List of all Nobel Peace Prize Winners since 1901

A people free to choose will always choose peace

Not necessarily an outlook on the world you might associate with Ronald Reagan, but it was he who said it. It’s also not far from the viewpoint of Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) – Swedish founder of all Nobel prizes which were first awarded in 1901. The first of all Nobel Peace Prize Winners since 1901 was Henry Dunant for his role in founding the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Nobel invented dynamite. Strange then, that he is today most famous for being the founder of The Nobel Peace Prize. His pacifist beliefs led him to hope that mutually assured destruction by weapons containing dynamite would discourage nations from ever going to war. Sadly, that didn’t go too well.

Nobel Peace Prize Winners	Year	Key Facts	Nationality / Country	Order
Henry Dunant	1901	Co-founder of the Red Cross with Gustave Moynier.	🇨🇭 Switzerland / France	1st
Frédéric Passy	1901	IPB Council Member.	🇫🇷 France	1st
Élie Ducommun	1902	Shared award. Élie Ducommun was the IPB’s first Secretary-General.	🇨🇭 Switzerland	2nd
Charles Albert Gobat	1902	Shared award. Albert Bobat was the IPB’s second Secretary-General.	🇨🇭 Switzerland	2nd
Sir William Randal Cremer	1903	Co-founder of the International Arbitration League.	🇬🇧 Great Britain	3rd
Institute of International Law.	1904	The ILL was founded by 11 lawyers in 1873 in Ghent, Belgium on has been nominated 59 times to date.	Worldwide	4th
Baroness Bertha von Suttner	1905	IPB Vice-President and founder of the permanent International Peace Bureau IPB Organization in Bern.	🇦🇹 Austria	5th
Theodore Roosevelt	1906	Theodore Roosevelt was USA President 1901-1901. Won Noble peace prize for the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth.	🇺🇸 USA	6th
Ernesto T. Moneta	1907	Shared award. IPB Council Member.	🇮🇹 Italy	7th
Louis Renault	1907	Shared award.	🇫🇷 France	7th
Klas P. Arnoldson	1908	Shared award.	🇸🇪 Sweden	8th
Fredrik Bajer	1908	Shared award. First IPB President.	🇩🇰 Denmark	8th
Auguste M. F. Beernaert	1909	Shared award.	🇧🇪 Belgium	9th
Paul H. B. B. d’Estournelles de Constant	1909	Shared award.	🇫🇷 France	9th
International Peace Bureau.	1910	International Peace Bureau IPB Organization.	International organization	10th
Tobias M. C. Asser	1911	Shared award. IPB Council Member.	🇳🇱 Netherlands	11th
Alfred H. Fried	1911	Shared award. IPB Council Member.	🇦🇹 Austria	11th
Elihu Root	1912		🇺🇸 USA	12th
Henri La Fontaine	1913	IPB President.	🇧🇪 Belgium	13th
N0 1914 Nobel Peace Prize Winners.	1914	NO Nobel Peace Prize Winners.
N0 1915 Nobel Peace Prize Winners.	1915	NO Nobel Peace Prize Winners.
N0 1916 Nobel Peace Prize Winners.	1916	NO Nobel Peace Prize Winners.
International Committee of the Red Cross.	1917	ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross humanitarian organization. The ICRC has won 3 Nobel peace prizes in 1917, 1944 and 1963.	International organization	14th
N0 1918 Nobel Peace Prize Winners.	1918	NO Nobel Peace Prize Winners.
Woodrow Wilson	1919		🇺🇸 USA	15th
Léon V. A. Bourgeois	1920		🇫🇷 France	16th
Karl H. Branting	1921	Shared award.	🇸🇪 Sweden	17th
Christian L. Lange	1921	Shared award.	🇳🇴 Norway	17th
Fridtjof Nansen	1922		🇳🇴 Norway	18th
N0 1923 Nobel Peace Prize Winners.	1923	NO Nobel Peace Prize Winners.
N0 1924 Nobel Peace Prize Winners.	1924	NO Nobel Peace Prize Winners.
