Ig Nobel laureates

Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He has been described as the de facto leader of Russia since 2000.

President of Turkey since 2014

Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician who has served as the prime minister of India since 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the member of parliament (MP) for Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindutva paramilitary volunteer organisation. He is the longest-serving prime minister outside the Indian National Congress.

President of France from 1995 to 2007

President of the Republic of Belarus

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022

Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and former military officer who served as the 38th president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1991 to 2019.

Volkswagen (VW; ) is a German automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Established in 1937 by the German Labour Front, it was revived after World War II by British Army officer Ivan Hirst and over the years since grew into the global brand it is today. The company is well known for the Beetle and serves as the flagship marque of the Volkswagen Group, which was the world's largest automotive manufacturer by global sales in 2016 and 2017.

1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore (1923–2015)

vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993

Prime Minister of India (1996, 1988-2004)

Turkmen politician and president of Turkmenistan (2006–2022)

Mexican politician. President of Mexico from 2018 to 2024

American behaviorist (1904–1990)

former prime minister of Pakistan

Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)

maritime service branch of the British Armed Forces

Russian-born Dutch-British physicist

BP p.l.c. is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the oil and gas "supermajors" and one of the world's largest companies measured by revenues and profits.

Italy's principal government institution in charge of statistics and census data

Swiss pseudoscientific writer and ufologist (1935–2026)

American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)

American social psychologist (1933–1984)

Korean religious leader (1920–2012)

Deepak Chopra is an American author, New Age guru, and alternative medicine advocate. A prominent figure in the New Age movement, his books and videos have made him one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in alternative medicine. In the 1990s, Chopra, a physician by education, became a popular proponent of a pseudoscientific approach to well-being that includes yoga, meditation, and nutrition, among other New Age therapies.

Dutch primatologist and ethologist (1948–2024)

police service of Ireland

American media mogul and minister (1930–2023)

unicameral national legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

Israeli-American professor of psychology and behavioral economics

American engineer, coiner of Murphy's law (1918–1990)

insurance market located in the City of London

British physicist

American mathematician (1923–2016)

American doomsday prophet (1921-2013)

Japanese inventor

former derivatives broker

Israeli-Latvian mathematician (1948-2024)

American investor

British standards development organization

Irish neuropsychologist

American psychiatrist (1929–2004)

US federal government agency

American psychologist

French immunologist and physician (1935–2004)

Indian activist who was falsely declared dead

American career U.S. Air Force officer, flight surgeon, physician, and biophysicist (1910–1999)

Jasmuheen (born Ellen Greve; 1957.) is an Australian proponent of "pranic nourishment" or breatharianism, the alleged practice of living entirely without food and drink. She makes appearances at New Age conferences worldwide, has hosted spiritual retreats in Thailand and has released books and audio recordings. Her claims have been condemned by the scientific community as a dangerous pseudoscience.

Japanese businessman

American social psychologist and professor of psychology

American philosopher

Australian medical researcher, author, science communicator, radio commentator, television commentator

American religious leader (1939–2009)

Lithuanian politician

Czech evolutionary biologist

Australian physicist (1881–1948)

American politic, former physicist, and transcendental meditation advocate

American conspiracy theorist

scientific research organization operated by the United States Air Force