Nobel Peace Prizes – Nobel peace prize winners list 1901-2016

Nobel Peace Prizes has been awarded 96 times to 129 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2015, 103 individuals and 26 organizations. Since the International Committee of the Red Cross has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize three times (in 1917, 1944 and 1963), and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize two times (in 1954 and 1981), there are 23 individual organizations which have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Nobel Peace Prizes

 

                The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 96 times to 129 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2015, 103 individuals and 26 organizations. Since the International Committee of the Red Cross has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize three times (in 1917, 1944 and 1963), and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize two times (in 1954 and 1981), there are 23 individual organizations which have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

Nobel Peace Prizes Type – Nobel Peace Category – International First Awarded – 1901 Last Awarded – 2015 Official Website –  http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/

Laureates

Year	Laureate	Country	Description
2015	Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet	Tunisia	“for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011”
2014	Kailash Satyarthi	India	“for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”
	Malala Yousafzai	Pakistan
2013	Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)	International	“for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons”
2012	European Union (EU)	Europe	“for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe”
2011	Ellen Johnson Sirleaf	Liberia	“for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work”
	Leymah Gbowee	Liberia
	Tawakkol Karman	Yemen
2010	Liu Xiaobo	China	“for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China”
2009	Barack H. Obama	United States	“for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”
2008	Martti Ahtisaari	Finland	“for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts”
2007	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)	United Nations	“for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”
	Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.	United States
2006	Muhammad Yunus	Bangladesh	“for their efforts to create economic and social development from below”
	Grameen Bank	Bangladesh
2005	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)	United Nations	“for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way”
	Mohamed ElBaradei	Egypt
2004	Wangari Muta Maathai	Kenya	“for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace”
2003	Shirin Ebadi	Iran	“for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children”
2002	Jimmy Carter	United States	“for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development”
2001	United Nations (U.N.)	United Nations	“for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world”
	Kofi Annan	Ghana
2000	Kim Dae-jung	South Korea	“for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular”
1999	Médecins Sans Frontières	Switzerland	“in recognition of the organization’s pioneering humanitarian work on several continents”
1998	John Hume	Ireland	“for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland”
	David Trimble	United Kingdom
1997	International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)	Switzerland	“for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines”
	Jody Williams	United States
1996	Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo	East Timor	“for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor”
	José Ramos-Horta	East Timor
1995	Joseph Rotblat	United Kingdom	“for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms”
	Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs	Canada
1994	Yasser Arafat	Palestine	“for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East”
	Shimon Peres	Israel
	Yitzhak Rabin	Israel
1993	Nelson Mandela	South Africa	“for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa”
	Frederik Willem de Klerk	South Africa
1992	Rigoberta Menchú Tum	Guatemala	“in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples”
1991	Aung San Suu Kyi	Burma	“for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights”
1990	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev	Soviet Union	“for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community”
1989	The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)	Tibet
1988	United Nations Peacekeeping Forces	United Nations
1987	Oscar Arias Sánchez	Costa Rica	“for his work for peace in Central America, efforts which led to the accord signed in Guatemala on August 7 this year”
1986	Elie Wiesel	United States
1985	International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War	United States
1984	Desmond Mpilo Tutu	South Africa
1983	Lech Walesa	Poland
1982	Alva Myrdal	Sweden
	Alfonso García Robles	Mexico
1981	Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)	United Nations
1980	Adolfo Pérez Esquivel	Argentina
1979	Mother Teresa	India
1978	Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat	Egypt
	Menachem Begin	Israel
1977	Amnesty International	United Kingdom
1976	Betty Williams	United Kingdom/Ireland
	Mairead Corrigan	United Kingdom/Ireland
1975	Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov	Soviet Union
1974	Seán MacBride	Ireland
	Eisaku Sato	Japan
1973	Henry A. Kissinger	United States
	Le Duc Tho	North Vietnam
1972	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1971	Willy Brandt	West Germany
1970	Norman E. Borlaug	United States
1969	International Labour Organization (I.L.O.)	United Nations
1968	René Cassin	France
1967	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1966
1965	United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)	United Nations
1964	Martin Luther King Jr.	United States
1963	Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)	Switzerland
	Ligue des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge (League of Red Cross Societies)	Switzerland
1962	Linus Carl Pauling	United States
1961	Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld	Sweden
1960	Albert John Lutuli	South Africa
1959	Philip J. Noel-Baker	United Kingdom
1958	Georges Pire	Belgium
1957	Lester Bowles Pearson	Canada
1956	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1955
1954	Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)	United Nations
1953	George Catlett Marshall	United States
1952	Albert Schweitzer	France
1951	Léon Jouhaux	France
1950	Ralph Bunche	United States
1949	Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin	United Kingdom
1948	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1947	Friends Service Council (The Quakers)	United Kingdom
	American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers)	United States
1946	Emily Greene Balch	United States
	John Raleigh Mott	United States
1945	Cordell Hull	United States
1944	Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)	Switzerland
1943	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1942
1941
1940
1939
1938	Office international Nansen pour les Réfugiés (Nansen International Office for Refugees)	League of Nations
1937	Cecil of Chelwood, Viscount (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil)	United Kingdom
1936	Carlos Saavedra Lamas	Argentina
1935	Carl von Ossietzky	Germany
1934	Arthur Henderson	United Kingdom
1933	Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)	United Kingdom
1932	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1931	Jane Addams	United States
	Nicholas Murray Butler	United States
1930	Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom	Sweden
1929	Frank Billings Kellogg	United States
1928	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1927	Ferdinand Buisson	France
	Ludwig Quidde	Germany
1926	Aristide Briand	France
	Gustav Stresemann	Germany
1925	Sir Austen Chamberlain	United Kingdom
	Charles Gates Dawes	United States
1924	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1923
1922	Fridtjof Nansen	Norway
1921	Karl Hjalmar Branting	Sweden
	Christian Lous Lange	Norway
1920	Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois	France
1919	Thomas Woodrow Wilson	United States
1918	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1917	Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)	Switzerland
1916	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1915
1914
1913	Henri La Fontaine	Belgium
1912	Elihu Root	United States
1911	Tobias Michael Carel Asser	Netherlands
	Alfred Hermann Fried	Austria-Hungary
1910	Bureau international permanent de la Paix (Permanent International Peace Bureau)	Switzerland
1909	Auguste Marie François Beernaert	Belgium
	Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d’Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque	France
1908	Klas Pontus Arnoldson	Sweden
	Fredrik Bajer	Denmark
1907	Ernesto Teodoro Moneta	Italy
	Louis Renault	France
1906	Theodore Roosevelt	United States
1905	Bertha von Suttner	Austria-Hungary
1904	Institut de droit international (Institute of International Law)	Belgium
1903	William Randal Cremer	United Kingdom
1902	Élie Ducommun	Switzerland
	Charles Albert Gobat	Switzerland
1901	Jean Henry Dunant	Switzerland
	Frédéric Passy	France