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Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, writer and composer; first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, novelist, composer, painter and educator who in 1913 became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh and founded Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan.
Born 7 May 1861
India
Known for: Gitanjali; composer of the national anthems of India and Bangladesh; founder of Visva-Bharati
