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Here are the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize upto now:

1901
[Jean Henri Dunant]? (CH), founder of the [Red Cross]? and initiator of the [Geneva Convention]?.
[Frédéric Passy]? (F), founder and president of the [[Societe Francaise pour l'arbitrage entre nations]].
1902
[Élie Ducommun]? (CH) and [Charles Albert Gobat]?, honorary secretaries of the [Permanent International Peace Bureau]? in Berne.
1903
Sir [William Randal Cremer]? (UK), secretary of the [International Arbitration League]?.
1904
[Institut De Droit International]? (Gent, BE).
1905
[Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita Von Suttner]?, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau]] (A), writer, honorary president of the [Permanent International Peace Bureau]?.
1906
[Theodore Roosevelt]? (USA), president of the United States, for drawing up the peace treaty in the [Russo-Japanese War]?.
1907
[Ernesto Teodoro Moneta]? (I), president of the [Lombard League of Peace]?.
[Louis Renault]? (F), professor International Law.
1908
[Klas Pontus Arnoldson]? (S), founder of the [Swedish Peace and Arbitration League]?.
[Fredrik Bajer]? (DK), honorary president of the [Permanent International Peace Bureau]?.
1909
[Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert]? (BE), member of the [Cour Internationale d'Arbitrage]?.
[Paul Henribenjamin Balluet D'estournelles De Constant, Baron De Constant De Rebecque]? (F), founder and president of the French parliamentary group for international arbitration. Founder of the [Comité de défense des intérêts nationaux et de conciliation internationale]?
1910
Bureau International Permanent De La Paix ([Permanent International Peace Bureau]?), Berne.
1911
[Tobias Michael Carel Asser]? (NL), initiator of the [International Conferences of Private Law]? in The Hague.
[Alfred Hermann Fried]? (A), founder of [Die Waffen Nieder]?.
1912
[[Elihu Root] (USA), for initiating various arbitration agreements.
1913
[Henri La Fontaine]? (BE), president of the [Permanent International Peace Bureau]?.
1914-1916
Not awarded.
1917
International [Red Cros]?, Geneva.
1918
Not awarded.
1919
[Thomas Woodrow Wilson]? (USA) for founding the League of Nations.
1920
[Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois]?, president of the Council of the League of Nations.
1921
[Karl Hjalmar Branting]? (S), prime minister, Swedish delegate to the Council of the League of Nations.
[Christian Lous Lange]? (N), secretary-general of the [Inter-Parliamentary Union]?
1922
[Fridtjof Nansen]? (N), Norwegian delegate to the League of Nations, originator of the [Nansen passports]? for refugees.
1923-1924
Not awarded.
1925
Sir [Austen Chamberlain]? (UK) for the [Locarno Treaty]?.
[Charles Gates Dawes]? (USA), chairman of the [Allied Reparation Commission]? and originater of the [Dawes Plan]?.
1926
[Artistide Briand]? (F) for the [Locarno Treaty]? and the [Briand-Kellogg Pact]?.
[Gustav Stresemann]? (D) for the [Locarno Treaty]?.
1927
[Ferdinand Buisson]? (F), founder and president of the [League for Human Rights]?.
[Ludwig Quidde]? (D), delegate to numerous peace conferences.
1928
Not awarded.
1929
[Frank Billings Kellogg]? (USA) for the [Briand-Kellogg Pact]?.
1930
Archbishop [Lars Olof Nathan (Jonathan) Söderblom]? (S), leader of the ecumenical movement.
1931
[Jane Addams]? (USA), international president of the [Women's International League for Peace and Freedom]?
[Nicholas Murray Butler]? (USA) for promoting the [Briand-Kellogg Pact]?.
1932
Not awarded.
1933
[Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)]? (UK), writer, member of the Executive Committee of the League of Nations and the [National Peace Council]?.
1934
[Arthur Henderson]? (UK), chairman of the League of Nations [Disarmament Conference]?
1935
[Carl Von Ossietzky]? (D), pacifistic journalist.
1936
[Carlos Saavedra Lamas]? (Arg), president of the League of Nations and mediator in a conflict between Paraguay and Bolivia.
1937
[Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil)]?, founder and president of the [International Peace Campaign]?.
1938
[Nansen International Office For Refugees]?, Geneva.
1939-1943
Not awarded.
1944
International Committee of the [Red Cross]?.
1945
[Cordell Hull]? (USA) for co-initiating the United Nations.
1946
[Emily Greene Balch]? (USA), honorary international president [Women's International League for Peace and Freedom]?
[John Raleigh Mott]? (USA), chairman [International Missionary Council]? and president [World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations]?
