Nobel Peace Prize List

Year Laureate(s) Nationality Work for which cited (Citations) 1901* Jean Henri Dunant Switzerland Founder, Red Cross; Geneva Convention, Human rights. 1901* Frédéric Passy France Founder and President, Société d'arbitrage entre les Nations. 1902 Élie Ducommun Charles Albert Gobat Switzerland Honorary secretaries, Permanent International Peace Bureau in Berne. 1903 William Randal Cremer United Kingdom Secretary, International Arbitration League. 1904 Institut de Droit International Belgium 1905 Bertha Sophie Felicitas Baronin von Suttner Austria-Hungary/ Czech Honorary President, Permanent International Peace Bureau. 1906 Theodore Roosevelt United States President of the United States; peace treaty collaborations (brokering the Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War) 1907* Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Italy President, Lombard League of Peace 1907* Louis Renault France Professor of International Law 1908* Klas Pontus Arnoldson Sweden Founder, Swedish Peace and Arbitration Association 1908* Fredrik Bajer Denmark Honorary President, Permanent International Peace Bureau 1909* Auguste Marie François Beernaert Belgium Member of the Cour Internationale d'Arbitrage. 1909* Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant France founder and president of the French parliamentary group for international arbitration. Founder of the Comité de défense des intérets nationaux et de conciliation internationale 1910 International Peace Bureau Switzerland Berne 1911* Tobias Michael Carel Asser Netherlands initiator of the International Conferences of Private Law in The Hague. 1911* Alfred Hermann Fried Austria-Hungary founder of Die Waffen Nieder. 1912 Elihu Root United States for initiating various arbitration agreements. 1913 Henri La Fontaine Belgium President of the Permanent International Peace Bureau. 1914 [no award] 1915 [no award] 1916 [no award] 1917 International Committee of the Red Cross Switzerland 1918 [no award] 1919 Woodrow Wilson United States President of the United States, as foremost promoter of the League of Nations. 1920 Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois France president of the Council of the League of Nations. 1921* Hjalmar Branting Sweden prime minister, Swedish delegate to the Council of the League of Nations. 1921* Christian Lous Lange Norway secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union 1922 Fridtjof Nansen Norway Norwegian delegate to the League of Nations, originator of the Nansen passports for refugees. 1923 [no award] 1924 [no award] 1925* Austen Chamberlain United Kingdom for the Locarno Treaties. 1925* Charles Gates Dawes United States chairman of the Allied Reparations Commission and originator of the Dawes Plan. 1926* Aristide Briand France for the Locarno Treaties. 1926* Gustav Stresemann Germany for the Locarno Treaties. 1927* Ferdinand Buisson France founder and president of the League for Human Rights. 1927* Ludwig Quidde Germany delegate to numerous peace conferences. 1928 [no award] 1929 Frank B. Kellogg United States for the Kellogg-Briand Pact. 1930 Nathan Söderblom Sweden leader of the ecumenical movement. 1931* Jane Addams United States international president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom 1931* Nicholas Murray Butler United States for promoting the Kellogg-Briand Pact. 1932 [no award] 1933 Sir Norman Angell United Kingdom writer, member of the Executive Committee of the League of Nations and the National Peace Council. 1934 Arthur Henderson United Kingdom chairman of the League of Nations Disarmament Conference 1935 Carl von Ossietzky Germany pacifist journalist. 1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas Argentina president of the League of Nations and mediator in the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia. 1937 Robert Cecil United Kingdom founder and president of the International Peace Campaign 1938 Nansen International Office For Refugees Switzerland 1939 [no award] 1940 [no award] 1941 [no award] 1942 [no award] 1943 [no award] 1944 International Committee of the Red Cross Switzerland awarded retroactively in 1945 1945 Cordell Hull United States for co-initiating the United Nations. 1946* Emily Greene Balch United States honorary international president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom 1946* John R. Mott United States chairman of the International Missionary Council and president of the World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations 1947 Friends Service Council American Friends Service Committee United Kingdom United States on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers. 1948 [no award] May have been awarded to Mohandas Gandhi had he not been assassinated.[12] 1949 Lord Boyd Orr United Kingdom director general Food and Agricultural Organization, president National Peace Council, president World Union of Peace Organizations. 1950 Ralph Bunche United States for mediating in Palestine (1948) 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 UN. 1952 Albert Schweitzer France for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life", expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding the Lambaréné Hospital in Gabon 1953 George Catlett Marshall United States for the Marshall Plan 1954 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees United Nations 1955 [no award] 1956 [no award] 1957 Lester Bowles Pearson Canada President of the 7th session of the United Nations General Assembly for introducing peacekeeping forces to resolve the Suez Crisis. 