American Nobel Peace Prize Winners
With his win, Obama follows in the footsteps of Elie Wiesel, Kissinger, Martin Luther King, Carter—and Woodrow Wilson after WWI. View our gallery of other Americans who've won. View our gallery of Americans who've won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Barack Obama – 2009
Al Gore – 2007
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Jimmy Carter – 2002
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Jody Williams – 1997
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Elie Wiesel – 1986
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Henry Kissinger – 1973
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Norman Borlaug – 1970
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Linus Carl Pauling – 1962
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George Catlett Marshall – 1953
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Ralph Bunche – 1950
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Emily Greene Balch – 1946
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John Raleigh Mott – 1946
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Cordell Hull – 1945
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Jane Adams – 1931
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Nicholas Murray Butler – 1931
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Frank Billings Kellogg – 1929
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Charles Gates Dawes – 1925
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Woodrow Wilson – 1919
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Elihu Root – 1912
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