Complete list of Nobel Peace Prize winners (1901-2024) | Politics news

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize is scheduled to be announced on Friday, October 10, at 11:00 a.m. local time in Oslo, Norway (09:00 GMT).

The announcement comes from the Norwegian Nobel Institute on behalf of the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee, which is appointed by the Norwegian Parliament and responsible for selecting and presenting laureates.

Nominations for this year’s award close on January 31, and selections are underway practical It remains shrouded in secrecy.

A brief history of the Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes are named after Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), a Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist best known for inventing dynamite, an explosive that changed the modern world through advances in construction and mining, but was also responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people in wars.

Motivated by a desire to shape his legacy, Nobel left a multimillion-dollar fortune to fund the annual prizes, which are given to those who had “done the greatest benefit to humanity” in the previous year.

The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901 for outstanding achievements in the fields of Physics, chemistry, drug, Literature And peace.

In 1968, Sweden’s central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, established the Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, expanding the categories to six.

So far this year, four Nobel Prizes have been announced. After the Peace Prize on October 10, the final Prize for Economics will be revealed on October 13.

Who can be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize?

The Nobel Peace Prize aims to honor individuals and organizations who have made exceptional efforts to promote peace, resolve conflicts and promote human rights.

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has 338 nominees, including 244 individuals and 94 organizations, compared to 286 nominees in 2024.

Nominations remain secret, and committee members are prohibited from discussing their decisions for 50 years. Only candidates themselves may choose to disclose their applications.

While a person cannot nominate themselves, they may be nominated multiple times by others.

This year, US President Donald Trump became the focus of nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump, who said: “Everyone says I should get the Nobel Peace Prize,” has won many supporters: Israel, Cambodia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Pakistan, even as many question his candidacy. credentials.

While many well-known figures have been nominated in the past but have not received the Nobel Peace Prize, the names most researched are in a Nobel nomination Database They are Adolf Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi and Joseph Stalin.

These individuals represent vastly different legacies: Hitler was nominated in 1939 as a cynical gesture, Gandhi was nominated several times between 1937 and 1948 but never awarded, and Stalin was nominated in 1945 and 1948 for his role in ending World War II.

Who won the Nobel Peace Prize?

As of 2024, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 105 times to 142 laureates – 111 individuals and 31 organizations.

Among the individual beneficiaries, 92 are men and 19 are women.

The youngest winner so far is Malala Yousafzai, who received the award at the age of 17 in 2014, while the oldest is Joseph Rotblat, who was honored at the age of 86 for his work against nuclear weapons.

The International Committee of the Red Cross holds the record for the most Peace Prizes, having been recognized three times, followed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which has won twice.

Geographically, Europe accounts for the largest share of award recipients at 45 percent, followed by North America (20 percent), Asia (16 percent), Africa (9 percent) and South America (3 percent).

In addition, United Nations organizations represent about 7% of all Nobel Peace Prize recipients.

When was the Peace Prize not awarded?

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded every year.

He was passed over on 19 occasions, namely in 1914-1916, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1939-1943, 1948, 1955-1956, 1966-1967, and 1972, usually due to war or lack of a suitable candidate.

According to the Nobel Foundation’s Statutes, if none of the nominees’ works are deemed important enough, the prize may be withheld and the prize money rolled over to the following year. If it still cannot be granted, the amount will be transferred to the restricted funds of the organization.

One notable example came in 1948, the year Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated. Gandhi was nominated several times – in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947, and again in 1948 – for his peaceful leadership of the freedom movement in India. In 1948, the Nobel Committee chose not to award the prize, citing “the lack of a suitable living candidate”, which was widely seen as an implicit tribute to him.

Is there anyone who refused the award?

The Nobel Peace Prize has only been rejected once.

In 1973, Vietnamese politician Le Duc Tho and US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger received the award for their efforts to end the Vietnam War.

Tho declined the award, citing the ongoing conflict in Vietnam.

The Vietnam War lasted from the late 1950s until 1975, ending with the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, and killed millions of people.

Has the award been shared before?

Yes, often. Among the 105 awards presented so far:

• 71 prizes were distributed to one winner
• 31 prizes were shared between two winners, and
• 3 prizes were shared between three winners.

According to the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation, the prize may be divided equally between two laureates or shared between up to three if their work is jointly worthy of the prize. The prize cannot be divided between more than three people.

Who are all the Nobel Peace Prize winners?

The table below lists all Nobel Peace Prize laureates from 1901 to 2024, as well as their countries of origin.