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Recent winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is arguably the most high profile of the Nobel Prizes and has over the years attracted maximum attention.
The Nobel Peace Prize is arguably the most high profile of the Nobel Prizes and has over the years attracted maximum attention. From Mikhail Gorbbachev to Yasser Arafat, Mother Teresa to Doctors Without Borders, well known individuals and organisation have featured in this category.
The following are the winners in recent times.
Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1973:
2003: Shirin Ebadi, Iran.
2002: Jimmy Carter, United States.
2001: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
2000: Kim Dae-jung, South Korea.
1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders).
1998: David Trimble and John Hume, Northern Ireland.
1997: Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, United States.
1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor.
1995: Joseph Rotblat, Britain, and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.
1994: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat; Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, Israel.
1993: Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk, South Africa.
1992: Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala.
1991: Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar (also known as Burma).
1990: Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Union.
1989: The Dalai Lama, Tibet.
1988: The UN Peacekeeping Forces.
1987: Oscar Arias Sanchez, Costa Rica.
1986: Elie Wiesel, United States.
1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, United States.
1984: Desmond Mpilo Tutu, South Africa.
1983: Lech Walesa, Poland.
1982: Alva Myrdal, Sweden; Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexico.
1981: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR.
1980: Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Argentina.
1979: Mother Teresa, India.
1978: Anwar Sadat, Egypt; Menachem Begin, Israel.
1977: Amnesty International, Britain.
1976: Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, Northern Ireland.
1975: Andrei Sakharov, Soviet Union.
1974: Sean MacBride, Ireland; Eisaku Sato, Japan.
1973: Henry A. Kissinger, United States; Le Duc Tho, North Vietnam, who declined the prize.