1958 Georges Pire Belgium leader of L'Europe du Coeur au Service du Monde, a relief organization for refugees. 1959 Philip Noel-Baker United Kingdom "for his lifelong ardent work for international peace and co-operation." 1960 Albert Lutuli South Africa President, African National Congress 1961 Dag Hammarskjöld Sweden Secretary-General, United Nations (posthumous) 1962 Linus Carl Pauling United States "for his campaign against nuclear weapons testing." 1963 International Committee of the Red Cross League of Red Cross societies Switzerland 1964 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. United States Leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, campaigner for civil rights. 1965 United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) United Nations 1966 [no award] 1967 [no award] 1968 René Cassin France President, European Court of Human Rights. 1969 International Labour Organization Switzerland 1970 Norman Borlaug United States "for research at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center." 1971 Willy Brandt West Germany "for West Germany's Ostpolitik, embodying a new attitude towards Eastern Europe and East Germany." 1972 [no award] 1973 Henry A. Kissinger Lê Ðức Thọ (declined the honors) United States Vietnam The Vietnam peace accord 1974 Seán MacBride Eisaku Sato Ireland Japan president of the International Peace Bureau the Commission of Namibia of the United Nations. 1975 Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov Soviet Union Campaigns for human rights 1976 Betty Williams Mairead Corrigan United Kingdom Founders of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People). 1977 Amnesty International United Kingdom Campaign against torture 1978 Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat Menachem Begin Egypt Israel for negotiating peace between Egypt and Israel 1979 Mother Teresa Albania India Poverty awareness campaigner 1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel Argentina Human rights advocate 1981 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees United Nations 1982 Alva Myrdal Alfonso García Robles Sweden Mexico Delegates to the United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament 1983 Lech Wałęsa Poland Founder of Solidarność; campaigner for human rights 1984 Desmond Mpilo Tutu South Africa Anti-apartheid 1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War United States "for spreading authoritative information and by creating an awareness of the catastrophic consequences of atomic warfare." 1986 Elie Wiesel United States Romania author, Holocaust survivor 1987 Óscar Arias Sánchez Costa Rica "for initiating peace negotiations in Central America." 1988 United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces United Nations For participation in numerous conflicts since 1956. At the time of the award, 736 people from a variety of nations had lost their lives in peacekeeping efforts. 1989 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama Tibet India "for his consistent resistance to the use of violence in his people's struggle to regain their freedom." 1990 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв) Soviet Union "for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community" 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi () Myanmar "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights." 1992 Rigoberta Menchú Guatemala "in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples." 1993 Nelson Mandela Frederik Willem de Klerk South Africa "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa." 1994 Yasser Arafat (ياسر عرفات) Shimon Peres (שמעון פרס) Yitzhak Rabin (יצחק רבין) Palestinian National Authority Israel Israel "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East." 1995 Joseph Rotblat Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs Poland United Kingdom Canada "for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms." 1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo José Ramos-Horta East Timor "for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor." 1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines Jody Williams United States "for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines." 1998 John Hume David Trimble United Kingdom "Awarded for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland." 1999 Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium "in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents." 2000 Kim Dae Jung (김대중) 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." 2001 United Nations Kofi Annan United Nations Ghana "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world." 2002 James Earl (Jimmy) Carter, Jr. United States former President of the 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." 2003 Shirin Ebadi (شيرين عبادي) Iran "for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children." 2004 Wangari Maathai Kenya "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace." 2005 International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei (محمد البرادعي) United Nations Egypt "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." 2006 Muhammad Yunus (মুহাম্মদ ইউনুস) Grameen Bank Bangladesh "for advancing economic and social opportunities for the poor, especially women, through their pioneering microcredit work." 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Albert Arnold (Al) Gore, Jr. United Nations 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."