Nobel Peace Prize

Historical Accolades

The award has been presented since 1901. There were no winners 1914-1916, 1918, 1923-24, 1928, 1932, 1939-1943, 1948, 1955-56, 1966-67, 1972, and in many years their were multi-winners. United Nations represents the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (1954,1981), UN Peacekeeping Forces (1988), and itself (2001). Missing are: * Gobat, Charles Albert (1902) * Ducommun, Elie (1902) * Cremer, Sir William Randal (1903) * Institute Of International Law (1904) * Renault, Louis (1907) * Moneta, Ernesto Teodoro (1907) * Arnoldson, Klas Pontus (1908) * Bajer, Fredrik (1908) * De Constant, Paul Henribenjamin Balluet D'estournelles (1909) * Beernaert, Auguste Marie Francois (1909) * Permanent International Peace Bureau (1910) * Fried, Alfred Hermann (1911) * Asser, Tobias Michael Carel (1911) * La Fontaine, Henri (1913) * International Committee Of The Red Cross (1917) * Bourgeois, Leon Victor Auguste (1920) * Lange, Christian Lous (1921) * Branting, Karl Hjalmar (1921) * Stresemann, Gustav (1926) * Quidde, Ludwig (1927) * Buisson, Ferdinand (1927) * Angell, Sir Norman (1933) * Henderson, Arthur (1934) * Lamas, Carlos Saavedra (1936) * Nansen International Office For Refugees (1938) * International Committee Of The Red Cross (1944) * Mott, John Raleigh (1946) * Friends Service Council (1947) * American Friends Service Committee (1947) * Jouhaux, Leon (1951) * Pire, Georges Henri (1958) * International Committee Of The Red Cross (1963) * Cassin, Rene (1968) * International Labour Organization (1969) * Robles, Alfonso Garcia (1982) * International Physicians For The Prevention Of Nuclear War, Inc. (1985) * Pugwash Conferences On Science And World Affairs (1995) * Belo, Carlos Felipe Ximenes (1996) * International Campaign To Ban Landmines (Icbl) (1997) * International Atomic Energy Agency (2005) * Grameen Bank (2006) * Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007) * Ahtisaari, Martti (2008) * Gbowee, Leymah (2011) * Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (2013) * Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet (2015) * International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (2017) * Nadia Murad (2018)

This Category is Ranked. Sort by Ranking Based on Votes by clicking on Vote Ranking. Sort by the Collection's Ranking by clicking on List Ranking.

Vote RankingList Ranking  

8

1901

Frederic Passy

Advocate

100% (4 of 4 votes)

76

1901

Jean Henri Dunant

Advocate

0% (0 of 2 votes)

62

1905

Bertha Von Suttner

Advocate

0% (0 of 1 votes)

18

1906

Theodore Roosevelt

U.S. President

58.31% (207 of 355 votes)

60

1912

Elihu Root

U.S. Secretary of State

0% (0 of 0 votes)

26

1919

Woodrow Wilson

U.S. President

36.59% (75 of 205 votes)

63

1922

Fridtjof Nansen

Explorer

0% (0 of 0 votes)

5

1925

Austen Chamberlain

Politician

100% (2 of 2 votes)

40

1925

Charles G. Dawes

U.S. Vice President

0% (0 of 0 votes)

73

1926

Aristide Briand

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

72

1929

Frank B. Kellogg

U.S. Secretary of State

0% (0 of 0 votes)

90

1930

Nathan Söderblom

Religious Figure

0% (0 of 0 votes)

7

1931

Nicholas Murray Butler

Educator

100% (2 of 2 votes)

29

1931

Jane Addams

Advocate

31.65% (25 of 79 votes)

9

1935

Carl von Ossietzky

Commentator

100% (1 of 1 votes)

14

1937

Lord Robert Cecil

Politician

66.67% (2 of 3 votes)

68

1945

Cordell Hull

U.S. Secretary of State

0% (0 of 0 votes)

13

1946

Emily Greene Balch

Advocate

66.67% (2 of 3 votes)

10

1949

John Boyd Orr

Scientist

100% (1 of 1 votes)

21

1950

Ralph Bunche

Diplomat

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

75

1952

Albert Schweitzer

Philosopher

0% (0 of 1 votes)

46

1953

George Marshall

Military Personnel

0% (0 of 1 votes)

31

1954

United Nations

Organization

28.17% (20 of 71 votes)

45

1957

Lester Bowles Pearson

World Leader

0% (0 of 3 votes)

71

1959

Philip Noel-Baker

Politician

0% (0 of 0 votes)

79

1960

Albert Luthuli

Advocate

0% (0 of 0 votes)

50

1961

Dag Hammarskjold

U.N. Secretary General

0% (0 of 1 votes)

