Check out the Nobel Peace Prize 2022 & Get the List of All Previous Winners Here!

Mahima Chaudhary | Updated: Aug 30, 2022 21:57 IST

Nobel Peace Prize 2022: According to the will of Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Nobel Prize for Peace is awarded to the person who has done the most or the best work for international fraternity, the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and the holding and promotion of peace congresses. The Peace Prize, unlike the other prizes, can be given to an institution. This year’s Nobel Peace Prize 2022 winner has not yet been announced; this page will be updated once the winner is announced.

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Check out the Nobel Peace Prize Winners List who have lived up to Nobel’s ideals up to the present day in this article.

Nobel Peace Prize 2022

The Nobel Peace Prize 2022 has yet to be awarded. It will be announced on 7 October 2022. We will post an update here once it is announced.

First Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Henry Dunant
Frederic Passy

In 1901, Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy received the first Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Peace Prize 1901 was shared equally by Jean Henry Dunant for his humanitarian efforts to assist wounded soldiers and foster international understanding, and Frédéric Passy for his lifelong commitment to international peace conferences, diplomacy, and arbitration.

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Nobel Peace Prize Winners List

The table below lists the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Nobel Peace Prize Winners List

Year

Name

Country

1901

Henri Dunant

Switzerland

Frédéric Passy

France

1902

Élie Ducommun

Switzerland

Charles-Albert Gobat

Switzerland

1903

Sir Randal Cremer

U.K.

1904

Institute Of International Law

(Founded 1873)

1905

Bertha, Baroness Von Suttner

Austria-Hungary

1906

Theodore Roosevelt

U.S.

1907

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Italy

Louis Renault

France

1908

Klas Pontus Arnoldson

Sweden

Fredrik Bajer

Denmark

1909

Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert

Belgium

Paul-H.-B. D’estournelles De Constant

France

1910

International Peace Bureau

(Founded 1891)

1911

Tobias Michael Carel Asser

Netherlands

Alfred Hermann Fried

Austria-Hungary

1912

Elihu Root

U.S.

1913

Henri-Marie Lafontaine

Belgium

1917

International Committee Of The Red Cross

(Founded 1863)

1919

Woodrow Wilson

U.S.

1920

Léon Bourgeois

France

1921

Karl Hjalmar Branting

Sweden

Christian Lous Lange

Norway

1922

Fridtjof Nansen

Norway

1925

Sir Austen Chamberlain

U.K.

Charles G. Dawes

U.S.

1926

Aristide Briand

France

Gustav Stresemann

Germany

1927

Ferdinand-Édouard Buisson

France

Ludwig Quidde

Germany

1929

Frank B. Kellogg

U.S.

1930

Nathan Söderblom

Sweden

1931

Jane Addams

U.S.

Nicholas Murray Butler

U.S.

1933

Sir Norman Angell

U.K.

1934

Arthur Henderson

U.K.

1935

Carl Von Ossietzky

Germany

1936

Carlos Saavedra Lamas

Argentina

1937

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil

U.K.

1938

Nansen International Office For Refugees

(Founded 1931)

1944

International Committee Of The Red Cross

(Founded 1863)

1945

Cordell Hull

U.S.

1946

Emily Greene Balch

U.S.

John R. Mott

U.S.

1947

American Friends Service Committee

U.S.

Friends Service Council (Fsc)

U.K.

1949

John Boyd Orr, Baron Boyd-Orr Of Brechin Mearns

U.K.

1950

Ralph Bunche

U.S.

1951

Léon Jouhaux

France

1952

Albert Schweitzer

Alsace

1953

George C. Marshall

U.S.

1954

Office Of The United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees

(Founded 1951)

1957

Lester B. Pearson

Canada

1958

Dominique Pire

Belgium

1959

Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

U.K.

1960

Albert John Luthuli

South Africa

1961

Dag Hammarskjöld

Sweden

1962

Linus Pauling

U.S.

1963

International Committee Of The Red Cross

(Founded 1863)

League Of Red Cross Societies

(Founded 1919)

1964

Martin Luther King, Jr.