1947
The Friends Service Council (UK) and The American Friends Service Committee (USA), on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers?.
1948
Not awarded.
1949
[Lord John Boyd Orr of Brechin]? (UK), director [General Food and Agricultural Organization]?, president [National Peace Council]?, president [World Union of Peace Organizations]?.
1950
[Ralph Bunche]? for mediating in Palestina? (1948).
1951
[Léon Jouhaux]? (F), president of the [International Committee of the European Council]?, vice president of the [International Confederation of Free Trade Unions]?, vice president of the [World Federation of Trade Unions]?, member of the [ILO Council]?, delegate to the UN.
1952
Albert Schweitzer (F) for founding the [Lambarene Hospital]? in Gabon.
1953
[George Catlett Marshall]? (USA) for the [Marshall Plan]?.
1954
The Office of the United Nations [High Commissioner For Refugees]?.
1955-1956
Not awarded.
1957
Lester Bowles Pearson (CAN), president of the 7th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
1958
George Henri Pire (B), leader of [l'Europe du Coeur au Service du Monde]?, a relief organization for refugees.
1959
[Philip J. Noel-Baker]? (UK), for his lifelong ardent work for international peace and co-operation.
1960
[Albert John Lutuli]? (RSA), president of the ANC? (African National Congress).
1961
[Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld]? (S), secretary-general of the UN (awarded posthumously).
1962
[Linus Carl Pauling]? (USA) for his campaign against nuclear weapons test.
1963
International Committee of the [Red Cross]?, Geneva.
League of [Red Cross]? Societies, Geneva.
1964
[Martin Luther King Jr]?, campaigner for civil rights.
1965
[United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF)]?
1966-1967
Not Awarded.
1968
[René Cassin]? (F), president of the [European Court for Human Rights]?.
1969
[International Labour Organization]? (I.L.O.), Geneva.
1970
[Norman Borlaug]? (USA), for research at the [International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center]?.
1971
[Willy Brandt]? (D), for [West Germany]?'s Ostpolitik, embodying a new attitude towards Eastern Europe and [East Germany]?.
1972
Not awarded.
1973
[Henry A. Kissinger]? (USA) and [LeDuc Tho]? (Vietnam, declined) for the Vietnam peace accord.
1974
[Séan Mac Bride]? (IRL), president of the [International Peace Bureau]? and the Commission of Namabia? of the United Nations.
[Eisaku Sato]? (J), prime minister.
1975
[Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov]? (USSR) for his campaigning for human rights.
1976
[Betty Williams]? and [Mairead Corrigan]?, founders of the [Northern Ireland Peace Movement]? (later renamed [Community of Peace People]?).
1977
[Amnesty International]?, London.
1978
[Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat]? (Egypt) and [Menachem Begin]? (Israel) for negotiating peace between Egypt and Israel.
1979
[Mother Theresa]? (India)
1980
[Adolfo perez Esquivel]? (Argentina), human rights leader.
1981
The Office of the United Nations [High Commissioner For Refugees]?.
1982
[Alva Myrdal]? (S) and [Alfonso García Robles]? (Mexico), delegates to the United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament.
1983
[Lech Walesa]? (Poland), founder of Solidarnosc? and campaigner for human rights.
1984
Bishop [Desmond Mpilo Tutu]? (South Africa) for his work against apartheid.
1985
[International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War]?, Boston.
1986
[Elie Wiesel]? (USA).
1987
[Oscar Arias Sanchez]? (Costa Rica) for initiating peace negotations in [Central America]?.
1988
The United Nations [Peace-Keeping Forces]?, New York.
1989
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.
1990
[Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev]? (USSR) for helping to end the Cold War.
1991
[Aung San Suu Kyi]? (Burma), oppositional leader and human rights advocate.
1992
[Rigoberta Menchu Tum]? (Guatemala), for campaigning for human rights, especially for indigenous peoples.
1993
[Nelson Mandela]? (RSA) and [Frederik Willem De Klerk]? (RSA).
1994
[Yasser Arafat]? (Palestina), [Shimon Peres]? (Israel) and [Yitzhak Rabin]? (Israel).
1995
[Joseph Rotblat]? (Poland/UK) and the Pugwash? Conferences on Science and World Affairs, for their efforts in the fight against nuclear arms.
1996
[Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo]? (East Timor) and [Jose Ramos-Horta]? (East Timor) for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor.
1997
[International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)]? and [Jody Williams]? (USA) for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.
1998
[John Hume]? (UK) and [David Trimble]? (UK) for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
1999
[Doctors Without Borders]?, Brussels.
2000
[Kim Dae Jung]? (S.Korea) for his work for democracy and human rights, and in particular for peace and reconciliation with North Korea.

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