List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates#Laureates
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Nobel Peace Prize annually "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."{{cite web |url=http://www.nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/will/short_testamente.html |title=Excerpt from the Will of Alfred Nobel |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=2011-10-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530222747/http://www.nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/will/short_testamente.html |archive-date=2013-05-30 }} As dictated by Alfred Nobel's will, the award is administered by the Norwegian Nobel Committee and awarded by a committee of five people elected by the Parliament of Norway.{{cite web |url=http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/prize_awarder/ |title=Prize Awarder for the Nobel Peace Prize |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=2011-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014131608/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/prize_awarder/ |archive-date=2013-10-14 |url-status=live }}
Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma, and a monetary award prize (that has varied throughout the years).{{cite web |url=http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/ |title=The Nobel Prize |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=2011-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209163927/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/ |archive-date=2014-02-09 |url-status=live }} It is one of the five prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel (who died in 1896), awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, physiology or medicine.{{cite web |url=http://www.nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/ |title=Alfred Nobel: The Man Behind the Nobel Prize |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=2011-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125143442/http://www.nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/ |archive-date=2014-01-25 |url-status=live }}
Overview
The Peace Prize is presented annually in Oslo, in the presence of the King of Norway, on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel's death, and is the only Nobel Prize not presented in Stockholm.{{cite web |url=http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/award_ceremonies/ |title=The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremonies |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=2011-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006172022/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/award_ceremonies/ |archive-date=2011-10-06 |url-status=live }} Unlike the other prizes, the Peace Prize is occasionally awarded to an organisation (such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, a three-time recipient) rather than an individual.
The Nobel Peace Prize was first awarded in 1901 to Frédéric Passy and Henry Dunant, who shared a prize of 150,782 Swedish kronor (equal to 7,731,004 kronor in 2008), and most recently in 2024 to Nihon Hidankyo.
- Linus Pauling, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1962, is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes; he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954.{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/facts/facts-on-the-nobel-peace-prize|title=Nobel Laureates Facts|publisher=Nobel Foundation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901134144/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/nobelprize_facts.html|archive-date=2012-09-01|url-status=dead|access-date=2011-10-06}}
- At 17 years of age, Malala Yousafzai, the 2014 recipient, is the youngest to be awarded the Peace Prize.
- The first woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize was Bertha von Suttner in 1905. Of the 111 individual Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, 19 have been women.
- The International Committee of the Red Cross has received the most Nobel Peace Prizes, having been awarded the Prize three times for its humanitarian work.
- Five Nobel Peace Prize Laureates were under arrest at the time of their awards: Carl von Ossietzky (in 1935), Aung San Suu Kyi (in 1991), Liu Xiaobo (in 2010), Ales Bialiatski (in 2022), and Narges Mohammadi (in 2023).
Laureates
{{As of|2024}}, the Peace Prize has been awarded to 111 individuals and 28 organizations. Nineteen women have won the Nobel Peace Prize, more than any other Nobel Prize.{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/women.html |title=Women Nobel Laureates |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=2011-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006045212/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/women.html |archive-date=2011-10-06 |url-status=live }} Only two recipients have won multiple Peace Prizes: the International Committee of the Red Cross has won three times (1917, 1944 and 1963) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has won twice (1954 and 1981). There have been 19 years in which the Peace Prize was not awarded.
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Laureates by category
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!align="center"| Category !align="center"| Total | |
| Men | 93 |
| Women | 19 |
| International organizations | 27 |
| Not awarded | 19 |
Laureates per country
| class="wikitable"
! align="center" | Country ! align="center" | Laureates | |
| {{flag|United States}} | 23 |
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | 12 |
| {{flag|Switzerland}}
|11 | |
| {{flag|United Nations}} / {{flag|League of Nations}}
|10 | |
| {{flag|France}}
|9 | |
| {{flag|Sweden}}
|5 | |
| {{flag|Belgium}}
|4 | |
| {{flag|Germany}} / {{flag|West Germany}} | 4 |
| {{flag|South Africa}} | 4 |
| {{flag|Russia}} / {{flag|Soviet Union}}
|4 | |
| {{flag|Israel}}
|3 | |
| {{flag|India}}
|3 | |
| {{flag|Austria-Hungary}}
|2 | |
| {{flag|Norway}}
|2 | |
| {{flag|Netherlands}}
|2 | |
| {{flag|Argentina}}
|2 | |
| {{flag|Canada}}
|2 | |
| {{flag|Ireland}}
|2 | |
| {{flag|Egypt}}
|2 | |
| {{flag|Poland}}
|2 | |
| {{flag|East Timor}}
|2 | |
| {{flag|Iran}}
|2 | |
| {{flag|Bangladesh}}
|2 | |
| {{flag|Liberia}}
|2 | |
| {{flag|Japan}}
|2 | |
