Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes awarded yearly. According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded to "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".
The ceremony for the Nobel Peace Prize is held on December 10 in Oslo, Norway.
| Date | Nobel Peace Prize Winner | Country |
| 2007 | Al Gore | United States |
| 2006 | Muhammad Yunus | Bangladesh |
| 2005 | Mohamed ElBaradei | Egypt |
| 2004 | Wangari Maathai | Kenya |
| 2003 | Shirin Ebadi | Iran |
| 2002 | Jimmy Carter | United States |
| 2001 | Kofi Annan | Ghana |
| 2000 | Kim Dae-jung | South Korea |
| 1999 | Medecins Sans Frontieres | Belgium |
| 1998 | John Hume | United Kingdom |
| 1998 | David Trimble | United Kingdom |
| 1997 | Jody Williams | United States |
| 1996 | Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo | East Timor |
| 1996 | Jose Ramos-Horta | East Timor |
| 1995 | Joseph Rotblat | United Kingdom |
| 1994 | Yasser Arafat | Palestine |
| 1994 | Shimon Peres | Israel |
| 1994 | Yitzhak Rabin | Israel |
| 1993 | Nelson Mandela | South Africa |
| 1993 | Frederik Willem de Klerk | South Africa |
| 1992 | Rigoberta Menchu Tum | Guatemala |
| 1991 | Aung San Suu Kyi | Burma |
| 1990 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet Union |
| 1989 | Tenzin Gyatso | Tibet |
| 1988 | United Nations Peacekeeping Forces | United States |
| 1987 | Oscar Arias Sanchez | Costa Rica |
| 1986 | Elie Wiesel | United States |
| 1985 | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | United States |
| 1984 | Desmond Mpilo Tutu | South Africa |
| 1983 | Lech Walesa | Poland |
| 1982 | Alva Myrdal | Sweden |
| 1982 | Alfonso Garcia Robles | Mexico |
| 1981 | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | Switzerland |
| 1980 | Adolfo Perez Esquivel | Argentina |
| 1979 | Mother Teresa | India |
| 1978 | Anwar Sadat | Egypt |
| 1978 | Menachem Begin | Israel |
| 1977 | Amnesty International | United Kingdom |
| 1976 | Betty Williams | United Kingdom |
| 1976 | Mairead Corrigan | United Kingdom |
| 1975 | Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov | Soviet Union |
| 1974 | Sean MacBride | Ireland |
| 1974 | Eisaku Sato | Japan |
| 1973 | Henry Kissinger | United States |
| 1973 | Le Duc Tho | Vietnam |
| 1972 | NONE | |
| 1971 | Willy Brandt | Germany |
| 1970 | Norman Borlaug | United States |
| 1969 | International Labour Organization | Switzerland |
| 1968 | Rene Cassin | France |
| 1967 | NONE | |
| 1966 | NONE | |
| 1965 | UNICEF | United States |
| 1964 | Martin Luther King | United States |
| 1963 | International Committee of the Red Cross | Switzerland |
| 1962 | Linus Pauling | United States |
| 1961 | Dag Hammarskjold | Sweden |
| 1960 | Albert Lutuli | South Africa |
| 1959 | Philip Noel-Baker | United Kingdom |
| 1958 | Georges Pire | Belgium |
| 1957 | Lester Bowles Pearson | Canada |
| 1956 | NONE | |
| 1955 | NONE | |
| 1954 | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | Switzerland |
| 1953 | George C Marshall | United States |
| 1952 | Albert Schweitzer | France |
| 1951 | Leon Jouhaux | France |
| 1950 | Ralph Bunche | United States |
| 1949 | Lord Boyd Orr | United Kingdom |
| 1948 | NONE | |
| 1947 | Friends Service Council | United Kingdom |
| 1946 | Emily Greene Balch | United States |
| 1946 | John R Mott | United States |
| 1945 | Cordell Hull | United States |
| 1944 | International Committee of the Red Cross | Switzerland |
| 1943 | NONE | |
| 1942 | NONE | |
| 1941 | NONE | |
| 1940 | NONE | |
| 1939 | NONE | |
| 1938 | Nansen International Office for Refugees | Switzerland |
| 1937 | Robert Cecil | United Kingdom |
| 1936 | Carlos Saavedra Lamas | Argentina |
| 1935 | Carl von Ossietzky | Germany |
| 1934 | Arthur Henderson | United Kingdom |
| 1933 | Sir Norman Angell | United Kingdom |
| 1932 | NONE | |
| 1931 | Jane Addams | United States |
| 1931 | Nicholas Murray Butler | United States |
| 1930 | Nathan Soderblom | Sweden |
| 1929 | Frank B Kellogg | United States |
| 1928 | NONE | |
| 1927 | Ferdinand Buisson | France |
| 1927 | Ludwig Quidde | Germany |
| 1926 | Aristide Briand | France |
| 1926 | Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
| 1925 | Sir Austen Chamberlain | United Kingdom |
| 1925 | Charles G Dawes | United States |
| 1924 | NONE | |
| 1923 | NONE | |
| 1922 | Fridtjof Nansen | Norway |
| 1921 | Karl Hjalmar Branting | Sweden |
| 1921 | Christian Lous Lange | Norway |
| 1920 | Leon Bourgeois | France |
| 1919 | Woodrow Wilson | United States |
| 1918 | NONE | |
| 1917 | International Committee of the Red Cross | Switzerland |
| 1916 | NONE | |
| 1915 | NONE | |
| 1914 | NONE | |
| 1913 | Henri La Fontaine | Belgium |
| 1912 | Elihu Root | United States |
| 1911 | Tobias Asser | Netherlands |
| 1911 | Alfred Fried | Austria |
| 1910 | Permanent International Peace Bureau | Switzerland |
| 1909 | Auguste Beernaert | Belgium |
| 1909 | Paul Henri d'Estourn de Constant | France |
| 1908 | Klas Pontus Arnoldson | Sweden |
| 1908 | Fredrik Bajer | Denmark |
| 1907 | Ernesto Teodoro Moneta | Italy |
| 1907 | Louis Renault | France |
| 1906 | Theodore Roosevelt | United States |
| 1905 | Bertha von Suttner | Austria |
| 1904 | Institute of International Law | Belgium |
| 1903 | Randal Cremer | United Kingdom |
| 1902 | Elie Ducommun | Switzerland |
| 1902 | Albert Gobat | Switzerland |
| 1901 | Jean Henry Dunant | Switzerland |
| 1901 | Frederic Passy | France |
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