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The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 97 times between 1901 and 2016. Here is a list of the winners.
2016 – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos
2015 – National Dialogue Quartet
2014 – Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai
2013 – Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
2012 – European Union
2011 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman
2010 – Liu Xiaobo
2009 – U.S. President Barack Obama
2008 – Martti Ahtisaari
2007 – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore Jr.
2006 – Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank
2005 – International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Mohamed ElBaradei
2004 – Wangari Muta Maathai
2003 – Shirin Ebadi
2002 – Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter
2001 – United Nations and Kofi Annan
2000 – Kim Dae-jung
1999 – Medecins Sans Frontieres
1998 – John Hume and David Trimble
1997 – International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams
1996 – Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta
1995 – Joseph Rotblat and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1994 – Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin
1993 – Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk
1992 – Rigoberta Menchu Tum
1991 – Aung San Suu Kyi
1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev
1989 – The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
1988 – United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1987 – Oscar Arias Sanchez
1986 – Elie Wiesel
1985 – International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1984 – Desmond Tutu
1983 – Lech Walesa
1982 – Alva Myrdal and Alfonso Garcia Robles
1981 – Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1980 – Adolfo Perez Esquivel
1979 – Mother Teresa
1978 – Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem Begin
1977 – Amnesty International
1976 – Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan
1975 – Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
1974 – Seán MacBride and Eisaku Sato
1973 – Henry A. Kissinger and Le Duc Tho
1972 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1971 – Willy Brandt
1970 – Norman E. Borlaug
1969 – International Labour Organization (I.L.O.)
1968 – Rene Cassin
1967 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1966 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1965 – United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
1964 – Martin Luther King Jr.
1963 – International Committee of the Red Cross and League of Red Cross Societies
1962 – Linus Carl Pauling
1961 – Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold
1960 – Albert John Lutuli
1959 – Philip J. Noel-Baker
1958 – Georges Pire
1957 – Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson
1956 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1955 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1954 – Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1953 – George Catlett Marshall
1952 – Albert Schweitzer
1951 – Leon Jouhaux
1950 – Ralph Bunche
1949 – Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin
1948 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1947 – Friends Service Council (The Quakers) and American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers)
1946 – Emily Greene Balch and John Raleigh Mott
1945 – Cordell Hull
1944 – International Committee of the Red Cross
1943 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1942 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1941 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1940 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1939 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1938 – Nansen International Office for Refugees
1937 – Cecil of Chelwood, Viscount (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil)
1936 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas
1935 – Carl von Ossietzky
1934 – Arthur Henderson
1933 – Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)
1932 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1931 – Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler
1930 – Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom
1929 – Frank Billings Kellogg
1928 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1927 – Ferdinand Buisson and Ludwig Quidde
1926 – Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann
1925 – Sir Austen Chamberlain and Charles Gates Dawes
1924 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1923 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1922 – Fridtjof Nansen
1921 – Karl Hjalmar Branting and Christian Lous Lange
1920 – Leon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
1919 – Thomas Woodrow Wilson
1918 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1917 – International Committee of the Red Cross
1916 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1915 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1914 – No Nobel Prize awarded
1913 – Henri La Fontaine
1912 – Elihu Root
1911 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser and Alfred Hermann Fried
1910 – Permanent International Peace Bureau
1909 – Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert and Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d’Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque
1908 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson and Fredrik Bajer
1907 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta and Louis Renault
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt
1905 – Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau
1904 – Institute of International Law
1903 – William Randal Cremer
1902 – Elie Ducommun and Charles Albert Gobat
1901 – Jean Henry Dunant and Frederic Passy
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(Source: The Norwegian Nobel Committee)
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