List of heads of state and government Nobel laureates

This is a list of all the 31 heads of state and heads of government who have received the Nobel Prize. Excepting Winston Churchill who received the Literature Prize, all the others were awarded with a Peace Prize.

In office

	Prize^[1]	Country^[1]	Status^[1]	Year^[1]
Theodore Roosevelt	Peace	United States	26th President of the United States	1906
Woodrow Wilson		United States	28th President of the United States	1919
Hjalmar Branting		Sweden	Prime Minister of Sweden	1921
Winston Churchill	Literature	United Kingdom	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom	1953
Willy Brandt	Peace	West Germany	Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany	1971
Anwar Sadat		Egypt	President of Egypt	1978
Menachem Begin		Israel	6th Prime Minister of Israel	1978
Óscar Arias		Costa Rica	President of Costa Rica	1987
Mikhail Gorbachev		Soviet Union	General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and President of the Soviet Union	1990
Frederik Willem de Klerk		South Africa	State President of South Africa	1993
Yitzhak Rabin		Israel	5th Prime Minister of Israel	1994
Yasser Arafat		Palestine	President of the Palestinian National Authority and President of the State of Palestine	1994
Kim Dae-jung		South Korea	President of the Republic of Korea	2000
Barack Obama		United States	44th President of the United States	2009
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf		Liberia	President of Liberia	2011
Juan Manuel Santos		Colombia	President of Colombia	2016
Abiy Ahmed		Ethiopia	Prime Minister of Ethiopia	2019

	Prize^[1]	Country^[1]	Status^[1]	Year^[1]
Auguste Beernaert	Peace	Belgium	former Prime Minister of Belgium	1909
Léon Bourgeois		France	former Prime Minister of France	1920
Aristide Briand		France	former Prime Minister of France	1926
Gustav Stresemann		Germany	former Chancellor of Germany	1926
Lester Bowles Pearson		Canada	future Prime Minister of Canada	1957
Eisaku Satō		Japan	former Prime Minister of Japan	1974
Lech Wałęsa		Poland	future President of Poland	1983
Aung San Suu Kyi^[a]		Myanmar	future State Counsellor of Myanmar	1991
Nelson Mandela		South Africa	future President of South Africa	1993
Shimon Peres		Israel	former and future Prime Minister and future President of Israel	1994
José Ramos Horta		East Timor	future President and Prime Minister of East Timor	1996
Jimmy Carter		United States	former President of the United States	2002
Martti Ahtisaari		Finland	former President of Finland	2008
Muhammad Yunus		Bangladesh	future Chief Adviser (Bangladesh)^[b]	2006

^ The State Counsellor of Myanmar was the title of the de facto head of government of Myanmar, equivalent to a prime minister. The post was created in 2016 to allow for a greater role for Suu Kyi within the Government of Myanmar. Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won a landslide victory in the 2015 Myanmar general election; however, she is constitutionally barred from becoming President of Myanmar as her late husband was British and her two children also hold British nationality.
^ Chief Adviser is the head of government of Bangladesh, equivalent to a prime minister, during the absence of a Prime Minister and Parliament, typically used for interim or caretaker governments.

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