Nobel Prize in Peace

Laureates

Year	Laureate[A]		Country[B]	Rationale[C]
1901		Frédéric Passy	France	"[for] being one of the main founders of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and also the main organizer of the first Universal Peace Congress."[10][13]
		Jean Henry Dunant	Switzerland	"[for] his role in founding the International Committee of the Red Cross"[10][13]
1902		Élie Ducommun	Switzerland	"Honorary Secretary, Permanent International Peace Bureau"[14]
		Charles Albert Gobat	Switzerland	"Secretary General, Inter-Parliamentary Union; Honorary Secretary, Permanent International Peace Bureau"[14]
1903		William Randal Cremer	United Kingdom	"Member, British Parliament; Secretary, International Arbitration League"[15]
1904		Institut de Droit International	Belgium	"for its efforts as an unofficial body to formulate the general principles of the science of international law."[10][16]
1905		Bertha von Suttner	Austria-Hungary	"Honorary President of Permanent International Peace Bureau; Author of Lay Down Your Arms"[17]
1906		Theodore Roosevelt	United States	"for his successful mediation to end the Russo-Japanese war and for his interest in arbitration, having provided the Hague arbitration court with its very first case"[10][18]
1907		Ernesto Teodoro Moneta	Italy	"President, Lombard League of Peace,"[19] was "prominent as a worker for peace in Italy."[20]
		Louis Renault	France	"Professor International Law,"[19] was "the permanent delegate of France to The Hague Tribunal."[20]
1908		Klas Pontus Arnoldson	Sweden	"Founder of Swedish Peace and Arbitration League"[21]
		Fredrik Bajer	Denmark	"[for his]work in the Inter-Parliamentary Union with being the first president of the International Peace Bureau"[10][21]
1909		Auguste Marie François Beernaert	Belgium	"Former Prime Minister; Member, Belgian Parliament; Member of Cour Internationale d'Arbitrage"[22]
		Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant	France	"Member, French Parliament (Sénateur); Founder and President of French parliamentary group for voluntary arbitration; Founder, Committee for the Defense of National Interests and International Conciliation"[22]
1910		International Peace Bureau	Switzerland	"Founded in 1891"[23]
1911		Tobias Michael Carel Asser	The Netherlands	"Initiator of the Conferences on International Private Law at the Hague; Cabinet Minister; Lawyer"[24]
		Alfred Hermann Fried	Austria	"Journalist; Founder of Die Friedenswarte"[24]
1912		Elihu Root	United States	"Former Secretary of State; Originator of various treaties of arbitration"[25]
1913		Henri La Fontaine	Belgium	"Member, Belgian Parliament (Sénateur); President, Permanent International Peace Bureau"[26]
1914	Not awarded
1915
1916
1917		International Committee of the Red Cross	Switzerland	[27]
1918	Not awarded
1919		Woodrow Wilson	United States	"President of United States of America; Founder of the League of Nations"[28]
1920		Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois	France	"Former Secretary of State; President, French Parliament (Sénat); President, Council of the League of Nations"[29]
1921		Hjalmar Branting	Sweden	"Prime Minister; Swedish Delegate, Council of the League of Nations"[30]
		Christian Lous Lange	Norway	"Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union"[30]
1922		Fridtjof Nansen	Norway	"Scientist; Explorer; Norwegian Delegate, League of Nations; Originator of "Nansen passports""[31]
1923	Not awarded
1924
1925		Austen Chamberlain	United Kingdom	"Foreign Secretary; Part-originator of Locarno Pact"[32]
		Charles Gates Dawes	United States	"Vice-President of United States of America; Chairman of Allied Reparation Commission (Originator of "Dawes Plan")"[32]
1926		Aristide Briand	France	"Foreign Minister; Part-originator of Locarno Pact and Briand-Kellogg Pact"[33]
		Gustav Stresemann	Germany	"Former Lord High Chancellor (Reichs-kanzler); Foreign Minister; Part-originator of Locarno Pact"[33]
1927		Ferdinand Buisson	France	"Formerly Professor, Sorbonne University, Paris; Founder and President, League for Human Rights"[34]
		Ludwig Quidde	Germany	"Professor, Berlin University; Member, German Parliament; Participant of various peace conferences"[34]
1928	Not awarded
1929		Frank B. Kellogg	United States	"Former Secretary of State; Part-originator of Briand-Kellogg Pact"[35]
1930		Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom	Sweden	"Archbishop; Leader in the ecumenical movement"[36]
1931		Jane Addams	United States	"Sociologist; International President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom"[37]
		Nicholas Murray Butler	United States	"President, Columbia University; Promoter of Briand Kellogg Pact"[37]
1932	Not awarded
1933		Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)	United Kingdom	"Writer; Member, Executive Committee of the League of Nations and of National Peace Council"[38]
1934		Arthur Henderson	United Kingdom	"Former Foreign Secretary; President, Disarmament Conference in 1932"[39]
