Ronald Ross, born in Almora, India in 1857, was the first India-born Nobel laureate when he won the Medicine prize in 1902 for discovering malaria transmission. Rabindranath Tagore (born Calcutta) won in 1913, CV Raman in 1930. Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay but won in 1907 - however, Ross's 1902 prize predates Kipling's.