Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize (1901-2018)

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel awards started by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. From March 1901, it has been presented yearly to those who have “done the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”. According to Alfred Nobel’s will, the winner is elected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a five-member committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway. From 1990, the award is presented on 10 December in Oslo City Hall annually. The Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee give the Nobel Peace Prize in the presence of the King of Norway. It is given on 10 December annually. The Peace Prize is the only Nobel Prize not presented in Stockholm. The Nobel winner gets a diploma, a medal and a document confirming the prize amount. Alfred Nobel born on 21 October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden, into a family of engineers. He was a engineer, chemist and inventor who amassed a fortune during his lifetime, most of it from his 355 inventions of which dynamite is the most famous.

List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates–

Year Name Country
2018 Denis Mukwege Democratic Republic of the Congo
Nadia Murad Iraq
2017 International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Switzerland
2016 Juan Manuel Santos Colombia
2015 Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet Tunisia
2014 Kailash Satyarthi India
Malala Yousafzai Pakistan
2013 Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Netherlands
2012 European Union European Union
2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Liberia
Leymah Gbowee Liberia
Tawakkul Karman Yemen
2010 Liu Xiaobo China
2009 Barack Obama United States
2008 Martti Ahtisaari Finland
2007 Al Gore United States
2006 Muhammad Yunus Bangladesh
Grameen Bank Bangladesh
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change United Nations
2005 International Atomic Energy Agency United Nations
Mohamed ElBaradei Egypt
2004 Wangari Muta Maathai Kenya
2003 Shirin Ebadi Iran
2002 Jimmy Carter United States
2001 United Nations United Nations
Kofi Annan Ghana
2000 Kim Dae-Jung South Korea
1999 Medecins Sans Frontieres Switzerland
1998 John Hume Ireland
David Trimble United Kingdom
1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines Switzerland
Jody Williams United States
1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo East Timor
Jose Ramos-Horta East Timor
1995 Joseph Rotblat Poland
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs Canada
1994 Yasser Arafat Palestine (Born in Egypt)
Yitzhak Rabin Israel
Shimon Peres Israel (Born in  Poland)
1993 Nelson Mandela South Africa
Frederik Willem de Klerk South Africa
1992 Rigoberta Menchu Guatemala
1991 Aung San Suu Kyi Burma
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev Soviet Union
1989 Tenzin Gyatso India (Born in Tibet)
1988 United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces United Nations
1987 Oscar Arias Costa Rica
1986 Elie Wiesel United States (Born in Romania)
1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War United States
1984 Desmond Tutu South Africa
1983 Lech Walesa Poland
1982 Alva Myrdal Sweden
Alfonso Garcia Robles Mexico
1981 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees United Nations
1980 Adolfo Perez Esquivel Argentina
1979 Mother Teresa India (Born in Skopje, now  Republic of Macedonia)
1978 Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat Egypt
Menachem Begin Israel/Poland (Born in Russia)
1977 Amnesty International United Kingdom
1976 Betty Williams United Kingdom
Mairead Corrigan United Kingdom
1975 Andrei Sakharov Soviet Union
1974 Sean MacBride Ireland (Born in France)
Eisaku Sato Japan
1973 Henry Kissinger United States (Born in Germany)
Le Dec Tho Vietnam (North)
1972 Not awarded
1971 Willy Brandt West Germany
1970 Norman E. Borlaug United States
1969 International Labour Organization United Nations
1968 Rene Cassin France
1967 Not awarded
1966 Not awarded
1965 United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) United Nations
1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. United States
1963 International Committee of the Red Cross Switzerland
League of Red Cross Societies Switzerland
1962 Linus Pauling United States
1961 Dag Hammarskjold Sweden
1960 Albert Lutuli South Africa (Born in Southern Rhodesia)
1959 Philip Noel-Baker United Kingdom
1958 Dominique Pire Belgium
1957 Lester Bowles Pearson Canada
1956 Not awarded
1955 Not awarded
1954 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees
United Nations
1953 George C. Marshall United States
1952 Albert Schweitzer France
1951 Leon Jouhaux France
1950 Ralph Bunche United States
1949 The Lord Boyd-Orr United Kingdom
1948 Not awarded because “there was no suitable living candidate. (A tribute to the recently assassinated Gandhi in India)
1947 The Quakers (represented by Friends Service Council and American Friends Service Committee)
1946 Emily Greene Balch United States
John Raleigh Mott United States
1945 Cordell Hull United States
1944 international Committee of the Red Cross Switzerland
1943 Not awarded due to World War II
1942 Not awarded due to World War II
1941 Not awarded due to World War II
1940 Not awarded due to World War II
1939 Not awarded due to World War II
1938 Nansen International Office for Refugees League of Nations
1937 The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood United Kingdom
1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas Argentina
1935 Carl von Ossietzky Germany
1934 Arthur Henderson United Kingdom
1933 Sir Norman Angell United Kingdom
1932 Not awarded
1931 Jane Addams United States
Nicholas Murray Butler United States
1930 Nathan Soderblom Sweden
1929 Frank B. Kellogg United States
1928 Not awarded
1927 Ferdinand Buisson France
Ludwig Quidde Germany
1926 Aristide Briand France
Gustav Stresemann Germany
1925 Sir Austen Chamberlain United Kingdom
Charles G. Dawes United Kingdom
1924 Not awarded
1923 Not awarded
1922 Fridtjof Nansen Norway
1921 Hjalmar Branting Sweden
Christian Lange Norway
1920 Leon Bourgeois France
1919 Woodrow Wilson United States
1918 Not awarded due to World War I
1917 International Committee of the Red Cross Switzerland
1916 Not awarded due to World War I
1915 Not awarded due to World War I
1914 Not awarded due to World War I
1913 Henri La Fontaine Belgium
1912 Elihu Root United States
1911 Tobias Asser Netherlands
Alfred Fried Austria-Hungary
1910 Permanent International Peace Bureau Switzerland
1909 Auguste Beernaert Belgium
Paul Henri d’Estournelles de Constant France
1908 Klas Pontus Arnoldson Sweden
Fredrik Bajer Denmark
1907 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Italy
Louis Renault France
1906 Theodore Roosevelt United States
1905 Bertha von Suttner Austria-Hungary
1904 Institute of International Law Belgium
1903 William Randal Cremer United Kingdom
1902 Elie Ducommun Switzerland
Charles Albert Gobat Switzerland
1901 Henry Dunant Switzerland
Frederic Passy France