Nobel Prize Winners (Peace)
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1. Henry Dunant
Henry Dunant (born Jean-Henri Dunant; 8 May 1828 - 30 October 1910), also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss humanitarian, businessman, and social activist. He was the visionary, promoter, and co-founder of the Red Cross. In 1901, he received the first Nobel Peace Prize together with Frédéric Passy...
2. Bertha von Suttner
Writer | Die Waffen nieder!
Bertha von Suttner was born on June 9, 1843 in Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now Czech Republic]. She was a writer, known for Die Waffen nieder! (2014) and Down with Weapons (1914). She was married to Arthur Gundaccar von Suttner. She died on June 21, 1914 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now ...
3. Theodore Roosevelt
Writer | Simple Gifts
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or his initials T. R., was an American politician, statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He previously served as ...
4. Louis Renault
Louis Renault became interested in technology early on. In 1888, when he was just eleven years old, he installed an electric light in his room. At the age of 14, his father gave him an old engine, which he spent hours tinkering with. His technical interest outweighed that of school, which he left ...
5. Paul d'Estournelles de Constant
Writer | Si l'empereur savait ça
Paul d'Estournelles de Constant was born on June 8, 1897 in France. He was a writer and actor, known for Si l'empereur savait ça (1930), Le masque d'Hollywood (1930) and Les frères Karamazoff (1931). He was married to Elizabeth. He died on December 19, 1955 in Claremont, California, ...
6. Elihu Root
Self | The German Curse in Russia
Elihu Root was born on February 15, 1845 in Clinton, New York, USA. He was married to Clara Frances Wales. He died on February 7, 1937 in New York City, New York, USA.
7. Woodrow Wilson
Self | The Adventures of a Boy Scout
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential ...
8. Hjalmar Branting
Hjalmar Branting was born on November 23, 1860 in Klara, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He died on February 24, 1925 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
9. Fridtjof Nansen
Self | Hearst-Pathé News, No. 63
Fridtjof Nansen was born on October 10, 1861 in Store-Frøen, Norway. He was married to Sigrun Munthe and Eva Sars. He died on May 13, 1930 in Lysaker, Norway.
11. Charles Dawes
Soundtrack | Jumanji: The Next Level
Charles Dawes was born on August 27, 1865 in Marietta, Ohio, USA. He was married to Caro D. Blymver. He died on April 23, 1951 in Evanston, Illinois, USA.
12. Aristide Briand
Self | Hearst-Pathé News, No. 41
Aristide Briand was born on March 28, 1862 in Nantes, France. He died on March 7, 1932 in Paris, France.
13. Gustav Stresemann
Self | Dokument-Film Nr. 1 der Tobis-Melofilm G.m.b.H.
Gustav Stresemann was born on May 10, 1878 in Berlin, Germany. He was married to Käte Kleefeld. He died on October 3, 1929 in Berlin, Germany.
14. Frank B. Kellogg
Frank B. Kellogg was born on December 22, 1856 in Potsdam, New York, USA. He died on December 21, 1937 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
15. Nathan Söderblom
Soundtrack | Underbara älskade
Swedish theologian, professor at the universities of Uppsala and Leipzig, and archbishop of Sweden from 1914 until his death. A pioneer of the ecumenical movement he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1930 "for promoting Christian unity and helping create that new attitude of mind which is ...
16. Jane Addams
Writer | Shoes
Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois, USA. She was a writer, known for Shoes (1916), Votes for Women (1912) and Mutual Weekly, No. 16 (1915). She died on May 21, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
17. Nicholas Murray Butler
Self | Installation Ceremonies, Columbia University
Nicholas Murray Butler was born on April 2, 1862 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA. He was married to Kate La Montagne and Susanna Edwards Schuyler. He died on December 7, 1947 in New York City, New York, USA.
18. Carl von Ossietzky
Writer | Der Prozeß Carl von O.
Carl von Ossietzky attended middle school in Hamburg. In 1904 he stopped his school education before reaching secondary school. From 1907 to 1914 he worked as an assistant clerk at the Hamburg district court. In 1908 he became a member of the Democratic Association and the German Peace Society. ...
19. Cordell Hull
Self | World Leaders on Peace and Democracy
Cordell Hull was born on October 2, 1871 in Olympus, Tennessee, USA. He was married to Rose Frances Whitney. He died on July 23, 1955 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
20. John Boyd Orr
Self | Changing World
21. Ralph Bunche
Self | One More River
Ralph Bunche was born on April 7, 1904 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was married to Ruth Harris. He died on December 9, 1971 in New York City, New York, USA.
