List of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates

The Nobel Peace Prize is an award for special merits in peace work. It was donated by the Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel . This award has been presented every year since 1901 on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, December 10th, in Oslo.

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded a total of 134 times up to 2019, of which 90 awards (67.2 percent) went to men, 17 (12.7 percent) to women and 27 (20.1 percent) to organizations. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has already been awarded three times (1917, 1944 and 1963) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees twice (1954 and 1981). This means that 24 organizations have received at least one Nobel Peace Prize. So far, no one has been awarded repeatedly.

A total of 67 of the Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded in full, of which 51 were awarded to a person and 16 to an organization. A total of 30 times the Nobel Peace Prize was split between several winners, 22 times to two people, twice to two organizations and six times to one person and one organization. Only twice (1994 and 2011) was the prize divided between three people.

List of award winners

This list provides a chronological overview of the Nobel Peace Prize winners . The category Nobel Peace Prize Winners offers an alphabetical overview .

Until 1990, in contrast to the other Nobel Prizes, no official reason was given for the Nobel Peace Prize. Therefore, in the justification for these years, the activity that is assumed to be the cause of the award is noted.

1900 • 1910 • 1920 • 1930 • 1940 • 1950 • 1960 • 1970 • 1980 • 1990 • 2000 • 2010 • 2020

1900s

year	person	country	Reason for awarding the prize	image
1901	Henry Dunant (1828-1910)	Switzerland	Founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross
	Frédéric Passy (1822-1912)	France	Founder of the "French Society of Friends of Peace" (" International Peace League ")
1902	Élie Ducommun (1833–1906)	Switzerland	Head of the Bern International Permanent Peace Office of the " Interparliamentary Union for International Arbitration "
	Albert Gobat (1843-1914)	Switzerland	Head of the Central Office of the " Inter-Parliamentary Union for International Arbitration "
1903	William Randal Cremer (1828-1908)	United Kingdom	Founder of the " Inter-Parliamentary Union for International Arbitration "
1904	Institut de Droit international (founded 1873)	Based in Ghent, Belgium	Work of the institute for the further development of international law
1905	Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914)	Austria-Hungary (born in Prague , now the Czech Republic )	Her life's work, including the novel Put your arms down! , suggested Nobel presumably to the foundation of the Nobel Peace Prize
1906	Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)	United States	mediated the peace treaty between Russia and Japan in 1905
1907	Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1833-1918)	Kingdom of Italy (born in Milan , then Austrian Empire )	President of the Lombard Peace League
	Louis Renault (1843-1918)	France	played a prominent role at various international congresses, in particular the Hague Peace Conferences and the meetings of the Hague Conference on Private International Law
1908	Klas Pontus Arnoldson (1844-1916)	Sweden	Founder of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League
	Fredrik Bajer (1837-1922)	Denmark	Honorary President of the Permanent International Peace Bureau
1909	Auguste Beernaert (1829–1912)	Belgium	Member of the International Court of Arbitration in The Hague
	Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant (1852-1924)	France	Founder and President of the French Parliamentary Group on Voluntary Arbitration and Founder of the Committee for the Defense of National Interests and International Reconciliation

1910s

year	person	country	Reason for awarding the prize	image
1910	Bureau International Permanent de la Paix (founded 1891)	Based in Bern, Switzerland	Permanent International Peace Office
1911	Tobias Asser (1838-1913)	Netherlands	Organizer of the International Conference on Private Law in The Hague
	Alfred Hermann Fried (1864–1921)	Austria-Hungary	Founder of the magazine "Die Waffen Nieder" (later renamed " Die Friedens-Warte ")
1912	Elihu Root (1845–1937) (awarded 1913)	United States	Author of various arbitration agreements
1913	Henri La Fontaine (1854-1943)	Belgium	President of the Permanent International Peace Bureau
1914	not awarded
1915
1916
1917	International Committee of the Red Cross (founded 1863)	Based in Geneva, Switzerland	campaigned for prisoners of war and wounded as well as the respect of the Geneva Convention during the First World War
1918	not awarded
1919	Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) (awarded 1920)	United States	Mediation efforts to end the First World War. Initiated the founding of the League of Nations

