# Lenin Peace Prize

The International Lenin Peace Prize (Russian: международная Ленинская премия мира, mezhdunarodnaya Leninskaya premiya mira) was a Soviet Union award named in honor of Vladimir Lenin. It was awarded by a panel appointed by the Soviet government, to notable individuals whom the panel indicated had "strengthened peace among comrades". It was founded as the International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples, but was renamed the International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples (Russian: Международная Ленинская премия «За укрепление мира между народами», Mezhdunarodnaya Leninskaya premiya «Za ukrepleniye mira mezhdu narodami») as a result of de-Stalinization. Unlike the Nobel Prize, the Lenin Peace Prize was usually awarded to several people a year rather than to just one individual. The prize was mainly awarded to prominent Communists and supporters of the Soviet Union who were not Soviet citizens. Notable recipients include W. E. B. Du Bois, Fidel Castro, Lázaro Cárdenas, Salvador Allende, Mikis Theodorakis, Seán MacBride, Angela Davis, Pablo Picasso, Oscar Niemeyer, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, CV Raman and Nelson Mandela.

## History

The prize was created as the International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples on December 21, 1949, by executive order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in honor of Joseph Stalin's seventieth birthday (although this was after his seventy-first).
Following Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956 during the Twentieth Party Congress, the prize was renamed on September 6 as the International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples. All previous recipients were asked to return their Stalin Prizes so they could be replaced by the renamed Lenin Prize. By a decision of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 11, 1989, the prize was renamed the International Lenin Peace Prize. Two years later, after the collapse of USSR in 1991, the Russian government, as the successor state to the defunct Soviet Union, ended the award program. The Lenin Peace Prize is regarded as a counterpart to the existing Nobel Peace Prize.
The International Lenin Prize should not be confused with the International Peace Prize, awarded by the World Peace Council. In 1941 the Soviet Union created the Stalin Prize (later renamed the USSR State Prize), which was awarded annually to accomplished Soviet writers, composers, artists and scientists.

## Stalin Prize recipients

| Year | Name | Occupation | Country | Notes |
| 1950 | Eugénie Cotton (1881–1967) | Scientist, President of the Women's International Democratic Federation | France | Awarded 6 April 1951 |
| 1950 | Heriberto Jara Corona (1879–1968) | Politician, revolutionary | Mexico | Awarded 6 April 1951 |
| 1950 | Hewlett Johnson (1874–1966) | Church of England priest, Dean of Manchester (1924–1931), Dean of Canterbury (1931–1963) | United Kingdom | Awarded 6 April 1951 |
| 1950 | Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958) | Physicist, Member of the French Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Collège de France, President of the World Peace Council (1950–1958), Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1935) | France | Awarded 6 April 1951 |
| 1950 | Arthur Moulton (1873–1962) | Episcopal Bishop of Utah | United States | Declined |
| 1950 | Pak Chong-ae (1907–after 1986) | Workers' Party of North Korea politician, Chairwoman of the Korean Democratic Women's League (1945–1965) | North Korea | Awarded 6 April 1951 |
| 1950 | Soong Ching-ling (1893–1981) | Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang politician, Vice President of China (1949–1954; 1959–1975) | China | Awarded 6 April 1951 |
| 1951 | Jorge Amado (1912–2001) | Writer, Member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (1961–2001) | Brazil | Awarded 20 December 1951 |
| 1951 | Monica Felton (1906–1970) | Town planner, feminist, politician | United Kingdom | Awarded 20 December 1951 |
| 1951 | Guo Moruo (1892–1978) | Writer, scientist, politician, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1949–1978) | China | Awarded 20 December 1951 |
| 1951 | Pietro Nenni (1891–1980) | Italian Socialist Party politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy (1946–1947; 1968–1969), Deputy Prime Minister of Italy (1963–1968) | Italy | Awarded 20 December 1951 |
| 1951 | Oyama Ikuo (1889–1955) | Politician, Member of the House of Councillors of Japan | Japan | Awarded 20 December 1951 |
| 1951 | Anna Seghers (1900–1983) | Writer, Socialist Unity Party politician, founding member of the DDR Academy of Arts | East Germany | Awarded 20 December 1951 |
| 1952 | Johannes R. Becher (1891–1958) | Writer, Socialist Unity Party politician, founding member of the DDR Academy of Arts | East Germany | Awarded 20 December 1952 |
| 1952 | Elisa Branco (1912–2001) | Brazilian Communist Party politician, Vice President of the Council of Brazilian Advocates for Peace (1949–1960) | Brazil | Awarded 20 December 1952 |
| 1952 | Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967) | Writer, journalist, war correspondent for World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II | Soviet Union | Awarded 20 December 1952 |
| 1952 | James Gareth Endicott (1898–1993) | United Church of Canada clergyman, founder of Canadian Peace Congress, | Canada | Awarded 20 December 1952 |
| 1952 | Yves Farge (1899–1953) | Journalist, politician | France | Awarded 20 December 1952 |
| 1952 | Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) | Writer, Nobel laureate in Literature (1955) | Iceland | Awarded 20 December 1952 |
| 1952 | Saifuddin Kitchlew (1888–1963) | Barrister, politician, Vice President of the World Peace Council (1955–1959), President of the All-India Peace Council | India | Awarded 20 December 1952 |
| 1952 | Paul Robeson (1898–1976) | Singer, actor, civil rights movement activist, | United States | Awarded 20 December 1952 |
| 1953 | Andrea Andreen (1888–1972) | Physician, educator, Chairman of the Swedish Women's Left-Wing Association (1946–1964), Vice President of the Women's International Democratic Federation | Sweden | Awarded 12 December 1953 |
| 1953 | John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971) | Scientist, Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, Fellow of the Royal Society (1937), President of the World Peace Council (1959–1965) | United Kingdom | Awarded 12 December 1953 |
| 1953 | Isabelle Blume (1892–1975) | Belgian Labour Party politician, Member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for Brussels (1936–1954), President of the World Peace Council (1965–1969) | Belgium | Awarded 12 December 1953 |
| 1953 | Pierre Cot (1895–1977) | Radical Party politician, Member of the National Assembly of France for Savoie and Rhône (1928–1940) | France | Awarded 12 December 1953 |
| 1953 | Howard Fast (1914–2003) | Writer, 1952 American Labor Party presidential candidate | United States | Awarded 12 December 1953 |
| 1953 | Andrea Gaggiero [it] (1916–1988) | Priest | Italy | Awarded 12 December 1953 |
| 1953 | Leon Kruczkowski (1900–1962) | Writer, Member of the Sejm (1947–1962) | Poland | Awarded 12 December 1953 |
| 1953 | Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) | Poet, diplomat, Nobel laureate in Literature (1971) | Chile | Awarded 12 December 1953 |
| 1953 | Nina Popova (1908–1994) | Politician, Secretary of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions (1945–1957) | Soviet Union | Awarded 12 December 1953 |
| 1953 | Sahib Singh Sokhey (1887–1971) | Biochemist, Member of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Assistant Director General of the World Health Organization (1949–1952) | India | Awarded 12 December 1953 |
| 1954 | André Bonnard (1888–1959) | Scholar, writer, Professor at the University of Lausanne | Switzerland | Awarded 18 December 1954 |