1935		Carl von Ossietzky	Germany	"Journalist (die Weltbühne); Pacifist"[40]
1936		Carlos Saavedra Lamas	Argentina	"Secretary of State; President, League of Nations; Mediator in a conflict between Paraguay and Bolivia"[41]
1937		The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood	United Kingdom	"Writer, Former Lord Privy Seal; Founder and President, International Peace Campaign"[42]
1938		Nansen International Office For Refugees	Switzerland	"An international relief organization, started by Fridtjof Nansen in 1921"[43]
1939	Not awarded
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944		International Committee of the Red Cross	Switzerland	[44]
1945		Cordell Hull	United States	"Former Secretary of State; Prominent participant in the originating of the United Nations"[45]
1946		Emily Greene Balch	United States	"Formerly Professor of History and Sociology; Honorary International President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom"[46]
		John Raleigh Mott	United States	"Chairman, International Missionary Council; President, World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations"[46]
1947		Friends Service Council	United Kingdom	[47]
		American Friends Service Committee	United States
1948	Not awarded
1949		The Lord Boyd-Orr	United Kingdom	"Physician; Alimentary Politician; Prominent organizer and Director, General Food and Agricultural Organization; President, National Peace Council and World Union of Peace Organizations"[48]
1950		Ralph Bunche	United States	"Professor, Harvard University Cambridge, MA; Director, division of Trusteeship, U.N.; Acting Mediator in Palestine, 1948"[49]
1951		Léon Jouhaux	France	"President of the International Committee of the European Council, vice president of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, vice president of the World Federation of Trade Unions, member of the ILO Council, delegate to the United Nations"[50]
1952		Albert Schweitzer	France	"Missionary surgeon; Founder of Lambaréné (République de Gabon)"[51]
1953		George Catlett Marshall	United States	"General President American Red Cross; Former Secretary of State and of Defense; Delegate U.N.; Originator of "Marshall Plan""[52]
1954		United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	Switzerland	"An international relief organization founded by the U.N. in 1951"[53]
1955	Not awarded
1956
1957		Lester Bowles Pearson	Canada	"former Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada; former President of the 7th Session of the United Nations General Assembly";[54] "for his role in trying to end the Suez conflict and to solve the Middle East question through the United Nations."[10]
1958		Georges Pire	Belgium	"Father of the Dominican Order; Leader of the relief organization for refugees "L'Europe du Coeur au Service du Monde""[55]
1959		Philip J. Noel-Baker	United Kingdom	"Member of Parliament; lifelong ardent worker for international peace and co-operation"[56]
1960		Albert Lutuli	South Africa	"President of the African National Congress,"[57] "was in the very forefront of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa."[10]
1961		Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld	Sweden	"Secretary General of the U.N.,"[58] awarded "for strengthening the organization."[10]
1962		Linus Carl Pauling	United States	"for his campaign against nuclear weapons testing"[59]
1963		International Committee of the Red Cross	Switzerland	[60]
		League of Red Cross societies	Switzerland
1964		Martin Luther King, Jr.	United States	"campaigner for civil rights"[61]
1965		United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)	United Nations	"An international aid organization." [62]
1966	Not awarded
1967
1968		René Cassin	France	"President of the European Court for Human Rights"[63]
1969		International Labour Organization	United Nations	[64]
1970		Norman E. Borlaug	United States	"International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center;"[65] "for his contributions to the "green revolution" that was having such an impact on food production particularly in Asia and in Latin America."[10]
1971		Willy Brandt	Federal Republic of Germany	"Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; for West Germany's Ostpolitik"[66]
1972	Not awarded
1973		Henry A. Kissinger	United States	"For the 1973 Paris agreement intended to bring about a cease-fire in the Vietnam war and a withdrawal of the American forces"[67][10]
		Lê Ðức Thọ (refused)	Democratic Republic of Vietnam
1974		Seán MacBride	Ireland	"President of the International Peace Bureau; President of the Commission of Namibia."[68] "For his strong interest in human rights: piloting the European Convention on Human Rights through the Council of Europe, helping found and then lead Amnesty International and serving as secretary-general of the International Commission of Jurists"[10]
		Eisaku Sato	Japan	"Prime Minister of Japan,"[68] "for his renunciation of the nuclear option for Japan and his efforts to further regional reconciliation"[10]
1975		Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov	Soviet Union	"[for his] struggle for human rights, for disarmament, and for cooperation between all nations"[69][70]
1976		Betty Williams	United Kingdom	"Founder[s] of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People)"[71]
		Mairead Corrigan	United Kingdom
1977		Amnesty International	United Kingdom	"[for] protecting the human rights of prisoners of conscience"[72][10]
1978		Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat	Egypt	"for the Camp David Agreement, which brought about a negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel"[73]
		Menachem Begin	Israel
1979		Mother Teresa	India	"Leader of Missionaries of Charity"[74]
1980		Adolfo Pérez Esquivel	Argentina	"Human rights leader;"[75] "founded non-violent human rights organizations to fight the military junta that was ruling his country (Argentina)."[10]
1981		United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	United Nations	"An international relief organization founded by the U.N. in 1951"[76]
1982		Alva Myrdal	Sweden	"[for] their magnificent work in the disarmament negotiations of the United Nations, where they have both played crucial roles and won international recognition"[77][78]
		Alfonso García Robles	Mexico
1983		Lech Wałęsa	Poland	"Founder of Solidarność; campaigner for human rights"[79]
1984		Desmond Mpilo Tutu	South Africa	"Bishop of Johannesburg; former Secretary General, South African Council of Churches"[80]
1985		International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War	United States	For "authoritative information and by creating an awareness of the catastrophic consequences of atomic warfare. The committee believes that this in turn contributes to an increase in the pressure of public opposition to the proliferation of atomic weapons and to a redefining of priorities, with greater attention being paid to health and other humanitarian issues."[81]
1986		Elie Wiesel	United States	"Chairman of "The President's Commission on the Holocaust""[82]
1987		Óscar 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"[83]
1988		United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces	United Nations	"[for] their efforts [that] have made important contributions towards the realization of one of the fundamental tenets of the United Nations"[84][85]
1989		14th Dalai Lama	Tibet	"[for] his struggle for the liberation of Tibet [and] consistently has opposed the use of violence. He has instead advocated peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people."[86][87]
1990		Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev	Soviet Union	President of the Soviet Union, "for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community"[88]
1991		Aung San Suu Kyi	Burma	"for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights"[89]
1992		Rigoberta Menchú Tum	Guatemala	"[for] her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples"[90]
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"[91]
		Frederik Willem de Klerk	South Africa
1994		Yasser Arafat	Palestine	"to honour a political act which called for great courage on both sides, and which has opened up opportunities for a new development towards fraternity in the Middle East."[92]
		Yitzhak Rabin	Israel
		Shimon Peres	Israel
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"[93]
		Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs	Canada
1996		Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo	East Timor	"for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor."[94]
		José Ramos-Horta	East Timor
1997		International Campaign to Ban Landmines	United States	"for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines"[95]
		Jody Williams	United States
1998		John Hume	United Kingdom	"for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland"[96]
		David Trimble	United Kingdom
1999		Médecins Sans Frontières	Switzerland	"in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents"[97]
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"[98]
2001		United Nations		"for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"[99]
		Kofi Annan	Ghana
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"[100]
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."[101]
2004		Wangari Muta Maathai	Kenya	"for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"[102]
2005		International Atomic Energy Agency	Austria	"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"[103]
		Mohamed ElBaradei	Egypt
2006		Muhammad Yunus	Bangladesh	"for advancing economic and social opportunities for the poor, especially women, through their pioneering microcredit work"[104]
		Grameen Bank	Bangladesh
2007		Al Gore	United States	"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"[105]
		Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change	Switzerland
2008		Martti Ahtisaari	Finland	"for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts"[106]
2009		Barack Obama	United States	"for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."[107]