List of heads of state and government Nobel laureates
This is a list of all the 29 heads of state and heads of government who have received the Nobel Prize. Excepting Winston Churchill who received the Literature Prize, all the others were awarded with a Peace Prize.
In office[]
Before or after serving in office[]
Nobelist.[1] | Prize[1] | Country[1] | Status[1] | Year[1] | |
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Auguste Beernaert | Peace | Belgium | former Prime Minister of Belgium | 1909 | |
Léon Bourgeois | France | former Prime Minister of France | 1920 | ||
Aristide Briand | 1926 | ||||
Gustav Stresemann | Germany | former Chancellor of Germany | |||
Lester Bowles Pearson | Canada | future Prime Minister of Canada | 1957 | ||
Eisaku Satō | Japan | former Prime Minister of Japan | 1974 | ||
Lech Wałęsa | Poland | future President of Poland | 1983 | ||
Nelson Mandela | South Africa | future President of South Africa | 1993 | ||
Shimon Peres | Israel | former and future Prime Minister and future President of Israel | 1994 | ||
José Ramos Horta | Timor-Leste | future President and Prime Minister of East Timor | 1996 | ||
Jimmy Carter | United States | former President of the United States | 2002 | ||
Martti Ahtisaari | Finland | former President of Finland | 2008 |
References[]
Categories:
- Lists of Nobel laureates by nationality
- Lists of Nobel laureates by institutional affiliation
- Lists of heads of government
- Lists of heads of state