Full list of Nobel Peace Prize winners

Nobel Peach Prize | Picture: AFPOSLO: Here is the full list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates from 1901, when the prize was first awarded. Last year, the prize went to nuclear disarmament group ICAN.2017: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)2016: Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia)2015: The National Dialogue Quartet (Tunisia)2014: Kailash Satyarthi (India) and Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan)2013: The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)2012: The European Union (EU)2011: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee (Liberia), Tawakkul Karman (Yemen)2010: Liu Xiaobo (China)2009: Barack Obama (US)2008: Martti Ahtisaari (Finland)2007: Al Gore (US) and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change2006: Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh) and the Grameen Bank2005: International Atomic Energy Agency and Mohamed ElBaradei (Egypt)2004: Wangari Maathai (Kenya)2003: Shirin Ebadi (Iran)2002: Jimmy Carter (US)2001: Kofi Annan (Ghana) and the United Nations2000: Kim Dae-jung (South Korea)1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)1998: John Hume and David Trimble (Northern Ireland)1997: Jody Williams (US) and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta (East Timor)1995: Joseph Rotblat (Britain) and the Pugwash movement1994: Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres (Israel) and Yasser Arafat (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 Forces1987: Oscar Arias Sanchez (Costa Rica)1986: Elie Wiesel (US)1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War1984: Desmond Tutu (South Africa)1983: Lech Walesa (Poland)1982: Alva Myrdal (Sweden) and Alfonso Garcia Robles (Mexico)1981: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees1980: Adolfo Perez Esquivel (Argentina)1979: Mother Teresa (Albania)1978: Anwar Sadat (Egypt) and Menachem Begin (Israel)1977: Amnesty International1976: Betty Williams (Britain) and Mairead Corrigan (Northern Ireland)1975: Andrei Sakharov (Soviet Union)1974: Sean MacBride (Ireland) and Eisaku Sato (Japan)1973: Henry Kissinger (US) and Le Duc Tho (Vietnam, declined)1972: prize not handed out1971: Willy Brandt (Germany)1970: Norman Borlaug (US)1969: International Labour Organisation1968: Rene Cassin (France)1967: prize not handed out1966: prize not handed out1965: United Nations Children´s Fund (UNICEF)1964: Martin Luther King Jr (US)1963: International Committee of the Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies1962: Linus Carl Pauling (US)1961: Dag Hammarskjoeld (Sweden)1960: Albert Lutuli (South Africa)1959: Philip Noel-Baker (Britain)1958: Georges Pire (Belgium)1957: Lester Pearson (Canada)1956: prize not handed out1955: prize not handed out1954: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees1953: George Marshall (US)1952: Albert Schweitzer (France)1951: Leon Jouhaux (France)1950: Ralph Bunche (US)1949: Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin (Britain)1948: prize not handed out1947: Friends Service Council (The Quakers), American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers)1946: Emily Greene Balch (US), John Raleigh Mott (US)1945: Cordell Hull (US)1944: International Committee of the Red Cross1943: prize not handed out1942: prize not handed out1941: prize not handed out1940: prize not handed out1939: prize not handed out1938: Nansen International Office for Refugees1937: 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: prize not handed out1931: Jane Addams (US) and Nicholas Murray Butler (US)1930: Nathan Soederblom (Sweden)1929: Frank Billings Kellogg (US)1928: prize not handed out1927: Ferdinand Buisson (France) and Ludwig Quidde (Germany)1926: Aristide Briand (France) and Gustav Stresemann (Germany)1925: Sir Austen Chamberlain (Britain) and Charles Gates Dawes (US)1924: prize not handed out1923: prize not handed out1922: Fridtjof Nansen (Norway)1921: Karl Hjalmar Branting (Sweden) and Christian Lous Lange (Norway)1920: Leon Victor Auguste Bourgeois (France)1919: Thomas Woodrow Wilson (US)1918: prize not handed out1917: International Committee of the Red Cross1916: prize not handed out1915: prize not handed out1914: prize not handed out1913: Henri La Fontaine (Belgium)1912: Elihu Root (US)1911: Tobias Michael Carel Asser (The Netherlands) and Alfred Hermann Fried (Austria)1910: Permanent International Peace Bureau1909: Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert (Belgium) and Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet, Baron d´Estournelles de Constant de Rebecque (France)1908: Klas Pontus Arnoldson (Sweden) and Fredrik Bajer (Denmark)1907: Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (Italy) and Louis Renault (France)1906: Theodore Roosevelt (US)1905: Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner (Austria)1904: Institute of International Law1903: William Randal Cremer (Britain)1902: Elie Ducommun (Switzerland) and Charles Albert Gobat (Switzerland)1901: Jean Henri Dunant (Switzerland) and Frederic Passy (France)

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