1920s

year	person	country	Reason for awarding the prize	image
1920	Léon Bourgeois (1851-1925)	France	President of the Council of the League of Nations
1921	Hjalmar Branting (1860-1925)	Sweden	Swedish delegate to the Council of the League of Nations
	Christian Lous Lange (1869–1938)	Norway	Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
1922	Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930)	Norway	Inventor of the Nansen pass for refugees
1923	not awarded
1924
1925	Austen Chamberlain (1863–1937) (awarded 1926)	United Kingdom	Negotiating partner for the Locarno Treaty
	Charles Gates Dawes (1865–1951) (awarded 1926)	United States	Founder of the Dawes Plan
1926	Aristide Briand (1862-1932)	France	Co-initiator of the Locarno Treaty and Dawes Plan
	Gustav Stresemann (1878–1929)	Germany	Negotiating partner for the Locarno Treaty
1927	Ferdinand Buisson (1841-1932)	France	Founder and President of the " Ligue des Droits de l'Homme "
	Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941)	Germany	Left-liberal historian and politician. From 1914 to 1929 chairman of the German Peace Society (DFG); Organizer of various international peace conferences
1928	not awarded
1929	Frank Billings Kellogg (1856–1937) (awarded 1930)	United States	Negotiating partner of the Briand-Kellogg Pact

1930s

year	person	country	Reason for awarding the prize	image
1930	Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931)	Sweden	sat in the ecumenical one
1931	Jane Addams (1860-1935)	United States	President of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
	Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947)	United States	sat down for the Kellogg-Briand Pact , a
1932	not awarded
1933	Norman Angell (1874–1967) (awarded 1934)	United Kingdom	Member of the Executive Commission of the League of Nations and the National Peace Council
1934	Arthur Henderson (1863-1935)	United Kingdom	Chairman of the Conference on the Disarmament of the League of Nations (1932–1934)
1935	Carl von Ossietzky (1889–1938) (awarded 1936)	Germany	Pacifist and journalist (the German Reich then forbids its citizens to accept the award)
1936	Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878-1959)	Argentina	President of the League of Nations Assembly and mediator in the conflict between Paraguay and Bolivia (1935)
1937	Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864-1958)	United Kingdom	Founder and President of the International Peace Campaign
1938	Office international Nansen pour les réfugiés (1930–1939)	Based in Geneva, Switzerland	International Nansen Office for Refugees
1939	not awarded

1940s

year	person	country	Reason for awarding the prize	image
1940	not awarded
1941
1942
1943
1944	International Committee of the Red Cross (founded 1863) (awarded 1945)	Switzerland	campaigned for prisoners of war and wounded soldiers as well as for the inmates of the German concentration camps and for the civilian population during the Second World War
1945	Cordell Hull (1871-1955)	United States 0000000000000000000000000000000000000	Co-founder of the United Nations
1946	Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961)	United States	President of the " Women's International League for Peace and Freedom "
	John Raleigh Mott (1865–1955)	United States	Chairman of the " International Missionary Council " and President of the "World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations" ( YMCA ), as well as founding general secretary of the World Christian Student Union ( WSCF )
1947	The Friends Service Council	United Kingdom	The two Quaker organizations were honored on behalf of the Quaker's auxiliary work.
	American Friends Service Committee	United States
1948	not awarded
1949	John Boyd Orr (1880-1971)	United Kingdom (born in Kilmaurs , Scotland )	Organizer and director of the Organization for Food and Agriculture (General Food and Agricultural Organization), President of the National Peace Council (National Peace Council) and the World Union of Peace Organizations (World Union of Peace Organizations)

1950s

year	person	country	Reason for awarding the prize	image
1950	Ralph Bunche (1904–1971)	United States	Mediator in the Middle East Conflict (1948)
1951	Léon Jouhaux (1879–1954)	France 0000000000000000000000000000000000000	Trade unionists
1952	Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) (awarded 1953)	France (born in Kaysersberg , then Germany )	Founder of the Tropical Hospital in Lambaréné , French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon )
1953	George C. Marshall (1880-1959)	United States	Founder of the Marshall Plan
1954	United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (founded 1951) (awarded 1955)	Based in Geneva, Switzerland	United Nations Refugee Agency
1955	not awarded
1956
1957	Lester Pearson (1897-1972)	Canada	Former Canadian Foreign Minister and President of the United Nations General Assembly
1958	Georges Pire (1910-1969)	Belgium	Head of the refugee aid organization " L'Europe du Coeur au Service du Monde "
1959	Philip Noel-Baker (1889-1982)	United Kingdom	Commitment to international peace

1960s

year	person	country	Reason for awarding the prize	image
1960	Albert John Luthuli (1898–1967) (awarded 1961)	South Africa (born in Bulawayo , today Zimbabwe )	President of the South African liberation movement African National Congress (ANC)
1961	Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961) (posthumous)	Sweden 0000000000000000000000000000000000000	Secretary General of the United Nations
1962	Linus Pauling (1901–1994) (awarded 1963)	United States	campaigned for an end to nuclear tests
1963	International Committee of the Red Cross (founded 1863)	Based in Geneva, Switzerland	was involved in the war for the wounded and prisoners of war as well as for the dissemination of the Geneva Conventions
	League of Red Cross Societies (founded 1919)	Based in Geneva, Switzerland	Aid to refugees in peacetime and for victims of natural disasters
1964	Martin Luther King (1929–1968)	United States	Black rights advocate in the US and around the world
1965	United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (founded 1946)	Based in New York, United States	United Nations Children's Fund
1966	not awarded
1967
1968	René Cassin (1887–1976)	France	President of the European Court of Human Rights
1969	International Labor Organization (ILO, founded 1919)	Based in Geneva, Switzerland	Successful work for better working conditions since 1919

1970s

year	person	country	Reason for awarding the prize	image
1970	Norman Borlaug (1914-2009)	United States	Work to improve agriculture
1971	Willy Brandt (1913–1992)	BR Germany 0000000000000000000000000000000000000	campaigned for peace with the Eastern Bloc and reconciliation with countries formerly occupied by the Third Reich
1972	not awarded
1973	Henry Kissinger (* 1923)	United States (born in Fürth , Germany )	negotiated the Paris Treaty , which regulated the United States' exit from the Vietnam War. Lê Đức Thọ did not accept the price.
	Lê Đức Thọ (1911–1990)	Vietnam
1974	Seán MacBride (1904–1988)	Ireland (born in Paris , France )	President of the International Peace Bureau, Geneva, President of the UN Commission for Namibia
	Eisaku Satō (1901-1975)	Japan	former Japanese Prime Minister, for fighting the proliferation of nuclear weapons
1975	Andrei Dmitrijewitsch Sakharov (1921–1989)	Soviet Union	Human rights activist in the USSR
1976	Betty Williams (1943-2020) (awarded 1977)	United Kingdom of Northern Ireland	Founders of the "Northern Ireland Peace Movement" (renamed "Community of Peace People")
	Mairead Corrigan (* 1944)	United Kingdom of Northern Ireland
1977	Amnesty International (founded in 1961)	United Kingdom	campaigned for political prisoners
1978	Anwar as-Sadat (1918-1981)	Egypt	initiated the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel
	Menachem Begin (1913-1992)	Israel (born in Brest , then Russia , now Belarus )
1979	Mother Teresa (1910-1997)	India (born in Üsküb , Ottoman Empire , today Skopje, North Macedonia )	Founder of the Order of Missionaries of Charity

1980s

year	person	country	Reason for awarding the prize	image
1980	Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (* 1931)	Argentina	Human rights activist
1981	United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (founded 1951)	Based in Geneva , Switzerland	United Nations Refugee Agency
1982	Alva Myrdal (1902-1986)	Sweden	Diplomat and delegate of the UN disarmament conferences
	Alfonso García Robles (1911-1991)	Mexico	Permanent representative at the Geneva disarmament negotiations, member of the UN Special Conference on Disarmament
1983	Lech Wałęsa (* 1943)	Poland 0000000000000000000000000000000000000	Founder of the Polish trade union and human rights movement Solidarność ("Solidarity")
1984	Desmond Tutu (* 1931)	South Africa	contributed to ending apartheid in South Africa
1985	International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) (founded 1980)	Based in Somerville , United States	International Doctors for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1986	Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)	United States (born in Sighet , Romania )	American writer, Holocaust survivor, fought against oppression, violence and racism
1987	Óscar Arias Sánchez (* 1940)	Costa Rica	"For his work for peace in Central America, efforts that led to the agreement that was signed in Guatemala on August 7th of that year "
1988	United Nations Peacekeeping Forces (founded 1948)	Based in New York , United States	Peace operations on behalf of the United Nations in crisis areas (worldwide)
1989	Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama ) (* 1935)	Tibet	supports a demilitarized Tibet and the self-determination of the Tibetans

