Who was the first recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize?
List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates
Frédéric Passy and Henry Dunant
The Nobel Peace Prize was first awarded in 1901 to Frédéric Passy and Henry Dunant — who shared a Prize of 150,782 Swedish kronor (equal to 7,731,004 kronor in 2008) — and, most recently, to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad in 2018.