Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
1998
The prize was awarded jointly to:
JOHN HUME and DAVID TRIMBLE for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
1997
The prize was awarded jointly to:
1996
The prize was awarded jointly to:
CARLOS FELIPE XIMENES BELO and JOSE RAMOS-HORTA for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor.
1995
The prize was awarded jointly to:
JOSEPH ROTBLAT and to the 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.
1994
The prize was awarded joinly to:
YASSER ARAFAT , Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority.
YITZHAK RABIN , Prime Minister of Israel.
for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.
1993
FREDRIK WILLEM DE KLERK President of the Republic of South Africa.
1992
RIGOBERTA MENCHU TUM , Guatemala. Campaigner for human rights, especially for indigenous peoples.
1991
AUNG SAN SUU KYI , Burma. Oppositional leader, human rights advocate.
1990
MIKHAIL SERGEYEVICH GORBACHEV , President of the USSR, helped to bring the Cold War to an end.
1989
THE 14TH DALAI LAMA (TENZIN GYATSO) , Tibet. Religious and political leader of the Tibetan people.
1988
THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE-KEEPING FORCES New York, NY, U.S.A.
1987
OSCAR ARIAS SANCHEZ , Costa Rica, President of Costa Rica, initiator of peace negotiations in Central America.
1986
ELIE WIESEL , U.S.A., Chairman of 'The President's Commission on the Holocaust'. Author, humanitarian.
1985
INTERNATIONAL PHYSICIANS FOR THE PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR WAR Boston, MA, U.S.A.
1984
DESMOND MPILO TUTU , South Africa, Bishop of Johannesburg, former Secretary General South African Council of Churches (S.A.C.C.). for his work against apartheid.
1983
LECH WALESA , Poland. Founder of Solidarity, campaigner for human rights.
1982
The prize was awarded jointly to:
ALVA MYRDAL , former Cabinet Minister, diplomat, delegate to United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament, writer.
ALFONSO GARC�A ROBLES , diplomat, delegate to the United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament, former Secretary for Foreign Affairs .
1981
ADOLFO PEREZ ESQUIVEL , Argentina, architect, sculptor and human rights leader.
1979
MOTHER TERESA , India, Leader of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity.
1978
The prize was divided equally between:
MOHAMED ANWAR AL-SADAT , President of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
MENACHEM BEGIN , Prime Minister of Israel.
for jointly negotiating peace between Egypt and Israel.
1977
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL London, Great Britain. A worldwide organization for the protection of the rights of prisoners of conscience.
1976
BETTY WILLIAMS and MAIREAD CORRIGAN Founders of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People).
1975
ANDREI DMITRIEVICH SAKHAROV , Soviet nuclear physicist. Campaigner for human rights.
1974
The prize was divided equally between:
SE�N MAC BRIDE ,  President of the International Peace Bureau, Geneva, and the Commission of Namibia, United Nations, New York.
EISAKU SATO ,  Prime Minister of Japan.
1973
HENRY A. KISSINGER ,  Secretary of State, State Department, Washington.
LE DUC THO , Democratic Republic of Viet Nam. (Declined the prize.)
for jointly negotiating the Vietnam peace accord in 1973.
1972
The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund.
1971
WILLY BRANDT , Federal Republic of Germany, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, initiator of West Germany's Ostpolitik, embodying a new attitude towards Eastern Europe and East Germany.
1970
NORMAN BORLAUG ,  Led research at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico City.
1969
OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES Geneva, an international relief organization, founded by U.N. in 1951.
1953
GEORGE CATLETT MARSHALL , General, President American Red Cross, ex-Secretary of State and of Defense, Delegate to the  U.N., Originator of the Marshall Plan.
1952
ALBERT SCHWEITZER ,  Missionary surgeon, Founder Lambar�n� Hospital in R�publique du Gabon.
1951
L�ON JOUHAUX , France, President of the trade union C.G.T. Force Ouvri�re. President of the International Committee of the European Council, Vice President of the  International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Vice President of the World Federation of Trade Unions, member of the ILO Council, delegate to the UN.
1950
RALPH BUNCHE , Professor Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Director of the UN Division of Trusteeship, Acting Mediator in Palestine 1948.
1949
LORD JOHN BOYD ORR OF BRECHIN ,  Physician, Alimentary Politician, prominent organizer and Director General Food and Agricultural Organization, President National Peace Council and World Union of Peace Organizations.
1948
The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.
1947
OFFICE INTERNATIONAL NANSEN POUR LES R�FUGI�S (NANSEN INTERNATIONAL OFFICE FOR REFUGEES) an international relief organization in Geneva  started by Fridtjof Nansen in 1921.
1937
CECIL OF CHELWOOD, VISCOUNT, (LORD EDGAR ALGERNON ROBERT GASCOYNE CECIL) , Writer, Former Lord Privy Seal. Founder and President of the International Peace Campaign.
