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Important questions related to Awards and Honors
- Who was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize? Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
- Who was the first Indian woman to receive the Nobel Prize? Answer: Mother Teresa
- Who was the first Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna Award? Answer: C. Rajagopalachari
- Which Indian President received the Bharat Ratna while in office? Answer: Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Which Indian Prime Minister received the Bharat Ratna after his death? Answer: Lal Bahadur Shastri
- Who is the first Indian cricketer to receive the Bharat Ratna Award? Answer: Sachin Tendulkar
- Who is the first Indian woman to receive the Bharat Ratna Award? Answer: Indira Gandhi
- Who is the first Indian actor to receive the Padma Shri Award? Answer: Prithviraj Kapoor
- Who is the first Indian actor to receive the Padma Bhushan Award? Answer: Dev Anand
- Who is the first Indian actor to receive the Padma Vibhushan Award? Answer: Dilip Kumar
- Who is the first Indian actress to receive the Padma Shri Award? Answer: Nargis Dutt
- Who is the first Indian actress to receive the Padma Bhushan Award? Answer: Madhubala
- Who is the first Indian actress to receive the Padma Vibhushan Award? Answer: Sharmila Tagore
- Who was the first Indian to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award? Answer: Vinoba Bhave
- Who was the first Indian to receive the Jnanpith Award? Answer: G. Sankara Kurup
- Who is the first Indian to receive the Pulitzer Prize? Answer: Gobind Behari Lal
- Who is the first Indian to receive the Booker Prize? Answer: Salman Rushdie
- Who is the first Indian to receive the Man Booker Prize? Answer: Arundhati Roy
- Who is the first Indian to receive the Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership? Answer: Acharya Vinoba Bhave
- Who is the first Indian to receive the Magsaysay Award for Literature? Answer: R.K. Narayan
- Who is the first Indian to receive the Magsaysay Award for Public Service? Answer: Kaka Kalelkar
- Who was the first Indian woman to receive the Magsaysay Award? Answer: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
- Who is the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics? Answer: C.V. Raman
- Who is the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry? Answer: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
- Who is the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine? Answer: Har Gobind Khorana
- Who is the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics? Answer: Amartya Sen
- Who is the first Indian to receive the Abel Prize? Answer: Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan
- Who is the first Indian to receive the Fields Medal? Answer: Manjul Bhargava
- Who is the first Indian to receive the Turing Award? Answer: Raj Reddy
- Who is the first Indian to receive the Padma Vibhushan in Sports? Answer: Vishwanathan Anand
- Who was the first Indian woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize? Answer: Mother Teresa
- Who was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics? Answer: C.V. Raman
- Who was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature? Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
- Who was the first Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna? Answer: C. Rajagopalachari, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and C.V. Raman (all awarded in 1954)
- Who was the first person to receive the Padma Vibhushan? Answer: Satyendra Nath Bose (1954)
- Who was the first person to receive the Padma Bhushan? Answer: K.K. Venugopal (1954)
- Who was the first person to receive the Padma Shri? Answer: K.C. Mahindra (1954)
- Who was awarded the Abel Prize in 2021? Answer: László Lovász
- Who was awarded the Turing Award in 2020? Answer: Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman
- Who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology? Answer: Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice