This document provides biographical information about Rabindranath Tagore, a famous Bengali poet, writer, composer, and Nobel Prize winner. It discusses that Tagore was born in 1861 in Calcutta to a wealthy Brahmin family. He was the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Two of his songs are now the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. Tagore established schools and universities that helped spread Indian culture. He protested the British decision to divide Bengal and passed away in 1941 at age 80.