Nobel Peace Prize: Complete list of winners and all you need to know ahead of much-anticipated announcement

Nobel Peace Prize 2022: The winner or winners of Nobel Peace Prize 2022 will be announced on October 7 in Oslo, Norway. Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to individuals or organisations who had done most for "fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".

Between 1901 and 2021, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 102 times to 137 laureates.  While the award has so far been given to 109 individuals, there are 28 organisations that have the prestigious award. 

How did it start?

It was Alfred Nobel who signed the last will on November 1895 and donated a major chunk of his fortune to a series of prizes in in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace.

List of winners of Nobel Peace Prize:

2021 - Maria Ressa and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov 

2020 - World Food Programme (WFP) 

2019 - Abiy Ahmed Ali

2018 - Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad 

2017 - International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) 

2016 - Juan Manuel Santos

2015 - National Dialogue Quartet 

2014 - Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai

2013 - Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) 

2012 - European Union (EU)

2011 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman 

2010 - Liu Xiaobo 

2009 - Barack H. Obama 

2008 - Martti Ahtisaari 

2007 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. 

2006 - Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank 

2005 - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Mohamed ElBaradei

2004 - Wangari Muta Maathai 

2003 - Shirin Ebadi 

2002 - Jimmy Carter 

2001 - United Nations (U.N.) and Kofi Annan 

2000 - Kim Dae-jung 

1999 - Médecins Sans Frontières 

1998 - John Hume and David Trimble 

1997 - International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams 

1996 - Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta 

1995 - Joseph Rotblat and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs 

1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin 

1993 - Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk 

1992 - Rigoberta Menchú Tum 

1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi 

1990 - Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev 

1989 - 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) 

1988 - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces 

1987 - Oscar Arias Sánchez 

1986 - Elie Wiesel 

1985 - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War 

1984 - Desmond Mpilo Tutu 

1983 - Lech Walesa 

1982 - Alva Myrdal and Alfonso García Robles 

1981 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 

1980 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel 

1979 - Mother Teresa 

1978 - Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem Begin 

1977 - Amnesty International 

1976 - Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan 

1975 - Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov 

1974 - Seán MacBride 

1973 - Henry A. Kissinger and Le Duc Tho 

1972 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1971 - Willy Brandt 

1970 - Norman E. Borlaug 

1969 - International Labour Organization (I.L.O.) 

1968 - René Cassin 

1967 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1966 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1965 -  United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) 

1964 - Martin Luther King Jr. 

1963 - Comité international de la Croix Rouge 

1962 - Linus Carl Pauling 

1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld 

1960 - Albert John Lutuli 

1959 - Philip J. Noel-Baker 

1958 - Georges Pire 

1957 - Lester Bowles Pearson 

1956 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1955 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1954 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 

1953 - George Catlett Marshall 

1952 - Albert Schweitzer 

1951 - Léon Jouhaux 

1950 - Ralph Bunche 

1949 - Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin 

1948 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1947 - Friends Service Council (The Quakers) and American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers) 

1946 - Emily Greene Balch 

1945 - Cordell Hull 

1944 - Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) 

1943 - No Nobel Prize 

1942 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1941 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1940 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1939 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1938 - Office international Nansen pour les Réfugiés (Nansen International Office for Refugees)

1937 - Cecil of Chelwood, Viscount (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil) 

1936 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas 

1935 - Carl von Ossietzky 

1934 - Arthur Henderson 

1933 - Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane) 

1932 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1931 - Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler 

1930 - Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom 

1929 - Frank Billings Kellogg 

1928 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1927 - Ferdinand Buisson and Ludwig Quidde 

1926 - Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann 

1925 - Sir Austen Chamberlain 

1924 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1923 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1922 - Fridtjof Nansen 

1921 - Karl Hjalmar Branting and Christian Lous Lange 

1920 - Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois 

1919 - Thomas Woodrow Wilson 

1918 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1917- Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) 

1916 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1915 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1914 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1913 - Henri La Fontaine

1912 - Elihu Root 

1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser 

1910 - Bureau international permanent de la Paix 

1909 - Auguste Marie François Beernaert and Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d’Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque 

1908 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson and Fredrik Bajer 

1907 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta 

1906 - Theodore Roosevelt 

1905 - Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau 

1904 - Institut de droit international (Institute of International Law) 

1903 - William Randal Cremer 

1902 - Élie Ducommun 

1901 - Jean Henry Dunant