The Nobel Prize ( Swedish: Nobelpriset) is a set of five different prizes that, according to its benefactor Alfred Nobel, in his 1895 will, must be awarded "to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”. The five prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. [1]
As of 2023, 65 Nobel Prizes and the Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to 64 women [2] and since 1901, the year wherein the awarding of the prizes began, hundreds of women have already been nominated and shortlisted carefully in each field. [3] [4]
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. [5] [6] Curie is also the only woman to have won multiple Nobel Prizes; in 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Curie's daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935, making the two the only mother-daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes. [5] Of the currently revealed female nominees both in physics and chemistry, the notable scientists Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Astrid Cleve, Harriet Brooks, Alice Ball, Mileva Marić, Inge Lehmann, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Leona Woods and Helen Parsons were not included.
In 1912, Mary Edwards Walker became the first ever woman nominated for prize in physiology or medicine but her nomination was later declared invalid by the Nobel Committee because her nominator was not invited to nominate that year. [7] Hence, Cécile Vogt-Mugnier, nominated first in 1922, became the official first female nominee but never won despite numerous recommendations. [3] She was followed by Maud Slye who was nominated in the year 1923, but again never won. Only in 1947, that the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was finally awarded to a woman, Gerty Cori, sharing with her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori. [8] Of the 13 currently revealed female nominees, the physiologists Nettie Stevens, Frieda Robscheit-Robbins, Rosalind Franklin, Miriam Michael Stimson, Louise Pearce, Virginia Apgar, Hattie Alexander and Alice Catherine Evans were not included.
The most number of female nominees was in the field of literature. The first woman to be nominated was the German memoirist Malwida von Meysenbug for the year 1901. [3] She was nominated by the French historian Gabriel Monod but unfortunately did not win the prize. [9] Her nomination was followed by Émilie Lerou and Selma Lagerlöf for the year 1904. Lagerlöf would later on become the first woman to win the prize in the year 1909. [10] Of the 77 currently revealed female nominees for the literature category, the celebrated authors Kate Chopin, Alfonsina Storni, Virginia Woolf, Simone Weil, Edith Nesbit, Delmira Agustini, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, Edith Hamilton, Marina Tsvetaeva, Zora Neale Hurston, Fannie Hurst, Flannery O'Connor and Agatha Christie were not included. [11] [12] [13]
The first women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize were Belva Ann Lockwood and Bertha von Suttner, who would eventually be awarded in 1905. [3] The latter was considered for authoring Lay Down Your Arms! and contributing to the creation of the Prize. [14] Of the 57 currently revealed female nominees, the famous Susan B. Anthony, Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Mary Harris Jones, Olive Schreiner, Aletta Jacobs, Emmeline Pankhurst, Ida B. Wells, Käthe Kollwitz, Muriel Lester, Katharine Drexel, Helene Schweitzer, Marie Stopes, Vera Brittain, Ava Helen Pauling, Golda Meir, Rachel Carson and Rosa Parks were not included. [15] [16]
Starting from 1902 to 1970, 11 women have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics and three of the nominees were subsequently awarded.
Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
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1902 | |||||
Marie Skłodowska Curie | 7 November 1867 Warsaw, Poland |
4 July 1934 Passy, Haute-Savoie, France |
1902, 1903 | Awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with P.Curie and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [17] | |
1935 | |||||
Irène Joliot-Curie | 12 September 1897 Paris, France |
17 March 1956 Paris, France |
1934, 1935 | Awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Frédéric Joliot-Curie. [18] | |
1937 | |||||
Lise Meitner | 7 November 1878 Vienna, Austria |
27 October 1968 Cambridge, England |
1937, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965 | Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too. [19] | |
1950 | |||||
Marietta Blau | 29 April 1894 Vienna, Austria |
27 January 1970 Vienna, Austria |
1950, 1956, 1957 | Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too. [20] | |
Hertha Wambacher [a] | 9 March 1903 Vienna, Austria |
25 March 1950 Vienna, Austria |
1950 | Nominated jointly with Marietta Blau the only time by Erwin Schrödinger. [21] | |
1955 | |||||
Maria Goeppert-Mayer | 28 June 1906 Katowice, Poland |
2 February 1972 San Diego, California, United States |
1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963 | Awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen. [22] | |
1956 | |||||
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | 12 May 1910 Cairo, Egypt |
29 July 1994 Ilmington, England |
1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961 | Awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [23] | |
1958 | |||||
Chien-Shiung Wu | 31 May 1912 Liuhe, Taicang, China |
16 February 1997 New York City, New York, United States |
1958, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1965 | [24] | |
1964 | |||||
Margaret Peachey Burbidge | 12 August 1919 Stockport, England |
5 April 2020 San Francisco, California, United States |
1964 | Nominated jointly with William Alfred Fowler and Fred Hoyle the only time by Harold Urey. [25] | |
1970 | |||||
Jocelyn Bell Burnell | 15 July 1943 Lurgan, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom |
— | 1970 [b] | [26] [c] | |
Janine Connes | 1926 or 1934 France |
— | 1970 | Nominated jointly with Pierre Connes and Robert B. Leighton the only time by Rupert Wildt. [27] | |
1971–1972 | |||||
should be revealed by Nobel Committee |
Starting 1911 to 1970, 15 women have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and 3 of these nominees were subsequently awarded.
Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
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1911 | |||||
Marie Skłodowska Curie | November 7, 1867 Warsaw, Poland |
July 4, 1934 Sancellemoz, France |
1911 | Awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. [17] | |
1924 | |||||
Lise Meitner | November 7, 1878 Vienna, Austria |
October 27, 1968 Cambridge, England |
1924, 1925, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1948 | Nominated for Nobel Prize in Physics too. [19] | |
1933 | |||||
Ida Tacke Noddack | February 25, 1896 Rhine Province, Germany |
September 24, 1978 Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany |
1933, 1935, 1937 | Nominated jointly with Walter Noddack only. [28] | |
1935 | |||||
Irène Joliot-Curie | September 12, 1897 Paris, France |
March 17, 1956 Paris, France |
1935 | Awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Frédéric Joliot and nominated for Nobel Prize in Physics too. [18] | |
1939 | |||||
Dorothy Maud Wrinch | September 12, 1894 Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina |
February 11, 1976 Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States |
1939 | [18] | |
1950 | |||||
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | May 12, 1910 Cairo, Egypt |
July 29, 1994 Ilmington, England |
1950, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 | Awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and nominated for Nobel Prize in Physics too. [23] | |
Thérèse Boyer Tréfouël | June 19, 1892 Paris, France |
November 9, 1978 Paris, France |
1950 | Nominated the only time jointly with Jacques Tréfouël and Gladwyn Buttle. [29] | |
1952 | |||||
Marguerite Perey | October 19, 1909 Villemomble, France |
May 13, 1975 Louveciennes, France |
1952, 1958, 1961, 1965, 1966 | [30] | |
1956 | |||||
Joan Folkes | 1927 Staffordshire, England |
? | 1956 | Nominated jointly with Ernest Gale the only time by John Howard Northrop. [31] | |
1957 | |||||
Marietta Blau | April 29, 1894 Vienna, Austria |
January 27, 1970 Vienna, Austria |
1957 | Nominated for Nobel Prize in Physics too. [20] | |
1958 | |||||
Maria Goeppert-Mayer | June 28, 1906 Katowice, Poland |
February 2, 1972 San Diego, California, United States |
1958 | Awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics. [20] | |
1960 | |||||
Martha Cowles Chase | November 30, 1927 Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States |
August 8, 2003 Lorain, Ohio, United States |
1960 | Nominated jointly with Alfred Hershey, Alfred Gierer, Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat and Gerhard Schramm the only time by John Howard Northrop. [32] | |
1963 | |||||
Alberte Bucher-Pullman | August 26, 1920 Nantes, France |
January 7, 2011 Paris, France |
1963, 1965 | Nominated jointly with Bernard Pullman each time. [33] | |
1967 | |||||
Mary Belle Allen | November 11, 1922 Morristown, New Jersey |
1973 Fairbanks, Alaska |
1967 | Nominated jointly with Daniel I. Arnon and Frederick Whatley the only time by John Howard Northrop. [34] | |
1968 | |||||
Erika Cremer | May 20, 1900 Munich, Germany |
September 21, 1996 Innsbruck, Austria |
1968 | Nominated the only time by Franz Patat. [35] | |
1971–1972 | |||||
should be revealed by Nobel Committee |
Starting from 1922 to 1953, 14 women have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine wherein one was declared invalid and one was subsequently awarded.
Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
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1912 | |||||
Mary Edwards Walker [d] | November 26, 1832 Oswego, New York, United States |
February 21, 1919 Oswego, New York, United States |
1912 [e] | Nominated the only time by A. S. Helton. [7] | |
1922 | |||||
Cécile Vogt-Mugnier [f] | March 27, 1875 Annecy, France |
May 4, 1962 Cambridge, England |
1922, 1923, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1950, 1951, 1953 | Nominated jointly with Oskar Vogt each time. [36] | |
1923 | |||||
Maud Caroline Slye [g] | February 8, 1879 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States |
September 17, 1954 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
1923 | Nominated the only time by Albert Soiland. [37] | |
1925 | |||||
Gladys Rowena Henry Dick [h] | December 18, 1881 Pawnee City, Nebraska, United States |
August 21, 1963 Palo Alto, California, United States |
1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1935 | Nominated jointly with George Frederick Dick each time. [38] | |
1930 | |||||
Alice Bernheim [i] | September 28, 1878 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States |
July 14, 1968 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States |
1930 | Nominated the only time by William Cogswell Clarke. [39] | |
1939 | |||||
May Tweedy Mellanby [j] | September 9, 1882 London, England |
March 5, 1978 London, England |
1939 | Nominated jointly with Edward Mellanby each time. [40] | |
Susan Smith [k] | December 9, 1897 Greenville, South Carolina, United States |
October 3, 1983 Durham, North Carolina, United States |
1939 | Nominated jointly with David Tillerson Smith and Julian Ruffin the only time by Osvaldo Polimanti. [41] | |
1940 | |||||
Olive Watkins Smith [l] | April 29, 1901 Worcester, Massachusetts, United States |
1983 Brookline, Massachusetts, United States |
1940 [m] | Nominated jointly with George Van Siclen Smith the only time by Frank Arthur Pemberton. [42] | |
1946 | |||||
Gerty Theresa Radnitz-Cori [n] | August 15, 1896 Prague, Czech Republic |
October 25, 1957 Glendale, Missouri, United States |
1946, 1947 | Awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Bernardo Houssay. [43] | |
Militsa Nikolaeva Lyubimova-Engelhardt [o] | December 26, 1898 Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia |
December 22, 1975 Moscow, Russia |
1946 | Nominated jointly with Vladimir Engelgardt the only time by Leon Orbeli. [44] | |
1947 | |||||
Helen Brooke Taussig [p] | May 24, 1898 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
May 20, 1986 Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States |
1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953 | [45] | |
1951 | |||||
Miriam Friedman Menkin [q] | August 8, 1901 Riga, Latvia |
June 8, 1992 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
1951 | Nominated jointly with John Rock and Roger Alfred Auguste Vendrely the only time by Bożydar Szabuniewicz. [46] | |
Madge Thurlow Macklin [r] | February 6, 1893 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
March 4, 1962 Columbus, Ohio, United States |
1951 | Nominated the only time by Charles Clifford Macklin. [47] | |
1952 | |||||
Elizabeth Bugie Gregory | October 5, 1920 New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States |
April 10, 2001 New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States |
1952 | Nominated jointly with Selman Waksman and Albert Schatz the only time by Jevrem Nedelkovitch. [48] | |
1954–1972 | |||||
should be revealed by Nobel Committee |
From 1901 to 1972, 77 women have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and 8 of these nominees were subsequently awarded.
Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
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1901 | |||||
Malwida von Meysenbug | October 28, 1816 Kassel, Germany |
April 23, 1903 Rome, Italy |
1901 | Nominated the only time by Gabriel Monod. [49] | |
1904 | |||||
Selma Lagerlöf | November 20, 1858 Värmland, Sweden |
March 16, 1940 Värmland, Sweden |
1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909 | Awarded the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature. [50] | |
Émilie Lerou | 18 May 1855 Rouen, France |
11 June 1935 Paris, France |
1904 | Nominated the only time by Jules Claretie. [51] | |
1905 | |||||
Eliza Orzeszkowa | June 6, 1841 Mil'kovshchina, Belarus |
May 18, 1910 Grodno, Belarus |
1905 | [52] | |
1908 | |||||
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche | July 10, 1846 Lützen, Germany |
November 8, 1935 Weimar, Germany |
1908, 1916, 1917, 1923 | [53] | |
1910 | |||||
Molly Elliot Seawell | October 23, 1860 Gloucester, United States |
November 15, 1916 Washington, D.C., United States |
1910, 1911 | Nominated by Charles W. Kent each time. [54] | |
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach | September 13, 1830 Troubky-Zdislavice, Czechia |
March 12, 1916 Vienna, Austria |
1910, 1911 | Nominated by Emil Reich each time. [55] | |
1913 | |||||
Grazia Deledda Madesani | September 28, 1871 Nuoro, Italy |
August 15, 1936 Rome, Italy |
1913, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927 | Awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature. [56] | |
1914 | |||||
Dora Melegari | June 27, 1849 Lausanne, Switzerland |
July 31, 1924 Rome, Italy |
1914, 1923 | [57] | |
1922 | |||||
Sigrid Undset Svarstad | May 20, 1882 Kalundborg, Denmark |
June 10, 1949 Lillehammer, Norway |
1922, 1925, 1926, 1928 | Awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature. [58] | |
Matilde Serao Scarfoglio | March 7, 1856 Patras, Greece |
July 25, 1927 Naples, Italy |
1922, 1923, 1924, 1925 | [59] | |
1926 | |||||
Sofía Casanova Lutosławski | September 30, 1861 A Coruña, Spain |
January 16, 1958 Poznań, Poland |
1926 | [60] | |
Ada Negri Garlanda | February 3, 1870 Lodi, Italy |
January 11, 1945 Milan, Italy |
1926, 1927 | [61] | |
Concha Espina de la Serna | April 15, 1869 Santander, Spain |
May 19, 1955 Madrid, Spain |
1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1952, 1954 | [62] | |
1927 | |||||
Edith Jones Wharton | January 24, 1862 New York City, New York, United States |
August 11, 1937 Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France |
1927, 1928, 1930 | [63] | |
1928 | |||||
Anna Elisabeth de Noailles | November 15, 1876 Paris, France |
April 30, 1933 Paris, France |
1928 | Nominated the only time by Tor Hedberg. [64] | |
Edith Annie Howes | August 29, 1872 London, England |
June 14, 1954 Dunedin, New Zealand |
1928 | Nominated the only time by Francis Prendeville Wilson. [65] | |
Blanca de los Ríos de Lampérez | August 15, 1956 Seville, Spain |
April 13, 1956 Madrid, Spain |
1928 | [66] | |
Ricarda Huch | July 18, 1864 Brunswick, Germany |
November 17, 1947 Kronberg, Germany |
1928, 1935, 1937, 1946 | [67] | |
1930 | |||||
Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo | September 19, 1887 Los Teques, Venezuela |
(?) 1959 Caracas, Venezuela |
1930 | Nominated the only time by Manuel María Villalobos. [68] | |
1931 | |||||
Laura Mestre Hevia | April 6, 1867 Havana, Cuba |
January 11, 1944 Havana, Cuba |
1931 | Nominated the only time by Juan Miguel Dihigo Mestre. [69] | |
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić | April 18, 1874 Ogulin, Croatia |
September 21, 1928 Zagreb, Croatia |
1931, 1935, 1937, 1938 | [70] | |
1934 | |||||
Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício | April 19, 1884 Lisbon, Portugal |
November 3, 1947 Lisbon, Portugal |
1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947 | [71] | |
1935 | |||||
Violet Beauclerk Clifton | November 2, 1883 Rome, Italy |
November 20, 1961 Lytham St Annes, England |
1935 [m] | Nominated the only time by Nevill Coghill. [72] | |
Elise Richter | March 2, 1865 Vienna, Austria |
June 23, 1943 Theresienstadt Ghetto, Czechia |
1935 [m] | [73] | |
1936 | |||||
Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti | January 10, 1871 Vienna, Austria |
April 8, 1955 Linz, Austria |
1936 | [74] | |
Cécile Tormay | October 8, 1875 Budapest, Hungary |
April 2, 1937 Gyöngyös, Hungary |
1936, 1937 | [75] | |
1937 | |||||
Maria Jotuni Tarkiainen | April 9, 1880 Kuopio, Finland |
September 30, 1943 Helsinki, Finland |
1937 | Nominated the only time by Viljo Tarkiainen. [76] | |
Sally Salminen Dürhkop | April 25, 1906 Vårdö, Åland |
July 18, 1976 Copenhagen, Denmark |
1937, 1938, 1939 | [77] | |
Maila Talvio Mikkola | October 17, 1871 Hartola, Finland |
January 6, 1951 Helsinki, Finland |
1937, 1939, 1947 | [78] | |
1938 | |||||
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck | June 26, 1892 Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States |
March 6, 1973 Danby, Vermont, United States |
1938 | Awarded on the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. [79] | |
Margaret Mitchell | November 8, 1900 Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
August 16, 1949 Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
1938 | Nominated the only time by Sven Hedin. [80] | |
Henriette Charasson | February 13, 1884 Le Havre, France |
May 29, 1972 Toulouse, France |
1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1949, 1954, 1957 | [81] | |
1939 | |||||
Ethel Florence Richardson | January 3, 1870 East Melbourne, Australia |
March 20, 1946 Hastings, England |
1939 | Nominated the only time by Sten Bodvar Liljegren. [82] | |
Henriette Roland Holst-van der Schalk | December 24, 1869 Noordwijk, Netherlands |
November 21, 1952 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
1939, 1950, 1952 | [83] | |
Maria Szumka Dąbrowska | October 6, 1889 Russów, Poland |
May 19, 1965 Warsaw, Poland |
1939, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1965 | [84] | |
1940 | |||||
Gabriela Mistral | April 7, 1889 Vicuña, Chile |
January 10, 1957 Hempstead, New York, United States |
1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 | Awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature. [85] | |
1941 | |||||
Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young | July 21, 1882 San Francisco, California, United States |
February 18, 1954 Los Gatos, California, United States |
1941 [m] | [86] | |
1943 | |||||
Elisaveta Bagryana | April 16, 1893 Sofia, Bulgaria |
March 23, 1991 Sofia, Bulgaria |
1943, 1944, 1945, 1969 | [87] | |
1945 | |||||
Marie Under Adson | March 27, 1883 Tallinn, Estonia |
September 25, 1980 Stockholm, Sweden |
1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1958, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 | [88] | |
1948 | |||||
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette | January 28, 1873 Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, France |
August 3, 1954 Paris, France |
1948 | Nominated the only time by Claude Farrère. [89] | |
Dorothy Canfield Fisher | February 17, 1879 Lawrence, Kansas, United States |
November 9, 1958 Arlington, Vermont, United States |
1948, 1949 | Nominated by David Baumgardt each time. [90] | |
1950 | |||||
Karen von Blixen-Finecke | April 17, 1885 Rungsted, Denmark |
September 7, 1962 Rungsted, Denmark |
1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962 | [91] | |
Gertrud von Le Fort | October 11, 1876 Minden, Germany |
November 1, 1971 Oberstdorf, Germany |
1950, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963 | [92] | |
1951 | |||||
María Enriqueta Camarillo de Monter | February 19, 1872 Coatepec, Mexico |
February 13, 1968 Mexico City, Mexico |
1951 | Nominated the only time by Leavitt Olds Wright. [93] | |
Katharine Susannah Prichard Throssell | December 4, 1883 Levuka, Fiji |
October 2, 1969 Greenmount, Australia |
1951 | [94] | |
1955 | |||||
Edith Louisa Sitwell | September 7, 1887 Scarborough, England |
December 9, 1964 London, England |
1955, 1958, 1959 | [95] | |
1956 | |||||
Melpo Axioti | July 15, 1905 Athens, Greece |
May 22, 1973 Athens, Greece |
1956 | Nominated the only time by André Bonnard. [96] | |
Marthe Lahovary Bibesco | January 28, 1886 Bucharest, Romania |
November 28, 1973 Paris, France |
1956 | [97] | |
Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge | April 24, 1900 Wells, England |
April 1, 1984 Oxfordshire, England |
1956, 1959 | Nominated by Edmond Privat each time. [98] | |
1958 | |||||
Elizabeth Bowen Cameron | June 7, 1899 Dublin, Ireland |
February 22, 1973 London, England |
1958 | Nominated the only time by Roman Jakobson. [99] | |
1959 | |||||
Juana Fernández Morales de Ibarbourou | March 8, 1892 Melo, Uruguay |
July 15, 1979 Montevideo, Uruguay |
1959, 1960, 1963 | [100] | |
María Raquel Adler | ca. 1900 Argentine Sea |
July 28, 1974 Bernal, Argentina |
1959, 1965 | [101] | |
Anna Seghers | November 19, 1900 Mainz, Germany |
June 1, 1983 East Berlin, Germany |
1959, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972 | [102] | |
1960 | |||||
Marie Noël | February 16, 1883 Auxerre, France |
December 23, 1967 Auxerre, France |
1960 | Nominated the only time by Maurice Bemol. [103] | |
1961 | |||||
Cora Sandel | December 20, 1880 Oslo, Norway |
April 3, 1974 Uppsala, Sweden |
1961 | Nominated the only time by Harald Ofstad. [104] | |
Giulia Scappino Murena | 1902 Italy |
1970s (or prob. 1967) Riccione, Rimini, Italy |
1961, 1962 | Nominated by Alfredo Galletti each time and for the Nobel Peace Prize too. [105] | |
Simone Lucie de Beauvoir | January 9, 1908 Paris, France |
April 14, 1986 Paris, France |
1961, 1969, 1973 | [106] | |
1963 | |||||
Nelly Sachs | December 10, 1891 Berlin, Germany |
May 12, 1970 Stockholm, Sweden |
1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 | Awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature with Shmuel Yosef Agnon. [107] | |
Ingeborg Bachmann | June 25, 1926 Klagenfurt, Austria |
October 17, 1973 Rome, Italy |
1963 | Nominated the only time by Harald Patzer. [108] | |
Kate Roberts-Williams | February 13, 1891 Rhosgadfan, Wales |
April 4, 1985 Denbigh, Wales |
1963 | Nominated the only time by Idris Foster. [109] | |
1964 | |||||
Ina Seidel | September 15, 1885 Halle (Saale), Germany |
October 2, 1974 Schäftlarn, Germany |
1964 | Nominated the only time by Günther Jachmann. [110] | |
Judith Wright McKinney | May 31, 1915 Armidale, Australia |
June 25, 2000 Canberra, Australia |
1964, 1965, 1967 | [111] | |
Katherine Anne Porter | May 15, 1890 Indian Creek, Texas, United States |
September 18, 1980 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States |
1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 | [112] | |
1965 | |||||
Marguerite Yourcenar | June 8, 1903 Brussels, Belgium |
December 17, 1987 Northeast Harbor, Maine, United States |
1965 | Nominated the only time by Ida-Marie Frandon. [113] | |
Anna Akhmatova | June 28, 1889 Odesa, Ukraine |
March 5, 1966 Domodedovo, Russia |
1965, 1966 | [114] | |
Marie Luise Kaschnitz | January 31, 1901 Karlsruhe, Germany |
October 10, 1974 Rome, Italy |
1965, 1967 | Nominated by the Hermann Tiemann each time. [115] | |
1967 | |||||
Lina Kostenko | March 19, 1930 Rzhyshchiv, Ukraine |
— | 1967 | Nominated jointly with Pavlo Tychyna and Ivan Drach the only time by Omeljan Pritsak. [116] | |
1968 | |||||
Marianne Moore | November 15, 1887 Kirkwood, Missouri, United States |
February 5, 1972 New York City, United States |
1968 | Nominated the only time by Erik Lindegren. [117] | |
Mildred Matthews Breedlove | May 27, 1904 Coal Hill, Arkansas, United States |
August 14, 1994 Ferron, Utah, United States |
1968 | Nominated the only time by United Poets Laureate International. [118] | |
1969 | |||||
Nathalie Sarraute | July 18, 1900 Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Russia |
October 19, 1999 Paris, France |
1969 | Nominated the only time by Lars Gyllensten. [119] | |
1970 | |||||
Victoria Ocampo | April 7, 1890 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
January 27, 1979 Béccar, Argentina |
1970 | Nominated the only time by Miguel Alfredo Olivera. [120] | |
1972 | |||||
Nadine Gordimer | November 20, 1923 Springs, South Africa |
July 13, 2014 Johannesburg, South Africa |
1972, 1973 | Awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. [121] | |
Doris Lessing | October 22, 1919 Kermanshah, Iran |
November 17, 2013 London, England |
1972, 1973 | Awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. [122] | |
Astrid Lindgren | November 14, 1907 Vimmerby, Kalmar, Sweden |
January 28, 2002 Stockholm, Sweden |
1972 | [123] | |
1973 | |||||
Indira Devi Dhanrajgir | August 17, 1930 Hyderabad, Telangana, India |
— | 1973 | Nominated the only time by Krishna Srinivas. [124] | |
Zenta Mauriņa | December 15, 1897 Lejasciems, Latvia |
April 25, 1978 Basel, Switzerland |
1973 | Nominated the only time by Mārtiņš Zīverts. [125] | |
1974 | |||||
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Argentina Díaz Lozano | 5 December 1909 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras |
13 August 1999 Tegucigalpa, Honduras |
1974 | ||
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1976 | |||||
Anaïs Nin | 21 February 1903 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
14 January 1977 Los Angeles, California, United States |
1976 | [126] | |
1979 | |||||
Joyce Carol Oates | 16 June 1938 Lockport, New York, United States |
— | 1979, 1999 | [127] | |
1990 | |||||
Maria Luisa Spaziani | 7 December 1922 Turin, Italy |
30 June 2014 Rome, Italy |
1990, 1992, 1997 | ||
1992 | |||||
Matilde Alba Swann | 24 February 1912 Berisso, Argentina |
13 September 2000 La Plata, Argentina |
1992 | [128] | |
1996 | |||||
Alda Merini | 21 March 1931 Milan, Italy |
1 November 2009 Milan, Italy |
1996, 2001 | [129] | |
1997 | |||||
Alicia Ghiragossian | 13 July 1936 Córdoba, Argentina |
22 May 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States |
1997 | [130] | |
1999 | |||||
Simin Behbahani | 20 July 1927 Tehran, Iran |
19 August 2014 Tehran, Iran |
1999, 2002 | [131] | |
2002 | |||||
Leyla Erbil | 12 January 1931 Istanbul, Türkiye |
19 July 2013 Istanbul, Türkiye |
2002 | [132] | |
2012 | |||||
Mahasweta Devi | 14 January 1926 Dhaka, Bangladesh |
28 July 2016 Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
2012 | [133] | |
2015 | |||||
Anna Nerkagi | 15 February 1951 Yamalo-Nenets, Russia |
— | 2015, 2018, 2020 | [134] [135] | |
2016 | |||||
Lygia Fagundes Telles | 19 April 1918 São Paulo, Brazil |
3 April 2022 São Paulo, Brazil |
2016 | [136] | |
2018 | |||||
Agustina Bessa-Luís | 15 October 1922 Amarante, Portugal |
3 June 2019 Porto, Portugal |
2018 | [137] |
From 1901 to 1973, 57 women have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and five of these nominees were subsequently awarded. Currently, the Nobel archives has revealed nominations from 1901 to 1973, the other enlisted women were verified nominations based on public and private news agencies.
Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1901 | |||||
Bertha Sophie von Suttner [t] | June 9, 1843 Prague, Czechia |
June 21, 1914 Vienna, Austria |
1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905 | Awarded the 1905 Nobel Peace Prize. [138] | |
Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood [u] | October 24, 1830 Royalton, New York, United States |
May 19, 1917 Washington, D.C., United States |
1901, 1914 | [139] | |
1903 | |||||
Priscilla Hannah Peckover [v] | October 27, 1833 Wisbech, England |
September 8, 1931 Wisbech, England |
1903, 1905, 1911, 1913 | [140] | |
1905 | |||||
Henriette Verdier Winteler de Weindeck [w] | January 9, 1832 London, England |
March 20, 1910 London, England |
1905, 1907, 1910 | [141] | |
1910 | |||||
Ángela de Oliveira Cézar de Costa [x] | ca. 1860 Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos Province, Argentina |
June 25, 1940 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1910, 1911 | [142] | |
1913 | |||||
Anna Bernhardine Eckstein | June 14, 1868 Coburg, Germany |
October 16, 1947 Coburg, Germany |
1913 | Nominated the only time by Nils August Nilsson. [143] | |
Lucia True Ames Mead [y] | May 5, 1856 Boscawen, New Hampshire, United States |
November 1, 1936 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
1913 | Nominated jointly with her husband Edwin Doak Mead the only time by Samuel Train Dutton. [144] | |
1916 | |||||
Jane Addams [z] | September 6, 1860 Cedarville, Illinois, United States |
May 21, 1935 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
1916, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 | Awarded the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. [145] | |
1917 | |||||
Rosika Bédy-Schwimmer [aa] | September 11, 1877 Budapest, Hungary |
August 3, 1948 New York City, New York, United States |
1917, 1948 | [146] | |
1918 | |||||
Mary Shapard [ab] | c. 1882 Mississippi, United States |
c. 1950s Texas, United States |
1918 | Nominated the only time by Morris Sheppard. [147] [148] | |
1920 | |||||
Caroline Rémy de Guebhard | April 27, 1855 Paris, France |
April 24, 1929 Pierrefonds, France |
1920, 1922, 1924, 1927, 1929 | Nominated by Lucien Le Foyer each time. [149] | |
1922 | |||||
Eglantyne Jebb | August 25, 1876 Ellesmere, England |
December 17, 1928 Geneva, Switzerland |
1922 | [150] | |
Elsa Brändström Ulich [ac] | March 26, 1888 Saint Petersburg, Russia |
March 4, 1948 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
1922, 1923, 1928, 1929 | [151] | |
1931 | |||||
Annie Wood Besant [ad] | October 1, 1847 Clapham, England |
September 20, 1933 Adyar, Chennai, India |
1931 | Nominated the only time by Peter Freeman. [152] | |
Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair [ae] | March 15, 1857 London, England |
April 18, 1939 Aberdeen, Scotland |
1931, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937 | [153] | |
1933 | |||||
Margit Antonia Bárczy [af] | November 29, 1877 Budapest, Hungary |
March 26, 1934 Paris, France |
1933 | Nominated the only time by Charles Dupuis. [154] | |
1935 | |||||
Janet Miller (prob. Janet Morison Miller (1891–1946)) |
? | ? | 1935 | [155] | |
Julie Bikle | January 8, 1871 Lucerne, Switzerland |
May 11, 1962 Winterthur, Switzerland |
1935, 1936, 1937 | Nominated by Otto Pfister each time. [156] | |
1936 | |||||
Moina Belle Michael [ag] | August 15, 1869 Good Hope, Georgia, United States |
May 10, 1944 Athens, Georgia, United States |
1936 | [157] | |
Irma Schweitzer-Meyer [ah] | January 30, 1882 Baden, Switzerland |
July 4, 1967 Zürich, Switzerland |
1936, 1937 | Nominated by Nils August Nilsson each time. [158] | |
1937 | |||||
Henrietta Szold [ai] | December 21, 1860 Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
February 13, 1945 Jerusalem, Israel |
1937 | Nominated the only time by Royal S. Copeland. [159] | |
1938 | |||||
Princess Henriette of Belgium | November 30, 1870 Brussels, Belgium |
March 28, 1948 Sierre, Switzerland |
1938 | [160] | |
1939 | |||||
Carrie Chapman Catt [aj] | January 9, 1859 Ripon, Wisconsin, United States |
March 9, 1947 New Rochelle, New York, United States |
1939 | [161] | |
1940 | |||||
Helene Stöcker | November 13, 1869 Wuppertal, Germany |
February 24, 1943 New York City, US |
1940 [m] | Nominated the only time by Ludwig Quidde. [162] | |
1946 | |||||
Emily Greene Balch [ak] | January 8, 1867 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
January 9, 1961 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
1946 | Awarded the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize with John Mott. [163] | |
Alexandra Kollontai [al] | March 31, 1872 Saint Petersburg, Russia |
March 9, 1952 Moscow, Russia |
1946, 1947 | [164] | |
1947 | |||||
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt [am] | October 11, 1884 New York City, New York, United States |
November 7, 1962 Manhattan, New York, United States |
1947, 1949, 1955, 1959, 1962 | [165] | |
1948 | |||||
Katharine Bruce Glasier [an] | September 25, 1867 Stoke Newington, London, England |
June 14, 1950 Earby, England |
1948 | Nominated the only time by Gilbert McAllister. [166] | |
1949 | |||||
María Eva Duarte Perón [ao] | May 7, 1919 Los Toldos, Argentina |
July 26, 1952 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1949 | Nominated jointly with her husband Juan Perón the only time by Virgilio Filippo. [167] | |
Maria Tecla Montessori [ap] | August 31, 1870 Chiaravalle, Italy |
May 6, 1952 Noordwijk, Netherlands |
1949, 1950, 1951 | [168] | |
1951 | |||||
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands [aq] | August 31, 1880 Noordeinde Palace, South Holland, Netherlands |
November 28, 1962 Paleis Het Loo, Apeldoorn, Netherlands |
1951 | [169] | |
1952 | |||||
Ada Barbara Waylen [ar] | 1906 Oxford, England |
1980 ? |
1952 | Nominated the only time by Norman Bentwich. [170] | |
Elisabeth Friederike Rotten [as] | February 15, 1882 Berlin, Germany |
May 2, 1964 London, England |
1952, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961 | [171] | |
1953 | |||||
Margaret Higgins Sanger [at] | September 14, 1879 Corning, New York, United States |
September 6, 1966 Tucson, Arizona, United States |
1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1963 | [172] | |
1954 | |||||
Helen Adams Keller [au] | June 27, 1880 Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States |
June 1, 1968 Easton, Connecticut, United States |
1954, 1958 | [173] | |
1955 | |||||
Gertrud Baer [av] | November 25, 1890 Halberstadt, Germany |
December 15, 1981 Geneva, Switzerland |
1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959 | [174] | |
1959 | |||||
Olave St. Clair Baden-Powell [aw] | February 22, 1889 Chesterfield, England |
June 25, 1977 Bramley, England |
1959 | [175] | |
1961 | |||||
Marie-Elisabeth Lüders [ax] | June 25, 1878 Berlin, Germany |
March 23, 1966 Berlin, Germany |
1961 | Nominated the only time by Erich Mende. [176] | |
Lotta Hitschmanova [ay] | November 28, 1909 Prague, Czech Republic |
August 1, 1990 Ottawa, Canada |
1961, 1962 | Nominated by Arthur Ryan Smith each time. [177] | |
Gertrud Kurz-Hohl [az] | March 15, 1890 Lutzenberg, Switzerland |
June 26, 1972 Lutzenberg, Switzerland |
1961, 1962 | [178] | |
Giulia Scappino Murena [ba] | 1902 Italy |
1970s (or prob. 1967) Riccione, Rimini, Italy |
1961, 1962 | Nominated by Udo Redano each time and for the Nobel Prize in Literature too. [105] | |
1962 | |||||
Maude Miner Hadden [bb] | June 29, 1880 Manhattan, New York, United States |
April 14, 1967 Palm Beach, Florida, United States |
1962 | Nominated the only time by Åke Sandler. [179] | |
1963 | |||||
Catherine Devilliers (LEBLANC, Marie - Catherine) [bc] | December 30, 1923 Montpellier, France |
? | 1963 | [180] | |
Stella Monk [bd] | ? United Kingdom |
? United Kingdom |
1963 | Nominated the only time by Mohammed Sanusi Mustapha. [181] | |
1967 | |||||
Margaret Susan Cheshire [be] | July 3, 1924 Leeds, England |
November 2, 2000 Bury St Edmunds, England |
1967, 1968 | [182] | |
1969 | |||||
Kaoru Hatoyama [bf] | 21 November 1888 Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan |
15 August 1982 Tokyo, Japan |
1969 | [183] | |
1970 | |||||
Alva Reimer-Myrdal [bg] | 31 January 1902 Uppsala, Sweden |
1 February 1986 Stockholm, Sweden |
1970 | Awarded the 1982 Nobel Peace Prize with Alfonso García Robles. [184] | |
Britta Holmström [bh] | 8 April 1911 Jönköping, Sweden |
4 October 1992 Lund, Sweden |
1970 | [185] | |
1971 | |||||
Louise Weiss | 25 January 1893 Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France |
26 May 1983 Paris, France |
1971 | [186] | |
1972 [187] | |||||
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, M.C. | 26 August 1910 Skopje, North Macedonia |
5 September 1997 Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
1972 | Awarded the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. | |
Isabelle Grant | 3 July 1896 Lossiemouth, Moray, United Kingdom |
1 June 1977 London, United Kingdom |
1972 | Nominated the only time by Harold T. Johnson. [187] | |
Elise Ottesen-Jensen | 2 January 1886 Høyland, Norway |
4 September 1973 Stockholm, Sweden |
1972 | [187] | |
Annie Skau Berntsen | 29 May 1911 Oslo, Norway |