| 1954 | Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) | Playwright, poet, theatre director | Austria (citizenship) East Germany (residence) | Awarded 18 December 1954 |
| 1954 | Nicolás Guillén (1902–1989) | Poet | Cuba | Awarded 18 December 1954 |
| 1954 | Felix Iversen (1887–1973) | Mathematician, Professor at the University of Helsinki, Chairman of the Peace Union of Finland | Finland | Awarded 18 December 1954 |
| 1954 | Thakin Kodaw Hmaing (1876–1964) | Poet | Burma | Awarded 18 December 1954 |
| 1954 | Alain Le Léap (1905–1986) | Trade unionist, General Secretary of the General Confederation of Labour (1948–1957) | France | Awarded 18 December 1954 |
| 1954 | Prijono (1907–1969) | Academic, Dean of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Indonesia (1950–1956) | Indonesia | Awarded 18 December 1954 |
| 1954 | Denis Pritt (1887–1972) | Barrister, Labour Independent Group politician, Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom for Hammersmith North (1935–1950) | United Kingdom | Awarded 18 December 1954 |
| 1954 | Baldomero Sanín Cano (1861–1957) | Essayist, linguist, journalist | Colombia | Awarded 18 December 1954 |
| 1955 | Muhammad al-Ashmar (1892–1960) | Rebel commander in Great Syrian Revolt and 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, Syrian Communist Party politician | Syria | Awarded 9 December 1955 |
| 1955 | Lázaro Cárdenas (1895–1970) | Mexican Army general, Institutional Revolutionary Party politician, President of Mexico (1934–1940) | Mexico | Awarded 9 December 1955 |
| 1955 | Ragnar Forbech [no] (1894–1975) | Priest, Chaplain of Oslo Cathedral (1947–1964) | Norway | Awarded 9 December 1955 |
| 1955 | Seki Akiko (1899–1973) | Singer | Japan | Awarded 9 December 1955 |
| 1955 | Tôn Đức Thắng (1888–1980) | Communist Party of Vietnam politician, Chairman of the National Assembly of North Vietnam (1955–1960), President of North Vietnam (1969–1976), President of Vietnam (1976–1980) | Vietnam | Awarded 9 December 1955 |
| 1955 | Karl Joseph Wirth (1879–1956) | Bund der Deutschen politician, Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (1921–1922) | West Germany | Awarded 9 December 1955 |
| Unknown year (before 1953) | Martin Andersen Nexø (1869–1954) | Writer | Denmark | |

## Lenin Prize recipients

| Year | Name | Occupation | Country | Notes |
| 1957 | Louis Aragon (1897–1982) | Poet | France | |
| 1957 | Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie (1900–1969) | Journalist, former French Resistance partisan, Union progressiste politician, Minister of the Interior of the Provisional Government of the French Republic (1943–1944), Member of the National Assembly of France for Ille-et-Vilaine (1945–1958) | France | |
| 1957 | Heinrich Brandweiner [de] (1910–1997) | Jurist, Chairman of the Peace Council of Austria | Austria | |
| 1957 | Danilo Dolci (1924–1997) | Social activist, educator, sociologist | Italy | |
| 1957 | María Rosa Oliver (1898–1977) | Writer, essayist | Argentina | |
| 1957 | Udakendawala Siri Saranankara Thero [nl] (1902–1966) | Buddhist monk | Ceylon | |
| 1957 | Nikolai Tikhonov (1896–1979) | Writer, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee (1949–1979) | Soviet Union | |
| 1958 | C. V. Raman (1888–1970) | Physicist, Professor at the University of Calcutta, Founder and President of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1934–1970) | India | Awarded on 14 June 1958 |
| 1958 | Josef Hromádka (1889–1969) | Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren theologian, founder of the Christian Peace Conference | Czechoslovakia | |
| 1958 | Artur Lundkvist (1906–1991) | Writer, literary critic, Member of the Swedish Academy (1968–1991) | Sweden | |
| 1958 | Louis Saillant (1906–1991) | Trade unionist, General Secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions (1945–1969) | France | |
| 1958 | Kaoru Yasui [ja] (1907–1980) | Jurist, scholar, Professor at the University of Tokyo, Chairman of the Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (1954–1965) | Japan | |
| 1958 | Arnold Zweig (1887–1968) | Writer | East Germany | |
| 1959 | Otto Buchwitz (1879–1964) | Politician, Member of the Reichstag (1924–1933), Member of the Volkskammer (1946–1964) | East Germany | Awarded 30 April 1959 |
| 1959 | W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) | Sociologist, historian, civil rights movement activist, professor at Atlanta University, founder of the NAACP | United States | Awarded 30 April 1959 |
| 1959 | Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) | Politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953–1964) | Soviet Union | Awarded 30 April 1959 |
| 1959 | Ivor Montagu (1904–1984) | Filmmaker, critic | United Kingdom | Awarded 30 April 1959 |
| 1959 | Kostas Varnalis (1884–1974) | Poet | Greece | Awarded 30 April 1959 |
| 1960 | Laurent Casanova (1906–1972) | French Communist Party politician, Member of the National Assembly of France for Seine-et-Marne(1945–1958) | France | Awarded 3 May 1960 |
| 1960 | Cyrus S. Eaton (1883–1979) | Industrialist, organizer of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs | Canada United States | Awarded 3 May 1960 |
| 1960 | Aziz Sharif [ar] (1904–1990) | Politician, Chairman of the Peace Partisans Organization of Iraq | Iraq | Awarded 3 May 1960 |
| 1960 | Sukarno (1901–1970) | Politician, Indonesian National Revolution commander, President of Indonesia (1945–1967) | Indonesia | Awarded 3 May 1960 |
| 1961 | Fidel Castro (1926–2016) | Politician, leader of Cuban Revolution, Prime Minister of Cuba (1959–1976), President of Cuba (1976–2008) | Cuba | Awarded 30 April 1961 |
| 1961 | Ostap Dłuski [pl] (1892–1964) | Politician, Member of the Sejm (1961–1964) | Poland | Awarded 30 April 1961 |
| 1961 | Bill Morrow (1888–1980) | Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) politician, Member of the Australian Senate (1947–1953) | Australia | Awarded 30 April 1961 |
| 1961 | Rameshwari Nehru (1886–1966) | Social worker, founder of the All India Women's Conference | India | Awarded 30 April 1961 |
| 1961 | Mihail Sadoveanu (1880–1961) | Writer | Romania | Awarded 30 April 1961 |
| 1961 | Antoine Tabet (1907–1964) | Architect, Chairman of the Lebanese National Peace Council | Lebanon | Awarded 30 April 1961 |
| 1961 | Ahmed Sékou Touré (1922–1984) | Democratic Party of Guinea politician, President of Guinea (1958–1984) | Guinea | Awarded 30 April 1961 |
| 1962 | István Dobi (1898–1968) | Politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (1948–1952) | Hungary | Awarded 30 April 1962 |
| 1962 | Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911–1984) | Poet | Pakistan | Awarded 30 April 1962 |
| 1962 | Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972) | Convention People's Party politician, Prime Minister of Ghana (1957–1960), President of Ghana (1960–1966) | Ghana | Awarded 30 April 1962 |
| 1962 | Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) | Painter, sculptor | Spain | Awarded 30 April 1962 |
| 1962 | Olga Poblete (1908–1999) | Teacher, feminist, Professor at the University of Chile, President of the Chilean Movement of Advocates for Peace | Chile | Awarded 30 April 1962 |
| 1963 | Manolis Glezos (1922–2020) | Communist Party of Greece politician, Greek Resistance/Greek Civil War guerilla | Greece | Awarded 1 May 1963 |
| 1963 | Modibo Keïta (1915–1977) | Politician, President of Mali (1960–1968) | Mali | Awarded 1 May 1963 |
| 1963 | Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) | Architect, helped design Brasília and Headquarters of the United Nations | Brazil | Awarded 1 May 1963 |
| 1963 | Georgi Traykov (1898–1975) | Bulgarian Agrarian National Union politician, Chairman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria (1964–1971) | Bulgaria | Awarded 1 May 1963 |
| 1964 | Rafael Alberti (1902–1999) | Poet | Spain | Awarded 1 May 1964 |
