List of heads of state and government Nobel laureates
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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
[edit]Before or after serving in office
[edit]Nobel Laureate[1] | Prize[1] | Country[1] | Status[1] | Year[1] | |
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Auguste Beernaert | Peace | Belgium | former Prime Minister of Belgium | 1909 | |
Léon Bourgeois | France | former Prime Minister of France | 1920 | ||
Aristide Briand | 1926 | ||||
Gustav Stresemann | Germany | former Chancellor of Germany | |||
Lester Bowles Pearson | Canada | future Prime Minister of Canada | 1957 | ||
Eisaku Satō | Japan | former Prime Minister of Japan | 1974 | ||
Lech Wałęsa | Poland | future President of Poland | 1983 | ||
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 |
Notes
[edit]- ^ 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.