U.S.

1965

United Nations Children’s Fund

(Founded 1946)

1968

René Cassin

France

1969

International Labour Organisation

(Founded 1919)

1970

Norman Ernest Borlaug

U.S.

1971

Willy Brandt

West Germany

1973

Henry Kissinger

U.S.

Le Duc Tho (Declined)

North Vietnam

1974

Seán Macbride

Ireland

Sato Eisaku

Japan

1975

Andrey Dmitriyevich Sakharov

U.S.S.R.

1976

Mairéad Corrigan

Northern Ireland

Betty Williams

Northern Ireland

1977

Amnesty International

(Founded 1961)

1978

Menachem Begin

Israel

Anwar El-Sadat

Egypt

1979

Mother Teresa

India

1980

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

Argentina

1981

Office Of The United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees

(Founded 1951)

1982

Alfonso García Robles

Mexico

Alva Myrdal

Sweden

1983

Lech Wałęsa

Poland

1984

Desmond Tutu

South Africa

1985

International Physicians For The Prevention Of Nuclear War

(Founded 1980)

1986

Elie Wiesel

U.S.

1987

Oscar Arias Sánchez

Costa Rica

1988

United Nations Peacekeeping Forces

1989

Dalai Lama

Tibet

1990

Mikhail Gorbachev

U.S.S.R.

1991

Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar

1992

Rigoberta Menchú

Guatemala

1993

F.W. De Klerk

South Africa

Nelson Mandela

South Africa

1994

Yasser Arafat

Palestinian

Shimon Peres

Israel

Yitzhak Rabin

Israel

1995

Pugwash Conferences

(Founded 1957)

Joseph Rotblat

U.K.

1996

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

East Timor

José Ramos-Horta

East Timor

1997

International Campaign To Ban Landmines

(Founded 1992)

Jody Williams

U.S.

1998

John Hume

Northern Ireland

David Trimble

Northern Ireland

1999

Doctors Without Borders

(Founded 1971)

2000

Kim Dae-Jung

South Korea

2001

United Nations

(Founded 1945)

Kofi Annan

Ghana

2002

Jimmy Carter

U.S.

2003

Shirin Ebadi

Iran

2004

Wangari Maathai

Kenya

2005

Mohamed Elbaradei

Egypt

International Atomic Energy Agency

(Founded 1957)

2006

Grameen Bank

(Founded 1976)

Muhammad Yunus

Bangladesh

2007

Al Gore

U.S.

Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change

(Founded 1988)

2008

Martti Ahtisaari

Finland

2009

Barack Obama

U.S.

2010

Liu Xiaobo

China

2011

Leymah Gbowee

Liberia

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Liberia

Tawakkul Karmān

Yemen

2012

European Union

(Founded 1993)

2013

Organisation For The Prohibition Of Chemical Weapons

(Founded 1997)

2014

Kailash Satyarthi

India

Malala Yousafzai

Pakistan

2015

National Dialogue Quartet

(Founded 2013)

2016

Juan Manuel Santos

Colombia

2017

International Campaign To Abolish Nuclear Weapons

(Founded 2007)

2018

Denis Mukwege

Democratic Republic Of The Congo

Nadia Murad

Iraq

2019

Abiy Ahmed

Ethiopia

2020

World Food Programme

(Founded 1961)

2021

Dmitry Muratov

Russia

Maria Ressa

Phil./U.S.

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Nobel Peace Prize 2022 FAQ

Who has received three Nobel Prizes?

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) of Switzerland is the only recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize three times, in 1917, 1944, and 1963.

Who received the world’s first Nobel Peace Prize?

In 1901, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Frédéric Passy of France and Jean Henry Dunant of Switzerland shared the Peace Prize that year.

Who has turned down the Nobel Peace Prize?

Le Duc Tho turned down the Nobel Peace Prize.

When is the Nobel Peace Prize given out?

Since 1901, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded on the 10th of December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death.

Who has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2022?

The Nobel Peace Prize 2022 has not yet been awarded.

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