Q. Which famous Bengali other than Amartya Sen was also awarded with Nobel Prize in Economics?
Answer: Abhijit Banerjee
Notes: So far only two Indians have won the Economics Nobel- Amartya Sen in 1998 and Abhijit Banerjee in 2019. However Kolkata-born Banerjee had taken US citizenship when he won the prize. The US leads the countries' list in producing the most Economics Nobel laureates.
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