List of Head of Government and State Nobel Laureates

This is an list of Heads of State and Heads of Government who have received the Nobel prize.

In Office

Nobelist[1] Prize[1] Country[1] Status[1] Year[1]
Theodore Roosevelt Peace  United States 26th President of the United States 1906
Woodrow Wilson 28th President of the United States 1919
Hjalmar Branting  Sweden Prime Minister of Sweden 1921
Winston Churchill Literature  United Kingdom Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1953
Willy Brandt Peace  West Germany Chancellor of Federal Republic of Germany 1971
Anwar Sadat  Egypt President of Egypt 1978
Menachem Begin  Israel Prime Minister of Israel 1978
Óscar Arias  Costa Rica President of Costa Rica 1987
Mikhail Gorbachev  Soviet Union President of the Soviet Union 1990
Frederik Willem de Klerk  South Africa State President of South Africa 1993
Jitzhak Rabin  Israel Prime Minister of Israel 1994
Kim Dae-jung  Republic of Korea President of the Republic of Korea 2000
Barack Obama  United States 44th President of the United States 2010
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf  Liberia President of Liberia 2011
Juan Manuel Santos  Colombia President of Colombia 2016

Before or out of Office

Nobelist.[1] Prize[1] Country[1] Status[1] Year[1]
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 future 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 future Prime Minister of Israel 1994
José Ramos Horta  Timor-Leste future President and Prime Minister of East Timor 1996
Jimmy Carter  United States former 39th President of the United States 2002
Martti Ahtisaari  Finland former President of Finland 2008

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "26 Heads of State or Government Awarded a Nobel Prize". Official web site of the Nobel Prize.
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