Civilisation/List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates
From Quiz Revision Notes
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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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 |
