Who was the first English writer to win a Nobel Prize?

First englishman to win a Nobel prize was Sir Ronald Ross in 1902 for work with malaria... However, there's several different nobel prizes.. For example, physics and chemistry and medicine, literature, economics and peace. For each of the catergories, here is the first englishmen to have received it. LITERATURE - 1907, Rudyard Kipling. Born in Bombay, India but he was an englishmen. PHYSICS - 1904, Lord John William Strutt Rayleigh. CHEMISTRY - 1904, Sir William Ramsay MEDICINE/PHYSIOLOGY - 1902, Sir Ronald Ross. Born in India, but is english. ECONOMICS - 1970 - Sir John R. Hicks. Jointly shared with American Kenneth J. Arrow. PEACE - 1903, Sir William Randal Cremer