List of heads of state and government Nobel laureates explained

This is a list of all the 31 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

Nobel Laureate[1] PrizeCountryStatusYear
Peace26th President of the United States1906
28th President of the United States1919
Hjalmar BrantingPrime Minister of Sweden1921
Winston ChurchillLiteraturePrime Minister of the United Kingdom1953
Willy BrandtPeaceChancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany1971
Anwar SadatPresident of Egypt1978
Menachem Begin6th Prime Minister of Israel
Óscar AriasPresident of Costa Rica1987
Mikhail GorbachevGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and President of the Soviet Union1990
Frederik Willem de KlerkState President of South Africa1993
Yitzhak Rabin5th Prime Minister of Israel1994
Yasser ArafatPresident of the Palestinian National Authority and President of the State of Palestine
Kim Dae-jungPresident of the Republic of Korea2000
Barack Obama44th President of the United States2009
Ellen Johnson SirleafPresident of Liberia2011
Juan Manuel SantosPresident of Colombia2016
Abiy AhmedPrime Minister of Ethiopia2019

Before or after serving in office

Nobel LaureatePrizeCountryStatusYear
Auguste BeernaertPeaceformer Prime Minister of Belgium1909
Léon Bourgeois former Prime Minister of France1920
Aristide Briand1926
Gustav Stresemannformer Chancellor of Germany
Lester Bowles Pearsonfuture Prime Minister of Canada1957
Eisaku Satōformer Prime Minister of Japan1974
Lech Wałęsafuture President of Poland1983
Aung San Suu Kyifuture State Counsellor of Myanmar1991
Nelson Mandelafuture President of South Africa1993
Shimon Peresformer and future Prime Minister and future President of Israel1994
José Ramos Hortafuture President and Prime Minister of East Timor1996
Jimmy Carterformer President of the United States2002
Martti Ahtisaariformer President of Finland2008

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 26 Heads of State or Government Awarded a Nobel Prize . Official web site of the Nobel Prize .

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