The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of five persons who are chosen by the Norwegian Storting.
2010 – Liu Xiaobo
2009 – Barack H. Obama
2008 – Martti Ahtisaari
2007 – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2007 – Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.
2006 – Muhammad Yunus
2006 – Grameen Bank
2005 – International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
2005 – Mohamed ElBaradei
2004 – Wangari Muta Maathai
2003 – Shirin Ebadi
2002 – Jimmy Carter
2001 – United Nations (U.N.)
2001 – Kofi Annan
2000 – Kim Dae-jung
1999 – Médecins Sans Frontières
1998 – John Hume
1998 – David Trimble
1997 – International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)
1997 – Jody Williams
1996 – Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
1996 – José Ramos-Horta
1995 – Joseph Rotblat
1995 – Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1994 – Yasser Arafat
1994 – Shimon Peres
1994 – Yitzhak Rabin
1993 – Nelson Mandela
1993 – Frederik Willem de Klerk
1992 – Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1991 – Aung San Suu Kyi
1990 – Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1989 – The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
1988 – United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1987 – Oscar Arias Sánchez
1986 – Elie Wiesel
1985 – International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1984 – Desmond Mpilo Tutu
1983 – Lech Walesa
1982 – Alva Myrdal
1982 – Alfonso García Robles
1981 – Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1980 – Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1979 – Mother Teresa
1978 – Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat
1978 – Menachem Begin
1977 – Amnesty International
1976 – Betty Williams
1976 – Mairead Corrigan
1975 – Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
1974 – Seán MacBride
1974 – Eisaku Sato
1973 – Henry A. Kissinger
1973 – Le Duc Tho
1972 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund.
1971 – Willy Brandt
1970 – Norman E. Borlaug
1969 – International Labour Organization (I.L.O.)
1968 – René Cassin
1967 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1966 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1965 – United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
1964 – Martin Luther King Jr.
1963 – Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)
1963 – Ligue des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge (League of Red Cross Societies)
1962 – Linus Carl Pauling
1961 – Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
1960 – Albert John Lutuli
1959 – Philip J. Noel-Baker
1958 – Georges Pire
1957 – Lester Bowles Pearson
1956 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1955 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1954 – Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1953 – George Catlett Marshall
1952 – Albert Schweitzer
1951 – Léon Jouhaux
1950 – Ralph Bunche
1949 – Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin
1948 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1947 – Friends Service Council (The Quakers)
1947 – American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers)
1946 – Emily Greene Balch
1946 – John Raleigh Mott
1945 – Cordell Hull
1944 – Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)
1943 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1942 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1941 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1940 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1939 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1938 – Office international Nansen pour les Réfugiés (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 was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1931 – Jane Addams
1931 – Nicholas Murray Butler
1930 – Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom
1929 – Frank Billings Kellogg
1928 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1927 – Ferdinand Buisson
1927 – Ludwig Quidde
1926 – Aristide Briand
1926 – Gustav Stresemann
1925 – Sir Austen Chamberlain
1925 – Charles Gates Dawes
1924 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1923 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1922 – Fridtjof Nansen
1921 – Karl Hjalmar Branting
1921 – Christian Lous Lange
1920 – Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
1919 – Thomas Woodrow Wilson
1918 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1917 – Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)
1916 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1915 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1914 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1913 – Henri La Fontaine
1912 – Elihu Root
1911 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1911 – Alfred Hermann Fried
1910 – Bureau international permanent de la Paix (Permanent International Peace Bureau)
1909 – Auguste Marie François Beernaert
1909 – Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d’Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque
1908 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson
1908 – Fredrik Bajer
1907 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
1907 – Louis Renault
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt
1905 – Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau
1904 – Institut de droit international (Institute of International Law)
1903 – William Randal Cremer
1902 – Élie Ducommun
1902 – Charles Albert Gobat
1901 – Jean Henry Dunant
1901 – Frédéric Passy
Source: http://nobelprize.org
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