2005
International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei
2004
Wangari Maathai
2003
Shirin Ebadi
2002
Jimmy Carter
2001
United Nations, Kofi Annan
2000
Kim Dae-jung
1999
Médecins Sans Frontières
1998
John Hume, David Trimble
1997
International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams
1996
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta
1995
Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1994
Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
1993
Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk
1992
Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1991
Aung San Suu Kyi
1990
Mikhail Gorbachev
1989
The 14th Dalai Lama
1988
United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1987
Oscar Arias Sánchez
1986
Elie Wiesel
1985
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1984
Desmond Tutu
1983
Lech Walesa
1982
Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles
1981
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1980
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1979
Mother Teresa
1978
Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin
1977
Amnesty International
1976
Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan
1975
Andrei Sakharov
1974
Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato
1973
Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
1972
The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund
1971
Willy Brandt
1970
Norman Borlaug
1969
International Labour Organization
1968
René Cassin
1967
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
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1965
United Nations Children's Fund
1964
Martin Luther King
1963
International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
1962
Linus Pauling
1961
Dag Hammarskjöld
1960
Albert Lutuli
1959
Philip Noel-Baker
1958
Georges Pire
1957
Lester Bowles Pearson
1956
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
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1954
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1953
George C. Marshall
1952
Albert Schweitzer
1951
Léon Jouhaux
1950
Ralph Bunche
1949
Lord Boyd Orr
1948
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, American Friends Service Committee
1946
Emily Greene Balch, John R. Mott
1945
Cordell Hull
1944
International Committee of the Red Cross
1943
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
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
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
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
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
Nansen International Office for Refugees
1937
Robert Cecil
1936
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
1935
Carl von Ossietzky
1934
Arthur Henderson
1933
Sir Norman Angell
1932
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1931
Jane Addams, Nicholas Murray Butler
1930
Nathan Söderblom
1929
Frank B. Kellogg
1928
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1927
Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde
1926
Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann
1925
Sir Austen Chamberlain, Charles G. Dawes
1924
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1923
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1922
Fridtjof Nansen
1921
Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lange
1920
Léon Bourgeois
1919
Woodrow Wilson
1918
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1917
International Committee of the Red Cross
1916
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1915
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1914
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1913
Henri La Fontaine
1912
Elihu Root
1911
Tobias Asser, Alfred Fried
1910
Permanent International Peace Bureau
1909
Auguste Beernaert, Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant
1908
Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer
1907
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault
1906
Theodore Roosevelt
1905
Bertha von Suttner
1904
Institute of International Law
1903
Randal Cremer
1902
Élie Ducommun, Albert Gobat
1901
Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy
2005
Harold Pinter
2004
Elfriede Jelinek
2003
J.M. Coetzee
2002
Imre Kertész
2001
V.S. Naipaul
2000
Gao Xingjian
1999
Günter Grass
1998
José Saramago
1997
Dario Fo
1996
Wislawa Szymborska
1995
Seamus Heaney
1994
Kenzaburo Oe
1993
Toni Morrison
1992
Derek Walcott
1991
Nadine Gordimer
1990
Octavio Paz
1989
Camilo José Cela
1988
Naguib Mahfouz
1987
Joseph Brodsky
1986
Wole Soyinka
1985
Claude Simon
1984
Jaroslav Seifert
1983
William Golding
1982
Gabriel García Márquez
1981
Elias Canetti
1980
Czeslaw Milosz
1979
Odysseus Elytis
1978
Isaac Bashevis Singer
1977
Vicente Aleixandre
1976
Saul Bellow
1975
Eugenio Montale
1974
Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
1973
Patrick White
1972
Heinrich Böll
1971
Pablo Neruda
1970
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
1969
Samuel Beckett
1968
Yasunari Kawabata
1967
Miguel Angel Asturias
1966
Samuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs
1965
Mikhail Sholokhov
1964
Jean-Paul Sartre
1963
Giorgos Seferis
1962
John Steinbeck
1961
Ivo Andric
1960
Saint-John Perse
1959
Salvatore Quasimodo
1958
Boris Pasternak
1957
Albert Camus
1956
Juan Ramón Jiménez
1955
Halldór Laxness
1954
Ernest Hemingway
1953
Winston Churchill
1952
François Mauriac
1951
Pär Lagerkvist
1950
Bertrand Russell
1949
William Faulkner
1948
T.S. Eliot
1947
André Gide
1946
Hermann Hesse
1945
Gabriela Mistral
1944
Johannes V. Jensen
1943
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
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
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
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
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1938
Pearl Buck
1937
Roger Martin du Gard
1936
Eugene O'Neill
1935
The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the
Special Fund of this prize section
1934
Luigi Pirandello
1933
Ivan Bunin
1932
John Galsworthy
1931
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1930
Sinclair Lewis
1929
Thomas Mann
1928
Sigrid Undset
1927
Henri Bergson
1926
Grazia Deledda
1925
George Bernard Shaw
1924
Wladyslaw Reymont
1923
William Butler Yeats
1922
Jacinto Benavente
1921
Anatole France
1920
Knut Hamsun
1919
Carl Spitteler
1918
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1917
Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
1916
Verner von Heidenstam
1915
Romain Rolland
1914
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1913
Rabindranath Tagore
1912
Gerhart Hauptmann
1911
Maurice Maeterlinck
1910
Paul Heyse
1909
Selma Lagerlöf
1908
Rudolf Eucken
1907
Rudyard Kipling
1906
Giosuè Carducci
1905
Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904
Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray
1903
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1902
Theodor Mommsen
1901
Sully Prudhomme