1990s

year	person	country	Reason for awarding the prize	image
1990	Mikhail Gorbachev (* 1931)	Soviet Union	"For his leading role in the peace process that characterizes important parts of the international community today"
1991	Aung San Suu Kyi (* 1945)	Myanmar 0000000000000000000000000000000000000	"For their commitment to human rights"
1992	Rigoberta Menchú (* 1959)	Guatemala	"For their commitment to human rights, especially of indigenous peoples"
1993	Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)	South Africa	"For their contribution to ending apartheid in South Africa"
	Frederik Willem de Klerk (1936-2021)	South Africa
1994	Yasser Arafat (1929-2004)	Palestine (born in Cairo , Egypt )	"For their efforts to resolve the Middle East conflict"
	Shimon Peres (1923-2016)	Israel (born in Wiszniewo , Poland )
	Yitzchak Rabin (1922–1995)	Israel
1995	Józef Rotblat (1908-2005)	Poland (born in Warsaw , Poland )	"For their efforts to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in international politics"
	Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (since 1957)	Canada
1996	Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (* 1948)	East Timor	"For your efforts to find a peaceful solution to the East Timor conflict"
	José Ramos-Horta (* 1949)	East Timor
1997	International Campaign to Ban Landmines (founded 1995)	Based in Geneva, Switzerland	"For their efforts to outlaw mines directed against people internationally"
	Jody Williams (born 1950)	United States
1998	John Hume (1937-2020)	United Kingdom of Northern Ireland	"For your efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Northern Ireland conflict"
	David Trimble (born 1944)	United Kingdom of Northern Ireland
1999	Doctors Without Borders (Médecins sans Frontières) (founded in 1971)	Based in Geneva, Switzerland	"In recognition of their humanitarian pioneering work on several continents"

2000s

year	person	country	Reason for awarding the prize	image
2000	Kim Dae-jung (1925-2009)	South Korea	"For his contributions to the understanding between South Korea and North Korea"
2001	United Nations (founded in 1945)	Based in New York, United States	"For their commitment to a more organized and peaceful world"
	Kofi Annan (1938-2018)	Ghana
2002	Jimmy Carter (born 1924)	United States	"For his many years of contributions to the solution of international conflicts and to the promotion of democracy and human rights"
2003	Shirin Ebadi (* 1947)	Iran 0000000000000000000000000000000000000	"For their commitment to democracy and human rights"
2004	Wangari Maathai (1940-2011)	Kenya	"For their contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"
2005	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (founded 1957)	Based in Vienna, Austria	"For their use against the military misuse of atomic energy as well as for the safe use of atomic energy for civil purposes"
	Mohammed el-Baradei (* 1942)	Egypt
2006	Muhammad Yunus (* 1940)	Bangladesh	"For the promotion of economic and social development from below"
	Grameen Bank (founded 1983)	Bangladesh
2007	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (founded in 1988)	Based in Geneva, Switzerland	"For their efforts to develop and disseminate a better understanding of man-made climate change and for laying the foundations for action against climate change"
	Al Gore (born 1948)	United States
2008	Martti Ahtisaari (* 1937)	Finland	"For his important efforts to solve international conflicts on different continents and over three decades"
2009	Barack Obama (* 1961)	United States	"For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"

2010s

year	person	country	Reason for awarding the prize	image
2010	Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017)	People's Republic of China	"For his long and non-violent struggle for basic human rights in China"
2011	Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (* 1938)	Liberia 0000000000000000000000000000000000000	"For their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for the right of women to participate fully in peace-building work"
	Leymah Gbowee (born 1972)	Liberia
	Tawakkol Karman (* 1979)	Yemen
2012	European Union (founded in 1952 or 1993)	Based in Brussels, Belgium	"For over six decades that contributed to the development of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe"
2013	Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) (founded 1997)	Based in The Hague, the Netherlands	"For their extensive efforts to dispose of chemical weapons"
2014	Kailash Satyarthi (* 1954)	India	"For their fight against the oppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"
	Malala Yousafzai (* 1997)	Pakistan
2015	Quartet du dialogue national (founded 2013)	Tunisia	"For his decisive contribution to building a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia as a result of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011"
2016	Juan Manuel Santos (* 1951)	Colombia	"For his determined efforts to end the more than 50 years of civil war in the country "
2017	International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) (founded 2007)	Based in Geneva, Switzerland	"For her work in drawing attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons and for her pioneering efforts to achieve a treaty ban on such weapons"
2018	Denis Mukwege (* 1955)	Democratic Republic of Congo	"For their use against sexual violence as a weapon in wars and armed conflicts"
	Nadia Murad (* 1993)	Iraq
2019	Abiy Ahmed (* 1976)	Ethiopia	"For his efforts towards peace and international cooperation and especially for his determined initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea"