Sir J. Austen Chamberlain	1925	Shared award.	🇬🇧 Great Britain	19th
Charles G. Dawes	1925	Shared award.	🇺🇸 USA	19th
Aristide Briand	1926	Shared award.	🇫🇷 France	20th
Gustav Stresemann	1926	Shared award.	🇩🇪 Germany	20th
Ferdinand E. Buisson	1927	Shared award.	🇫🇷 France	21st
Ludwig Quidde	1927	Shared award. IPB Council Member.	🇩🇪 Germany	21st
N0 1928 Nobel Peace Prize Winners.	1928	NO Nobel Peace Prize Winners.
Frank Billings Kellogg	1929		🇺🇸 USA	22nd
Nathan Söderblom	1930	Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom	🇸🇪 Sweden	23rd
Jane Addams	1931	Shared award.	🇺🇸 USA	24th
Nicholas Murray Butler	1931	Shared award.	🇺🇸 USA	24th
NO 1932 Nobel Peace Prize Winners.	1932	NO Nobel Prize Winners.
Sir Norman Angell	1933	Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)	🇬🇧 Great Britain	25th
Arthur Henderson	1934		🇬🇧 Great Britain	26th
Carl von Ossietzky	1935		🇩🇪 Germany	27th
Carlos de Saavedra Lamas	1936		🇦🇷 Argentina	28th
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood	1937	Cecil of Chelwood, Viscount (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil)	🇬🇧 Great Britain	29th
Nansen International Office for Refugees.	1938	International organization.	International organization	30th
N0 1939 Nobel Peace Prize Winners.	1939	NO Nobel Prize Winners.
N0 1940 Nobel Prize Winners.	1940	NO Nobel Peace Prize Winners.
N0 1941 Nobel Prize Winners.	1941	NO Nobel Peace Prize Winners.
N0 1942 Nobel Peace Prize Winners.	1942	NO Nobel Prize Winners.
N0 1933 Nobel Prize Winners.	1943	NO Nobel Peace Prize Winners.
International Committee of the Red Cross.	1944	ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross humanitarian organization. The ICRC has won 3 Nobel peace prizes in 1917, 1944 and 1963.	International organization	31st
Cordell Hull	1945		🇺🇸 USA	32nd
Emily Greene Balch	1946	Shared award.	🇺🇸 USA	33rd
John Raleigh Mott	1946	Shared award.	🇺🇸 USA	33rd
Friends Service Council	1947	Shared award. The Quakers.	🇬🇧 Great Britain	34th
American Friends Service Committee.	1947	Shared award. The Quakers.	🇺🇸 USA	34th
N0 1948 Nobel Peace Prize Winners.	1948	NO Nobel Prize Winners.
Lord John Boyd Orr of Brechin Mearns	1949		🇬🇧 Great Britain	35th
Ralph J. Bunche	1950		🇺🇸 USA	36th
Léon Jouhaux	1951		🇫🇷 France	37th
Albert Schweitzer	1952		🇫🇷 France	38th
George Catlett Marshall	1953		🇺🇸 USA	39th
Office of UN High Commission for Refugees.	1954	UN organization.	🇺🇳 UN	40th
N0 1955 Nobel Peace Prize Winners.	1955	NO Nobel Peace Prize Winners.
N0 1956 Nobel Prize Winners.	1956	NO Nobel Peace Prize Winners.
Lester Bowles Pearson	1957		🇨🇦 Canada	41st
Georges Pire	1958		🇧🇪 Belgium	42nd
Philip J. Noel-Baker	1959	IPB Vice-President.	🇬🇧 Great Britain	43rd
Albert John Luthuli	1960		🇿🇦 South Africa	44th
Dag Hammarskjöld	1961	Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was Secretary General of UN.	🇸🇪 Sweden	45th
Linus Carl Pauling	1962	IPB Vice-President.	🇺🇸 USA	46th
International Committee of the Red Cross.	1963	ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross humanitarian organization. The ICRC has won 3 Nobel peace prizes in 1917, 1944 and 1963.	International organization	47th
League of Red Cross Societies.	1963	International organization.	International organization	47th
Martin Luther King Jr.	1964		🇺🇸 USA	48th
UNICEF.	1965	UN organization..	🇺🇳 UNICEF	49th
N0 1966 Nobel Peace Prize Winners.	1966	NO Nobel Prize Winners.