1936
CARLOS SAAVEDRA LAMAS Foreign Minister. President of the  Soci�t� des Nations (League of Nations), Meditator in a conflict between Paraguay and Bolivia in 1935.
1935
CARL VON OSSIETZKY Journalist (with Die Weltb�hne, among others), pacifist.
1934
ARTHUR HENDERSON Former Foreign Secretary. Chairman of the League of Nations Disarmament Conference 1932-1934.
1933
SIR NORMAN ANGELL (RALPH LANE) Writer. Member of the Commission Ex�cutive de la Soci�t� des Nations (Executive Committee of the League of Nations) and the National Peace Council. Author of the book The Great Illusion, among others.
1932
The prize money for 1932 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1931
The prize was divided equally between:
JANE ADDAMS Sociologist. International President of the  Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER President of Columbia University. Promoter of the Briand-Kellogg Pact.
1930
LARS OLOF NATHAN (JONATHAN) S�DERBLOM Archbishop. Leader of the ecumenical movement.
1929
FRANK BILLINGS KELLOGG Former Secretary of State, Negotiated the Briand-Kellogg Pact.
1928
The prize money for 1928 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1927
The prize was divided equally between:
FERDINAND BUISSON Former Professor at the Sorbonne University, Paris. Founder and President of the  Ligue des Droits de l'Homme (League for Human Rights).
LUDWIG QUIDDE Historian. Professor at Berlin University. Member of  Germany's constituent assembly 1919. Delegate to numerous peace conferences.
1926
The prize was awarded jointly to:
ARISTIDE BRIAND Foreign Minister. Negotiator of the Locarno Treaty and the Briand-Kellogg Pact.
GUSTAV STRESEMANN Former Lord High Chancellor (Reichs-kanzler). Foreign Minister. Negotiator of the  Locarno Treaty.
1925
The prize was awarded jointly to:
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN Foreign Minister. Negotiator of the Locarno Treaty.
CHARLES GATES DAWES Vice-President of the United States of America. Chairman of the Allied Reparation Commission. Originator of the Dawes Plan .
1924-1923
ELIHU ROOT Former Secretary of State. Initiator of several arbitration agreements.
1911
The prize was divided equally between:
TOBIAS MICHAEL CAREL ASSER , the Netherlands.   Cabinet Minister. Member of the  Privy Council.  Initiator of the  International Conferences of Private Law at the Hague.
ALFRED HERMANN FRIED , Austria.   Journalist. Founder of the peace journal Die Waffen Nieder (later renamed Die Friedenswarte).
1910
1909
The prize was divided equally between:
AUGUSTE MARIE FRAN�OIS BEERNAERT , Belgium.   Former Prime Minister. Member of the  Belgian Parliament. Member of the Cour Internationale d'Arbitrage (International Court of Arbitration) at the Hague.
PAUL HENRIBENJAMIN BALLUET D'ESTOURNELLES DE CONSTANT, BARON DE CONSTANT DE REBECQUE , France.   Member of the French Parliament (S�nateur). Founder and President of the French parliamentary group for international arbitration (Groupe parlementaire de l'arbitrage international). Founder of the Comit� de d�fense des int�r�tsnationaux et de conciliation internationale (Committee for the Defense of National Interests and International Conciliation).
1908
The prize was divided equally between:
KLAS PONTUS ARNOLDSON , Sweden.  Writer. Former Member fo the Swedish Parliament. Founder of the  Swedish Peace and Arbitration League.
FREDRIK BAJER , Denmark. Member of the  Danish Parliament. Honorary President of the Permanent International Peace Bureau, Berne.
1907
The prize was divided equally between:
ERNESTO TEODORO MONETA , Italy. President of the Lombard League of Peace.
LOUIS RENAULT , France.   Professor International Law, Sorbonne University, Paris.
1906
THEODORE ROOSEVELT , USA.  President of the United States of America. Drew up the 1905 peace treaty between Russia and Japan.
1905
BARONESS BERTHA SOPHIE FELICITA VON SUTTNER n�e COUNTESS KINSKY von CHINIC und TETTAU , Austria.  Writer. Hon. President of the Permanent International Peace Bureau, Berne. Author of Die Waffen Nieder (Lay Down Your Arms).
1904
1903
SIR WILLIAM RANDAL CREMER , Great Britain. Member of the  British Parliament. Secretary of the  International Arbitration League .
1902
The prize was divided equally between:
ÉLIE DUCOMMUN , Switzerland.   Honorary Secretary of the  Permanent International Peace Bureau, Berne.
CHARLES ALBERT GOBAT , Switzerland.   Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Berne. Honorary Secretary of the  Permanent International Peace Bureau, Berne.
1901
The prize was divided equally between:
JEAN HENRI DUNANT , Switzerland. Founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva; Initiator of the Geneva Convention (Convention de Gen�ve).
FRÉDÉRIC PASSY , France. Founder and President of the first French peace society (since 1889 it has been called the Société Francaise pour l'arbitrage entre nations).