2020s

year	person	country	Reason for awarding the prize	image
2020	United Nations World Food Program (WFP) (founded in 1961)	Based in Rome , Italy	"For efforts to combat hunger, for helping to improve conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and as a driving force in efforts to prevent hunger as a weapon for war and conflict"
2021	Maria Ressa (* 1963)	Philippines	"For their efforts to uphold freedom of expression, which is a prerequisite for democracy and lasting peace"
	Dmitri Muratow (* 1961)	Russia

1900 • 1910 • 1920 • 1930 • 1940 • 1950 • 1960 • 1970 • 1980 • 1990 • 2000 • 2010 • 2020

Distribution according to nationalities

nation	Number of awards
(International) organizations	23
United States	21
United Kingdom including Northern Ireland	12 04
France	09
Sweden	05
Germany	04 eachever
South Africa
Belgium	03 eachever
Israel
Switzerland
Egypt	02 eachever
Argentina
Bangladesh
India
Liberia
Norway
Austria
East Timor
Soviet Union
Ethiopia	01 eachever
People's Republic of China
Costa Rica
Denmark
Finland
Ghana
Guatemala
Iraq
Iran
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Yemen
Canada
Kenya
Colombia
Democratic Republic of Congo
Mexico
Myanmar
Netherlands
Pakistan
Palestine
Philippines
Poland
Russia
South Korea
Tibet
Tunisia
Vietnam

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Individual evidence

The data on the winners correspond to the information on the official website of the Nobel Prize Foundation.

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} country according to the information on nobelprize.org. The country may differ from the nationality of the laureate.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} The prize money was given to the funds of this prize category.
3. ↑ http://www.nobelprize.org/ : 1925 , [1] ; last viewed on Feb. 5, 2013
4. ↑ http://www.nobelprize.org/ : 1925 , [2] ; last viewed on Feb. 5, 2013
5. ↑ ^{a b c} One third of the prize money was given to the main fund and two thirds to the funds in this prize category.
6. ↑ An award was rejected because there was no “suitable living candidate”. Mahatma Gandhi was nominated, but a few days before the nomination deadline he was shot. An initially considered posthumous award was then waived for various reasons. Øyvind Tønnesson: "Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate" on nobelprize.org
7. ↑ Why Le Duc Tho refused his Nobel Peace Prize. Transcription of the letter from Lê Đức Thọ about the rejection of the Nobel Prize (unofficial translation by the New York Times ). In: Black and White Cat. December 11, 2010; Archived from the original on January 1, 2011 ; accessed on April 15, 2015 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} Northern Ireland is mentioned in the official lists of the Nobel Peace Prize, but the United Kingdom is mentioned in the official lists of the entire Nobel Prize.
9. ↑ Information from the official lists of the Nobel Foundation. Mother Teresa came from an Albanian family and grew up in Macedonia , Serbia, from 1912 , but spent most of her life in India and in 1948 took on Indian citizenship. This is why she is also listed as an Indian on the lists.
10. ↑ This information can be found in the official lists of Nobel institutions, but is controversial. Tendzin Gyatsho was born in an independent Tibet, but at the time of the award of the prize this state only existed in the form of a government-in-exile .
11. ↑ gates Frängsmyr in Les Prix Nobel 1989, published by the Nobel Foundation
12. ↑ This was the first time that the role of environmental protection for world peace was honored.
13. ^ Nobel Media AB: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) - Facts. November 6, 2017. Retrieved November 6, 2017 . 
14. ↑ The Nobel Peace Prize 2020 . In: nobelprize.org, October 9, 2020.
15. ^ The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 . In: nobelprize.org, October 8, 2021 (accessed October 8, 2021).

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