Nobel Prize for Peace

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

Below find every winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, from 1901 through 2016. For years not listed, no award was made.

1901

Henri Dunant (Switzerland); Frederick Passy (France)

1902

Elie Ducommun and Albert Gobat (Switzerland)

1903

Sir William R. Cremer (U.K.)

1904

Institut de Droit International (Belgium)

1905

Bertha von Suttner (Austria)

1906

Theodore Roosevelt (U.S.)

1907

Ernesto T. Moneta (Italy) and Louis Renault (France)

1908

Klas P. Arnoldson (Sweden) and Frederik Bajer (Denmark)

1909

Auguste M. F. Beernaert (Belgium) and Baron Paul H. B. B. d'Estournelles de Constant de Rebecque (France)

1910

Bureau International Permanent de la Paix (Switzerland)

1911

Tobias M. C. Asser (Holland) and Alfred H. Fried (Austria)

1912

Elihu Root (U.S.)

1913

Henri La Fontaine (Belgium)

1917

International Red Cross

1919

Woodrow Wilson (U.S.)

1920

Léon Bourgeois (France)

1921

Karl H. Branting (Sweden) and Christian L. Lange (Norway)

1922

Fridtjof Nansen (Norway)

1925

Sir Austen Chamberlain (U.K.) and Charles G. Dawes (U.S.)

1926

Aristide Briand (France) and Gustav Stresemann (Germany)

1927

Ferdinand Buisson (France) and Ludwig Quidde (Germany)

1929

Frank B. Kellogg (U.S.)

1930

Lars Olaf Nathan Söderblom (Sweden)

1931

Jane Addams and Nicholas M. Butler (U.S.)

1933

Sir Norman Angell (U.K.)

1934

Arthur Henderson (U.K.)

1935

Karl von Ossietzky (Germany)

1936

Carlos de S. Lamas (Argentina)

1937

Lord Cecil of Chelwood (U.K.)

1938

Office International Nansen pour les Réfugiés (Switzerland)

1944

International Red Cross

1945

Cordell Hull (U.S.)

1946

Emily G. Balch and John R. Mott (U.S.)

1947

American Friends Service Committee (U.S.) and British Society of Friends' Service Council (U.K.)

1949

Lord John Boyd Orr (Scotland)

1950

Ralph J. Bunche (U.S.)

1951

Léon Jouhaux (France)

1952

Albert Schweitzer (French Equatorial Africa)

1953

George C. Marshall (U.S.)

1954

Office of U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees

1957

Lester B. Pearson (Canada)

1958

Rev. Dominique Georges Henri Pire (Belgium)

1959

Philip John Noel-Baker (U.K.)

1960

Albert John Luthuli (South Africa)

1961

Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden)

1962

Linus Pauling (U.S.)

1963

Intl. Comm. of Red Cross; League of Red Cross Societies (both Geneva)

1964

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (U.S.)

1965

UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)

1968

René Cassin (France)

1969

International Labor Organization

1970

Norman E. Borlaug (U.S.)

1971

Willy Brandt (West Germany)

1973

Henry A. Kissinger (U.S.); Le Duc Tho (North Vietnam)¹

1974

Eisaku Sato (Japan); Sean MacBride (Ireland)

1975

Andrei D. Sakharov (U.S.S.R.)

1976

Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams (both Northern Ireland)

1977

Amnesty International

1978

Menachem Begin (Israel) and Anwar el-Sadat (Egypt)

1979

Mother Teresa of Calcutta (India)

1980

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (Argentina)

1981

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

1982

Alva Myrdal (Sweden) and Alfonso García
Robles (Mexico)

1983

Lech Walesa (Poland)

1984

Bishop Desmond Tutu (South Africa)

1985

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

1986

Elie Wiesel (U.S.)

1987

Oscar Arias Sánchez (Costa Rica)

1988

U.N. Peacekeeping Forces

1989

Dalai Lama (Tibet)

1990

Mikhail S. Gorbachev (U.S.S.R.)

1991

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma)

1992

Rigoberta Menchú (Guatemala)

1993

F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela (both South Africa)

1994

Yasir Arafat (Palestine), Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin (both Israel)

1995

Joseph Rotblat and Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs (U.K.)

1996

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta (East Timor)

1997

International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Jody Williams (U.S.)

1998

John Hume and David Trimble (Northern Ireland)

1999

Doctors without Borders (France)

2000

Kim Dae Jung (South Korea)

2001

United Nations and Kofi Annan

2002

Jimmy Carter (U.S.)

2003

Shirin Ebadi (Iran)

2004

Wangari Maathai (Kenya)

2005

Mohamed ElBaradei (Egypt) and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

2006

Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh) and the Grameen Bank

2007

Al Gore (U.S.) and United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Switzerland)

2008

Martti Ahtisaari (Finland)

2009

Barack Obama (U.S.)

2010

Liu Xiaobo (China)

2011

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Liberia), Leymah Gbowee (Liberia), and Tawakkul Karman (Yemen)

2012

European Union (EU)

2013

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

2014

Kailash Satyarthi (India) and Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan/U.K.)

2015

National Dialogue Quartet (Tunisia)

2016

Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia)