The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the most prestigious global awards, recognizing individuals and organizations that have made significant efforts to promote peace, resolve conflicts, and support humanitarian causes. Established in 1895 by Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, the prize has been awarded annually since 1901. It honors those who work toward creating a more peaceful world. Below is a list of notable winners from 1901 to 2024.
The Nobel Prizes are special awards given to people or organizations who make the world better through their work. These awards were created by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish scientist, in his will in 1895, just before he died. The first prizes were given in 1901. They are awarded in six areas: Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences (added in 1969).
Each year, winners get a gold medal, a diploma, and prize money. As of 2023, the prize money is about 11 million Swedish kronor (around $1 million). The prizes are not given to people who have passed away unless they die after being chosen for the award. The Nobel Peace Prize can also be given to organizations, and it celebrates those who work for peace in the world.
The Nobel Peace Prize, awarded since 1901, honors individuals and organizations for their efforts in promoting peace, resolving conflicts, and supporting humanitarian causes. Here’s a list of the Nobel Peace Prize winners from 1901 to 2024, recognizing their contributions to global peace.
Here is the complete list of Nobel Peace Prize winners from 1901 to 2024:
| Nobel Peace Prize Winners | |
| Name | Year |
| Henry Dunant | 1901 |
| Frédéric Passy | |
| Élie Ducommun | 1902 |
| Albert Gobat | |
| Randal Cremer | 1903 |
| Institute of International Law | 1904 |
| Bertha von Suttner | 1905 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 1906 |
| Ernesto Teodoro Moneta | 1907 |
| Louis Renault | |
| Klas Pontus Arnoldson and Fredrik Bajer | 1908 |
| Auguste Beernaert and Paul Henri d’Estournelles de Constant | 1909 |
| Permanent International Peace Bureau | 1910 |
| Tobias Asser | 1911 |
| Alfred Fried | |
| Elihu Root | 1912 |
| Henri La Fontaine | 1913 |
| International Committee of the Red Cross | 1917 |
| Woodrow Wilson | 1919 |
| Léon Bourgeois | 1920 |
| Hjalmar Branting and Christian Lange | 1921 |
| Fridtjof Nansen | 1922 |
| Sir Austen Chamberlain | 1925 |
| Charles G. Dawes | |
| Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann | 1926 |
| Ferdinand Buisson and Ludwig Quidde | 1927 |
| Frank B. Kellogg | 1929 |
| Nathan Söderblom | 1930 |
| Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler | 1931 |
| Sir Norman Angell | 1933 |
| Arthur Henderson | 1934 |
| Carl von Ossietzky | 1935 |
| Carlos Saavedra Lamas | 1936 |
| Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood | 1937 |
| Nansen International Office for Refugees | 1938 |
| International Committee of the Red Cross | 1944 |
| Cordell Hull | 1945 |
| Emily Greene Balch | 1946 |
| John R. Mott | |
| Friends Service Council and American Friends Service Committee | 1947 |
| Lord Boyd Orr | 1949 |
| Ralph Bunche | 1950 |
| Léon Jouhaux | 1951 |
| Albert Schweitzer | 1952 |
| George C. Marshall | 1953 |
| Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | 1954 |
| Lester Bowles Pearson | 1957 |
| Georges Pire | 1958 |
| Philip Noel-Baker | 1959 |
| Albert Lutuli | 1960 |
| Dag Hammarskjöld | 1961 |
| Linus Pauling | 1962 |
| International Committee of the Red Cross and League of Red Cross Societies | 1963 |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | 1964 |
| United Nations Children’s Fund | 1965 |
| René Cassin | 1968 |
| International Labour Organization | 1969 |
| Norman Borlaug | 1970 |
| Willy Brandt | 1971 |
| Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho | 1973 |
| Seán MacBride | 1974 |
| Eisaku Satō | |
| Andrei Sakharov | 1975 |
| Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan | 1976 |
| Amnesty International | 1977 |
| Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem Begin | 1978 |
| Mother Teresa | 1979 |
| Adolfo Pérez Esquivel | 1980 |
| Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | 1981 |
| Alva Myrdal and Alfonso García Robles | 1982 |
| Lech Wałęsa | 1983 |
| Desmond Tutu | 1984 |
| International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | 1985 |
| Elie Wiesel | 1986 |
| Oscar Arias Sánchez | 1987 |
| United Nations Peacekeeping Forces | 1988 |
| The 14th Dalai Lama | 1989 |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | 1990 |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | 1991 |
| Rigoberta Menchú Tum | 1992 |
| Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk | 1993 |
| Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin | 1994 |
| Joseph Rotblat and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs | 1995 |
| Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta | 1996 |
| International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Jody Williams | 1997 |
| John Hume and David Trimble | 1998 |
| Doctors Without Borders | 1999 |
| Kim Dae-jung | 2000 |
| United Nations and Kofi Annan | 2001 |
| Jimmy Carter | 2002 |
| Shirin Ebadi | 2003 |
| Wangari Maathai | 2004 |
| International Atomic Energy Agency and Mohamed ElBaradei | 2005 |
| Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank | 2006 |
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore | 2007 |
| Martti Ahtisaari | 2008 |
| Barack H. Obama | 2009 |
| Liu Xiaobo | 2010 |
| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman | 2011 |
| European Union | 2012 |
| Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons | 2013 |
| Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai | 2014 |
| National Dialogue Quartet | 2015 |
| Juan Manuel Santos | 2016 |
| International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons | 2017 |
| Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad | 2018 |
| Abiy Ahmed Ali | 2019 |
| World Food Programme | 2020 |
| Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov | 2021 |
| Ales Bialiatski, Memorial and Center for Civil Liberties | 2022 |
| Narges Mohammadi | 2023 |
| Nihon Hidankyo Organization | 2024 |
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