26 November 1992 Horten, Norway |
1972 | Nominated the only time by Henrik Bahr. [187] | |
Helen Suzman | 7 November 1917 Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa |
1 January 2009 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa |
1972 | Nominated the only time by Richard Luyt. [187] | |
1973 [187] | |||||
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck | June 26, 1892 Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States |
March 6, 1973 Danby, Vermont, United States |
1973 | Awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature. [79] [187] | |
Indira Gandhi | 19 November 1917 Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India |
31 October 1984 New Delhi, India |
1973 | Nominated the only time by Buddha Priya Maurya. [187] | |
Jeannette Rankin [a] | 11 June 1880 Missoula, Montana, United States |
18 May 1973 Carmel, California, United States |
1973 | Nominated the only time by Mike Mansfield. [187] | |
1974 | |||||
will be revealed in 2025 | |||||
Others [bi] | |||||
1976 | |||||
Betty Williams | 22 May 1943 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom |
17 March 2020 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom |
1976, 1977 | Awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize in 1977. [188] | |
Mairead Maguire | 27 January 1944 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom |
— | |||
1978 | |||||
Dorothy Day | 8 November 1897 Brooklyn Heights, New York, United States |
29 November 1980 Manhattan, New York, United States |
1978, 1979 | [189] | |
Imelda Romualdez-Marcos | 2 July 1929 in San Miguel, Manila, Philippines | — | 1978 | [190] [191] | |
1987 | |||||
Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino | 25 January 1933 in Paniqui, Tarlac, Philippines | 1 August 2009 in Makati, Philippines | 1987 | [192] [193] | |
1988 | |||||
Emmanuelle Cinquin, N.D.S. | 16 November 1908 Brussels, Belgium |
20 October 2008 Callian, Var, France |
1988 | [194] | |
Inga Thorsson | 3 July 1915 in Malmö, Sweden | 15 January 1994 in Stockholm, Sweden | 1988 | [195] | |
Dulce de Souza Pontes, S.M.I.C. | 26 May 1914 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil |
13 March 1992 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil |
1988, 1992 | [196] [197] | |
1989 | |||||
Aung San Suu Kyi | 19 June 1945 Yangon, Myanmar |
— | 1989, 1990, 1991 | Awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. [198] | |
1990 | |||||
Anne, Princess Royal | 15 August 1950 London, United Kingdom |
— | 1990 | [199] | |
Elise M. Boulding | 6 July 1920 in Oslo, Norway | 24 June 2010 in Needham, Massachusetts, United States | 1990, 2005 [bj] | [195] | |
1999 | |||||
Helen Prejean, C.S.J. | 21 April 1939 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States | — | 1999 | [195] [200] | |
Catherine Hamlin | 24 January 1924 Sydney, Australia |
18 March 2020 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
1999, 2014 | [201] | |
2000 | |||||
Kathy Kelly | 10 December 1972 in Chicago, Illinois, United States | — | 2000 | [195] | |
2003 | |||||
Irena Sendler | 15 February 1910 Warsaw, Poland |
12 May 2008 Warsaw, Poland |
2003, 2007 | [202] | |
2005 | |||||
1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe | a collective nomination of 1000 women from over 150 different countries for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. | 2005 | [203] | ||
Zilda Arns Neumann | 25 August 1934 Forquilhinha, Santa Catarina, Brazil |
12 January 2010 Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
2005 [bj], 2006 | [197] | |
Medea Benjamin | 10 September 1952 Freeport, New York, United States |
— | 2005 [bj], 2017 | [204] | |
2007 | |||||
Sheila Watt-Cloutier | 2 December 1953 Kuujjuaq, Quebec, Canada |
— | 2007 | [204] [205] | |
Oprah Winfrey | 29 January 1954 Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States |
— | 2007 | [206] | |
2008 | |||||
Íngrid Betancourt | 25 December 1961 Bogotá, Colombia |
— | 2008 | [207] | |
Inge Genefke | 6 July 1938 Frederiksberg, Denmark |
— | 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013 | [208] [209] | |
2009 | |||||
Piedad Córdoba | 25 January 1955 Medellín, Colombia |
20 January 2024 Medellín, Colombia |
2009 | [210] [211] [212] | |
Sima Samar | 3 February 1957 Jaghori, Afghanistan |
— | 2009, 2010, 2011 | [213] [214] | |
2010 | |||||
Svetlana Gannushkina | 6 March 1942 Moscow, Russia |
— | 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016 | [215] [216] | |
2012 | |||||
Maggie Gobran | 1949 Cairo, Egypt |
— | 2012, 2020, 2023 | [217] [218] [219] [220] | |
2013 | |||||
Malala Yousafzai | 12 July 1997 Mingora, Swat, Pakistan |
— | 2013, 2014 | Awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Kailash Satyarthi. [221] [222] | |
Lyudmila Alexeyeva | 20 July 1927 Yevpatoria, Ukraine |
8 December 2018 Moscow, Russia |
2013 | [222] [223] | |
Claudia Paz y Paz | 7 June 1966 Guatemala City, Guatemala |
— | 2013 | [222] | |
2014 | |||||
Agnes Mariam de la Croix, O.Carm | 1952 Beirut, Lebanon |
— | 2014 | [224] | |
Anne Merriman | 1935 Liverpool, United Kingdom |
— | 2014 | [225] | |
2015 | |||||
Kathryn Bolkovac | c. 1960 Ohio, United States |
— | 2015 | [226] | |
Leyla Yunus | 21 December 1955 Baku, Azerbaijan |
— | 2015 | [227] | |
2016 | |||||
Nadia Murad | 10 March 1993 Kocho, Iraq |
— | 2016, 2017, 2018 | Awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize with Denis Mukwege. [228] | |
Emilia Kamvysi | c. 1930 Lesbos, Greece |
12 March 2023 Lesbos, Greece |
2016 | [229] [230] | |
Angela Merkel | 17 July 1954 Hamburg, Germany |
— | 2016 | [231] | |
Susan Sarandon | 4 October 1946 Jackson Heights, New York, United States |
— | 2016 | [232] | |
2017 | |||||
Maria da Penha | 1 February 1945 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil |
— | 2017 | [197] [233] | |
Marianne Stöger | 24 April 1934 Matrei am Brenner, Tyrol, Austria |
— | 2017, 2020 | [234] [235] | |
Margaritha Pissarek | 1935 Austria |
— | |||
2018 | |||||
Jaha Dukureh | 1989 Gambia |
— | 2018 | [236] | |
Agnes Chow Ting | 3 December 1996 Hong Kong |
— | 2018, 2019 | [237] | |
Nataša Kandić | 16 December 1946 Belgrade, Serbia |
— | 2018, 2022 | [238] [239] | |
2019 | |||||
Ilwad Elman | 22 December 1989 Mogadishu, Somalia |
— | 2019 | [240] [241] | |
Amanda Nguyen | 10 October 1991 Corona, California, United States |
— | 2019 | [242] | |
Hajer Sharief | 1994 Libya |
— | 2019 | [241] | |
Sevgül Uludağ | 15 October 1958 Nicosia, Cyprus |
— | 2019 | [243] | |
Loujain al-Hathloul | 31 July 1989 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
— | 2019, 2020 | [244] [245] | |
Jacinda Ardern | 26 July 1980 Hamilton, New Zealand |
— | 2019, 2020 | [246] [247] [248] | |
Greta Thunberg | 3 January 2003 Stockholm, Sweden |
— | 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 | [249] [250] [251] [252] | |
2021 | |||||
Leila de Lima | 27 August 1959 Iriga, Camarines Sur, Philippines |
— | 2020 | [253] | |
2021 | |||||
Maria Ressa | 2 October 1963 Manila, Philippines |
— | 2021 | Awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize with Dmitry Muratov. [254] [255] | |
Stacey Abrams | 9 December 1973 Madison, Wisconsin, United States |
— | 2021 | [256] [257] | |
Zineb El Rhazoui | 19 January 1982 Casablanca, Morocco |
— | 2021 | [258] | |
Aminatou Haidar | 24 July 1966 Akka, Morocco |
— | 2021 | [259] [260] | |
Jane Goodall | 3 April 1934 Hampstead, London, United Kingdom |
— | 2021 | [254] [255] | |
Veronika Tsepkalo | 7 September 1976 Mogilev, Belarus |
— | 2021 | [254] [255] [261] | |
Maria Kalesnikava | 24 April 1982 Minsk, Belarus |
— | 2021 | [254] [255] [261] | |
Juliana Taimoorazy | 23 April 1973 Tehran, Iran |
— | 2021 | [262] | |
Marilyn Waring | 7 October 1952 Ngaruawahia, New Zealand |
— | 2021 | [254] [255] | |
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya | 11 September 1982 Mikashevichy, Belarus |
— | 2021, 2022 | [254] [255] [261] [263] | |
2022 | |||||
Masih Alinejad | 11 September 1976 Qomi Kola, Iran |
— | 2022, 2023 | [264] [265] | |
Maria Elena Bottazzi | 1966 Genoa, Italy |
— | 2022 | [266] [267] | |
Dee Dawkins-Haigler | 31 January 1970 Lithonia, Georgia, United States |
— | 2022 | [268] | |
Opal Lee | 7 October 1926 Marshall, Texas, United States |
— | 2022 | [269] | |
Miriam Were | 12 April 1940 Kakamega, Western Province, Kenya |
— | 2022 | [270] | |
Gwyneth Ho Kwai-lam | 24 August 1990 Hong Kong |
— | 2022, 2023 | [271] [272] | |
Chow Hang-tung | 24 January 1985 Hong Kong |
— | 2022, 2023, 2024 | [271] [272] [273] | |
2023 | |||||
Narges Mohammadi | 21 April 1972 Zanjan, Iran |
— | 2023 | Awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. [274] | |
Vanessa Nakate | 15 November 1996 Kampala, Uganda |
— | 2023 | [252] [275] | |
Mahbouba Seraj | 1948 Kabul, Afghanistan |
— | 2023 | [276] | |
Jani Silva | c. 1968 Colombia |
— | 2023 | [277] [278] | |
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz | 19 October 1952 Besao, Mt. Province, Philippines |
— | 2023 | [279] [280] | |
2024 | |||||
Yasmina Cánovas | El Vendrell, Spain | — | 2024 | [281] [282] |
From 1969 to 1971, 3 women have been nominated for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences but none of them were subsequently awarded.
Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1969 | |||||
Anna Schwartz | 11 November 1915 The Bronx, New York, United States |
21 June 2012 Manhattan, New York, United States |
1969, 1971 | Nominated by Bertil Gotthard Ohlin each time. [283] | |
Joan Robinson | 31 October 1903 Surrey, United Kingdom |
5 August 1983 Cambridge, United Kingdom |
1969, 1970, 1971 | [283] | |
1971 | |||||
Barbara Bergmann | 20 July 1927 The Bronx, New York, United States |
5 April 2015 Bethesda, Maryland, United States |
1971 | [283] | |
1972 | |||||
should be revealed in 2023 | |||||
1973 | |||||
will be revealed in 2024 |
The Nobel Prize ( Swedish: Nobelpriset) is a set of five different prizes that, according to its benefactor Alfred Nobel, in his 1895 will, must be awarded "to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”. The five prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. [1]
As of 2023, 65 Nobel Prizes and the Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to 64 women [2] and since 1901, the year wherein the awarding of the prizes began, hundreds of women have already been nominated and shortlisted carefully in each field. [3] [4]
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. [5] [6] Curie is also the only woman to have won multiple Nobel Prizes; in 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Curie's daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935, making the two the only mother-daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes. [5] Of the currently revealed female nominees both in physics and chemistry, the notable scientists Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Astrid Cleve, Harriet Brooks, Alice Ball, Mileva Marić, Inge Lehmann, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Leona Woods and Helen Parsons were not included.
In 1912, Mary Edwards Walker became the first ever woman nominated for prize in physiology or medicine but her nomination was later declared invalid by the Nobel Committee because her nominator was not invited to nominate that year. [7] Hence, Cécile Vogt-Mugnier, nominated first in 1922, became the official first female nominee but never won despite numerous recommendations. [3] She was followed by Maud Slye who was nominated in the year 1923, but again never won. Only in 1947, that the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was finally awarded to a woman, Gerty Cori, sharing with her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori. [8] Of the 13 currently revealed female nominees, the physiologists Nettie Stevens, Frieda Robscheit-Robbins, Rosalind Franklin, Miriam Michael Stimson, Louise Pearce, Virginia Apgar, Hattie Alexander and Alice Catherine Evans were not included.
The most number of female nominees was in the field of literature. The first woman to be nominated was the German memoirist Malwida von Meysenbug for the year 1901. [3] She was nominated by the French historian Gabriel Monod but unfortunately did not win the prize. [9] Her nomination was followed by Émilie Lerou and Selma Lagerlöf for the year 1904. Lagerlöf would later on become the first woman to win the prize in the year 1909. [10] Of the 77 currently revealed female nominees for the literature category, the celebrated authors Kate Chopin, Alfonsina Storni, Virginia Woolf, Simone Weil, Edith Nesbit, Delmira Agustini, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, Edith Hamilton, Marina Tsvetaeva, Zora Neale Hurston, Fannie Hurst, Flannery O'Connor and Agatha Christie were not included. [11] [12] [13]
The first women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize were Belva Ann Lockwood and Bertha von Suttner, who would eventually be awarded in 1905. [3] The latter was considered for authoring Lay Down Your Arms! and contributing to the creation of the Prize. [14] Of the 57 currently revealed female nominees, the famous Susan B. Anthony, Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Mary Harris Jones, Olive Schreiner, Aletta Jacobs, Emmeline Pankhurst, Ida B. Wells, Käthe Kollwitz, Muriel Lester, Katharine Drexel, Helene Schweitzer, Marie Stopes, Vera Brittain, Ava Helen Pauling, Golda Meir, Rachel Carson and Rosa Parks were not included. [15] [16]
Starting from 1902 to 1970, 11 women have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics and three of the nominees were subsequently awarded.
Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
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1902 | |||||
Marie Skłodowska Curie | 7 November 1867 Warsaw, Poland |
4 July 1934 Passy, Haute-Savoie, France |
1902, 1903 | Awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with P.Curie and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [17] | |
1935 | |||||
Irène Joliot-Curie | 12 September 1897 Paris, France |
17 March 1956 Paris, France |
1934, 1935 | Awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Frédéric Joliot-Curie. [18] | |
1937 | |||||
Lise Meitner | 7 November 1878 Vienna, Austria |
27 October 1968 Cambridge, England |
1937, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965 | Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too. [19] | |
1950 | |||||
Marietta Blau | 29 April 1894 Vienna, Austria |
27 January 1970 Vienna, Austria |
1950, 1956, 1957 | Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too. [20] | |
Hertha Wambacher [a] | 9 March 1903 Vienna, Austria |
25 March 1950 Vienna, Austria |
1950 | Nominated jointly with Marietta Blau the only time by Erwin Schrödinger. [21] | |
1955 | |||||
Maria Goeppert-Mayer | 28 June 1906 Katowice, Poland |
2 February 1972 San Diego, California, United States |
1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963 | Awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen. [22] | |
1956 | |||||
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | 12 May 1910 Cairo, Egypt |
29 July 1994 Ilmington, England |
1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961 | Awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [23] | |
1958 | |||||
Chien-Shiung Wu | 31 May 1912 Liuhe, Taicang, China |
16 February 1997 New York City, New York, United States |
1958, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1965 | [24] | |
1964 | |||||
Margaret Peachey Burbidge | 12 August 1919 Stockport, England |
5 April 2020 San Francisco, California, United States |
1964 | Nominated jointly with William Alfred Fowler and Fred Hoyle the only time by Harold Urey. [25] | |
1970 | |||||
Jocelyn Bell Burnell | 15 July 1943 Lurgan, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom |
— | 1970 [b] | [26] [c] | |
Janine Connes | 1926 or 1934 France |
— | 1970 | Nominated jointly with Pierre Connes and Robert B. Leighton the only time by Rupert Wildt. [27] | |
1971–1972 | |||||
should be revealed by Nobel Committee |
Starting 1911 to 1970, 15 women have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and 3 of these nominees were subsequently awarded.
Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1911 | |||||
Marie Skłodowska Curie | November 7, 1867 Warsaw, Poland |
July 4, 1934 Sancellemoz, France |
1911 | Awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. [17] | |
1924 | |||||
Lise Meitner | November 7, 1878 Vienna, Austria |
October 27, 1968 Cambridge, England |
1924, 1925, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1948 | Nominated for Nobel Prize in Physics too. [19] | |
1933 | |||||
Ida Tacke Noddack | February 25, 1896 Rhine Province, Germany |
September 24, 1978 Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany |
1933, 1935, 1937 | Nominated jointly with Walter Noddack only. [28] | |
1935 | |||||
Irène Joliot-Curie | September 12, 1897 Paris, France |
March 17, 1956 Paris, France |
1935 | Awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Frédéric Joliot and nominated for Nobel Prize in Physics too. [18] | |
1939 | |||||
Dorothy Maud Wrinch | September 12, 1894 Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina |
February 11, 1976 Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States |
1939 | [18] | |
1950 | |||||
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | May 12, 1910 Cairo, Egypt |
July 29, 1994 Ilmington, England |
1950, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 | Awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and nominated for Nobel Prize in Physics too. [23] | |
Thérèse Boyer Tréfouël | June 19, 1892 Paris, France |
November 9, 1978 Paris, France |
1950 | Nominated the only time jointly with Jacques Tréfouël and Gladwyn Buttle. [29] | |
1952 | |||||
Marguerite Perey | October 19, 1909 Villemomble, France |
May 13, 1975 Louveciennes, France |
1952, 1958, 1961, 1965, 1966 | [30] | |
1956 | |||||
Joan Folkes | 1927 Staffordshire, England |
? | 1956 | Nominated jointly with Ernest Gale the only time by John Howard Northrop. [31] | |
1957 | |||||
Marietta Blau | April 29, 1894 Vienna, Austria |
January 27, 1970 Vienna, Austria |
1957 | Nominated for Nobel Prize in Physics too. [20] | |
1958 | |||||
Maria Goeppert-Mayer | June 28, 1906 Katowice, Poland |
February 2, 1972 San Diego, California, United States |
1958 | Awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics. [20] | |
1960 | |||||
Martha Cowles Chase | November 30, 1927 Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States |
August 8, 2003 Lorain, Ohio, United States |
1960 | Nominated jointly with Alfred Hershey, Alfred Gierer, Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat and Gerhard Schramm the only time by John Howard Northrop. [32] | |
1963 | |||||
Alberte Bucher-Pullman | August 26, 1920 Nantes, France |
January 7, 2011 Paris, France |
1963, 1965 | Nominated jointly with Bernard Pullman each time. [33] | |
1967 | |||||
Mary Belle Allen | November 11, 1922 Morristown, New Jersey |
1973 Fairbanks, Alaska |
1967 | Nominated jointly with Daniel I. Arnon and Frederick Whatley the only time by John Howard Northrop. [34] | |
1968 | |||||
Erika Cremer | May 20, 1900 Munich, Germany |
September 21, 1996 Innsbruck, Austria |
1968 | Nominated the only time by Franz Patat. [35] | |
1971–1972 | |||||
should be revealed by Nobel Committee |
Starting from 1922 to 1953, 14 women have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine wherein one was declared invalid and one was subsequently awarded.
Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1912 | |||||
Mary Edwards Walker [d] | November 26, 1832 Oswego, New York, United States |
February 21, 1919 Oswego, New York, United States |
1912 [e] | Nominated the only time by A. S. Helton. [7] | |
1922 | |||||
Cécile Vogt-Mugnier [f] | March 27, 1875 Annecy, France |
May 4, 1962 Cambridge, England |
1922, 1923, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1950, 1951, 1953 | Nominated jointly with Oskar Vogt each time. [36] | |
1923 | |||||
Maud Caroline Slye [g] | February 8, 1879 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States |
September 17, 1954 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
1923 | Nominated the only time by Albert Soiland. [37] | |
1925 | |||||
Gladys Rowena Henry Dick [h] | December 18, 1881 Pawnee City, Nebraska, United States |
August 21, 1963 Palo Alto, California, United States |
1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1935 | Nominated jointly with George Frederick Dick each time. [38] | |
1930 | |||||
Alice Bernheim [i] | September 28, 1878 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States |
July 14, 1968 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States |
1930 | Nominated the only time by William Cogswell Clarke. [39] | |
1939 | |||||
May Tweedy Mellanby [j] | September 9, 1882 London, England |
March 5, 1978 London, England |
1939 | Nominated jointly with Edward Mellanby each time. [40] | |
Susan Smith [k] | December 9, 1897 Greenville, South Carolina, United States |
October 3, 1983 Durham, North Carolina, United States |
1939 | Nominated jointly with David Tillerson Smith and Julian Ruffin the only time by Osvaldo Polimanti. [41] | |
1940 | |||||
Olive Watkins Smith [l] | April 29, 1901 Worcester, Massachusetts, United States |
1983 Brookline, Massachusetts, United States |
1940 [m] | Nominated jointly with George Van Siclen Smith the only time by Frank Arthur Pemberton. [42] | |
1946 | |||||
Gerty Theresa Radnitz-Cori [n] | August 15, 1896 Prague, Czech Republic |
October 25, 1957 Glendale, Missouri, United States |
1946, 1947 | Awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Bernardo Houssay. [43] | |
Militsa Nikolaeva Lyubimova-Engelhardt [o] | December 26, 1898 Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia |
December 22, 1975 Moscow, Russia |
1946 | Nominated jointly with Vladimir Engelgardt the only time by Leon Orbeli. [44] | |
1947 | |||||
Helen Brooke Taussig [p] | May 24, 1898 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
May 20, 1986 Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States |
1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953 | [45] | |
1951 | |||||
Miriam Friedman Menkin [q] | August 8, 1901 Riga, Latvia |
June 8, 1992 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
1951 | Nominated jointly with John Rock and Roger Alfred Auguste Vendrely the only time by Bożydar Szabuniewicz. [46] | |
Madge Thurlow Macklin [r] | February 6, 1893 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
March 4, 1962 Columbus, Ohio, United States |
1951 | Nominated the only time by Charles Clifford Macklin. [47] | |
1952 | |||||
Elizabeth Bugie Gregory | October 5, 1920 New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States |
April 10, 2001 New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States |
1952 | Nominated jointly with Selman Waksman and Albert Schatz the only time by Jevrem Nedelkovitch. [48] | |
1954–1972 | |||||
should be revealed by Nobel Committee |
From 1901 to 1972, 77 women have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and 8 of these nominees were subsequently awarded.
Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1901 | |||||
Malwida von Meysenbug | October 28, 1816 Kassel, Germany |
April 23, 1903 Rome, Italy |
1901 | Nominated the only time by Gabriel Monod. [49] | |
1904 | |||||
Selma Lagerlöf | November 20, 1858 Värmland, Sweden |
March 16, 1940 Värmland, Sweden |
1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909 | Awarded the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature. [50] | |
Émilie Lerou | 18 May 1855 Rouen, France |
11 June 1935 Paris, France |
1904 | Nominated the only time by Jules Claretie. [51] | |
1905 | |||||
Eliza Orzeszkowa | June 6, 1841 Mil'kovshchina, Belarus |
May 18, 1910 Grodno, Belarus |
1905 | [52] | |
1908 | |||||
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche | July 10, 1846 Lützen, Germany |
November 8, 1935 Weimar, Germany |
1908, 1916, 1917, 1923 | [53] | |
1910 | |||||
Molly Elliot Seawell | October 23, 1860 Gloucester, United States |
November 15, 1916 Washington, D.C., United States |
1910, 1911 | Nominated by Charles W. Kent each time. [54] | |
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach | September 13, 1830 Troubky-Zdislavice, Czechia |
March 12, 1916 Vienna, Austria |
1910, 1911 | Nominated by Emil Reich each time. [55] | |
1913 | |||||
Grazia Deledda Madesani | September 28, 1871 Nuoro, Italy |
August 15, 1936 Rome, Italy |
1913, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927 | Awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature. [56] | |
1914 | |||||
Dora Melegari | June 27, 1849 Lausanne, Switzerland |
July 31, 1924 Rome, Italy |
1914, 1923 | [57] | |
1922 | |||||
Sigrid Undset Svarstad | May 20, 1882 Kalundborg, Denmark |
June 10, 1949 Lillehammer, Norway |
1922, 1925, 1926, 1928 | Awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature. [58] | |
Matilde Serao Scarfoglio | March 7, 1856 Patras, Greece |
July 25, 1927 Naples, Italy |
1922, 1923, 1924, 1925 | [59] | |
1926 | |||||
Sofía Casanova Lutosławski | September 30, 1861 A Coruña, Spain |
January 16, 1958 Poznań, Poland |
1926 | [60] | |
Ada Negri Garlanda | February 3, 1870 Lodi, Italy |
January 11, 1945 Milan, Italy |
1926, 1927 | [61] | |
Concha Espina de la Serna | April 15, 1869 Santander, Spain |
May 19, 1955 Madrid, Spain |
1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1952, 1954 | [62] | |
1927 | |||||
Edith Jones Wharton | January 24, 1862 New York City, New York, United States |
August 11, 1937 Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France |
1927, 1928, 1930 | [63] | |
1928 | |||||
Anna Elisabeth de Noailles | November 15, 1876 Paris, France |
April 30, 1933 Paris, France |
1928 | Nominated the only time by Tor Hedberg. [64] | |
Edith Annie Howes | August 29, 1872 London, England |
June 14, 1954 Dunedin, New Zealand |
1928 | Nominated the only time by Francis Prendeville Wilson. [65] | |
Blanca de los Ríos de Lampérez | August 15, 1956 Seville, Spain |
April 13, 1956 Madrid, Spain |
1928 | [66] | |
Ricarda Huch | July 18, 1864 Brunswick, Germany |
November 17, 1947 Kronberg, Germany |
1928, 1935, 1937, 1946 | [67] | |
1930 | |||||
Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo | September 19, 1887 Los Teques, Venezuela |
(?) 1959 Caracas, Venezuela |
1930 | Nominated the only time by Manuel María Villalobos. [68] | |
1931 | |||||
Laura Mestre Hevia | April 6, 1867 Havana, Cuba |
January 11, 1944 Havana, Cuba |
1931 | Nominated the only time by Juan Miguel Dihigo Mestre. [69] | |
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić | April 18, 1874 Ogulin, Croatia |
September 21, 1928 Zagreb, Croatia |
1931, 1935, 1937, 1938 | [70] | |
1934 | |||||
Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício | April 19, 1884 Lisbon, Portugal |
November 3, 1947 Lisbon, Portugal |
1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947 | [71] | |
1935 | |||||
Violet Beauclerk Clifton | November 2, 1883 Rome, Italy |
November 20, 1961 Lytham St Annes, England |
1935 [m] | Nominated the only time by Nevill Coghill. [72] | |
Elise Richter | March 2, 1865 Vienna, Austria |
June 23, 1943 Theresienstadt Ghetto, Czechia |
1935 [m] | [73] | |
1936 | |||||
Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti | January 10, 1871 Vienna, Austria |
April 8, 1955 Linz, Austria |
1936 | [74] | |
Cécile Tormay | October 8, 1875 Budapest, Hungary |
April 2, 1937 Gyöngyös, Hungary |
1936, 1937 | [75] | |
1937 | |||||
Maria Jotuni Tarkiainen | April 9, 1880 Kuopio, Finland |
September 30, 1943 Helsinki, Finland |
1937 | Nominated the only time by Viljo Tarkiainen. [76] | |
Sally Salminen Dürhkop | April 25, 1906 Vårdö, Åland |
July 18, 1976 Copenhagen, Denmark |
1937, 1938, 1939 | [77] | |
Maila Talvio Mikkola | October 17, 1871 Hartola, Finland |
January 6, 1951 Helsinki, Finland |
1937, 1939, 1947 | [78] | |
1938 | |||||
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck | June 26, 1892 Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States |
March 6, 1973 Danby, Vermont, United States |
1938 | Awarded on the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. [79] | |
Margaret Mitchell | November 8, 1900 Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
August 16, 1949 Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
1938 | Nominated the only time by Sven Hedin. [80] | |
Henriette Charasson | February 13, 1884 Le Havre, France |
May 29, 1972 Toulouse, France |
1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1949, 1954, 1957 | [81] | |
1939 | |||||
Ethel Florence Richardson | January 3, 1870 East Melbourne, Australia |
March 20, 1946 Hastings, England |
1939 | Nominated the only time by Sten Bodvar Liljegren. [82] | |
Henriette Roland Holst-van der Schalk | December 24, 1869 Noordwijk, Netherlands |
November 21, 1952 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
1939, 1950, 1952 | [83] | |
Maria Szumka Dąbrowska | October 6, 1889 Russów, Poland |
May 19, 1965 Warsaw, Poland |
1939, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1965 | [84] | |
1940 | |||||
Gabriela Mistral | April 7, 1889 Vicuña, Chile |
January 10, 1957 Hempstead, New York, United States |
1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 | Awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature. [85] | |
1941 | |||||
Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young | July 21, 1882 San Francisco, California, United States |
February 18, 1954 Los Gatos, California, United States |
1941 [m] | [86] | |
1943 | |||||
Elisaveta Bagryana | April 16, 1893 Sofia, Bulgaria |
March 23, 1991 Sofia, Bulgaria |
1943, 1944, 1945, 1969 | [87] | |
1945 | |||||
Marie Under Adson | March 27, 1883 Tallinn, Estonia |
September 25, 1980 Stockholm, Sweden |
1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1958, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 | [88] | |
1948 | |||||
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette | January 28, 1873 Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, France |
August 3, 1954 Paris, France |
1948 | Nominated the only time by Claude Farrère. [89] | |
Dorothy Canfield Fisher | February 17, 1879 Lawrence, Kansas, United States |
November 9, 1958 Arlington, Vermont, United States |
1948, 1949 | Nominated by David Baumgardt each time. [90] | |
1950 | |||||
Karen von Blixen-Finecke | April 17, 1885 Rungsted, Denmark |
September 7, 1962 Rungsted, Denmark |
1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962 | [91] | |
Gertrud von Le Fort | October 11, 1876 Minden, Germany |
November 1, 1971 Oberstdorf, Germany |
1950, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963 | [92] | |
1951 | |||||
María Enriqueta Camarillo de Monter | February 19, 1872 Coatepec, Mexico |
February 13, 1968 Mexico City, Mexico |
1951 | Nominated the only time by Leavitt Olds Wright. [93] | |
Katharine Susannah Prichard Throssell | December 4, 1883 Levuka, Fiji |
October 2, 1969 Greenmount, Australia |
1951 | [94] | |
1955 | |||||
Edith Louisa Sitwell | September 7, 1887 Scarborough, England |
December 9, 1964 London, England |
1955, 1958, 1959 | [95] | |
1956 | |||||
Melpo Axioti | July 15, 1905 Athens, Greece |
May 22, 1973 Athens, Greece |
1956 | Nominated the only time by André Bonnard. [96] | |
Marthe Lahovary Bibesco | January 28, 1886 Bucharest, Romania |
November 28, 1973 Paris, France |
1956 | [97] | |
Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge | April 24, 1900 Wells, England |
April 1, 1984 Oxfordshire, England |
1956, 1959 | Nominated by Edmond Privat each time. [98] | |
1958 | |||||
Elizabeth Bowen Cameron | June 7, 1899 Dublin, Ireland |
February 22, 1973 London, England |
1958 | Nominated the only time by Roman Jakobson. [99] | |
1959 | |||||
Juana Fernández Morales de Ibarbourou | March 8, 1892 Melo, Uruguay |
July 15, 1979 Montevideo, Uruguay |
1959, 1960, 1963 | [100] | |
María Raquel Adler | ca. 1900 Argentine Sea |
July 28, 1974 Bernal, Argentina |
1959, 1965 | [101] | |
Anna Seghers | November 19, 1900 Mainz, Germany |
June 1, 1983 East Berlin, Germany |
1959, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972 | [102] | |
1960 | |||||
Marie Noël | February 16, 1883 Auxerre, France |
December 23, 1967 Auxerre, France |
1960 | Nominated the only time by Maurice Bemol. [103] | |
1961 | |||||
Cora Sandel | December 20, 1880 Oslo, Norway |
April 3, 1974 Uppsala, Sweden |
1961 | Nominated the only time by Harald Ofstad. [104] | |
Giulia Scappino Murena | 1902 Italy |
1970s (or prob. 1967) Riccione, Rimini, Italy |
1961, 1962 | Nominated by Alfredo Galletti each time and for the Nobel Peace Prize too. [105] | |
Simone Lucie de Beauvoir | January 9, 1908 Paris, France |
April 14, 1986 Paris, France |
1961, 1969, 1973 | [106] | |
1963 | |||||
Nelly Sachs | December 10, 1891 Berlin, Germany |
May 12, 1970 Stockholm, Sweden |
1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 | Awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature with Shmuel Yosef Agnon. [107] | |
Ingeborg Bachmann | June 25, 1926 Klagenfurt, Austria |
October 17, 1973 Rome, Italy |
1963 | Nominated the only time by Harald Patzer. [108] | |
Kate Roberts-Williams | February 13, 1891 Rhosgadfan, Wales |
April 4, 1985 Denbigh, Wales |
1963 | Nominated the only time by Idris Foster. [109] | |
1964 | |||||
Ina Seidel | September 15, 1885 Halle (Saale), Germany |
October 2, 1974 Schäftlarn, Germany |
1964 | Nominated the only time by Günther Jachmann. [110] | |
Judith Wright McKinney | May 31, 1915 Armidale, Australia |
June 25, 2000 Canberra, Australia |
1964, 1965, 1967 | [111] | |
Katherine Anne Porter | May 15, 1890 Indian Creek, Texas, United States |
September 18, 1980 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States |
1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 | [112] | |
1965 | |||||
Marguerite Yourcenar | June 8, 1903 Brussels, Belgium |
December 17, 1987 Northeast Harbor, Maine, United States |
1965 | Nominated the only time by Ida-Marie Frandon. [113] | |
Anna Akhmatova | June 28, 1889 Odesa, Ukraine |
March 5, 1966 Domodedovo, Russia |
1965, 1966 | [114] | |
Marie Luise Kaschnitz | January 31, 1901 Karlsruhe, Germany |
October 10, 1974 Rome, Italy |
1965, 1967 | Nominated by the Hermann Tiemann each time. [115] | |
1967 | |||||
Lina Kostenko | March 19, 1930 Rzhyshchiv, Ukraine |
— | 1967 | Nominated jointly with Pavlo Tychyna and Ivan Drach the only time by Omeljan Pritsak. [116] | |
1968 | |||||
Marianne Moore | November 15, 1887 Kirkwood, Missouri, United States |
February 5, 1972 New York City, United States |
1968 | Nominated the only time by Erik Lindegren. [117] | |
Mildred Matthews Breedlove | May 27, 1904 Coal Hill, Arkansas, United States |
August 14, 1994 Ferron, Utah, United States |
1968 | Nominated the only time by United Poets Laureate International. [118] | |
1969 | |||||
Nathalie Sarraute | July 18, 1900 Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Russia |
October 19, 1999 Paris, France |
1969 | Nominated the only time by Lars Gyllensten. [119] | |
1970 | |||||
Victoria Ocampo | April 7, 1890 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
January 27, 1979 Béccar, Argentina |
1970 | Nominated the only time by Miguel Alfredo Olivera. [120] | |
1972 | |||||
Nadine Gordimer | November 20, 1923 Springs, South Africa |
July 13, 2014 Johannesburg, South Africa |
1972, 1973 | Awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. [121] | |
Doris Lessing | October 22, 1919 Kermanshah, Iran |
November 17, 2013 London, England |
1972, 1973 | Awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. [122] | |
Astrid Lindgren | November 14, 1907 Vimmerby, Kalmar, Sweden |
January 28, 2002 Stockholm, Sweden |
1972 | [123] | |
1973 | |||||
Indira Devi Dhanrajgir | August 17, 1930 Hyderabad, Telangana, India |
— | 1973 | Nominated the only time by Krishna Srinivas. [124] | |
Zenta Mauriņa | December 15, 1897 Lejasciems, Latvia |
April 25, 1978 Basel, Switzerland |
1973 | Nominated the only time by Mārtiņš Zīverts. [125] | |
1974 | |||||
to be revealed in 2025 | |||||
Argentina Díaz Lozano | 5 December 1909 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras |
13 August 1999 Tegucigalpa, Honduras |
1974 | ||
Others [s] | |||||
1976 | |||||
Anaïs Nin | 21 February 1903 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
14 January 1977 Los Angeles, California, United States |
1976 | [126] | |
1979 | |||||
Joyce Carol Oates | 16 June 1938 Lockport, New York, United States |
— | 1979, 1999 | [127] | |
1990 | |||||
Maria Luisa Spaziani | 7 December 1922 Turin, Italy |
30 June 2014 Rome, Italy |
1990, 1992, 1997 | ||
1992 | |||||
Matilde Alba Swann | 24 February 1912 Berisso, Argentina |
13 September 2000 La Plata, Argentina |
1992 | [128] | |
1996 | |||||
Alda Merini | 21 March 1931 Milan, Italy |
1 November 2009 Milan, Italy |
1996, 2001 | [129] | |
1997 | |||||
Alicia Ghiragossian | 13 July 1936 Córdoba, Argentina |
22 May 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States |
1997 | [130] | |
1999 | |||||
Simin Behbahani | 20 July 1927 Tehran, Iran |
19 August 2014 Tehran, Iran |
1999, 2002 | [131] | |
2002 | |||||
Leyla Erbil | 12 January 1931 Istanbul, Türkiye |
19 July 2013 Istanbul, Türkiye |
2002 | [132] | |
2012 | |||||
Mahasweta Devi | 14 January 1926 Dhaka, Bangladesh |
28 July 2016 Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
2012 | [133] | |
2015 | |||||
Anna Nerkagi | 15 February 1951 Yamalo-Nenets, Russia |
— | 2015, 2018, 2020 | [134] [135] | |
2016 | |||||
Lygia Fagundes Telles | 19 April 1918 São Paulo, Brazil |
3 April 2022 São Paulo, Brazil |
2016 | [136] | |
2018 | |||||
Agustina Bessa-Luís | 15 October 1922 Amarante, Portugal |
3 June 2019 Porto, Portugal |
2018 | [137] |
From 1901 to 1973, 57 women have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and five of these nominees were subsequently awarded. Currently, the Nobel archives has revealed nominations from 1901 to 1973, the other enlisted women were verified nominations based on public and private news agencies.
Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
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1901 | |||||
Bertha Sophie von Suttner [t] | June 9, 1843 Prague, Czechia |
June 21, 1914 Vienna, Austria |
1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905 | Awarded the 1905 Nobel Peace Prize. [138] | |
Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood [u] | October 24, 1830 Royalton, New York, United States |
May 19, 1917 Washington, D.C., United States |
1901, 1914 | [139] | |
1903 | |||||
Priscilla Hannah Peckover [v] | October 27, 1833 Wisbech, England |
September 8, 1931 Wisbech, England |
1903, 1905, 1911, 1913 | [140] | |
1905 | |||||
Henriette Verdier Winteler de Weindeck [w] | January 9, 1832 London, England |
March 20, 1910 London, England |
1905, 1907, 1910 | [141] | |
1910 | |||||
Ángela de Oliveira Cézar de Costa [x] | ca. 1860 Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos Province, Argentina |
June 25, 1940 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1910, 1911 | [142] | |
1913 | |||||
Anna Bernhardine Eckstein | June 14, 1868 Coburg, Germany |
October 16, 1947 Coburg, Germany |
1913 | Nominated the only time by Nils August Nilsson. [143] | |
Lucia True Ames Mead [y] | May 5, 1856 Boscawen, New Hampshire, United States |
November 1, 1936 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
1913 | Nominated jointly with her husband Edwin Doak Mead the only time by Samuel Train Dutton. [144] | |
1916 | |||||
Jane Addams [z] | September 6, 1860 Cedarville, Illinois, United States |
May 21, 1935 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
1916, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 | Awarded the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. [145] | |
1917 | |||||
Rosika Bédy-Schwimmer [aa] | September 11, 1877 Budapest, Hungary |
August 3, 1948 New York City, New York, United States |
1917, 1948 | [146] | |
1918 | |||||
Mary Shapard [ab] | c. 1882 Mississippi, United States |
c. 1950s Texas, United States |
1918 | Nominated the only time by Morris Sheppard. [147] [148] | |
1920 | |||||
Caroline Rémy de Guebhard | April 27, 1855 Paris, France |
April 24, 1929 Pierrefonds, France |
1920, 1922, 1924, 1927, 1929 | Nominated by Lucien Le Foyer each time. [149] | |
1922 | |||||
Eglantyne Jebb | August 25, 1876 Ellesmere, England |
December 17, 1928 Geneva, Switzerland |
1922 | [150] | |
Elsa Brändström Ulich [ac] | March 26, 1888 Saint Petersburg, Russia |
March 4, 1948 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
1922, 1923, 1928, 1929 | [151] | |
1931 | |||||
Annie Wood Besant [ad] | October 1, 1847 Clapham, England |
September 20, 1933 Adyar, Chennai, India |
1931 | Nominated the only time by Peter Freeman. [152] | |
Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair [ae] | March 15, 1857 London, England |
April 18, 1939 Aberdeen, Scotland |
1931, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937 | [153] | |
1933 | |||||
Margit Antonia Bárczy [af] | November 29, 1877 Budapest, Hungary |
March 26, 1934 Paris, France |
1933 | Nominated the only time by Charles Dupuis. [154] | |
1935 | |||||
Janet Miller (prob. Janet Morison Miller (1891–1946)) |
? | ? | 1935 | [155] | |
Julie Bikle | January 8, 1871 Lucerne, Switzerland |
May 11, 1962 Winterthur, Switzerland |
1935, 1936, 1937 | Nominated by Otto Pfister each time. [156] | |
1936 | |||||
Moina Belle Michael [ag] | August 15, 1869 Good Hope, Georgia, United States |
May 10, 1944 Athens, Georgia, United States |
1936 | [157] | |
Irma Schweitzer-Meyer [ah] | January 30, 1882 Baden, Switzerland |
July 4, 1967 Zürich, Switzerland |
1936, 1937 | Nominated by Nils August Nilsson each time. [158] | |
1937 | |||||
Henrietta Szold [ai] | December 21, 1860 Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
February 13, 1945 Jerusalem, Israel |
1937 | Nominated the only time by Royal S. Copeland. [159] | |
1938 | |||||
Princess Henriette of Belgium | November 30, 1870 Brussels, Belgium |
March 28, 1948 Sierre, Switzerland |
1938 | [160] | |
1939 | |||||
Carrie Chapman Catt [aj] | January 9, 1859 Ripon, Wisconsin, United States |
March 9, 1947 New Rochelle, New York, United States |
1939 | [161] | |
1940 | |||||
Helene Stöcker | November 13, 1869 Wuppertal, Germany |
February 24, 1943 New York City, US |
1940 [m] | Nominated the only time by Ludwig Quidde. [162] | |
1946 | |||||
Emily Greene Balch [ak] | January 8, 1867 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
January 9, 1961 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
1946 | Awarded the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize with John Mott. [163] | |
Alexandra Kollontai [al] | March 31, 1872 Saint Petersburg, Russia |
March 9, 1952 Moscow, Russia |
1946, 1947 | [164] | |
1947 | |||||
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt [am] | October 11, 1884 New York City, New York, United States |
November 7, 1962 Manhattan, New York, United States |
1947, 1949, 1955, 1959, 1962 | [165] | |
1948 | |||||
Katharine Bruce Glasier [an] | September 25, 1867 Stoke Newington, London, England |
June 14, 1950 Earby, England |
1948 | Nominated the only time by Gilbert McAllister. [166] | |
1949 | |||||
María Eva Duarte Perón [ao] | May 7, 1919 Los Toldos, Argentina |
July 26, 1952 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1949 | Nominated jointly with her husband Juan Perón the only time by Virgilio Filippo. [167] | |
Maria Tecla Montessori [ap] | August 31, 1870 Chiaravalle, Italy |
May 6, 1952 Noordwijk, Netherlands |
1949, 1950, 1951 | [168] | |
1951 | |||||
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands [aq] | August 31, 1880 Noordeinde Palace, South Holland, Netherlands |
November 28, 1962 Paleis Het Loo, Apeldoorn, Netherlands |
1951 | [169] | |
1952 | |||||
Ada Barbara Waylen [ar] | 1906 Oxford, England |
1980 ? |
1952 | Nominated the only time by Norman Bentwich. [170] | |
Elisabeth Friederike Rotten [as] | February 15, 1882 Berlin, Germany |
May 2, 1964 London, England |
1952, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961 | [171] | |
1953 | |||||
Margaret Higgins Sanger [at] | September 14, 1879 Corning, New York, United States |
September 6, 1966 Tucson, Arizona, United States |
1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1963 | [172] | |
1954 | |||||
Helen Adams Keller [au] | June 27, 1880 Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States |
June 1, 1968 Easton, Connecticut, United States |
1954, 1958 | [173] | |
1955 | |||||
Gertrud Baer [av] | November 25, 1890 Halberstadt, Germany |
December 15, 1981 Geneva, Switzerland |
1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959 | [174] | |
1959 | |||||
Olave St. Clair Baden-Powell [aw] | February 22, 1889 Chesterfield, England |
June 25, 1977 Bramley, England |
1959 | [175] | |
1961 | |||||
Marie-Elisabeth Lüders [ax] | June 25, 1878 Berlin, Germany |
March 23, 1966 Berlin, Germany |
1961 | Nominated the only time by Erich Mende. [176] | |
Lotta Hitschmanova [ay] | November 28, 1909 Prague, Czech Republic |
August 1, 1990 Ottawa, Canada |
1961, 1962 | Nominated by Arthur Ryan Smith each time. [177] | |
Gertrud Kurz-Hohl [az] | March 15, 1890 Lutzenberg, Switzerland |
June 26, 1972 Lutzenberg, Switzerland |
1961, 1962 | [178] | |
Giulia Scappino Murena [ba] | 1902 Italy |
1970s (or prob. 1967) Riccione, Rimini, Italy |
1961, 1962 | Nominated by Udo Redano each time and for the Nobel Prize in Literature too. [105] | |
1962 | |||||
Maude Miner Hadden [bb] | June 29, 1880 Manhattan, New York, United States |
April 14, 1967 Palm Beach, Florida, United States |
1962 | Nominated the only time by Åke Sandler. [179] | |
1963 | |||||
Catherine Devilliers (LEBLANC, Marie - Catherine) [bc] | December 30, 1923 Montpellier, France |
? | 1963 | [180] | |
Stella Monk [bd] | ? United Kingdom |
? United Kingdom |
1963 | Nominated the only time by Mohammed Sanusi Mustapha. [181] | |
1967 | |||||
Margaret Susan Cheshire [be] | July 3, 1924 Leeds, England |
November 2, 2000 Bury St Edmunds, England |
1967, 1968 | [182] | |
1969 | |||||
Kaoru Hatoyama [bf] | 21 November 1888 Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan |
15 August 1982 Tokyo, Japan |
1969 | [183] | |
1970 | |||||
Alva Reimer-Myrdal [bg] | 31 January 1902 Uppsala, Sweden |
1 February 1986 Stockholm, Sweden |
1970 | Awarded the 1982 Nobel Peace Prize with Alfonso García Robles. [184] | |
Britta Holmström [bh] | 8 April 1911 Jönköping, Sweden |
4 October 1992 Lund, Sweden |
1970 | [185] | |
1971 | |||||
Louise Weiss | 25 January 1893 Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France |
26 May 1983 Paris, France |
1971 | [186] | |
1972 [187] | |||||
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, M.C. | 26 August 1910 Skopje, North Macedonia |
5 September 1997 Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
1972 | Awarded the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. | |
Isabelle Grant | 3 July 1896 Lossiemouth, Moray, United Kingdom |
1 June 1977 London, United Kingdom |
1972 | Nominated the only time by Harold T. Johnson. [187] | |
Elise Ottesen-Jensen | 2 January 1886 Høyland, Norway |
4 September 1973 Stockholm, Sweden |
1972 | [187] | |
Annie Skau Berntsen | 29 May 1911 Oslo, Norway |
26 November 1992 Horten, Norway |
1972 | Nominated the only time by Henrik Bahr. [187] | |
Helen Suzman | 7 November 1917 Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa |
1 January 2009 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa |
1972 | Nominated the only time by Richard Luyt. [187] | |