22. León Jouhaux
Self | Les bâtisseurs
León Jouhaux was born on July 1, 1879 in Paris, France. He died on April 29, 1954 in Paris, France.
23. Albert Schweitzer
Soundtrack | Lourdes
Albert Schweitzer was born on January 14, 1875, in Kaysersberg, near Strasbourg, Elsass-Lothringen, Germany (now in Alsace, France). His father and both grandfathers were pastors and organists. His family had been devoted to education, religion and music for generations.
Schweitzer took music ...
24. George C. Marshall
Self | Krymskaya konferentsiya
George Catlett Marshall Jr. GCB (December 31, 1880 - October 16, 1959) was an American army officer and statesman. He rose through the United States Army to become Chief of Staff of the US Army under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, then served as Secretary of State and ...
25. Lester B. Pearson
Self | Front Page Challenge
Born in Newtonbrook, Ontario, Lester Bowles Pearson was the son of Annie Sarah Bowles and Edwin Arthur Pearson. Throughout World War I, Pearson volunteered for service and entered in it. He survived an aeroplane crash and Pearson went by the code name, "Mike".
After World War I, Pearson returned ...
26. Dominique Pire
Self | This Is Your Life
28. Albert Lutuli
Self | Changing World
29. Dag Hammarskjöld
Self | Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Dag Hammarskjöld was born on July 29, 1905 in Jönköping, Jönköpings län, Sweden. He died on September 18, 1961 in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia [now Zambia].
30. Linus Pauling
Self | Interview with Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling was born on February 28, 1901 in Portland, Oregon, USA. He was married to Ava Helen Miller. He died on August 19, 1994 in Big Sur, California, USA.
31. Martin Luther King
Soundtrack | Freedom Writers
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the son of Alberta Christine (Williams), a schoolteacher, and Martin Luther King Sr. a pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. For Martin the civil rights movement began one summer in 1935 when he was six ...
33. Norman Borlaug
Self | The Late Great Planet Earth
Norman Borlaug was born on March 25, 1914 in Saude, Iowa, USA. He was married to Margaret Gibson. He died on September 12, 2009 in Dallas, Texas, USA.
34. Willy Brandt
Self | Interview mit Berlin
Willy Brandt was born on December 18, 1913 in Lübeck [now Schleswig-Holstein], Germany. He was married to Brigitte Seebacher, Rut Brandt and Carlota Thorkildsen. He died on October 8, 1992 in Unkel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
35. Henry Kissinger
Heinz Alfred grew up in his hometown, where he attended school. When the persecution of the Jewish population in Germany intensified as a result of Adolf Hitler's rise to power in January 1933, he emigrated to the USA with his parents Paula Stern and Ludwig Kissinger in 1938. Kissinger attended ...
36. Duc Tho Le
Self | From Hollywood to Hanoi
Duc Tho Le was born on October 14, 1911 in Nam Ha, Vietnam. He died on October 13, 1990 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
37. Sean MacBride
Self | At the Cinema Palace: Liam O'Leary
Sean MacBride was born on January 26, 1904 in Paris, France. He died on January 15, 1988 in Dublin, Ireland.
38. Andrei Sakharov
Self | Aleksandr Galich. Izgnanie
Andrey Dmitrievich Sakharov was born on May 21, 1921, in Moscow. His father, named Dmitri Ivanovich Sakharov, was a distinguished scientist, a writer of science, and a pedagogy. He also had a hobby of playing piano for silent films and at home. His mother, named Ekaterina Alekseevna was the ...
39. Betty Williams
Self | Betty Williams: Contagious Courage
Betty Williams was born on May 22, 1943 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. She was married to James T. Perkins, James T Perkins, Ralph Williams and Ralph Williams. She died on March 17, 2020 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
40. Mairead Corrigan
Self | Anno Domini
Mairead Corrigan was born on January 27, 1944 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
41. Anwar Sadat
Self | Midweek
Anwar Sadat was born on December 25, 1918 in Mit Abu al-Kum, Al-Minufiyah, Egypt. He was married to Jehan Sadat and Ehsan Madi. He died on October 6, 1981 in Cairo, Egypt.
42. Menachem Begin
Self | A Search for Solid Ground: The Intifada Through Israeli Eyes
Menachem Begin was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. Before the creation of the state of Israel, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a ...
43. Mother Teresa
Self | Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa also known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun who in 1950 founded and was an active member of the Missionaries of Charity. Although her passport name was Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, she was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (Skopje, capital of North Macedonia. ...
44. Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Self | Adolfo Perez Esquivel: Rivers of Hope
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel was born in 1931 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
45. Alva Myrdal
Self | The Swedish Woman
Alva Myrdal was born on January 31, 1902 in Uppsala, Sweden. She was married to Gunnar Myrdal. She died on February 1, 1986 in Danderyd, Sweden.
46. Lech Walesa
Self | Prawdziwy koniec zimnej wojny
Lech Walesa is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the President of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election, Walesa became the first democratically elected President of Poland since 1926 and the first-ever Polish President elected in ...
47. Desmond Tutu
Self | Our Story Our Voice
Desmond Tutu was born on October 7, 1931 in Klerksdorp, Union of South Africa [now South Africa]. He was an actor, known for Our Story Our Voice (2007), 24 Peaces and Jock the Hero Dog (2011). He was married to Nomalizo Leah Shenxane. He died on December 26, 2021 in Cape Town, South Africa.
48. Elie Wiesel
Writer | L'aube
Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in the Kingdom of Romania and emigrated after WWII to the United States. Wiesel is famous as a writer and human rights activist. He is a survivor of the Holocaust and his books often deal with this subject. In 1985 Wiesel was awarded the Congressional Gold...
49. Óscar Arias
Self | Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
Óscar Arias was born on September 13, 1941 in Heredia, Costa Rica.
50. The Dalai Lama
His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama (born Lhamo Döndrub, also known by his religious name, Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso), is Tibet's head of state as well as the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He was recognized at age 2 as the reincarnation...
51. Mikhail Gorbachev
Self | Meeting Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Communist Party. He initiated the changes known as "perestroika" and "glasnost".
He was born Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev into a peasant family on March 2, 1931, in the village of Privolnoe, Stavropol province, Southern Russia. His father, named ...
52. Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi was born on June 19, 1945 in Rangoon, Burma. She is known for Beyond Rangoon (1995), Burma: A Human Tragedy (2011) and They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain (2012). She was previously married to Michael Aris.
53. Rigoberta Menchú
Self | 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy
Rigoberta Menchú was born on January 9, 1959 in San Miguel de Uspantan, Guatemala.
54. Nelson Mandela
Writer | Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013) was the former leader of the African National Congress (ANC). He was known for his lifelong struggle against apartheid (enforced racial separation), which was instituted in South Africa in 1948. The ANC was soon declared a terrorist ...
55. F.W. de Klerk
Self | Nobody's Died Laughing
F.W. de Klerk was born on March 18, 1936 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was married to Elita Georgiades and Marike de Klerk. He died on November 11, 2021 in Cape Town, South Africa.
56. Yasser Arafat
Yasir Arafat was born Muhammad 'Abd Ar-Ra'uf Al-Qudwah Al-Husayni on August 24, 1929 in Cairo, Egypt, to a Palestinian father and an Egyptian mother. He was raised in Cairo but always considered himself Palestinian. In the late 1940s, while a student in Egypt, he became an ardent Arab nationalist ...
57. Yitzhak Rabin
Self | Ben Gurion Zoher
Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974-77, and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995.
Rabin was born in Jerusalem to Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and was raised in a Labor Zionist ...
58. Shimon Peres
Self | Rabin: The Last Day
Shimon Peres was born on August 2, 1923 in Wiszniewo, Poland [now Vishnyeva, Belarus]. He was married to Sonya Gelman. He died on September 28, 2016 in Ramat Gan, Israel.
59. Joseph Rotblat
Joseph Rotblat was born on November 4, 1908 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He is known for Oppenheimer (1980), Threads (1984) and Play for Today (1970). He was married to Tola Gryn. He died on August 31, 2005 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.
60. C.F. Ximenes Belo
Self | Timor Leste: O sonho do Crocodilo
C.F. Ximenes Belo was born on February 3, 1948 in Vila Salazar, Portuguese Timor [now Baucau, Timor-Leste].
61. José Ramos Horta
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
José Ramos Horta was born on December 26, 1949 in Dili, East Timor. He is known for Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992), The Diplomat (2000) and Landline (1991).
62. Jody Williams
Self | Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
Jody Williams was born on October 9, 1950 in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA.
63. John Hume
Self | UTV Reports
John Hume was born on January 18, 1937 in Derry, Northern Ireland, UK. He was married to Pat Hone. He died on August 3, 2020 in Derry, Northern Ireland, UK.
64. David Trimble
Self | A Week in Politics
David Trimble was born on October 15, 1944 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. He was married to Daphne Elizabeth Orr and Heather McComb. He died on July 25, 2022 in London, England, UK.