80

1962

Linus Pauling

Scientist

0% (0 of 1 votes)

30

1964

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Advocate

29.61% (106 of 358 votes)

33

1965

United Nations

Organization

28.17% (20 of 71 votes)

55

1965

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Organization

0% (0 of 0 votes)

38

1968

Rene Cassin

Advocate

10.0% (1 of 10 votes)

47

1970

Norman Borlaug

Scientist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

78

1971

Willy Brandt

World Leader

0% (0 of 1 votes)

25

1973

Henry Kissinger

U.S. Secretary of State

42.06% (135 of 321 votes)

88

1973

Le Duc Tho

Politician

0% (0 of 0 votes)

51

1974

Sean MacBride

Politician

0% (0 of 0 votes)

59

1974

Eisaku Sato

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

41

1975

Andrei Sakharov

Scientist

0% (0 of 1 votes)

6

1976

Betty Williams

Advocate

100% (1 of 1 votes)

53

1976

Mairead Corrigan

Advocate

0% (0 of 0 votes)

22

1977

Amnesty International

Organization

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

4

1978

Anwar Sadat

World Leader

100% (1 of 1 votes)

12

1978

Menachem Begin

World Leader

77.78% (28 of 36 votes)

19

1979

Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta)

Religious Figure

57.52% (88 of 153 votes)

58

1980

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Advocate

0% (0 of 0 votes)

32

1981

United Nations

Organization

28.17% (20 of 71 votes)

70

1982

Alva Myrdal

Diplomat

0% (0 of 0 votes)

48

1983

Lech Walesa

Politician

0% (0 of 4 votes)

43

1984

Desmond Tutu

Religious Figure

0% (0 of 0 votes)

23

1986

Elie Wiesel

Author

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

61

1987

Oscar Arias

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

34

1988

United Nations

Organization

28.17% (20 of 71 votes)

37

1989

Dalai Lama

Religious Figure

14.29% (1 of 7 votes)

39

1990

Mikhail Gorbachev

World Leader

8.33% (3 of 36 votes)

3

1991

Aung San Suu Kyi

Advocate

100% (2 of 2 votes)

66

1992

Rigoberta Menchu

Advocate

0% (0 of 0 votes)

2

1993

F.W. De Klerk

World Leader

100% (1 of 1 votes)

27

1993

Nelson Mandela

World Leader

34.50% (59 of 171 votes)

28

1994

Yasser Arafat

World Leader

33.89% (122 of 360 votes)

42

1994

Yitzhak Rabin

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

65

1994

Shimon Peres

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

67

1995

Joseph Rotblat

Scientist

0% (0 of 2 votes)

74

1996

Jose Ramos-Horta

World Leader

0% (0 of 1 votes)

52

1997

Jody Williams

Advocate

0% (0 of 1 votes)

89

1998

John Hume

Politician

0% (0 of 0 votes)

91

1998

David Trimble

Politician

0% (0 of 0 votes)

86

1999

Doctors Without Borders (Medicins Sans Frontieres)

Organization

0% (0 of 2 votes)

17

2000

Kim Dae-Jung

World Leader

60.0% (3 of 5 votes)

35

2001

United Nations

Organization

28.17% (20 of 71 votes)

49

2001

Kofi Annan

U.N. Secretary General

0% (0 of 1 votes)

15

2002

James Earl Carter

U.S. President

60.11% (315 of 524 votes)

77

2003

Shirin Ebadi

Attorney

0% (0 of 1 votes)

44

2004

Wangari Maathai

Advocate

0% (0 of 0 votes)

1

2006

Muhammad Yunus

Economist

100% (1 of 1 votes)

20

2007

Al Gore

U.S. Vice President

57.45% (54 of 94 votes)

84

2008

Martti Ahtisaari

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

16

2009

Barack Obama

U.S. President

60.01% (4861 of 8100 votes)

69

2010

Liu Xiaobo

Advocate

0% (0 of 2 votes)

57

2011

Tawwakol Karman

Commentator

0% (0 of 1 votes)

64

2011

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

Politician

0% (0 of 0 votes)

24

2012

European Union

Organization

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

36

2014

Malala Yousafzai

Advocate

25.00% (1 of 4 votes)

81

2014

Kailash Satyarthi

Advocate

0% (0 of 1 votes)

56

2016

Juan Manuel Santos

World Leader

0% (0 of 1 votes)

54

2018

Denis Mukwege

Doctor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

87

2019

Abiy Ahmed

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

11

2021

Dmitry Muratov

Commentator

100% (1 of 1 votes)

82

2021

Maria Ressa

Commentator

0% (0 of 5 votes)

83

2022

Ales Bialiatski

Advocate

0% (0 of 0 votes)

85

2023

Narges Mohammadi

Advocate

0% (0 of 1 votes)