
Bharat Ratna Awardees from West Bengal
- Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy (1961) ——— Physician,Freedom Fighter,Second Chief Minister of West Bengal
- Mother Teresa (1980) ——— Social Work
- Satyajit Ray (1992) ———– Filmmaker, Screen Writer, Music Composer, Author
- Amartya Sen (1999) ———- Economist, Philosopher
- Ravi Shankar (1999) ———– Musician, Sitar Player
- Pranab Mukherjee (2019) ———– 13th President of India from 2012 until 2017.
Nobel Prize Awardees from West Bengal
- (Awardees —– Field)
- Sir Ronald Ross (1902) ——— Medicine
- Rabindranath Tagore (1913) ———- Literature (First
- (Asian to win Nobel Prize)
- CV Raman (1930) ——— Physics
- Mother Teresa (1979) ———- Peace
- Amartya Sen (1998) ———– Economics
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