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 Prize Country Status Year
Theodore Roosevelt Peace  United States President of the United States 1906
Woodrow Wilson Peace  United States President of the United States 1919
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 Peace  Egypt President of Egypt 1978
Menachem Begin Peace  Israel Prime Minister of Israel 1978
Óscar Arias Peace  Costa Rica President of Costa Rica 1987
Mikhail Gorbachev Peace  Soviet Union President of the Soviet Union 1990
Frederik Willem de Klerk Peace  South Africa State President of South Africa 1993
Jitzhak Rabin Peace  Israel Prime Minister of Israel 1994
Kim Dae-jung Peace  Republic of Korea President of the Republic of Korea 2000
Barack Obama Peace  United States President of the United States 2010
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Peace  Liberia President of Liberia 2011

Before or out of Office

Nobelist Prize Country Status Year
Gustav Stresemann Peace  Germany future Chancellor of Germany 1926
Lester Bowles Pearson Peace  Canada future Prime Minister of Canada 1957
Eisaku Satō Peace  Japan former Prime Minister of Japan 1974
Lech Wałęsa Peace  Poland future President of Poland 1983
Nelson Mandela Peace  South Africa future President of South Africa 1993
Shimon Peres Peace  Israel future Prime Minister of Israel 1994
José Ramos Horta Peace  Timor-Leste future President and Prime Minister of East Timor 1996
Jimmy Carter Peace  United States former President of the United States 2002
Martti Ahtisaari Peace  Finland former President of Finland 2008

See also

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