Complete list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates from 1901 to 2006

The Nobel Prize:

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been honoring men and women from all corners of the globe for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and for work in peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize.

Each prize consists of a medal, personal diploma, and a cash award. So far 768 individuals and 19 organizations have been awarded the Nobel Prize in six categories …..more

Complete list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates from 1901 to 2006

[When the prize was first awarded]

Year
Name of the Recipient
Country
Organization

2006
Dr. Muhammad Yunus & Grameen Bank
Bangladesh
Grameen Bank

2005
Mohamed ElBaradei & International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA]
Egypt
IAEA

2004
Wangari Maathai
Kenya

2003
Shirin Ebadi
Iran

2002
Jimmy Carter
USA

2001
Kofi Annan and the United Nations
Ghana
United Nations

2000
Kim Dae Jung
South Korea

1999
Medecins Sans Frontieres
Doctors Without Borders

1998
John Hume and David Trimble
Northern Ireland

1997
Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines [ICBL]
USA
ICBL

1996
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta
East Timur

1995
Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash movement
Britain

1994
Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat
Israel and

PLO

1993
Nelson Mandela and Frederik de Klerk
South Africa

1992
Rigoberta Menchu
Guatemala

1991
Aung San Suu Kyi
Burma

1990
Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet Union

1989
Dalai Lama
Tibet

1988
United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
UN Peacekeeping Force

1987
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Costa Rica

1986
Elie Wiesel
USA

1985
International Physicians for the Prevention

of Nuclear War
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

1984
Desmond Tutu
South Africa

1983
Lech Walesa
Poland

1982
Alva Myrdal and Alfonso Garcia Robles
Sweden & Mexico

1981
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees

1980
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Argentina

1979
Mother Teresa
Albania

1978
Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin
Egypt & Israel

1977
Amnesty International
Amnesty International

1976
Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan
Britain & Northern Ireland

1975
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet Union

1974
Sean Mac Bride and Eisaku Sato
Ireland & Japan

1973
Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho (declined to receive the award)
USA & [Vietnam -declined]

1972
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1971
Willy Brandt
Germany

1970
Norman Borlaug
USA

1969
International Labour Organization (ILO)

ILO

1968
Rene Cassin
France

1967
Reserved: The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1966
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1965
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

UNICEF

1964
Martin Luther King Jr.
USA

1963
International Committee of the Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies
Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies

1962
Linus Carl Pauling
USA

1961
Dag Hammarskjöld
Sweden

1960
Albert Lutuli
South Africa

1959
Philip Noel-Baker
Britain

1958
Georges Pire
Belgium

1957
Lester Pearson
Canada

1956
Reserved: The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1955
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1954
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees

1953
George Marshall
USA

1952
Albert Schweitzer
France

1951
Leon Jouhaux
France

1950
Ralph Bunche
USA

1949
Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin
Britain

1948
Reserved: The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1947
Friends Service Council, American Friends Service Committee
The Quakers

1946
Emily Greene Balch and John Raleigh Mott
USA

1945
Cordell Hull
USA

1944
International Committee of the Red Cross

Red Cross

1943
Reserved: The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1942
Reserved: The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1941
Reserved: The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1940
Reserved: The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1939
Reserved: The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1938
Nansen International Office for Refugees
Nansen Inter. Office for Refugees

1937
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
Britain

1936
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Argentina

1935
Carl von Ossietzky
Germany

1934
Arthur Henderson
Britain

1933
Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)
Britain

1932
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1931
Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler
USA

1930
Nathan Soederblom
Sweden

1929
Frank Billings Kellogg
USA

1928
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1927
Ferdinand Buisson and Ludwig Quidde
France & Germany

1926
Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann
France & Germany

1925
Sir Austen Chamberlain and Charles Gates Dawes
Britain & USA

1924
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1923
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1922
Fridtjof Nansen
Norway

1921
Karl Hjalmar Branting and Christian Lous Lange
Sweden & Norway

1920
Leon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
France

1919
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
USA

1918
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1917
International Committee of the Red Cross
Red Cross

1916
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1915
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1914
Reserved: The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1913
Henri La Fontaine
Belgium

1912
Elihu Root
USA

1911
Tobias Michael Carel Asser and Alfred Hermann Fried
The Netherlands & Austria

1910
Permanent International Peace Bureau
International Peace Bureau

1909
Auguste Marie François Beernaert and Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet, Baron d'Estournelles de Constant de Rebecque
Belgium & France

1908
Klas Pontus Arnoldson and Fredrik Bajer
Sweden & Denmark

1907
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta and Louis Renault
Italy & France

1906
Theodore Roosevelt
USA

1905
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner
Austria

1904
Institute of International Law
Institute of International Law

1903
William Randal Cremer
Britain

1902
Elie Ducommun and Charles Albert Gobat
Switzerland

1901
Jean Henri Dunant and Frederic Passy
Switzerland & France