Winners of Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 94 times to 126 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2013, 101 individuals and 25 organizations. Since the International Committee of the Red Cross has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize three times (in 1917, 1944 and 1963), and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize two times (in 1954 and 1981), there are 22 individual organizations which have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Click on the links to get more information.

The Nobel Peace Prize 2013
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
"for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons"

The Nobel Peace Prize 2012
European Union (EU)
"for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe"

The Nobel Peace Prize 2011
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman
"for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work"

The Nobel Peace Prize 2010
Liu Xiaobo
"for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China"

The Nobel Peace Prize 2009
Barack H. Obama
"for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"

The Nobel Peace Prize 2008
Martti Ahtisaari
"for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts"

The Nobel Peace Prize 2007
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.
"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"

The Nobel Peace Prize 2006
Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank
"for their efforts to create economic and social development from below"

The Nobel Peace Prize 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"

The Nobel Peace Prize 2004
Wangari Muta Maathai
"for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"

The Nobel Peace Prize 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"

The Nobel Peace Prize 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"

The Nobel Peace Prize 2001
United Nations (U.N.) and Kofi Annan
"for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"

The Nobel Peace Prize 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"

The Nobel Peace Prize 1999
Médecins Sans Frontières
"in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents"

The Nobel Peace Prize 1998
John Hume and David Trimble
"for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland"

The Nobel Peace Prize 1997
International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams
"for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines"

The Nobel Peace Prize 1996
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta
"for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor"

The Nobel Peace Prize 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"

The Nobel Peace Prize 1994
Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin
"for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East"

The Nobel Peace Prize 1993
Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk
"for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa"

The Nobel Peace Prize 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"

The Nobel Peace Prize 1991
Aung San Suu Kyi
"for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights"

The Nobel Peace Prize 1990
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
"for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community"

The Nobel Peace Prize 1989
The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1988
United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
The Nobel Peace Prize 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"

The Nobel Peace Prize 1986
Elie Wiesel
The Nobel Peace Prize 1985
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
The Nobel Peace Prize 1984
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
The Nobel Peace Prize 1983
Lech Walesa
The Nobel Peace Prize 1982
Alva Myrdal and Alfonso García Robles
The Nobel Peace Prize 1981
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1980
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
The Nobel Peace Prize 1979
Mother Teresa
The Nobel Peace Prize 1978
Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem Begin
The Nobel Peace Prize 1977
Amnesty International
The Nobel Peace Prize 1976
Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan
The Nobel Peace Prize 1975
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
The Nobel Peace Prize 1974
Seán MacBride and Eisaku Sato
The Nobel Peace Prize 1973
Henry A. Kissinger and Le Duc Tho
The Nobel Peace Prize 1972
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1971
Willy Brandt
The Nobel Peace Prize 1970
Norman E. Borlaug
The Nobel Peace Prize 1969
International Labour Organization (I.L.O.)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1968
René Cassin
The Nobel Peace Prize 1967
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1966
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1965
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1964
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1963
Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) and Ligue des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge (League of Red Cross Societies)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1962
Linus Carl Pauling
The Nobel Peace Prize 1961
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
The Nobel Peace Prize 1960
Albert John Lutuli
The Nobel Peace Prize 1959
Philip J. Noel-Baker
The Nobel Peace Prize 1958
Georges Pire
The Nobel Peace Prize 1957
Lester Bowles Pearson
The Nobel Peace Prize 1956
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1955
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1954
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1953
George Catlett Marshall
The Nobel Peace Prize 1952
Albert Schweitzer
The Nobel Peace Prize 1951
Léon Jouhaux
The Nobel Peace Prize 1950
Ralph Bunche
The Nobel Peace Prize 1949
Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin
The Nobel Peace Prize 1948
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1947
Friends Service Council (The Quakers) and American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1946
Emily Greene Balch and John Raleigh Mott
The Nobel Peace Prize 1945
Cordell Hull
The Nobel Peace Prize 1944
Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1943
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1942
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1941
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1940
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1939
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1938
Office international Nansen pour les Réfugiés (Nansen International Office for Refugees)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1937
Cecil of Chelwood, Viscount (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1936
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
The Nobel Peace Prize 1935
Carl von Ossietzky
The Nobel Peace Prize 1934
Arthur Henderson
The Nobel Peace Prize 1933
Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1932
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1931
Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler
The Nobel Peace Prize 1930
Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom
The Nobel Peace Prize 1929
Frank Billings Kellogg
The Nobel Peace Prize 1928
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1927
Ferdinand Buisson and Ludwig Quidde
The Nobel Peace Prize 1926
Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann
The Nobel Peace Prize 1925
Sir Austen Chamberlain and Charles Gates Dawes
The Nobel Peace Prize 1924
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1923
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1922
Fridtjof Nansen
The Nobel Peace Prize 1921
Karl Hjalmar Branting and Christian Lous Lange
The Nobel Peace Prize 1920
Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
The Nobel Peace Prize 1919
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
The Nobel Peace Prize 1918
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1917
Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1916
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1915
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1914
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1913
Henri La Fontaine
The Nobel Peace Prize 1912
Elihu Root
The Nobel Peace Prize 1911
Tobias Michael Carel Asser and Alfred Hermann Fried
The Nobel Peace Prize 1910
Bureau international permanent de la Paix (Permanent International Peace Bureau)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1909
Auguste Marie François Beernaert and Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque
The Nobel Peace Prize 1908
Klas Pontus Arnoldson and Fredrik Bajer
The Nobel Peace Prize 1907
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta and Louis Renault
The Nobel Peace Prize 1906
Theodore Roosevelt
The Nobel Peace Prize 1905
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau
The Nobel Peace Prize 1904
Institut de droit international (Institute of International Law)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1903
William Randal Cremer
The Nobel Peace Prize 1902
Élie Ducommun and Charles Albert Gobat
The Nobel Peace Prize 1901
Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy