi, India
• 2014 Malala Yousafzai, Pakistan (First Pakistani Woman Nobel laureate and youngest Nobel laureate)
• 2018 Nadia Murad, Iraq (First Iraqi Nobel laureate)
• 2021 Maria Ressa, Philippines (First Filipino Nobel laureate)
• 2023 Narges Mohammadi, Iran
• 2024 Nihon Hidankyo, Japan

ECONOMICS 

• 1998 Amartya Sen, India (First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate in Economics)
• 2002 Daniel Kahneman, Israel and United States
• 2005 Robert Aumann, Israel and United States
• 2019 Abhijit Banerjee, United States (Born in India)
• 2024 Daron Acemoglu, United States (Born in Turkey)