Nobel Peace Prize Winners - Selection (Pictures)

1901 - Founder of the Red Cross, inspired the Geneva Convention

1906 - US President who mediated the end of the Russo-Japanese War

1917 (during WWI), 1944 (WWII) and 1963 (100 years since its founding)

1919 - US President who inspired the League of Nations

1922 - Organized emergency relief during the Russian famine of 1921-22

1935 - Imprisoned German pacifist who warned against German rearmament

1952 - Physician and philosopher who founded a hospital in Gabon, 1913

1953 - US Secretary of State who advocated a plan for economic recovery of post-war Europe

1961 - Swedish Secretary General of the UN

1962 - Chemist and peace activist against nuclear weapons

1964 - A leader of the Civil Rights Movement

1965 - UN organization that provides emergency food and healthcare for children

1968 - French writer of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1970 - American agronomist and father of the Green Revolution (increased food production)

1973 - Negotiators of the Paris Peace Accords, ending war between the USA and North Vietnam

1978 - Leaders of Israel and Egypt for the Camp David Agreement for peace between Israel and Egypt

1979 - Founded Missionaries of Charity in 1950, known for caring for terminally ill in Kolkata, India

1983 - Founded the independent trade union Solidarity, activist for human rights and democracy in Communist Poland

1984 - South African Bishop known for non-violent struggle against Apartheid

1989 - Buddhist spiritual leader and activist for liberation of Tibet

1990 - Soviet leader, for ending the Cold War

1991 - Burmese activist for democracy in military-ruled Myanmar

1993 - For contribution to peaceful termination of Apartheid in South Africa

1994 - Israeli leaders and Palestinian PLO leader for the Oslo Accords

2001 - Secretary General of UN from Ghana

2002 - Former US President, for decades of promoting peaceful solutions to conflicts

2007 - Former US Vice President, for promoting awareness about climate change

2009 - US President, for promoting diplomacy and cooperation between peoples

2012 - For having contributed to peace, democracy and human rights in Europe

2014 - Pakistani and Indian activists for children's rights and education