Nobel Laureates
(Click on laureate names for biographies) |
| Year | Winner | Achievement |
| 2008 | Martti Ahtisaari | "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts" |
| 2007 | Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) | "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" |
| 2006 | Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank | "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below" |
| 2005 | International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
and Mohamed ElBaradei | "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" |
| 2004 | Wangari Maathai | "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace" |
| 2003 | Shirin Ebadi | "for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children" |
| 2002 | Jimmy Carter |
"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" |
| 2002 | United Nations (U.N.) and Kofi Annan | "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world" |
| 2000 | Kim Dae-jung | "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" |
| 1999 | Médecins Sans Frontières | "in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents" |
| 1998 | John Hume and
David Trimble | "for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland" |
| 1997 | International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Jody Williams | "for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines" |
| 1996 | Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta | "for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor" |
| 1995 | Joseph Rotblat and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs | "for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms" |
| 1994 | Yasser Arafat,
Shimon Peres, and
Yitzhak Rabin | "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" |
| 1993 | Nelson Mandela and
F.W. de Klerk | "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa" |
| 1992 | Rigoberta Menchú Tum | "in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples" |
| 1991 | Aung San Suu Kyi | "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights" |
| 1990 | Mikhail Gorbachev | "for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community" |
| 1989 | His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso | "The Committee wants to emphasize the fact that the Dalai Lama in his struggle for the liberation of Tibet consistently has opposed the use of violence. He has instead advocated peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people." |
| 1988 | United Nations Peacekeeping Forces | "The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize is to be awarded to the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces. It is the considered opinion of the Committee that the Peacekeeping Forces through their efforts have made important contributions towards the realization of one of the fundamental tenets of the United Nations. Thus, the world organization has come to play a more central part in world affairs and has been invested with increasing trust." |
| 1987 | Oscar Arias Sánchez | "for his work for peace in Central America, efforts which led to the accord signed in Guatemala on August 7 this year" |
| 1986 | Elie Wiesel | "The Norwegian Nobel Committee has resolved that the Nobel Peace Prize for 1986 should be awarded to the author, Elie Wiesel. It is the Committee's opinion that Elie Wiesel has emerged as one of the most important spiritual leaders and guides in an age when violence, repression and racism continue to characterise the world." |
| 1985 | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | |
| 1984 | Desmond Tutu | "The Committee has attached importance to Desmond Tutu's role as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa." |
| 1983 | Lech Walesa |
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| 1982 | Alva Myrdal and
Alfonso García Robles | |
| 1981 | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | "The Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees has, in the opinion of the Committee, carried out work of major importance to assist refugees, despite the many political difficulties with which it has had to contend." |
| 1980 | Adolfo Pérez Esquivel | "Pérez Esquivel, architect and sculptor by profession, has held the chair of architecture in Buenos Aires. In 1974, having decided to devote his life to the struggle for human rights, he took on the day-to-day running of the organisation Servicio Paz y Justicia, which has its head office in Buenos Aires as well as subsidiaries in a number of Latin American countries." |
| 1979 | Mother Teresa | "In making the award the Norwegian Nobel Committee has expressed its recognition of Mother Teresa's work in bringing help to suffering humanity. This year the world has turned its attention to the plight of children and refugees, and these are precisely the categories for whom Mother Teresa has for many years worked so selflessly." |
| 1978 | Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem Begin | |
| 1977 | Amnesty International | |
| 1976 | Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan | |
| 1975 | Andrei Sakharov | "Sakharov's fearless personal commitment in upholding the fundamental principles for peace between men is a powerful inspiration for all true work for peace. Uncompromisingly and with unflagging strength Sakharov has fought against the abuse of power and all forms of violation of human dignity, and he has fought no less courageously for the idea of government based on the rule of law." |
| 1974 | Seán MacBride and
Eisaku Sato | |
| 1973 | Henry Kissinger | |
| 1972 | The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund |
| 1971 | Willy Brandt | |
| 1970 | Norman Borlaug | |
| 1969 | International Labour Organization | |
| 1968 | René Cassin | "It is this respect for human worth, irrespective of nationality, race, religion, sex, or social position, which animates Professor Cassin's life and work. And it is primarily for his contribution to the protection of human worth and the rights of man, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament today awards the Nobel Peace Prize to Réne Cassin." |
| 1967 | The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| 1966 | The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| 1965 | United Nations Children's Fund | |
| 1964 | Martin Luther King | |
| 1963 | International Committee of the Red Cross and League of Red Cross Societies | |
| 1962 | Linus Pauling | "... since 1946 has campaigned ceaselessly, not only against nuclear weapons tests, not only against the spread of these armaments, not only against their very use, but against all warfare as a means of solving international conflicts. |
| 1961 | Dag Hammarskjöld | |
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| 1960 | Albert Lutuli | |
| 1959 | Philip Noel-Baker | "Throughout this span of time, for forty-five years, Philip John Noel-Baker has dedicated his efforts to the service of suffering humanity, whether in time of war or in the intervals between wars. But above all else, his efforts to prevent war breaking out have been tireless and ceaseless." |
| 1958 | Georges Pire | "The Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament has this year awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the Belgian Dominican, Father Georges Pire, for his efforts to help refugees to leave their camps and return to a life of freedom and dignity." |
| 1957 | Lester Bowles Pearson | |
| 1956 | The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| 1955 | The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| 1954 | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | |
| 1953 | George C. Marshall | |
| 1952 | Albert Schweitzer | |
| 1951 | Léon Jouhaux | |
| 1950 | Ralph Bunche | |
| 1949 | Lord Boyd Orr | |
| 1948 | The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| 1947 | Friends Service Council and American Friends Service Committee | |
| 1946 | Emily Greene Balch and John R. Mott | |
| 1945 | Cordell Hull | |
| 1944 | International Committee of the Red Cross | |
| 1943 | The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| 1942 | The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| 1941 | The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| 1940 | The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| 1939 | The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| 1938 | Nansen International Office for Refugees | |
| 1937 | Robert Cecil | |
| 1936 | Carlos Saavedra Lamas | |
| 1935 | Carl von Ossietzky | |
| 1934 | Arthur Henderson |
| 1933 | Sir Norman Angell | |
| 1932 | The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| 1931 | Jane Addams, and Nicholas Murray Butler | |
| 1930 | Nathan Söderblom | |
| 1929 | Frank B. Kellogg | |
| 1928 | The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| 1927 | Ferdinand Buisson and Ludwig Quidde | |
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| 1926 | Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann | |
| 1925 | Sir Austen Chamberlain and Charles G. Dawes | |
| 1924 | The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| 1923 | The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| 1922 | Fridtjof Nansen | |
| 1921 | Hjalmar Branting and Christian Lange | |
| 1920 | Léon Bourgeois | |
| 1919 | Woodrow Wilson | |
| 1918 | The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| 1917 | International Committee of the Red Cross | |
| 1916 | The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| 1915 | The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| 1914 | The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| 1913 | Henri La Fontaine | |
| 1912 | Elihu Root | |
| 1911 | Tobias Asser and
Alfred Fried | |
| 1910 | Permanent International Peace Bureau | |
| 1909 | Auguste Beernaert and Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant | |
| 1908 | Klas Pontus Arnoldson and Fredrik Bajer | |
| 1907 | Ernesto Teodoro Moneta and Louis Renault | |
| 1906 | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| 1905 | Bertha von Suttner | |
| 1904 | Institute of International Law | |
| 1903 | Randal Cremer | |
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| 1902 |
Élie Ducommun and
Albert Gobat | |
| 1901 |
Henry Dunant and
Frédéric Passy | |
