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 2024, 67 Nobel Prizes and the Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to 66 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 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 82 currently revealed female nominees for the literature category, the celebrated authors Kate Chopin, Delmira Agustini, Edith Nesbit, Alfonsina Storni, Marina Tsvetaeva, Virginia Woolf, Simone Weil, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, Emma Orczy, Zora Neale Hurston, Edith Hamilton, Flannery O'Connor, Fannie Hurst, Clarice Lispector, Nancy Mitford, Rosario Castellanos, Hannah Arendt 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 60 currently revealed female nominees, the famous Susan B. Anthony, Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Frances Xavier Cabrini, 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 1974, 13 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, Congress of Poland, Russian Empire [a] | 4 July 1934 Passy, Haute-Savoie, French Third Republic [b] | 1902, 1903 | Awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Henri Becquerel and Pierre Curie; also sole recipient of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [17] |
1935 | |||||
![]() | Irène Joliot-Curie | 12 September 1897 Paris, French Third Republic [b] | 17 March 1956 Paris, French Fourth Republic [b] | 1934, 1935 | Awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Frédéric Joliot-Curie . [18] |
1937 | |||||
![]() | Lise Meitner | 7 November 1878 Vienna, Austria-Hungary [c] | 27 October 1968 Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1937, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965 | Also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [19] |
1950 | |||||
![]() | Marietta Blau | 29 April 1894 Vienna, Austria-Hungary [c] | 27 January 1970 Vienna, Austria | 1950, 1956, 1957 | Also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [20] |
![]() | Hertha Wambacher [d] | 9 March 1903 Vienna, Austria-Hungary [c] | 25 March 1950 Vienna, Austria | 1950 | Nominated jointly with Marietta Blau ; nominated by Erwin Schrödinger . [21] |
1955 | |||||
![]() | Maria Goeppert-Mayer | 28 June 1906 Katowice, Prussia, German Empire [a] | 2 February 1972 San Diego, California, United States | 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963 | Awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with J. Hans D. Jensen . [22] |
1956 | |||||
![]() | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | 12 May 1910 Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt [e] | 29 July 1994 Ilmington, England, United Kingdom | 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961 | Awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [23] |
1958 | |||||
![]() | Chien-Shiung Wu | 31 May 1912 Liuhe, Taicang, Republic of China [f] | 16 February 1997 New York City, New York, United States | 1958, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | [24] |
1964 | |||||
![]() | Margaret Peachey Burbidge | 12 August 1919 Stockport, England, United Kingdom [g] | 5 April 2020 San Francisco, California, United States | 1964, 1973 | [25] [26] |
1970 | |||||
![]() | Jocelyn Bell Burnell | 15 July 1943 Lurgan, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom | — | 1970 [h] | [27] [i] |
![]() | Janine Roux-Connes | 19 May 1926 Paris, French Third Republic [b] | 28 November 2024 Orsay, France | 1970 | Nominated jointly with Pierre Connes and Robert B. Leighton; nominated by Rupert Wildt. [28] |
1973 | |||||
![]() | Phyllis S. Freier | 19 January 1921 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States | 18 December 1992 St. Paul, Minnesota, United States | 1973 | Nominated jointly with Edward P. Ney, Edward J. Lofgren and Frank Oppenheimer; nominated by Willard Libby . [29] |
![]() | Isabella Karle | 2 December 1921 Detroit, Michigan, United States | 3 October 2017 Alexandria, Virginia, United States | 1973 | Nominated jointly with Herbert A. Hauptman , Jerome Karle and Michael Woolfson; nominated by Hans Wondratschek. [30] |
Others [j] | |||||
2018 | |||||
![]() | Donna Strickland | 27 May 1959 Guelph, Ontario, Canada | — | 2018 | Awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Gérard Mourou and Arthur Ashkin. |
2020 | |||||
![]() | Andrea Mia Ghez | 16 June 1965 New York City, New York, United States | — | 2020 | Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Reinhard Genzel and Roger Penrose. |
2023 | |||||
| Anne L'Huillier | 16 August 1958 Paris, French Fourth Republic [b] | — | 2023 | Awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Ferenc Krausz and Pierre Agostini. |
Starting 1911 to 1974, 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 | 7 November 1867 Warsaw, Congress of Poland, Russian Empire [a] | 4 July 1934 Passy, Haute-Savoie, French Third Republic [b] | 1911 | Awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; had previously won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Henri Becquerel and Pierre Curie. [17] |
1924 | |||||
![]() | Lise Meitner | 7 November 1878 Vienna, Austria-Hungary [c] | 27 October 1968 Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1924, 1925, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1948 | Also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics. [19] |
1933 | |||||
![]() | Ida Tacke Noddack | 25 February 1896 Wesel, Prussia, German Empire [k] | 24 September 1978 Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany [k] | 1933, 1935, 1937 | Nominated jointly with Walter Noddack. [31] |
1935 | |||||
