Nobel Peace Prize Winners

The Nobel Peace Prize is the one of five Nobel Prizes awarded by the Nobel Foundation of Stockholm, Sweden. The Peace Prize is awarded annually "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."¹

Fast Facts

1. Created by Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel
2. First awarded: 1901
3. First recipients: Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy
4. Former Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
5. Other winners have included Martin Luther King Jr., Woodrow Wilson, International Committee of the Red Cross, Theodore Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Yasser Arafat, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa
6. Other Nobel Prizes: Physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine and literature

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