65. Kim Dae-jung
Self | Ninoy Aquino & the Rise of People Power
Kim Dae-jung was born on January 6, 1924 in Hauido, Sinan, Jeollanam-do, Korea. He was married to Lee Hee-ho. He died on August 18, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
66. Kofi Annan
Self | The Blair Years
Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, ...
67. Jimmy Carter
Actor | The American President
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American former politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and as a Georgia state senator from 1963 to...
69. Wangari Maathai
Actress | The Challenge for Africa
Wangari Maathai was born on April 1, 1940 in Nyeri, Kenya. She was an actress, known for The Challenge for Africa (2009), The 11th Hour (2007) and Earth Keepers (2009). She was married to Mwangi Mathai. She died on September 25, 2011 in Nairobi, Kenya.
70. Mohamed el Baradei
Self | The Robert MacNeil Report
Mohamed el Baradei was born on June 17, 1942 in Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt [now Egypt].
71. Muhammad Yunus
Animation_department | Ajwan
Muhammad Yunus was born on June 28, 1940 in Chittagong, Bangladesh. He is an actor, known for Ajwan, Mansour (2012) and One Peace at a Time (2009). He is married to Afrozi Yunus. They have one child. He was previously married to Vera Forostenko.
72. Al Gore
Writer | An Inconvenient Truth
Former Vice President Al Gore is a founding partner and chairman of Generation Investment Management, and the founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis. He is also a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and a member of Apple...
73. Martti Ahtisaari
Self | Mitä tulikaan sanottua
Martti Ahtisaari was born on June 23, 1937 in Viipuri, Finland. He was married to Eeva Ahtisaari. He died on October 16, 2023 in Helsinki, Finland.
74. Barack Obama
Producer | Leave the World Behind
U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was a white American from Wichita, Kansas. His father, Barack Obama Sr., who was black, was from Alego, Kenya. They were both young college students at the University of Hawaii. When his father left...
75. Liu Xiaobo
Music_department | She Jian Shang De Xin Nian
Liu Xiaobo is known for A Bite of China: Celebrating the Chinese New Year (2016).
76. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Self | Iron Ladies of Liberia
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa.
Ellen Eugenia Johnson was born in Monrovia. She was educated at the College of West Africa. She completed her education in the ...
77. Leymah Gbowee
Leymah Gbowee was born in Liberia. She is known for Women, War & Peace (2011), Small Small Thing (2013) and Prophets of Change.
78. Tawakkul Karman
Self | 1 Health 4 All
79. Kailash Satyarthi
Self | Invisible Hands
Kailash Satyarthi was born on January 11, 1954 in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, India.
80. Malala Yousafzai
Writer | He Named Me Malala
Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997 in Pakistan. She is a human rights activist who advocates for the rights of women and girls and worldwide access to education. She survived an assassination attempt in 2012 and continued her activism. She is the co-founder of the Malala Fund, an ...
81. Juan Manuel Santos
Actor | Parásitos
Juan Manuel Santos was born on August 10, 1951 in Bogotá, Colombia. He is an actor, known for Parásitos (2011), Foreign Wars (2016) and Port of Destiny: Peace (2018). He has been married to María Clemencia Rodríguez since 1987. They have three children. He was previously married to Silvia ...
82. Denis Mukwege Mukengere
Self | City of Joy
He won the Nobel Prize for Peace with the Yazidi Nadia Murad on 5 October 2018.
83. Nadia Murad
Self | On Her Shoulders
She an Iraqi Yazidi who was tortured and raped by Islamic State militants, and has became the spokeswoman of the campaign to free the Yazidi people.
84. Abiy Ahmed
Self | Sky World News
85. Maria Ressa
Self | A Thousand Cuts
Maria Ressa was born on October 2, 1963 in Manila, Philippines.
86. Dmitry Muratov
Producer | Leningrad: Dorozhnaya
Dmitry Muratov was born on October 29, 1961 in Kuybyshev, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Samara, Russia]. He is a producer, known for Leningrad: Dorozhnaya (2013), Zhivaya poeziya. Granatovyye sny (2021) and Killing the Messenger: The Deadly Cost of News (2013).
87. Ales Bialiatski
Self | Biélorussie - Une dictature ordinaire
Ales Bialiatski has been married to Natallia Pinchuk since 1987. They have one child.
88. Narges Mohammadi
Actress | Setayesh
Narges Mohammadi is known for Setayesh (2010), White Torture (2021) and Wind of Change (2023).
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