American Nobel laureates

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from special relativity, has been called "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.

American author and journalist (1899–1961)

James Earl Carter Jr. was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter served from 1971 to 1975 as the 76th governor of Georgia and from 1963 to 1967 in the Georgia State Senate. He lived longer than any other president in US history, reaching age 100.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt was vice president for six months under William McKinley and became president after McKinley's assassination in 1901. He was 42 years old upon his first inauguration, making him the youngest person to hold the office.

president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 (1856–1924)

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his 69-year career. With an estimated 125 million records sold worldwide, he is one of the best-selling musicians. Dylan added increasingly sophisticated lyrical techniques to the folk music of the early 1960s, infusing it "with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry". His lyrics incorporated political, social, and philosophical influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture.

US-British poet (1888–1965)

American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)

American writer (1902–1968)

American writer (1897-1962)

American politician and diplomat (1923–2023)

American writer (1892–1973)

American economist and statistician (1912–2006)

Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1948)

African American novelist, essayist, and academic (1931–2019)

Polish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004)

Russian-American poet (1940-1996)

Canadian-American writer (1915–2005)

American writer and playwright (1885–1951)

Polish-American writer (1904–1991)

American scientist (1901–1994)

American playwright (1888–1953)

American physicist (1852–1931)

American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)

American physicist (1868–1953)

Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)

Italian neurologist (1909–2012)

American army officer and statesman (1880–1959)

U.S. poet and Nobel laureate (1943–2023)

German-born American theoretical physicist (1906-1972)

American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer (1860–1935)

Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)

American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)

American physicist and engineer (1908–1991)

German-American nuclear physicist

American economist (1915–2009)

American political economist (1933-2012)

American nuclear physicist (1901–1958)

American physicist and inventor (1910–1989)

American physicist (1929–2019)

Indian-American astrophysicist

American scientist and cytogeneticist

American physicist (1892–1962)

American economist (born 1953)

Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist (1896–1957)

American physicist (1898–1988)

Chinese physicist (1922–2025)

American physicist

American medical physicist (1921-2011)

American biochemist and pharmacologist (1918–1999)

American biochemist

American physicist (1881-1958)

American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)

20th-century American physicist

Austrian physicist and Nobel prize laureate (1883-1964)

German-born American physicist

American economist, professor, and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist