List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates

Table columns:
Year
Laureate
Laureate.1
Country
Rationale

Table rows:
cells: 1901
Henry Dunant
Switzerland
For his role in founding the International Committee of the Red Cross[9][13]
cells: Frédéric Passy
France
"[For] being one of the main founders of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and also the main organizer of the first Universal Peace Congress"[9][13]
cells: 1902
Élie Ducommun
Switzerland
"[For his role as] the first honorary secretary of the International Peace Bureau"[9][14]
cells: Charles Albert Gobat
"[For his role as the] first Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union"[9][14]
cells: 1903
William Randal Cremer
United Kingdom
"[For his role as] the 'first father' of the Inter-Parliamentary Union"[9][15]
cells: 1904
Institute of International Law
Belgium
"[F]or its efforts as an unofficial body to formulate the general principles of the science of international law"[9][16]
cells: 1905
Bertha von Suttner
Austria-Hungary
For writing Lay Down Your Arms and contributing to the creation of the Prize[9][17]
cells: 1906
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
"[For] his successful mediation to end the Russo-Japanese war and for his interest in arbitration, having provided the Hague arbitration court with its very first case"[9][18]
cells: 1907
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
Italy
"[For his work as a] key leader of the Italian peace movement"[9][19]
cells: Louis Renault
France
"[For his work as a] leading French international jurist and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague"[9][19]
cells: 1908
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Sweden
"[For his work as] founder of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League"[9][20]
cells: Fredrik Bajer
Denmark
"[For being] the foremost peace advocate in Scandinavia, combining work in the Inter-Parliamentary Union with being the first president of the International Peace Bureau"[9][20]
cells: 1909
Auguste Beernaert
Belgium
"[For being a] representative to the two Hague conferences, and a leading figure in the Inter-Parliamentary Union"[9][21]
cells: Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant
France
"[For] combined diplomatic work for Franco-German and Franco-British understanding with a distinguished career in international arbitration"[9][21]
cells: 1910
Permanent International Peace Bureau
Switzerland
"[For acting] as a link between the peace societies of the various countries"[22][23]
cells: 1911
Tobias Asser
Netherlands
"[For being a] member of the Court of Arbitration as well as the initiator of the Conferences on International Private Law"[9][24]
cells: Alfred Fried
Austria-Hungary
"[For his work as] founder of the German Peace Society"[9][24]
cells: 1912
Elihu Root[A]
United States
"[F]or his strong interest in international arbitration and for his plan for a world court"[9][25]
cells: 1913
Henri La Fontaine
Belgium
"[For his work as] head of the International Peace Bureau"[9][26]
cells: 1914
Not awarded due to World War I.
Not awarded due to World War I.
Not awarded due to World War I.
Not awarded due to World War I.
cells: 1915
cells: 1916
cells: 1917
International Committee of the Red Cross
Switzerland
"[For undertaking] the tremendous task of trying to protect the rights of the many prisoners of war on all sides [of World War I], including their right to establish contacts with their families"[9][27]
cells: 1918
Not awarded due to World War I.
Not awarded due to World War I.
Not awarded due to World War I.
Not awarded due to World War I.