N0 1967 Nobel Prize Winners.	1967	NO Nobel Peace Prize Winners.
René Cassin	1968		🇫🇷 France	50th
International Labor Organization.	1969	International organization..	International organization	51st
Norman E. Borlaug	1970		🇺🇸 USA	52nd
Willy Brandt	1971	Willy Brandt was Chancellor of Germany (1969-1974).	🇩🇪 Germany	53rd
N0 1972 Nobel Peace Prize Winners.	1972	NO Nobel Prize Winner.
Henry Kissinger	1973	Shared award.	🇺🇸 USA	54th
Le Duc Tho	1973	Shared Nobel Prize award.	North Vietnam	54th
Eisaku Sato	1974	Shared award.	🇯🇵 Japan	55th
Sean MacBride	1974	Shared award. Sean MacBridge was IPB Chairman (1968-1974) and President (1974-1985). Winner of the Lenin Peace Prize. Co-founder of Amnesty International.	🇮🇪 Ireland	55th
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov	1975		🇷🇺 Russia	56th
Mairead Corrigan	1976	Shared Nobel Prize award.	Northern Ireland	57th
Betty Williams	1976	Shared award.	Northern Ireland	57th
Amnesty International	1977	Amnesty International is an international organisation.	International organization	58th
Anwar Sadat	1978	Shared award. Anwar Sadat (1918-1981) was was the first Muslim Nobel prize laureate. He was President of Egypt (1970-1981) until he was assassinated on 6 October 1981 by Islambouli for signing the Camp David peace accords with Israel. Sadat shares the 1978 Nobel Prize for peace with Menachem Begin for reaching a peace treaty with Israel.	🇪🇬 Egypt	59th
Menachem Begin	1978	Shared award. Menachem Begin (1913-1992) was Prime Minister of Israel (1977-1983) and shares the 1978 Nobel Prize for peace with Anwar Sadat for reaching a peace treaty with Israel.	🇮🇱 Israel	59th
Mother Teresa of Calcutta	1979		🇦🇱 Albania / India.	60th
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel	1980		🇦🇷 Argentina	61st
Office of UN High Commission for Refugees.	1981	International organisation.	International organization	62nd
Alva Myrdal	1982	Shared award. IPB Vice-President.	🇸🇪 Sweden	63rd
Alfonso Garcia Robles	1982	Shared award.	🇲🇽 Mexico	63rd
Lech Walesa	1983	President of Poland	🇵🇱 Poland	64th
Bishop Desmond Tutu	1984	Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu	🇿🇦 South Africa	65th
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.	1985	International organization.	🇺🇸 USA	66th
Elie Wiesel	1986	Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) was a holocaust survivor, writer and political activist. Awarded the Nobel peace prize for his “practical work in the cause of peace”.	🇷🇴 Romania / United States	67th
Oscar Arias Sanchez	1987		🇨🇷 Costa Rica	68th
UN Peacekeeping Forces.	1988	UN organization..	International organization	69th
Dalai Lama	1989	The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)	Tibet	70th
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev	1990	As USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel peace prize “for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community”.	🇷🇺 Russia	71st
Aung San Suu Kyi	1991	Aung San Suu Kyi won the 1991 Nobel peace prize “for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights” in Myanmar (formerly Burma).	🇲🇲 Myanmar (Burma)	72nd
Rigoberta Menchú	1992	Rigoberta Menchú won the Nobel peace prize “in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples”.	🇬🇹 Guatemala	73rd
Frederik Willem de Klerk	1993	Shared award. As President of South Africa Frederik Willem de Klerk shared the 1993 Nobel peace prize with Nelson Mandela “for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa”.	🇿🇦 South Africa	74th
Nelson Mandela	1993	Shared award. Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) was jailed as a political prisoner for 27 years. As President of the ANC (African National Congress) he shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with President Frederik Willem de Klerk. After reaching a deal on peaceful transition to majority rule De Klerk released Mandela who was elected President of South Africa (1994-1999).	🇿🇦 South Africa	74th
Yasir Arafat	1994	Shared award. Yasir Arafat (1929-2004) was leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and President of the Palestinian National Authority. He shares the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East”.	Palestine	75th
Shimon Peres	1994	Shared award. Shimon Peres (1923-2016) was Foreign Minister of Israel and shares the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East”.	🇮🇱 Israel	75th
Yitzhak Rabin	1994	Shared award. Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995) was Prime Minister of Israel and shares the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Yasir Arafat and Shimon Peres “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East”.	🇮🇱 Israel	75th
