List of Chinese Nobel laureates
Since 1957, there have been thirteen Chinese winners of the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel. It was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. An associated prize, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was instituted by Sweden's central bank in 1968 and first awarded in 1969.
Following is a list of Nobel laureates who have been citizens of the Republic of China or the People's Republic of China and of overseas birth.
Laureates
Chinese citizens
; Citizens ofThe following are the Nobel laureates who are or were citizens of Republic of China at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.
| Year | Laureate | Chinese name | English name | Category | Life | Rationale | Place of Birth |
| 1957 | Yang Chen-Ning | Physics | 1922– | "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles" | Hefei, Anhwei, China | ||
| 1957 | Tsung-Dao Lee | Physics | 1926– | "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles" | Shanghai, China | ||
| 1976 | Samuel C. C. Ting | Physics | 1936– | "for pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind." | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Dual-citizen of and  Republic of China | ||
| 1986 | Yuan T. Lee | Chemistry | 1936– | "for contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes". | Shinchiku City, Shinchiku Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan. |
; Citizens of
The following are the Nobel laureates who were citizens of People's Republic of China at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.
| Year | Laureate | Chinese name | English name | Category | Life | Rationale | Place of Birth |
| 2010 | Liu Xiaobo | Peace | 1955–2017 | "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China". | Changchun, Jilin, China | ||
| 2012 | Mo Yan | Literature | 1955– | "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". | Gaomi, Shandong, China | ||
| 2015 | Tu Youyou | Physiology or Medicine | 1930– | "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria". | Ningbo, Zhejiang, China |
Chinese diaspora
Others
; TibetanThe following are the Nobel laureates who were of uncertain citizenship at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.