cells: 1919
Woodrow Wilson
United States
"[F]or his crucial role in establishing the League of Nations"[9][28]
cells: 1920
Léon Bourgeois
France
"[For his participation] in both the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907" and for his work towards "what became the League to such an extent that he was frequently called its 'spiritual father'"[9][29]
cells: 1921
Hjalmar Branting
Sweden
"[F]or his work in the League of Nations"[9][30]
cells: Christian Lange
Norway
"[For his work as] the first secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee" and "the secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union"[9][30]
cells: 1922
Fridtjof Nansen
"[For] his work in aiding the millions in Russia struggling against famine" and "his work for the refugees in Asia Minor and Thrace"[31][32]
cells: 1923
Not awarded
Not awarded
Not awarded
Not awarded
cells: 1924
cells: 1925
Sir Austen Chamberlain[A]
United Kingdom
For work on the Locarno Treaties[9][33]
cells: Charles G. Dawes[A]
United States
"[F]or [work on] the Dawes Plan for German reparations which was seen as having provided the economic underpinning of the Locarno Pact of 1925"[9][33]
cells: 1926
Aristide Briand
France
For work on the Locarno Treaties[9][34]
cells: Gustav Stresemann
Germany
cells: 1927
Ferdinand Buisson
France
"[For] contributions to Franco-German popular reconciliation"[9][35]
cells: Ludwig Quidde
Germany
cells: 1928
Not awarded
Not awarded
Not awarded
Not awarded
cells: 1929
Frank B. Kellogg[A]
United States
"[F]or the Kellogg-Briand pact, whose signatories agreed to settle all conflicts by peaceful means and renounced war as an instrument of national policy"[9][36]
cells: 1930
Nathan Söderblom
Sweden
"[F]or his efforts to involve the churches not only in work for ecumenical unity, but also for world peace"[9][37]
cells: 1931
Jane Addams
United States
"[F]or her social reform work" and "leading the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom"[9][38]
cells: Nicholas Murray Butler
"[For his promotion] of the Briand-Kellogg pact" and for his work as the "leader of the more establishment-oriented part of the American peace movement"[9][38]
cells: 1932
Not awarded
Not awarded
Not awarded
Not awarded
cells: 1933
Sir Norman Angell[A]
United Kingdom
For authoring The Great Illusion and for being a "supporter of the League of Nations as well as an influential publicist [and] educator for peace in general"[39]
cells: 1934
Arthur Henderson
"[F]or his work for the League, particularly its efforts in disarmament"[9][40][41]
cells: 1935
Carl von Ossietzky[B]
Germany
"[For his] struggle against Germany's rearmament"[9][42]
cells: 1936
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Argentina
"[F]or his mediation of an end to the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia"[9][43]
cells: 1937
The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
United Kingdom
For his work with the League of Nations[9][44]
cells: 1938
Nansen International Office for Refugees
League of Nations
For its work in aiding refugees[45]
cells: 1939
Not awarded due to World War II.
Not awarded due to World War II.
Not awarded due to World War II.
Not awarded due to World War II.
cells: 1940
cells: 1941
cells: 1942
cells: 1943
cells: 1944
International Committee of the Red Cross
Switzerland
"[F]or the great work it has performed during the war in behalf of humanity"[46]
cells: 1945
Cordell Hull
United States
"[For] his fight against isolationism at home, his efforts to create a peace bloc of states on the American continents, and his work for the United Nations Organization"[47]
cells: 1946
Emily Greene Balch
"Formerly Professor of History and Sociology; Honorary International President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom"[48]
cells: John Raleigh Mott
"Chairman, International Missionary Council; President, World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations"[48]
cells: 1947
Friends Service Council
United Kingdom
"compassion for others and the desire to help them"[49]
cells: American Friends Service Committee
United States
cells: 1948
Not awarded because "there was no suitable living candidate." (A tribute to the recently assassinated Gandhi in India.)[8]
Not awarded because "there was no suitable living candidate." (A tribute to the recently assassinated Gandhi in India.)[8]
Not awarded because "there was no suitable living candidate." (A tribute to the recently assassinated Gandhi in India.)[8]
Not awarded because "there was no suitable living candidate." (A tribute to the recently assassinated Gandhi in India.)[8]
cells: 1949
The Lord Boyd-Orr
United Kingdom
"Physician; Alimentary Politician; Prominent organizer and Director, General Food and Agricultural Organization; President, National Peace Council and World Union of Peace Organizations"[50]
cells: 1950
Ralph Bunche
United States
"Professor, Harvard University Cambridge, MA; Director, division of Trusteeship, U.N.; Acting Mediator in Palestine, 1948"[51]
cells: 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 United Nations"[52]
cells: 1952
Albert Schweitzer
"Missionary surgeon; Founder of Lambaréné (République de Gabon)"[53]
cells: 1953
George C. Marshall
United States
"General President American Red Cross; Former Secretary of State and of Defense; Delegate U.N.; Originator of [the] 'Marshall Plan'"[54]
cells: 1954
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
United Nations
"An international relief organization founded by the U.N. in 1951"[55]
cells: 1955
Not awarded
Not awarded
Not awarded
Not awarded
cells: 1956
cells: 1957
Lester Bowles Pearson
Canada
"former Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada; former President of the 7th Session of the United Nations General Assembly";[56] "for his role in helping to end the Suez conflict and trying to solve the Middle East question through the United Nations."[9]
cells: 1958
Dominique Pire
Belgium
"Father in the Dominican Order; Leader of the relief organization for refugees "L'Europe du Coeur au Service du Monde""[57]
cells: 1959
Philip Noel-Baker
United Kingdom
"Member of Parliament; lifelong ardent worker for international peace and co-operation"[58]
cells: 1960
Albert Lutuli
South Africa (Born in Southern Rhodesia)
"President of the African National Congress,"[59] "was in the very forefront of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa."[9]
cells: 1961
Dag Hammarskjöld[C]
Sweden
"Secretary General of the U.N.,"[60] awarded "for strengthening the organization."[9]
cells: 1962
Linus Pauling
United States
"for his campaign against nuclear weapons testing"[61]
cells: 1963
International Committee of the Red Cross
Switzerland
For their work in the protection of human rights in the ICRC's 100 years of existence.[62]
cells: League of Red Cross Societies
cells: 1964
Martin Luther King, Jr.
