Explore Complete list of Nobel Peace Prize winners from 1901 to 2025 with names, year, country, and award details for promoting peace, resolving conflicts, and humanitarian work.
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The Nobel Peace Prize is a prestigious award given every year to people or organizations that work to promote peace, resolve conflicts, and support humanitarian causes. It was established in the year 1901, it has honored individuals and groups worldwide who dedicate their lives to building a fairer and more peaceful world.
Full List of Nobel Peace Prize Winners (1901-2025)
| Year | Laureate | Country | Given Award For |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | Henri Dunant | Switzerland | For his humanitarian efforts to help wounded soldiers and create international understanding. |
| 1901 | Frédéric Passy | France | For his lifelong work for international peace conferences, diplomacy, and arbitration. |
| 1902 | Élie Ducommun | Switzerland | For his untiring and skillful directorship of the Bern Peace Bureau. |
| 1902 | Charles-Albert Gobat | Switzerland | For his eminently practical administration of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. |
| 1903 | Sir Randal Cremer | United Kingdom | For his longstanding and devoted effort in favor of the ideas of peace and arbitration. |
| 1904 | Institute of International Law | Belgium | For its work in promoting the development of international law. |
| 1905 | Bertha von Suttner | Austria-Hungary | For her tireless efforts to promote peace and disarmament. |
| 1906 | Theodore Roosevelt | United States | For his role in mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese War. |
| 1907 | Ernesto Teodoro Moneta | Italy | For his efforts to promote peace and international understanding. |
| 1907 | Louis Renault | France | For his work in promoting international arbitration and peace. |
| 1908 | Klas Pontus Arnoldson | Sweden | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1908 | Fredrik Bajer | Denmark | For his work in promoting peace and disarmament. |
| 1909 | Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert | Belgium | For his efforts to promote peace and international understanding. |
| 1909 | Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant | France | For his work in promoting peace and disarmament. |
| 1910 | International Peace Bureau | Switzerland | For its efforts to promote peace and disarmament. |
| 1911 | Alfred Fried | Austria-Hungary | For his work in promoting peace and international understanding. |
| 1911 | Tobias Asser | Netherlands | For his efforts to promote international arbitration and peace. |
| 1912 | Elihu Root | United States | For his work in promoting international arbitration and peace. |
| 1913 | Henri La Fontaine | Belgium | For his efforts to promote peace and international understanding. |
| 1917 | International Committee of the Red Cross | Switzerland | For its humanitarian work during World War I. |
| 1917 | International Committee of the Red Cross | Switzerland | For its humanitarian work during World War I. |
| 1919 | Woodrow Wilson | United States | For his leadership in establishing the League of Nations. |
| 1920 | Léon Bourgeois | France | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1921 | Hjalmar Branting | Sweden | For his work in promoting peace and international understanding. |
| 1921 | Christian Lous Lange | Norway | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1922 | Frédéric Passy | France | For his lifelong work for international peace conferences, diplomacy, and arbitration. |
| 1923 | International Labour Organization | Switzerland | For its efforts to promote social justice and peace. |
| 1924 | Frédéric Passy | France | For his lifelong work for international peace conferences, diplomacy, and arbitration. |
| 1925 | Sir Austen Chamberlain | United Kingdom | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1925 | Charles Gates Dawes | United States | For his work in promoting peace and international understanding. |
| 1926 | Aristide Briand | France | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1926 | Gustav Stresemann | Germany | For his work in promoting peace and international understanding. |
| 1927 | Ferdinand Buisson | France | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1927 | Léon Bourgeois | France | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1928 | Frank Billings Kellogg | United States | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1928 | Aristide Briand | France | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1929 | Frank Billings Kellogg | United States | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1930 | Nathan Söderblom | Sweden | For his efforts to promote peace and international understanding. |
| 1931 | Jane Addams | United States | For her work in promoting peace and social justice. |
| 1931 | Nicholas Murray Butler | United States | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1932 | Élie Ducommun | Switzerland | For his untiring and skillful directorship of the Bern Peace Bureau. |
| 1932 | Charles-Albert Gobat | Switzerland | For his eminently practical administration of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. |
| 1933 | Norman Angell | United Kingdom | For his work in promoting peace and international understanding. |