| 1964 | Aruna Asaf Ali (1909–1996) | Communist Party of India politician, Indian independence movement activist, Vice President of the Women's International Democratic Federation | India | Presented 14 August 1965 |
| 1964 | Ahmed Ben Bella (1916–2012) | National Liberation Front politician, Algerian War revolutionary, President of Algeria (1963–1965) | Algeria | Awarded 1 May 1964 |
| 1964 | Herluf Bidstrup (1912–1988) | Cartoonist, illustrator | Denmark | Awarded 1 May 1964 |
| 1964 | Dolores Ibárruri (1895–1989) | Politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (1942–1960) | Spain | Awarded 1 May 1964 |
| 1964 | Ota Kaoru (1912–1998) | Trade unionist, Chairman of the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan (1955–1966) | Japan | Awarded 1 May 1964 |
| 1965 | Peter Ayodele Curtis Joseph (1920–2006) | Politician | Nigeria | |
| 1965 | Jamsrangiin Sambuu (1895–1972) | Politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural (1954–1972) | Mongolia | |
| 1965 | Mirjam Vire-Tuominen [fi] (1919–2011) | Politician, General Secretary of the Finnish Peace Committee (1949–1975), General Secretary of the Women's International Democratic Federation (1978–1987), Member of the Parliament of Finland (1970–1979) | Finland | |
| 1966 | David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896–1974) | Painter | Mexico | Awarded 1 May 1967 |
| 1966 | Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974) | Writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate in Literature (1967) | Guatemala | |
| 1966 | Bram Fischer (1908–1975) | Advocate, anti-apartheid activist, Communist Party of South Africa politician, | South Africa | Awarded 1 May 1967 |
| 1966 | Rockwell Kent (1882–1971) | Painter, printmaker, adventurer | United States | Awarded 1 May 1967 |
| 1966 | Ivan Málek [cs] (1909–1994) | Microbiologist, Professor at Charles University, Member of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia (1960–1968) | Czechoslovakia | Awarded 1 May 1967 |
| 1966 | Giacomo Manzù (1908–1991) | Sculptor | Italy | |
| 1966 | Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) | Lutheran pastor, theologian, founder of Confessing Church, President of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau (1949–1961), President of the World Council of Churches (1961–1968) | West Germany | Awarded 1 May 1967 |
| 1966 | Herbert Warnke (1902–1975) | Trade unionist, Chairman of the Free German Trade Union Federation (1946–1975) | East Germany | Awarded 1 May 1967 |
| 1967 | Romesh Chandra (1919–2016) | Communist Party of India politician, President of the World Peace Council (1977–1990) | India | |
| 1967 | Jean Effel (1908–1982) | Illustrator, journalist | France | |
| 1967 | Joris Ivens (1898–1989) | Documentary filmmaker | Netherlands | |
| 1967 | Nguyễn Thị Định (1920–1992) | Liberation Army of South Vietnam general, National Liberation Front politician, Vice President of Vietnam (1987–1992) | Vietnam/ Republic of South Vietnam | |
| 1967 | Endre Sík (1891–1978) | Politician, historian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary (1958–1961) | Hungary | |
| 1967 | Jorge Zalamea Borda (1905–1969) | Writer, politician | Colombia | |
| 1968–1969 | Akira Iwai (1922–1997) | Trade unionist, General Secretary of the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan | Japan | Awarded 16 April 1970 |
| 1968–1969 | Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894–1980) | Writer | Poland | Awarded 16 April 1970 |
| 1968–1969 | Khaled Mohieddin (1922–2018) | Egyptian Army major, National Progressive Unionist Party politician, Chairman of the Egyptian Peace Council | UAR | Awarded 16 April 1970 |
| 1968–1969 | Linus Pauling (1901–1994) | Chemist, educator, Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1954), Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1962) | United States | Awarded 16 April 1970 |
| 1968–1969 | Shafie Ahmed el Sheikh (1924–1971) | Trade unionist, politician | Sudan | Awarded 16 April 1970 |