United States
Campaigner for civil rights, "first person in the Western world to have shown us that a struggle can be waged without violence." King spent his time working in various areas of the civil rights movement; from equal education to economic disenfranchisement of minorities. King also organized the March on Washington, where he gave his famous “I Have a Dream Speech”.[63]
cells: 1965
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations
"An international aid organization." [64]
cells: 1966
Not awarded
Not awarded
Not awarded
Not awarded
cells: 1967
cells: 1968
René Cassin
France
"President of the European Court for Human Rights"[65]
cells: 1969
International Labour Organization
United Nations
[66]
cells: 1970
Norman E. Borlaug
United States
"International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center;"[67] "for his contributions to the "green revolution" that was having such an impact on food production particularly in Asia and in Latin America."[9]
cells: 1971
Willy Brandt
West Germany
"Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; for West Germany's Ostpolitik"[68]
cells: 1972
Not awarded
Not awarded
Not awarded
Not awarded
cells: 1973
Henry Kissinger
United States (Born in Germany)
"For the 1973 Paris agreement intended to bring about a cease-fire in the Vietnam war and a withdrawal of the American forces"[9][69]
cells: Lê Đức Thọ[D]
Vietnam (North)
cells: 1974
Seán MacBride
Ireland (Born in France)
"President of the International Peace Bureau; President of the Commission of Namibia."[70] "For his strong interest in human rights: piloting the European Convention on Human Rights through the Council of Europe, helping found and then lead Amnesty International and serving as secretary-general of the International Commission of Jurists"[9]
cells: Eisaku Satō
Japan
"Prime Minister of Japan,"[70] "for his renunciation of the nuclear option for Japan and his efforts to further regional reconciliation"[9]
cells: 1975
Andrei Sakharov[E]
Soviet Union
"[for his] struggle for human rights, for disarmament, and for cooperation between all nations"[71]
cells: 1976
Betty Williams
United Kingdom
"Founder[s] of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People)"[72]
cells: Mairead Corrigan
cells: 1977
Amnesty International
"[for] protecting the human rights of prisoners of conscience"[9][73]
cells: 1978
Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat
Egypt
"for the Camp David Agreement, which brought about a negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel"[74]
cells: Menachem Begin
Israel Poland (Born in Russia)
cells: 1979
Mother Teresa
India (Born in Skopje, now Republic of Macedonia)
"Founder of Missionaries of Charity"[75]
cells: 1980
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Argentina
"Human rights leader;"[76] "founded non-violent human rights organizations to fight the military junta that was ruling his country (Argentina)."[9]
cells: 1981
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
United Nations
"An international relief organization founded by the U.N. in 1951"[77]
cells: 1982
Alva Myrdal
Sweden
"[for] their magnificent work in the disarmament negotiations of the United Nations, where they have both played crucial roles and won international recognition"[78][79]
cells: Alfonso García Robles
Mexico
cells: 1983
Lech Wałęsa
Poland
"Founder of Solidarność; campaigner for human rights"[80]
cells: 1984
Desmond Tutu
South Africa
"... as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa. ... Through the award of this year's Peace Prize, the Committee wishes to direct attention to the non-violent struggle for liberation to which Desmond Tutu belongs, a struggle in which black and white South Africans unite to bring their country out of conflict and crisis."[81]
cells: 1985
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
United States
For "authoritative information and by creating an awareness of the catastrophic consequences of atomic warfare. The committee believes that this in turn contributes to an increase in the pressure of public opposition to the proliferation of atomic weapons and to a redefining of priorities, with greater attention being paid to health and other humanitarian issues."[82]
cells: 1986
Elie Wiesel
United States (Born in Romania)
"Chairman of "The President's Commission on the Holocaust""[83]
cells: 1987
Óscar Arias
Costa Rica
"for his work for peace in Central America, efforts which led to the accord signed in Guatemala on August 7 this year"[84]
cells: 1988
United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces
United Nations
"[for] their efforts [that] have made important contributions towards the realization of one of the fundamental tenets of the United Nations"[85][86]
cells: 1989
Tenzin Gyatso,14th Dalai Lama
India (Born in Tibet)[87]
"In his struggle for the liberation of Tibet [he] 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."[88][89]
cells: 1990
Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet Union
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and President of the Soviet Union, "for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community"[90]
cells: 1991
Aung San Suu Kyi[F]
Burma
"for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights"[91]
cells: 1992
Rigoberta Menchú
Guatemala
"for her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples"[92]
cells: 1993
Nelson Mandela
South Africa
"for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa"[93]
cells: Frederik Willem de Klerk
cells: 1994
Yasser Arafat
Palestine (Born in Egypt)
"to honour a political act which called for great courage on both sides, and which has opened up opportunities for a new development towards fraternity in the Middle East."[94]
cells: Yitzhak Rabin
Israel
cells: Shimon Peres
Israel (Born in Poland)
cells: 1995
Joseph Rotblat
United Kingdom (Born in Poland)
"for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms"[95]
cells: Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Canada
cells: 1996
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
East Timor
"for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor."[96]
cells: José Ramos-Horta
cells: 1997
International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Switzerland
"for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines"[97]
cells: Jody Williams
United States
cells: 1998
John Hume
United Kingdom
"for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland"[98]
cells: David Trimble
United Kingdom
cells: 1999
Médecins Sans Frontières
Switzerland
"in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents"[99]
cells: 2000
Kim Dae-jung
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"[100]
cells: 2001
United Nations
United Nations
"for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"[101]
cells: Kofi Annan
Ghana
cells: 2002
Jimmy Carter
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"[102]
cells: 2003
Shirin Ebadi
Iran
"for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children."[103]
cells: 2004
Wangari Muta Maathai
Kenya
"for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"[104]
cells: 2005
International Atomic Energy Agency
United Nations
"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"[105]
cells: Mohamed ElBaradei
Egypt
cells: 2006
Muhammad Yunus
Bangladesh
"for advancing economic and social opportunities for the poor, especially women, through their pioneering microcredit work"[106]
cells: Grameen Bank
cells: 2007
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
United Nations
"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"[107]
cells: Al Gore
United States
cells: 2008
Martti Ahtisaari
Finland
"for his efforts on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts"[108]
cells: 2009
Barack Obama
United States
"for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."[109]
cells: 2010
Liu Xiaobo
China
"for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China"[110]
cells: 2011
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Liberia
"for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work"[111]
cells: Leymah Gbowee
cells: Tawakkul Karman
Yemen
cells: 2012
European Union
European Union
"for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe."[112]
cells: 2013
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
International
"for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons."[113]
cells: 2014
Kailash Satyarthi
India
"for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"[114]
cells: Malala Yousafzai
Pakistan
cells: 2015
Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
Tunisia
"for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011"[115]
cells: 2016
Juan Manuel Santos
Colombia
"for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220,000 Colombians and displaced close to six million people"[116]
cells: 2017
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Switzerland
"for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons"[117].

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originalText: who won the nobel peace prize in 1981
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