| 1934 | Arthur Henderson | United Kingdom | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1935 | Carl von Ossietzky | Germany | For his efforts to promote peace and international understanding. |
| 1936 | Carlos Saavedra Lamas | Argentina | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1937 | Robert Cecil | United Kingdom | For his efforts to promote peace and international understanding. |
| 1938 | Nansen International Office for Refugees | Switzerland | For its work in assisting refugees and promoting peace. |
| 1939 | Carl von Ossietzky | Germany | For his efforts to promote peace and international understanding. |
| 1944 | International Committee of the Red Cross | Switzerland | For its humanitarian work during World War II. |
| 1944 | International Committee of the Red Cross | Switzerland | For its humanitarian work during World War II. |
| 1945 | Cordell Hull | United States | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1946 | Emily Greene Balch | United States | For her efforts to promote peace and international understanding. |
| 1946 | John Raleigh Mott | United States | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1947 | The Friends Service Council | United Kingdom | For its work in promoting peace and social justice. |
| 1947 | The American Friends Service Committee | United States | For its work in promoting peace and social justice. |
| 1948 | Lord Boyd Orr | United Kingdom | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1949 | Lord Boyd Orr | United Kingdom | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1950 | Ralph Bunche | United States | For his mediation efforts in Palestine. |
| 1951 | Léon Jouhaux | France | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1952 | Albert Schweitzer | France | For his philosophy of reverence for life and humanitarian work. |
| 1953 | George Marshall | United States | For his leadership in the Marshall Plan. |
| 1954 | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | Switzerland | For its work in assisting refugees and promoting peace. |
| 1957 | Lester B. Pearson | Canada | For his role in resolving the Suez Crisis. |
| 1958 | Georges Vanier | Canada | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1959 | Philip J. Noel-Baker | United Kingdom | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1960 | Albert Lutuli | South Africa | For his efforts to promote peace and social justice. |
| 1961 | Dag Hammarskjöld | Sweden | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1962 | Linus Pauling | United States | For his efforts to promote peace and disarmament. |
| 1963 | International Committee of the Red Cross | Switzerland | For its humanitarian work during World War II. |
| 1963 | International Committee of the Red Cross | Switzerland | For its humanitarian work during World War II. |
| 1964 | Martin Luther King Jr. | United States | For his efforts to promote civil rights and peace. |
| 1965 | United Nations | Switzerland | For its efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1966 | International Labour Organization | Switzerland | For its efforts to promote social justice and peace. |
| 1967 | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | Switzerland | For its work in assisting refugees and promoting peace. |
| 1968 | René Cassin | France | For his work in promoting human rights and peace. |
| 1969 | International Labour Organization | Switzerland | For its efforts to promote social justice and peace. |
| 1970 | Norman Borlaug | United States | For his work in promoting peace and international cooperation. |
| 1971 | Willy Brandt | Germany | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1972 | Henry Kissinger | United States | For his role in the Vietnam War peace negotiations. |
| 1973 | Le Duc Tho | Vietnam | For his role in the Vietnam War peace negotiations. |
| 1974 | Seán MacBride | Ireland | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1974 | Eisaku Sato | Japan | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1975 | Andrei Sakharov | Soviet Union | For his efforts to promote human rights and peace. |
| 1976 | Betty Williams | Northern Ireland | For her efforts to promote peace and reconciliation. |
| 1976 | Mairead Corrigan | Northern Ireland | For her efforts to promote peace and reconciliation. |
| 1977 | Amnesty International | United Kingdom | For its efforts to promote human rights and peace. |
| 1978 | Anwar Sadat | Egypt | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1978 | Menachem Begin | Israel | For his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation. |
| 1979 | Mother Teresa | India | For her humanitarian work and efforts to promote |
| 1980 | Adolfo Pérez Esquivel | Argentina | For his nonviolent struggle for human rights in Latin America. |
| 1981 | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | International | For its outstanding efforts in providing assistance to refugees worldwide. |
| 1982 | Alfonso García Robles | Mexico | For his work in nuclear disarmament and the establishment of the Treaty of Tlatelolco. |
| 1982 | Alva Myrdal | Sweden | For her work in nuclear disarmament and her efforts to promote peace. |
| 1983 | Lech Wałęsa | Poland | For his leadership in the Polish trade union movement and his role in promoting human rights. |
