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The Nobel Prize for Peace is awarded, according to the will of Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel, to “the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” Unlike the other prizes, the Peace Prize may be awarded to an institution. It is conferred by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo.

The table provides a list of winners of the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Nobel Prize winners by category (peace)
year name country*
*Nationality given is the citizenship of the recipient at the time the award was made. Prizes may be withheld or not awarded in years when no worthy recipient can be found or when the world situation (e.g., World Wars I and II) prevents the gathering of information needed to reach a decision.
1901 Henri Dunant Switzerland
Frédéric Passy France
1902 Élie Ducommun Switzerland
Charles-Albert Gobat Switzerland
1903 Sir Randal Cremer U.K.
1904 Institute of International Law (founded 1873)
1905 Bertha, baroness von Suttner Austria-Hungary
1906 Theodore Roosevelt U.S.
1907 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Italy
Louis Renault France
1908 Klas Pontus Arnoldson Sweden
Fredrik Bajer Denmark
1909 Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert Belgium
Paul-H.-B. d'Estournelles de Constant France
1910 International Peace Bureau (founded 1891)
1911 Tobias Michael Carel Asser Netherlands
Alfred Hermann Fried Austria-Hungary
1912 Elihu Root U.S.
1913 Henri-Marie Lafontaine Belgium
1917 International Committee of the Red Cross (founded 1863)
1919 Woodrow Wilson U.S.
1920 Léon Bourgeois France
1921 Karl Hjalmar Branting Sweden
Christian Lous Lange Norway
1922 Fridtjof Nansen Norway
1925 Sir Austen Chamberlain U.K.
Charles G. Dawes U.S.
1926 Aristide Briand France
Gustav Stresemann Germany
1927 Ferdinand-Édouard Buisson France
Ludwig Quidde Germany
1929 Frank B. Kellogg U.S.
1930 Nathan Söderblom Sweden
1931 Jane Addams U.S.
Nicholas Murray Butler U.S.
1933 Sir Norman Angell U.K.
1934 Arthur Henderson U.K.
1935 Carl von Ossietzky Germany
1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas Argentina
1937 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil U.K.
1938 Nansen International Office for Refugees (founded 1931)
1944 International Committee of the Red Cross (founded 1863)
1945 Cordell Hull U.S.
1946 Emily Greene Balch U.S.
John R. Mott U.S.
1947 American Friends Service Committee U.S.
Friends Service Council (FSC) U.K.
1949 John Boyd Orr, Baron Boyd-Orr of Brechin Mearns U.K.
1950 Ralph Bunche U.S.
1951 Léon Jouhaux France
1952 Albert Schweitzer Alsace
1953 George C. Marshall U.S.
1954 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (founded 1951)
1957 Lester B. Pearson Canada
1958 Dominique Pire Belgium
1959 Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker U.K.
1960 Albert John Luthuli South Africa
1961 Dag Hammarskjöld Sweden
1962 Linus Pauling U.S.
1963 International Committee of the Red Cross (founded 1863)
League of Red Cross Societies (founded 1919)
1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. U.S.
1965 United Nations Children's Fund (founded 1946)
1968 René Cassin France
1969 International Labour Organisation (founded 1919)
1970 Norman Ernest Borlaug U.S.
1971 Willy Brandt West Germany
1973 Henry Kissinger U.S.
Le Duc Tho (declined) North Vietnam
1974 Seán MacBride Ireland
Sato Eisaku Japan
1975 Andrey Dmitriyevich Sakharov U.S.S.R.
1976 Mairéad Corrigan Northern Ireland
Betty Williams Northern Ireland
1977 Amnesty International (founded 1961)
1978 Menachem Begin Israel
Anwar el-Sadat Egypt
1979 Mother Teresa India
1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel Argentina
1981 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (founded 1951)
1982 Alfonso García Robles Mexico
Alva Myrdal Sweden
1983 Lech Wałęsa Poland
1984 Desmond Tutu South Africa
1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (founded 1980)
1986 Elie Wiesel U.S.
1987 Oscar Arias Sánchez Costa Rica
1988 United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1989 Dalai Lama Tibet
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev U.S.S.R.
1991 Aung San Suu Kyi Myanmar
1992 Rigoberta Menchú Guatemala
1993 F.W. de Klerk South Africa
Nelson Mandela South Africa
1994 Yasser Arafat Palestinian
Shimon Peres Israel
Yitzhak Rabin Israel
1995 Pugwash Conferences (founded 1957)
Joseph Rotblat U.K.
1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo East Timor
José Ramos-Horta East Timor
1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines (founded 1992)
Jody Williams U.S.
1998 John Hume Northern Ireland
David Trimble Northern Ireland
1999 Doctors Without Borders (founded 1971)
2000 Kim Dae-Jung South Korea
2001 United Nations (founded 1945)
Kofi Annan Ghana
2002 Jimmy Carter U.S.
2003 Shirin Ebadi Iran
2004 Wangari Maathai Kenya
2005 Mohamed ElBaradei Egypt
International Atomic Energy Agency (founded 1957)
2006 Grameen Bank (founded 1976)
Muhammad Yunus Bangladesh
2007 Al Gore U.S.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (founded 1988)
2008 Martti Ahtisaari Finland
2009 Barack Obama U.S.
2010 Liu Xiaobo China
2011 Leymah Gbowee Liberia
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Liberia
Tawakkul Karmān Yemen
2012 European Union (founded 1993)
2013 Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (founded 1997)
2014 Kailash Satyarthi India
Malala Yousafzai Pakistan
2015 National Dialogue Quartet (founded 2013)
2016 Juan Manuel Santos Colombia
2017 International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (founded 2007)
2018 Denis Mukwege Democratic Republic of the Congo
Nadia Murad Iraq
2019 Abiy Ahmed Ethiopia
2020 World Food Programme (founded 1961)
2021 Dmitry Muratov Russia
Maria Ressa Phil./U.S.
2022 Ales Bialiatski Belarus
Center for Civil Liberties Ukraine
Memorial Russia
2023 Narges Mohammadi Iran
2024 Nihon Hidankyo Japan
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