List of heads of government and state Nobel laureates
This is a list of all the 27 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 Nobel Peace Prize.
In office
Before or after of 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 & 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
- "26 Heads of State or Government Awarded a Nobel Prize". Official web site of the Nobel Prize.
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