| 1984 | Desmond Tutu | South Africa | For his role in the struggle against apartheid and his efforts to promote peace and reconciliation. |
| 1985 | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | International | For its efforts to raise awareness about the medical and humanitarian consequences of nuclear war. |
| 1986 | Elie Wiesel | United States | For his efforts to promote human rights and his work as a witness to the Holocaust. |
| 1987 | Oscar Arias Sánchez | Costa Rica | For his efforts to bring peace to Central America and his role in the peace process. |
| 1988 | United Nations Peacekeeping Forces | International | For their efforts to maintain peace and security in conflict zones. |
| 1989 | The 14th Dalai Lama | Tibet | For his consistent opposition to the use of violence in the struggle for the liberation of Tibet. |
| 1990 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet Union | For his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes the relations between East and West. |
| 1991 | Aung San Suu Kyi | Myanmar | For her nonviolent struggle for democracy and human rights. |
| 1992 | Rigoberta Menchú Tum | Guatemala | For her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples. |
| 1993 | Nelson Mandela & Frederik Willem de Klerk | South Africa | For their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa. |
| 1994 | Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres & Yitzhak Rabin | Palestine/Israel | For their efforts to create peace in the Middle East. |
| 1995 | Joseph Rotblat & Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs | United Kingdom/International | For their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics. |
| 1996 | Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo & José Ramos-Horta | East Timor | For their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor. |
| 1997 | Jody Williams & International Campaign to Ban Landmines | United States/International | For their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines. |
| 1998 | John Hume & David Trimble | Northern Ireland | For their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland. |
| 1999 | Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) | International | For its pioneering humanitarian work on several continents. |
| 2001 | United Nations & Kofi Annan | International/Ghana | For their work in fostering a better organized and more peaceful world. |
| 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. |
| 2003 | Shirin Ebadi | Iran | For her efforts for democracy and human rights. |
| 2004 | Wangari Maathai | Kenya | For her contribution to sustainable development, democracy, and peace. |
| 2005 | International Atomic Energy Agency & Mohamed ElBaradei | International/Egypt | For their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes. |
| 2006 | Muhammad Yunus & Grameen Bank | Bangladesh | For their efforts to create economic and social development from below. |
| 2007 | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change & Al Gore | International/United States | For their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about human-caused climate change. |
| 2008 | Martti Ahtisaari | Finland | For his important efforts to resolve international conflicts. |
| 2009 | Barack Obama | United States | For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. |
| 2010 | Liu Xiaobo | China | For his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. |
| 2011 | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee & Tawakkol Karman | Liberia/Yemen | For their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work. |
| 2012 | European Union | International | For over six decades, contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe. |
| 2013 | Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons | International | For its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons. |
| 2014 | Kailash Satyarthi & Malala Yousafzai | India/Pakistan | For their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. |
| 2015 | 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. |
| 2016 | Juan Manuel Santos | Colombia | For his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end. |
| 2017 | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons | International | For its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons. |
| 2018 | Denis Mukwege & Nadia Murad | Democratic Republic of the Congo/Iraq | For their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. |
| 2019 | Abiy Ahmed Ali | Ethiopia | For his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea. |
| 2020 | World Food Programme | International | For its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas, and for its efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. |
| 2021 | Maria Ressa & Dmitry Muratov | Philippines/Russia | For their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace. |
| 2022 | Ales Bialiatski, Memorial & Center for Civil Liberties | Belarus/Russia/Ukraine | For their efforts to represent civil society in their home countries. |
| 2023 | Narges Mohammadi | Iran | For her fight against the oppressive regime in Iran and her efforts to promote human rights and freedom. |
| 2024 | Nihon Hidankyo | Japan | For its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again. |
| 2025 | TBD | TBD | TBD |