Joseph Rotblat	1995	Shared award. Polish physicist Joseph Rotblat (1908-2005) withdrew from the Manhattan project in 1943. He campaigned through the Pugwash movement, and shares the 1995 Nobel peace prize with them, against the development of nuclear weapons.	🇵🇱 Poland / Great Britain	76th
Pugwash Conference.	1995	Shared award. Scholars against conflict share the 1995 Nobel peace prize with Joseph Rotblat for their efforts to “diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms”.	International organization	76th
Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo	1996	Shared award. Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo shared the Nobel Peace Prize with José Ramos-Horta for “their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor”.	🇹🇱 East Timor / Timor-Leste	77th
José Ramos-Horta	1996	Shared award. José Ramos-Horta shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo for “their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor”.	🇹🇱 East Timor / Timor-Leste	77th
Jody Williams	1997	Shared award. Jody Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines”.	🇺🇸 USA	78th
International Campaign to Ban Landmines.	1997	Shared award. ICBL, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, won the 1977 Nobel peace prize for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.	International organization	78th
John Hume	1998	Shared award. John Hume and David Trimble shared the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts “to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland”.	Northern Ireland	79th
David Trimble	1998	Shared award. David Trimble and John Hume shared the 1998 Nobel prize for peace for their efforts “to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland”.	Northern Ireland	79th
Médecins Sans Frontiéres	1999	MSF is also known in English as “Doctors without Borders” was awarded the 1999 Nobel peace prize “in recognition of the organization’s pioneering humanitarian work on several continents”.	International organization	80th
Kim Dae-jung	2000	Kim Dae-jung won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize 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”.	🇰🇷 South Korea	81st
The United Nations	2001	Shared award. The Nobel committee, in its centennial year shared the Nobel peace prize between the United Nations and and the UN Secretary General. The UN is an intergovernmental international organisation dedicated to international peace and security, dispute arbitration, human rights, international law and more.	🇺🇳 UN	82nd
Kofi Annan	2001	Shared award. UN Secretary General (1997-2006). Kofi Annan shared the 2001 Nobel Prize for Peace with the UN for prioritizing human rights and helping to revitalize the UN.	🇬🇭 Ghana	82nd
James “Jimmy” Carter	2002	Former US president “Jimmy” Carter (1977-1981) received the 2002 Nobel peace prize for efforts through The Carter Center “to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development”. He is the only US president to receive the award after leaving office.	🇺🇸 USA	83rd
Shirin Ebadi	2003	Shirin Ebadi was awarded the 2003 Nobel prize for “her efforts for democracy and human rights, especially the rights of women and children, in Iran and the Muslim world in general”.	🇮🇷 Iran	84th
Wangari Muta Maathai	2004	Wangari Maathai was awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize “for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace”.	🇰🇪 Kenya	85th
International Atomic Energy Agency.	2005	Shared award. IAEA International organization.	🇦🇹 Austria	86th
Mohamed ElBaradei	2005	Shared award. As Director General of the IAEA Mohamed ElBaradei shares the 2005 Nobel peace prize with the International Atomic Energy Agency.	🇪🇬 Egypt	86th
Muhammad Yunus	2006	Shared award. Muhammad Yunus shares the 2006 Nobel peace prize with Grameen Bank “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below”.	🇧🇩 Bangladesh	87th
Grameen Bank	2006	Shared award. Grameen Bank shares the 2006 Nobel peace prize with Muhammad Yunus “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below”.	🇧🇩 Bangladesh	87th
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.	2007	Shared award. International organization.	🇨🇭 Switzerland	88th
Albert Arnold Gore Jr.	2007	Shared award. Albert Arnold Gore Jr.	🇺🇸 USA	88th
Martti Ahtisaari	2008	Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland (1994-2000), won the 2008 Nobel award “for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts”.	🇫🇮 Finland	89th
Barack Obama	2009	Barack Obama, former US President (2009-2016), was awarded the Nobel peace prize for “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”.	🇺🇸 USA	90th
Liu Xiaobo	2010	Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) was a Chinese human rights activist and awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize “for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China”.	🇨🇳 China	91st
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf	2011	Shared award. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf shares the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize with Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman, three female political activists for their persistence in obtaining equal rights for women in Africa and Asia.	🇱🇷 Liberia	92nd
Leymah Gbowee	2011	Shared award. Leymah Gbowee shares the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkol Karman, three female political activists for their persistence in obtaining equal rights for women in Asia and Africa.	🇱🇷 Liberia	92nd
Tawakkol Karman	2011	Shared award. Tawakkol Karman shares the 2011 Nobel prize for peace with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee. These three female political activists won the award for their persistence in obtaining equal rights for women in Africa and Asia.	🇾🇪 Yemen	92nd
European Union	2012	The EU was awarded the 2012 Nobel peace prize for its contribution to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe over sixty years.	🇪🇺 EU	93rd
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.	2013	International organization.	International organization	94th
Kailash Satyarthi	2014	Shared award. Kailash Satyarthi is a children’s rights and education activist, the first natural born Indian Nobel peace laureate. He shared the 2014 Nobel peace prize with Malala Yousafzai for their efforts on the rights of children to education.	🇮🇳 India	95th
Malala Yousafzai	2014	Shared award. Malala Yousafzai is a female rights campaigner and the youngest Nobel peace prize winner. She shared the prize with Kailash Satyarthi for their efforts on the rights of children to education.	🇵🇰 Pakistan	95th
Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet.	2015	A group of 4 civil society organizations were awarded the 2015 Nobel peace prize for their contribution to building a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia following the 2011 Jasmine Revolution.	🇹🇳 Tunisia	96th
Juan Manuel Santos.	2016	Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia 2010-2018, was the sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel prize for his efforts negotiating with the FARC guerrillas which lead to a peace deal.	🇨🇴 Colombia	97th
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.	2017	ICAN won the 2017 Nobel peace prize “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.”	International organization	98th
Denis Mukwege	2018	Shared award. Denis Mukwege was the first Congolese Nobel peace prize laureate. He shared the prize with Nadia Murad for their efforts to end sexual violence in armed conflicts.	🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo	99th
Nadia Murad	2018	Shared award. Nadia Murad was the first Iraqi and Yazidi to be awarded a Nobel peace prize. She shared the award with Denis Mukwege for their “efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict”.	🇮🇶 Iraq	99th
Abiy Ahmed Ali	2019	Abiy Ahmed Ali, the current Prime Minister of Ethiopia, was awarded Nobel peace prize for his efforts to end conflict with neighboring Eritrea.	🇪🇹 Ethiopia	100th
World Food Programme (WFP)	2020	for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.	International organization	101st
Maria Ressa	2021	Shared award. Ressa was born in 1963, Manila, Philippines and awared the Nobel Peace Prize for her commitment to freedom of expression, human dignity and democratic government in the Philippines.	🇵🇭 Philippines	102nd
Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov	2021	Shared award. Muratov was born in 1961 in Kuybyshev (now in Russia) and awarded his half of the shared prize for his efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.	🇷🇺 Russia	102nd
Ales Bialiatski	2022	Shared Nobel prize award.  Ales Bialiatski is a human rights advocate. He won the Right Livelihood Award (aka “Alternative Nobel Prize”) in in 2020.	🇧🇾 Belarus	103rd
Memorial	2022	Shared Nobel Peace prize award. Memorial is a Russian human rights organization founded in 1989.	🇷🇺 Russia	103rd
Center for Civil Liberties	2022	Shared Nobel Peace prize award. The Center for Civil Liberties was founded in Kyiv in 2007.	🇺🇦 Ukraine	103rd
Narges Mohammadi	2023	for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.	🇮🇷 Iran	104th
Nihon Hidankyo	2024	for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.	🇯🇵 Japan	105th
TBA	2025	The 2025 Nobel prize for peace annoucement will be in October 2025.		106th