Recent winners of the Nobel Peace Prize

Previous winers of Nobel Peace Prize

1973: Henry A Kissinger, United States; Le Duc Tho, North Vietnam, who declined the prize

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1974: Sean MacBride, Ireland; Eisaku Sato, Japan

1975: Andrei Sakharov, Soviet Union

1976: Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, Northern Ireland

1977: Amnesty International, Britain

1978: Anwar Sadat, Egypt; Menachem Begin, Israel

1979: Mother Teresa, India

1980: Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Argentina

1982: Alva Myrdal, Sweden; Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexico. _ 1981: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR

1983: Lech Walesa, Poland

1984: Desmond Mpilo Tutu, South Africa

1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, United States

1986: Elie Wiesel, United States

1987: Oscar Arias Sanchez, Costa Rica

1988: The UN Peacekeeping Forces

1989: The Dalai Lama, Tibet

1990: Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Union

1991: Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar (also known as Burma)

1992: Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala

1993: Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk, South Africa

1994: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat; Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, Israel

1995: Joseph Rotblat, Britain, and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and world Affairs

1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor

1997: Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, United States

1998: David Trimble and John Hume, Northern Ireland

1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)

2000: Kim Dae-jung, South Korea

2001: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan

2002: Jimmy Carter, United States

2003: Shirin Ebadi, Iran