Nobel Peace Prize 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.

First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)

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.

leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)

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.

Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997)

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)

7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)

President of Poland from 1990 to 1995 (born 1943)

former State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy

14th Dalai Lama

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, and producer of film and television. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, receiving the Peace Prize in 2014 at age 17, and is the second Pakistani and the only Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize. Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native district, Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan's "most prominent citizen".

Palestinian political leader (1929–2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)

American politician and diplomat (1923–2023)

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

24th president of Liberia

Israeli politician (1923–2016) –Former President of Israel (2007–2014) and Prime Minister of Israel (1977, 1984–1986, 1995–1996)

President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981

Kenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 (1940–2011)

German politician (SPD), chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

Swedish diplomat, economist, and author (1905-1961)

French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)

Bangladeshi banker, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and the former Chief Adviser of Bangladesh

South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner (1931–2021)

Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist (1955–2017)

Israeli politician, statesman and general (1922–1995)

Norwegian polar explorer and diplomat; Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1861-1930)

American scientist (1901–1994)

Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient

Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)

Swiss businessman and co-founder of the Red Cross (1828-1910)

Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor

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

American army officer and statesman (1880–1959)

former president of Colombia from 2010 to 2018

President of Finland from 1994 to 2000

Yazidi human rights activist from Iraq and winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize

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

Israeli politician and former Prime Minister (1913–1992)

Yemeni-Turkish journalist, politician and human rights activist (born 1979)

Guatemalan human rights activist

Liberian peace activiste (born 1972)

Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018

8th President of the Republic of Korea (1924–2009)

7th state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994

Iranian human rights activist (born 1972)

María Corina Machado Parisca is a Venezuelan politician, activist, and prominent leader of the opposition to the administrations of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro. She served as a member of the National Assembly of Venezuela from 2011 to 2014, and has run as a candidate in presidential elections. She was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize; she presented the medal to U.S. president Donald Trump after the 2026 U.S. strikes in Venezuela and capture of Maduro.

Egyptian law scholar and diplomat, 4th Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient

German politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1878-1929)

Prime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972

American economist and writer

peace activist (born 1944)

American biologist (1914–2009)

Indian Social Worker

American teacher and aid worker

Congolese gynecologist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

14th Prime Minister of Canada, from 1963 to 1968 (1897–1972)

President of Costa Rica (1986–1990, 2006–2010)

French economist and statesman (1822-1912)