Winners of Nobel Peace Prize
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Nobel Peace Prize Winners Since 1975:
- 2004: Wangari Maathai, Kenya.
- 2003: Shirin Ebadi, Iran.
- 2002: Jimmy Carter, United States.
- 2001: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
- 2000: Kim Dae-jung, South Korea.
- 1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders).
- 1998: David Trimble and John Hume, Northern Ireland.
- 1997: Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, United States.
- 1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor.
- 1995: Joseph Rotblat, Britain, and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.
- 1994: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat; Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, Israel.
- 1993: Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk, South Africa.
- 1992: Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala.
- 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar (also known as Burma).
- 1990: Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Union.
- 1989: The Dalai Lama, Tibet.
- 1988: The UN Peacekeeping Forces.
- 1987: Oscar Arias Sanchez, Costa Rica.
- 1986: Elie Wiesel, United States.
- 1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, United States.
- 1984: Desmond Tutu, South Africa.
- 1983: Lech Walesa, Poland.
- 1982: Alva Myrdal, Sweden; Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexico.
- 1981: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR.
- 1980: Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Argentina.
- 1979: Mother Teresa, India.
- 1978: Anwar Sadat, Egypt; Menachem Begin, Israel.
- 1977: Amnesty International, Britain.
- 1976: Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, Northern Ireland.
- 1975: Andrei Sakharov, Soviet Union.
- AP