Civilisation/List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates

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1901 Henry Dunant

Frederic Passy

Henry Dunant was a Swiss businessman and co-founder the International Red Cross Movement

Frederic Passy was a French economist and pacifist who was a founding member of several peace societies

1902 Elie Ducommun

Charles Albert Gobat

1903 Randal Cremer First British winner. Cremer was a leading advocate for international arbitration
1904 Institute of International Law Founded in Ghent in 1873
1905 Bertha von Suttner First female winner. Von Suttner was an Austrian-Bohemian pacifist
1906 Theodore Roosevelt for brokering the Treaty of Portsmouth. First American winner
1907 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Louis Renault

1908 Klas Pontus Arnoldson and Fredrik Bajer
1909 Auguste Beernaert and Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant Auguste Beernaert was the prime minister of Belgium from 1884 to 1894
1910 Permanent International Peace Bureau Founded in 1891
1911 Tobias Asser

Alfred Hermann Fried


Alfred Hermann Fried was an Austrian Jewish pacifist and co-founder of the German Peace Society

1912 Elihu Root American politician who served as Secretary of State and Secretary of War
1913 Henri La Fontaine President of the International Peace Bureau
1914 Not awarded World War I
1915 Not awarded World War I
1916 Not awarded World War I
1917 International Committee of the Red Cross Founded in 1863. Based in Geneva
1918 Not awarded World War I
1919 Woodrow Wilson for his role as founder of the League of Nations
1920 Leon Bourgeois For his role in establishing the League of Nations
1921 Hjalmar Branting and Christian Lange Hjalmar Branting was prime minister of Sweden
1922 Fridtjof Nansen for his work on behalf of the displaced victims of World War I and related conflicts. Among the initiatives he introduced was the "Nansen passport" for stateless persons
1923 Not awarded
1924 Not awarded
1925 Austen Chamberlain

Charles G. Dawes

for his role in bringing about the Locarno Treaties aimed at preventing war between France and Germany

for his role in bringing about the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations

1926 Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann for their role in bringing about the Locarno Treaties
1927 Ferdinand Buisson and Ludwig Quidde
1928 Not awarded
1929 Frank B. Kellogg for bringing about the Kellogg-Briand Pact, officially the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy, along with Aristide Briand
1930 Nathan Soderblom
1931 Jane Addams and Nicholas Butler Jane Addams was the first American female winner
1932 Not awarded
1933 Norman Angell Author of The Great Illusion, which argued that war was economically and socially irrational
1934 Arthur Henderson for his work for the League of Nations in disarmament
1935 Carl von Ossietzky for his struggle against Germany's rearmament
1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas First Latin American winner. Author of the Argentine Antiwar Pact
1937 Viscount Cecil for his work with the League of Nations
1938 Nansen International Office for Refugees Established in 1930 by the League of Nations and named after Fridtjof Nansen
1939 Not awarded World War II
1940 Not awarded World War II
1941 Not awarded World War II
1942 Not awarded World War II
1943 Not awarded World War II
1944 International Committee of the Red Cross Second award
1945 Cordell Hull for his role in establishing the United Nations
1946 Emily Greene Balch

John Mott

1947 The Quakers Represented by the British Friends Service Council and the American Friends Service Committee
1948 Not awarded Mahatma Gandhi was nominated in 1948 but was assassinated before nominations closed. The committee chose not to award the peace prize stating that "there was no suitable living candidate"
1949 Lord Boyd-Orr for his scientific research into nutrition
1950 Ralph Bunche for his work as mediator in Palestine. First African American to win
1951 Leon Jouhaux
1952 Albert Schweitzer For his philosophy of "Reverence for Life". Founded a hospital in Gabon in 1913
1953 George Marshall for the European Recovery Program, known as The Marshall Plan
1954 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Founded in 1950. Based in Geneva
1955 Not awarded
1956 Not awarded
1957 Lester B. Pearson for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis. Prime minister of Canada
1958 Dominique Pire
1959 Philip Noel-Baker The only person to have won an Olympic medal (a silver medal for the 1500m at the 1920 Summer Olympics) and received a Nobel Prize
1960 Albert Luthuli President of the African National Congress (ANC). First African-born recipient
1961 Dag Hammarskjold served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 until his death in a plane crash in 1961. The only posthumous recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1962 Linus Pauling for his campaign against nuclear weapons testing. Also won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1963 International Committee of the Red Cross and League of Red Cross Societies Third award
1964 Martin Luther King for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance
1965 United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Founded in 1946. Based in New York. Now known officially as United Nations Children's Fund
1966 Not awarded
1967 Not awarded
1968 Rene Cassin for co-authoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1969 International Labour Organization Founded in 1919. Based in Geneva
1970 Norman Borlaug for developing strains of high-yielding, disease-resistant wheat for developing countries – the Green Revolution
1971 Willy Brandt Chancellor of West Germany
1972 Not awarded
1973 Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho for jointly having negotiated a cease fire in Vietnam. Le Duc Tho was the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but refused the award
1974 Sean MacBride


Eisaku Sato

Sean MacBride also won the Lenin Peace Prize

Eisaku Sato brought Japan into the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

1975 Andrei Sakharov for his struggle for human rights in the Soviet Union. The Sakharov Prize is named in his honour
1976 Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan Founders of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement
1977 Amnesty International Founded in 1961 by Peter Benenson. Based in London
1978 Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin for jointly having negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel. Anwar Sadat was first Muslim Nobel laureate
1979 Mother Teresa Founder of Missionaries of Charity. Born in Spokje
1980 Adolfo Perez Esquivel or his opposition to Argentina's last civil-military dictatorship
1981 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Second award
1982 Alva Myrdal and Alfonso Garcia Robles for their work for disarmament and nuclear and weapon-free zones
1983 Lech Walesa Founder of the Solidarity trade union movement in Gdansk, Poland
1984 Desmond Tutu for his role in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa
1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) Founded in 1990. Based in Boston
1986 Elie Wiesel Born in Romania. Holocaust survivor
1987 Oscar Arias for his work for lasting peace in Central America. President of Costa Rica
1988 United Nations Peacekeeping Founded in 1945
1889 Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama for the struggle of the liberation of Tibet and the efforts for a peaceful resolution
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev for the leading role he played in the radical changes in East-West relations
1991 Aung San Suu Kyi for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights
1992 Rigoberta Menchu for her advocacy and social justice work for the indigenous peoples of Latin America. Born in Guatemala
1993 Nelson Mandela and Frederik de Klerk for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime in South Africa
1994 Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East
1995 Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences for their efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons. Joseph Rotblat was a

Polish physicist. Pugwash is a village in Nova Scotia, Canada

1996 Carlos Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor. Ramos-Horta was president of East Timor from 2007 to 2012
1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams Founded in 1992
1998 John Hume and David Trimble for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland
1999 Medicins Sans Frontieres Founded in Paris in 1971. Also known as Doctors Without Borders
2000 Kim Dae Jung for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea
2001 United Nations and Kofi Annan Kofi Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006
2002 Jimmy Carter for his humanitarian work
2003 Shirin Ebadi Iranian human rights activist. First Muslim female winner
2004 Wangari Maathai Kenyan environmentalist and political activist. First African female winner
2005 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Mohamed ElBaradei (Egypt) for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes
2006 Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank for microcredit and microfinance work in Bangladesh
2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore for contributions to the understanding of climate change
2008 Martti Ahtisaari for his efforts to resolve international conflicts. President of Finland from 1994 to 2000
2009 Barack Obama for his efforts to strengthen international diplomacy
2010 Liu Xiaobo for his struggle for fundamental human rights in China
2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Liberia), Leymah Gbowee (Liberia) and Tawakkul Karman (Yemen) for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights
2012 European Union Founded in 1958
2013 Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Founded in 1997. Based in The Hague
2014 Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan) and Kailash Satyarthi (India) for the right of all children to education. Awarded when she was 17, Malala Yousafzai is the world's youngest Nobel Prize laureate
2015 Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet for its contribution to the building of a democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution
2016 Juan Manuel Santos for his efforts to bring Colombia’s civil war to an end
2017 International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Founded in Melbourne in 2007
2018 Dennis Mugwege (Congo) and Nadia Murad (Iraq) for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict
2019 Abiy Ahmed Ai for his work in ending the 20-year post-war territorial stalemate between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018
2020 World Food Programme Founded in 1961. Based in Rome
2021 Maria Ressa (Philippines) and Dmitry Muratov (Russia) for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression. Ressa and Muratov are both journalists
2022 Ales Bialiatski (Belarus), Memorial (Russia), and the Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine) Civil rights campaigners
2023 Narges Mohammadi (Iran) Jailed human rights activist
2024 Nihon Hidankyo (Japan) Survivors of the atomic bombings of 1945 who campaign for the abolition of nuclear weapons