1973 [187] | |||||
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck | June 26, 1892 Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States |
March 6, 1973 Danby, Vermont, United States |
1973 | Awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature. [79] [187] | |
Indira Gandhi | 19 November 1917 Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India |
31 October 1984 New Delhi, India |
1973 | Nominated the only time by Buddha Priya Maurya. [187] | |
Jeannette Rankin [a] | 11 June 1880 Missoula, Montana, United States |
18 May 1973 Carmel, California, United States |
1973 | Nominated the only time by Mike Mansfield. [187] | |
1974 | |||||
will be revealed in 2025 | |||||
Others [bi] | |||||
1976 | |||||
Betty Williams | 22 May 1943 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom |
17 March 2020 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom |
1976, 1977 | Awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize in 1977. [188] | |
Mairead Maguire | 27 January 1944 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom |
— | |||
1978 | |||||
Dorothy Day | 8 November 1897 Brooklyn Heights, New York, United States |
29 November 1980 Manhattan, New York, United States |
1978, 1979 | [189] | |
Imelda Romualdez-Marcos | 2 July 1929 in San Miguel, Manila, Philippines | — | 1978 | [190] [191] | |
1987 | |||||
Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino | 25 January 1933 in Paniqui, Tarlac, Philippines | 1 August 2009 in Makati, Philippines | 1987 | [192] [193] | |
1988 | |||||
Emmanuelle Cinquin, N.D.S. | 16 November 1908 Brussels, Belgium |
20 October 2008 Callian, Var, France |
1988 | [194] | |
Inga Thorsson | 3 July 1915 in Malmö, Sweden | 15 January 1994 in Stockholm, Sweden | 1988 | [195] | |
Dulce de Souza Pontes, S.M.I.C. | 26 May 1914 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil |
13 March 1992 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil |
1988, 1992 | [196] [197] | |
1989 | |||||
Aung San Suu Kyi | 19 June 1945 Yangon, Myanmar |
— | 1989, 1990, 1991 | Awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. [198] | |
1990 | |||||
Anne, Princess Royal | 15 August 1950 London, United Kingdom |
— | 1990 | [199] | |
Elise M. Boulding | 6 July 1920 in Oslo, Norway | 24 June 2010 in Needham, Massachusetts, United States | 1990, 2005 [bj] | [195] | |
1999 | |||||
Helen Prejean, C.S.J. | 21 April 1939 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States | — | 1999 | [195] [200] | |
Catherine Hamlin | 24 January 1924 Sydney, Australia |
18 March 2020 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
1999, 2014 | [201] | |
2000 | |||||
Kathy Kelly | 10 December 1972 in Chicago, Illinois, United States | — | 2000 | [195] | |
2003 | |||||
Irena Sendler | 15 February 1910 Warsaw, Poland |
12 May 2008 Warsaw, Poland |
2003, 2007 | [202] | |
2005 | |||||
1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe | a collective nomination of 1000 women from over 150 different countries for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. | 2005 | [203] | ||
Zilda Arns Neumann | 25 August 1934 Forquilhinha, Santa Catarina, Brazil |
12 January 2010 Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
2005 [bj], 2006 | [197] | |
Medea Benjamin | 10 September 1952 Freeport, New York, United States |
— | 2005 [bj], 2017 | [204] | |
2007 | |||||
Sheila Watt-Cloutier | 2 December 1953 Kuujjuaq, Quebec, Canada |
— | 2007 | [204] [205] | |
Oprah Winfrey | 29 January 1954 Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States |
— | 2007 | [206] | |
2008 | |||||
Íngrid Betancourt | 25 December 1961 Bogotá, Colombia |
— | 2008 | [207] | |
Inge Genefke | 6 July 1938 Frederiksberg, Denmark |
— | 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013 | [208] [209] | |
2009 | |||||
Piedad Córdoba | 25 January 1955 Medellín, Colombia |
20 January 2024 Medellín, Colombia |
2009 | [210] [211] [212] | |
Sima Samar | 3 February 1957 Jaghori, Afghanistan |
— | 2009, 2010, 2011 | [213] [214] | |
2010 | |||||
Svetlana Gannushkina | 6 March 1942 Moscow, Russia |
— | 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016 | [215] [216] | |
2012 | |||||
Maggie Gobran | 1949 Cairo, Egypt |
— | 2012, 2020, 2023 | [217] [218] [219] [220] | |
2013 | |||||
Malala Yousafzai | 12 July 1997 Mingora, Swat, Pakistan |
— | 2013, 2014 | Awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Kailash Satyarthi. [221] [222] | |
Lyudmila Alexeyeva | 20 July 1927 Yevpatoria, Ukraine |
8 December 2018 Moscow, Russia |
2013 | [222] [223] | |
Claudia Paz y Paz | 7 June 1966 Guatemala City, Guatemala |
— | 2013 | [222] | |
2014 | |||||
Agnes Mariam de la Croix, O.Carm | 1952 Beirut, Lebanon |
— | 2014 | [224] | |
Anne Merriman | 1935 Liverpool, United Kingdom |
— | 2014 | [225] | |
2015 | |||||
Kathryn Bolkovac | c. 1960 Ohio, United States |
— | 2015 | [226] | |
Leyla Yunus | 21 December 1955 Baku, Azerbaijan |
— | 2015 | [227] | |
2016 | |||||
Nadia Murad | 10 March 1993 Kocho, Iraq |
— | 2016, 2017, 2018 | Awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize with Denis Mukwege. [228] | |
Emilia Kamvysi | c. 1930 Lesbos, Greece |
12 March 2023 Lesbos, Greece |
2016 | [229] [230] | |
Angela Merkel | 17 July 1954 Hamburg, Germany |
— | 2016 | [231] | |
Susan Sarandon | 4 October 1946 Jackson Heights, New York, United States |
— | 2016 | [232] | |
2017 | |||||
Maria da Penha | 1 February 1945 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil |
— | 2017 | [197] [233] | |
Marianne Stöger | 24 April 1934 Matrei am Brenner, Tyrol, Austria |
— | 2017, 2020 | [234] [235] | |
Margaritha Pissarek | 1935 Austria |
— | |||
2018 | |||||
Jaha Dukureh | 1989 Gambia |
— | 2018 | [236] | |
Agnes Chow Ting | 3 December 1996 Hong Kong |
— | 2018, 2019 | [237] | |
Nataša Kandić | 16 December 1946 Belgrade, Serbia |
— | 2018, 2022 | [238] [239] | |
2019 | |||||
Ilwad Elman | 22 December 1989 Mogadishu, Somalia |
— | 2019 | [240] [241] | |
Amanda Nguyen | 10 October 1991 Corona, California, United States |
— | 2019 | [242] | |
Hajer Sharief | 1994 Libya |
— | 2019 | [241] | |
Sevgül Uludağ | 15 October 1958 Nicosia, Cyprus |
— | 2019 | [243] | |
Loujain al-Hathloul | 31 July 1989 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
— | 2019, 2020 | [244] [245] | |
Jacinda Ardern | 26 July 1980 Hamilton, New Zealand |
— | 2019, 2020 | [246] [247] [248] | |
Greta Thunberg | 3 January 2003 Stockholm, Sweden |
— | 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 | [249] [250] [251] [252] | |
2021 | |||||
Leila de Lima | 27 August 1959 Iriga, Camarines Sur, Philippines |
— | 2020 | [253] | |
2021 | |||||
Maria Ressa | 2 October 1963 Manila, Philippines |
— | 2021 | Awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize with Dmitry Muratov. [254] [255] | |
Stacey Abrams | 9 December 1973 Madison, Wisconsin, United States |
— | 2021 | [256] [257] | |
Zineb El Rhazoui | 19 January 1982 Casablanca, Morocco |
— | 2021 | [258] | |
Aminatou Haidar | 24 July 1966 Akka, Morocco |
— | 2021 | [259] [260] | |
Jane Goodall | 3 April 1934 Hampstead, London, United Kingdom |
— | 2021 | [254] [255] | |
Veronika Tsepkalo | 7 September 1976 Mogilev, Belarus |
— | 2021 | [254] [255] [261] | |
Maria Kalesnikava | 24 April 1982 Minsk, Belarus |
— | 2021 | [254] [255] [261] | |
Juliana Taimoorazy | 23 April 1973 Tehran, Iran |
— | 2021 | [262] | |
Marilyn Waring | 7 October 1952 Ngaruawahia, New Zealand |
— | 2021 | [254] [255] | |
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya | 11 September 1982 Mikashevichy, Belarus |
— | 2021, 2022 | [254] [255] [261] [263] | |
2022 | |||||
Masih Alinejad | 11 September 1976 Qomi Kola, Iran |
— | 2022, 2023 | [264] [265] | |
Maria Elena Bottazzi | 1966 Genoa, Italy |
— | 2022 | [266] [267] | |
Dee Dawkins-Haigler | 31 January 1970 Lithonia, Georgia, United States |
— | 2022 | [268] | |
Opal Lee | 7 October 1926 Marshall, Texas, United States |
— | 2022 | [269] | |
Miriam Were | 12 April 1940 Kakamega, Western Province, Kenya |
— | 2022 | [270] | |
Gwyneth Ho Kwai-lam | 24 August 1990 Hong Kong |
— | 2022, 2023 | [271] [272] | |
Chow Hang-tung | 24 January 1985 Hong Kong |
— | 2022, 2023, 2024 | [271] [272] [273] | |
2023 | |||||
Narges Mohammadi | 21 April 1972 Zanjan, Iran |
— | 2023 | Awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. [274] | |
Vanessa Nakate | 15 November 1996 Kampala, Uganda |
— | 2023 | [252] [275] | |
Mahbouba Seraj | 1948 Kabul, Afghanistan |
— | 2023 | [276] | |
Jani Silva | c. 1968 Colombia |
— | 2023 | [277] [278] | |
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz | 19 October 1952 Besao, Mt. Province, Philippines |
— | 2023 | [279] [280] | |
2024 | |||||
Yasmina Cánovas | El Vendrell, Spain | — | 2024 | [281] [282] |
From 1969 to 1971, 3 women have been nominated for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences but none of them were subsequently awarded.
Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1969 | |||||
Anna Schwartz | 11 November 1915 The Bronx, New York, United States |
21 June 2012 Manhattan, New York, United States |
1969, 1971 | Nominated by Bertil Gotthard Ohlin each time. [283] | |
Joan Robinson | 31 October 1903 Surrey, United Kingdom |
5 August 1983 Cambridge, United Kingdom |
1969, 1970, 1971 | [283] | |
1971 | |||||
Barbara Bergmann | 20 July 1927 The Bronx, New York, United States |
5 April 2015 Bethesda, Maryland, United States |
1971 | [283] | |
1972 | |||||
should be revealed in 2023 | |||||
1973 | |||||
will be revealed in 2024 |