| {{flag|Italy}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Denmark}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|North Vietnam}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Palestine}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Mexico}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Costa Rica}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Myanmar}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Guatemala}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|South Korea}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Ghana}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Kenya}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Finland}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|China}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Yemen}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|European Union}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Pakistan}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Tunisia}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Colombia}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Democratic Republic of the Congo}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Iraq}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Ethiopia}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Philippines}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Belarus}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Ukraine}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Romania}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Ottoman Empire}}
|1 | |
| {{flag|Tibet (1912–1951)|name=Tibet}}
|1 |
See also
Notes
:{{Note label|Late|A|A}} The following laureates were all awarded their respective Prizes one year late because the Committee decided that none of the nominations in the year in which they are listed as being awarded the Prize met the criteria in Nobel's will; per its rules the Committee delayed the awarding of the Prizes until the next year, although they were awarded as the previous year's Prize:
::Elihu Root (1912), Woodrow Wilson (1919), Austen Chamberlain (1925), Charles G. Dawes (1925), Frank B. Kellogg (1929), Norman Angell (1933), Carl von Ossietzky (1935), International Committee of the Red Cross (1944), Albert Schweitzer (1952),{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1952/ceremony-speech/ |title=The Nobel Peace Prize 1952 |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=2020-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218230004/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1952/ceremony-speech/|archive-date=2008-12-18 |url-status=live }} Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1954), Albert Lutuli (1960), Linus Pauling (1962)
:{{Note label|Carl von Ossietzky|B|B}} Carl von Ossietzky's Prize was awarded in absentia because he was imprisoned and was refused a passport by the government of Germany.{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1935/ossietzky-bio.html |title=Biography: Carl von Ossietzky |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=2011-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013195634/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1935/ossietzky-bio.html |archive-date=2011-10-13 |url-status=live }}
:{{Note label|Dag Hammarskjöld|C|C}} Dag Hammarskjöld's Prize was awarded posthumously.
:{{Note label|Henry Kissinger|D|D}} Henry Kissinger's Prize was awarded in absentia because he did not want to become a target of anti-war protesters.{{Cite news |date=30 November 2023 |last=Nordlinger |first=Jay |title=Controversies and criticisms |work=The National Review |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-1973-nobel |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226155933/https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-1973-nobel/ |archive-date=26 February 2024}}
:{{Note label|Le Duc Tho|E|E}} Lê Đức Thọ declined to accept the Prize.
:{{Note label|Andrei Sakharov|F|F}} Andrei Sakharov's Prize was awarded in absentia because he was refused a passport by the government of the Soviet Union.{{cite web |first=Aase |last=Lionaes |author-link=Aase Lionæs |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1975/press.html |title=Award Ceremony Speech (1975) |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=2011-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006050430/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1975/press.html |archive-date=2011-10-06 |url-status=live }}
:{{Note label|Lech Wałęsa|G|G}} Lech Wałęsa's Prize was awarded in absentia because he was refused a passport by the government of Poland.{{Cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/walesa/|title=Profile: Lech Wałęsa|newspaper=CNN|access-date=19 August 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415201207/http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/walesa/|archive-date=15 April 2008}}
:{{Note label|Aung San Suu Kyi|H|H}} Aung San Suu Kyi's Prize was awarded in absentia because she was being held prisoner by the government of Myanmar. Following her release from house arrest and election to the Pyithu Hluttaw, Suu Kyi accepted her award in person on 16 June 2012.{{cite web |first=Francis |last=Sejersted |author-link=Francis Sejersted |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/presentation-speech.html |title=Award Ceremony Speech (1991) |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=2011-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070519130729/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/presentation-speech.html |archive-date=2007-05-19 |url-status=live }}
:{{Note label|Liu Xiaobo|I|I}} Liu Xiaobo's Prize was awarded in absentia because he was imprisoned in China.{{cite web |first=Thorbjørn |last=Jagland |author-link=Thorbjørn Jagland |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2010/presentation-speech.html |title=Award Ceremony Speech (2010) |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=2011-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110906071936/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2010/presentation-speech.html |archive-date=2011-09-06 |url-status=live }}
:{{Note label|Ales Bialiatski|J|J}} Ales Bialiatski's Prize was awarded in absentia because he was imprisoned in Belarus.
:{{Note label|Narges Mohammadi|K|K}} Narges Mohammadi's Prize was awarded in absentia because she was imprisoned in Iran.
References
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- {{cite web | title = All Nobel Peace Prize Laureates | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/ | access-date = 2008-11-29 | archive-date = 1 August 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220801161359/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/all-nobel-peace-prizes/ | url-status = live }}
- {{cite web| title = Winners of the Nobel Prize for Peace| website = Encyclopædia Britannica| url = https://www.britannica.com/topic/Winners-of-the-Nobel-Prize-for-Peace-1856940| access-date = 2008-11-29| archive-date = 5 September 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150905174433/http://www.britannica.com/topic/Winners-of-the-Nobel-Prize-for-Peace-1856940| url-status = live}}
- {{cite web |title = Nobel peace prize winners list 2010: how does Liu Xiaobo compare to previous medal holders? |url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/oct/08/nobel-peace-prize-winners-list-liu-xiaobo |author = Rogers, Simon |work = The Guardian |date = 8 October 2010 |access-date = 2 December 2023 |archive-date = 11 April 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200411155207/https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/oct/08/nobel-peace-prize-winners-list-liu-xiaobo |url-status = live }}
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