| 1901 | Henri Dunant | Switzerland |
| Frédéric Passy | France |
| 1902 | Élie Ducommun | Switzerland |
| Charles-Albert Gobat | Switzerland |
| 1903 | Sir Randal Cremer | U.K. |
| 1904 | Institute of International Law | (founded 1873) |
| 1905 | Bertha, baroness von Suttner | Austria-Hungary |
| 1906 | Theodore Roosevelt | U.S. |
| 1907 | Ernesto Teodoro Moneta | Italy |
| Louis Renault | France |
| 1908 | Klas Pontus Arnoldson | Sweden |
| Fredrik Bajer | Denmark |
| 1909 | Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert | Belgium |
| Paul-H.-B. d'Estournelles de Constant | France |
| 1910 | International Peace Bureau | (founded 1891) |
| 1911 | Tobias Michael Carel Asser | Netherlands |
| Alfred Hermann Fried | Austria-Hungary |
| 1912 | Elihu Root | U.S. |
| 1913 | Henri-Marie Lafontaine | Belgium |
| 1917 | International Committee of the Red Cross | (founded 1863) |
| 1919 | Woodrow Wilson | U.S. |
| 1920 | Léon Bourgeois | France |
| 1921 | Karl Hjalmar Branting | Sweden |
| Christian Lous Lange | Norway |
| 1922 | Fridtjof Nansen | Norway |
| 1925 | Sir Austen Chamberlain | U.K. |
| Charles G. Dawes | U.S. |
| 1926 | Aristide Briand | France |
| Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
| 1927 | Ferdinand-Édouard Buisson | France |
| Ludwig Quidde | Germany |
| 1929 | Frank B. Kellogg | U.S. |
| 1930 | Nathan Söderblom | Sweden |
| 1931 | Jane Addams | U.S. |
| Nicholas Murray Butler | U.S. |
| 1933 | Sir Norman Angell | U.K. |
| 1934 | Arthur Henderson | U.K. |
| 1935 | Carl von Ossietzky | Germany |
| 1936 | Carlos Saavedra Lamas | Argentina |
| 1937 | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil | U.K. |
| 1938 | Nansen International Office for Refugees | (founded 1931) |
| 1944 | International Committee of the Red Cross | (founded 1863) |
| 1945 | Cordell Hull | U.S. |
| 1946 | Emily Greene Balch | U.S. |
| John R. Mott | U.S. |
| 1947 | American Friends Service Committee | U.S. |
| Friends Service Council (FSC) | U.K. |
| 1949 | John Boyd Orr, Baron Boyd-Orr of Brechin Mearns | U.K. |
| 1950 | Ralph Bunche | U.S. |
| 1951 | Léon Jouhaux | France |
| 1952 | Albert Schweitzer | Alsace |
| 1953 | George C. Marshall | U.S. |
| 1954 | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | (founded 1951) |
| 1957 | Lester B. Pearson | Canada |
| 1958 | Dominique Pire | Belgium |
| 1959 | Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker | U.K. |
| 1960 | Albert John Luthuli | South Africa |
| 1961 | Dag Hammarskjöld | Sweden |
| 1962 | Linus Pauling | U.S. |
| 1963 | International Committee of the Red Cross | (founded 1863) |
| League of Red Cross Societies | (founded 1919) |
| 1964 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | U.S. |
| 1965 | United Nations Children's Fund | (founded 1946) |
| 1968 | René Cassin | France |
| 1969 | International Labour Organisation | (founded 1919) |
| 1970 | Norman Ernest Borlaug | U.S. |
| 1971 | Willy Brandt | West Germany |
| 1973 | Henry Kissinger | U.S. |
| Le Duc Tho (declined) | North Vietnam |
| 1974 | Seán MacBride | Ireland |
| Sato Eisaku | Japan |
| 1975 | Andrey Dmitriyevich Sakharov | U.S.S.R. |
| 1976 | Mairéad Corrigan | Northern Ireland |
| Betty Williams | Northern Ireland |
| 1977 | Amnesty International | (founded 1961) |
| 1978 | Menachem Begin | Israel |
| Anwar el-Sadat | Egypt |
| 1979 | Mother Teresa | India |
| 1980 | Adolfo Pérez Esquivel | Argentina |
| 1981 | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | (founded 1951) |
| 1982 | Alfonso García Robles | Mexico |
| Alva Myrdal | Sweden |
| 1983 | Lech Wałęsa | Poland |
| 1984 | Desmond Tutu | South Africa |
| 1985 | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | (founded 1980) |
| 1986 | Elie Wiesel | U.S. |
| 1987 | Oscar Arias Sánchez | Costa Rica |
| 1988 | United Nations Peacekeeping Forces | |
| 1989 | Dalai Lama | Tibet |
| 1990 | Mikhail Gorbachev | U.S.S.R. |
| 1991 | Aung San Suu Kyi | Myanmar |
| 1992 | Rigoberta Menchú | Guatemala |
| 1993 | F.W. de Klerk | South Africa |
| Nelson Mandela | South Africa |
| 1994 | Yasser Arafat | Palestinian |
| Shimon Peres | Israel |
| Yitzhak Rabin | Israel |
| 1995 | Pugwash Conferences | (founded 1957) |
| Joseph Rotblat | U.K. |
| 1996 | Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo | East Timor |
| José Ramos-Horta | East Timor |
| 1997 | International Campaign to Ban Landmines | (founded 1992) |
| Jody Williams | U.S. |
| 1998 | John Hume | Northern Ireland |
| David Trimble | Northern Ireland |
| 1999 | Doctors Without Borders | (founded 1971) |
| 2000 | Kim Dae-Jung | South Korea |
| 2001 | United Nations | (founded 1945) |
| Kofi Annan | Ghana |
| 2002 | Jimmy Carter | U.S. |
| 2003 | Shirin Ebadi | Iran |
| 2004 | Wangari Maathai | Kenya |
| 2005 | Mohamed ElBaradei | Egypt |
| International Atomic Energy Agency | (founded 1957) |
| 2006 | Grameen Bank | (founded 1976) |
| Muhammad Yunus | Bangladesh |
| 2007 | Al Gore | U.S. |
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | (founded 1988) |
| 2008 | Martti Ahtisaari | Finland |
| 2009 | Barack Obama | U.S. |
| 2010 | Liu Xiaobo | China |
| 2011 | Leymah Gbowee | Liberia |
| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | Liberia |
| Tawakkul Karmān | Yemen |
| 2012 | European Union | (founded 1993) |
| 2013 | Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons | (founded 1997) |
| 2014 | Kailash Satyarthi | India |
| Malala Yousafzai | Pakistan |
| 2015 | National Dialogue Quartet | (founded 2013) |
| 2016 | Juan Manuel Santos | Colombia |
| 2017 | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons | (founded 2007) |
| 2018 | Denis Mukwege | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Nadia Murad | Iraq |
| 2019 | Abiy Ahmed | Ethiopia |
| 2020 | World Food Programme | (founded 1961) |
| 2021 | Dmitry Muratov | Russia |
| Maria Ressa | Phil./U.S. |
| 2022 | Ales Bialiatski | Belarus |
| Center for Civil Liberties | Ukraine |
| Memorial | Russia |
| 2023 | Narges Mohammadi | Iran |
| 2024 | Nihon Hidankyo | Japan |
| 2025 | Maria Corina Machado | Venezuela |
| 2026 | Navanethem “Navi” Pillay | South Africa |