| 1968–1969 | Bertil Svahnström [sv] (1907–1972) | Journalist, writer | Sweden | Awarded 16 April 1970 |
| 1970–1971 | Hikmat Abu Zayd (1922/1923–2011) | Arab Socialist Union politician, academic, Minister of Social Affairs of the United Arab Republic (1962–1965) | UAR | |
| 1970–1971 | Eric Burhop (1911–1980) | Physicist, Professor at University College London, Fellow of the Royal Society (1963) | Australia United Kingdom | |
| 1970–1971 | Ernst Busch (1900–1980) | Singer, actor | East Germany | |
| 1970–1971 | Tsola Dragoycheva (1898–1993) | Bulgarian Communist Party politician, Member of the National Assembly of Bulgaria (1946–1990) | Bulgaria | |
| 1970–1971 | Renato Guttuso (1912–1987) | Painter | Italy | |
| 1970–1971 | Kamal Jumblatt (1917–1977) | Progressive Socialist Party politician, Member of the Parliament of Lebanon (1947–1977) | Lebanon | |
| 1970–1971 | Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900–1978) | Teacher, leader of Abeokuta Women's Revolt, women's rights activist | Nigeria | |
| 1970–1971 | Alfredo Varela (1914–1984) | Writer | Argentina | |
| 1972 | James Aldridge (1918–2015) | Writer | Australia United Kingdom | Awarded 1 May 1973 |
| 1972 | Salvador Allende (1908–1973) | Politician, physician, President of Chile (1970–1973) | Chile | Awarded 1 May 1973 |
| 1972 | Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) | Politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1964–1982) | Soviet Union | Awarded 1 May 1973 |
| 1972 | Enrique Pastorino (1918–1995) | Trade unionist, Communist Party of Uruguay politician, President of the World Federation of Trade Unions (1969–1975) | Uruguay | Awarded 1 May 1973 |
| 1973–1974 | Luis Corvalán (1916–2010) | Politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile (1958–1990) | Chile | |
| 1973–1974 | Raymond Goor [ru] (1908–1996) | Priest | Belgium | |
| 1973–1974 | Jeanne Martin Cissé (1926–2017) | Politician, teacher | Guinea | |
| 1973–1974 | Sam Nujoma (1929–2025) | Politician, anti-apartheid activist, leader of SWAPO during the South African Border War, President of Namibia (1990–2005) | South West Africa (before 1990) Namibia (after 1990) | |
| 1975–1976 | Hortensia Bussi de Allende (1913–2009) | Educator, librarian, First Lady of Chile (1970–1973) | Chile | Widow of Salvador Allende (recipient in 1972) Awarded May 1977 |
| 1975–1976 | János Kádár (1912–1989) | Politician, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (1956–1988) | Hungary | Awarded May 1977 |
| 1975–1976 | Seán MacBride (1904–1988) | Clann na Poblachta politician, barrister, International chairman of Amnesty International (1965–1974), Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1974) | Ireland France | Awarded May 1977 |
| 1975–1976 | Samora Machel (1933–1986) | FRELIMO politician, Mozambican War of Independence revolutionary, President of Mozambique (1975–1986) | Mozambique | Awarded May 1977 |
| 1975–1976 | Agostinho Neto (1922–1979) | MPLA politician, revolutionary, President of Angola (1975–1979) | Angola | Awarded May 1977 |
| 1975–1976 | Pierre Pouyade (1911–1979) | French Air Force brigadier general, Chairman of the Franco-Soviet Friendship Association | France | Awarded May 1977 |
| 1975–1976 | Yiannis Ritsos (1909–1990) | Poet | Greece | Awarded May 1977 |
| 1977–1978 | Kurt Bachmann (1909–1997) | Politician, Chairman of the German Communist Party (1969–1973) | West Germany | Awarded 1 May 1979 |
| 1977–1978 | Freda Brown (1919–2009) | Politician, President of the Women's International Democratic Federation (1975–1989) | Australia | Awarded 1 May 1979 |
| 1977–1978 | Vilma Espín (1930–2007) | Revolutionary, politician, President of the Federation of Cuban Women (1960–2007) | Cuba | Awarded 1 May 1979 |
| 1977–1978 | K. P. S. Menon (1898–1982) | Diplomat, Foreign Secretary of India (1948–1952) | India | Awarded 1 May 1979 |
| 1977–1978 | Halina Skibniewska (1921–2011) | Architect, politician, Deputy Marshal of the Sejm (1971–1985) | Poland | Awarded 1 May 1979 |
| 1979 | Hervé Bazin (1911–1996) | Writer | France | Awarded 30 April 1980 |
| 1979 | Angela Davis (born 1944) | Communist Party USA/CCDS member, second-wave feminist/anti-Vietnam War/prison abolition activist, academic, Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz | United States | Awarded 30 April 1980 |
| 1979 | Urho Kekkonen (1900–1986) | Politician, lawyer, President of Finland (1956–1982) | Finland | Awarded 30 April 1980 |
| 1979 | Abd al-Rahman al-Khamisi [ar] (1920–1987) | Poet, composer | Egypt | Awarded 30 April 1980 |
| 1979 | Lê Duẩn (1907–1986) | Politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (1960–1986) | Vietnam | Awarded 30 April 1980 |
| 1979 | Miguel Otero Silva (1908–1985) | Writer, journalist | Venezuela | Awarded 30 April 1980 |
| 1980–1982 | Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008) | Poet | Palestine | Awarded May 1983 |
| 1980–1982 | John Hanly Morgan (1918–2018) | Unitarian minister | United States Canada | Awarded May 1983 |
| 1980–1982 | Líber Seregni (1916–2004) | Broad Front politician, Uruguayan Army officer | Uruguay | Awarded May 1983 |
| 1980–1982 | Mikis Theodorakis (1925–2021) | Composer | Greece | Awarded May 1983 |
| 1983–1984 | Charilaos Florakis (1914–2005) | Politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (1972–1989) | Greece | Awarded September 1984 |
| 1983–1984 | Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) | Politician, Prime Minister of India (1980–1984), (1966–1977) | India | Awarded posthumously on 1 May 1985 |
| 1983–1984 | Jean-Marie Legay (1925–2012) | Academic | France | Awarded 1 May 1985 |
| 1983–1984 | Nguyễn Hữu Thọ (1910–1996) | Politician, Chairman of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (1969–1976), Vice President of Vietnam (1976–1992), Acting President of Vietnam (1980–1981), Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam (1981–1987) | Vietnam/ Republic of South Vietnam | Awarded 1 May 1985 |
| 1983–1984 | Eva Palmær [sv] (1904–1995) | Writer, chemist, Chairwoman of the Sweden-Soviet Union Association (1979–1987) | Sweden | Awarded 1 May 1985 |
| 1983–1984 | Luis Vidales (1904–1990) | Poet | Colombia | Awarded 1 May 1985 |
| 1983–1984 | Josef Weber [de] (1908–1985) | Politician, peace activist | West Germany | Awarded 1 May 1985 |
| 1985–1986 | Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann (1933–2017) | Sandinista National Liberation Front politician, Catholic Church priest, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua (1979–1990), President of the United Nations General Assembly (2008–2009) | Nicaragua | |
| 1985–1986 | Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994) | Chemist, Fellow of the Royal Society (1947), Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1964) | United Kingdom | |
| 1985–1986 | Herbert Mies (1929–2017) | Politician, Chairman of the German Communist Party (1973–1989) | West Germany | |
| 1985–1986 | Julius Nyerere (1922–1999) | Politician, anti-colonial activist, President of Tanzania (1964–1985) | Tanzania | |
| 1985–1986 | Petur Tanchev (1920–1992) | Politician, Member of the National Assembly of Bulgaria (1950–1990) | Bulgaria | |
| 1988 | Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928–2016) | Philanthropist, ascetic | Pakistan | |
| 1990 | Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) | Politician, founder of African National Congress, anti-apartheid activist, President of South Africa (1994–1999), Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1993) | South Africa | Unable to accept the prize until 2002 due to his trial and imprisonment in South Africa |
| 1990 | Martti Ahtisaari (1937–2023) | Politician, diplomat, President of Finland (1994–2000), Nobel Peace Prize laureate (2008) | Finland | |
| 1990 | Valerie Goulding (1918–2003) | Campaigner, Fianna Fáil politician, Member of the 14th Seanad (1977–1981) | Ireland | |