Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was the birth name of Mother Teresa, the Albanian-Indian Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and served the poor in Kolkata. She became a naturalized Indian citizen in 1951 and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Annie Besant was a British theosophist and women's rights activist, Sonia Gandhi is an Italian-born Indian politician, and Sister Nivedita was an Irish disciple of Swami Vivekananda.