![]() | Irène Joliot-Curie | 12 September 1897 Paris, French Third Republic [b] | 17 March 1956 Paris, French Fourth Republic [b] | 1935 | Awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Frédéric Joliot ; also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics. [18] |
1939 | |||||
![]() | Dorothy Maud Wrinch | 12 September 1894 Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina | 11 February 1976 Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States | 1939 | [18] |
1950 | |||||
![]() | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | 12 May 1910 Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt [e] | 29 July 1994 Ilmington, England, United Kingdom | 1950, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 | Awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics. [23] |
![]() | Thérèse Boyer Tréfouël | 19 June 1892 Paris, French Third Republic [b] | 9 November 1978 Paris, France | 1950 | Nominated jointly with Jacques Tréfouël and Gladwyn Buttle. [32] |
1952 | |||||
![]() | Marguerite Perey | 19 October 1909 Villemomble, Seine-Saint-Denis, French Third Republic [b] | 13 May 1975 Louveciennes, Yvelines, France | 1952, 1958, 1961, 1965, 1966 | [33] |
1956 | |||||
![]() | Joan Folkes | 1927 Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom | ? | 1956 | Nominated jointly with Ernest Gale; nominated by John Howard Northrop . [34] |
1957 | |||||
![]() | Marietta Blau | 29 April 1894 Vienna, Austria-Hungary [c] | 27 January 1970 Vienna, Austria | 1957 | Also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics. [20] |
1958 | |||||
![]() | Maria Goeppert-Mayer | 28 June 1906 Katowice, Prussia, German Empire [a] | 2 February 1972 San Diego, California, United States | 1958 | Awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics. [20] |
1960 | |||||
![]() | Martha Cowles Chase | 30 November 1927 Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States | 8 August 2003 Lorain, Ohio, United States | 1960 | Nominated jointly with Alfred Hershey , Alfred Gierer, Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat and Gerhard Schramm; nominated by John Howard Northrop . [35] |
1963 | |||||
![]() | Alberte Bucher-Pullman | 26 August 1920 Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, French Third Republic [b] | 7 January 2011 Paris, France | 1963, 1965 | Nominated jointly with Bernard Pullman each time. [36] |
1967 | |||||
![]() | Mary Belle Allen | 11, November 1922 Morristown, New Jersey, United States | 1973 Fairbanks, Alaska, United States | 1967 | Nominated jointly with Daniel I. Arnon and Frederick Whatley; nominated by John Howard Northrop . [37] |
1968 | |||||
![]() | Erika Cremer | 20 May 1900 Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire [k] | 21 September 1996 Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria | 1968 | Nominated by Franz Patat. [38] |
1975 | |||||
to be revealed by Nobel Committee in 2026 | |||||
Others [j] | |||||
1995 | |||||
![]() | Johanna Döbereiner | 28 November 1924 Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia [l] | 5 October 2000 Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 1995, 1997 | [39] [40] |
2009 | |||||
![]() | Ada Yonath | 22 June 1939 Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine [m] | — | 2009 | Awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz. |
2016 | |||||
![]() | Svetlana Zaginaichenko | 10 August 1957 Kyiv, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union [n] | 23 November 2015 Dnipro, Ukraine | 2016 | [41] |
2018 | |||||
![]() | Frances Arnold | 25 July 1956 Edgewood, Pennsylvania, United States | — | 2018 | Awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with George P. Smith and Gregory Winter. |
2020 | |||||
![]() | Emmanuelle Charpentier | 11 December 1968 Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne, France | — | 2020 | Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
![]() | Jennifer Doudna | 19 February 1964 Washington, D.C., United States | — | 2020 | |
2022 | |||||
![]() | Carolyn Bertozzi | 10 October 1966 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | — | 2022 | Awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Morten Meldal and Karl Barry Sharpless. |
Starting from 1922 to 1953, 15 women have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine wherein one was declared invalid, one was purportedly recommended and one was subsequently awarded.
Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
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1912 | |||||
![]() | Mary Edwards Walker [o] | 26 November 1832 Oswego, New York, United States | 21 February 1919 Oswego, New York, United States | 1912 [p] | Nominated by A. S. Helton. [7] |
1922 | |||||
![]() | Cécile Vogt-Mugnier [q] | 27 March 1875 Annecy, Haute-Savoie, French Third Republic [b] | 4 May 1962 Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1922, 1923, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1950, 1951, 1953 | Nominated jointly with Oskar Vogt each time. [42] |
1923 | |||||
![]() | Maud Caroline Slye [r] | 8 February 1879 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States | 17 September 1954 Chicago, Illinois, United States | 1923 | Nominated by Albert Soiland. [43] |
1925 | |||||
![]() | Gladys Rowena Henry Dick [s] | 18 December 1881 Pawnee City, Nebraska, United States | 21 August 1963 Palo Alto, California, United States | 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1935 | Nominated jointly with George Frederick Dick each time. [44] |
1930 | |||||
![]() | Alice Bernheim [t] | 28 September 1878 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States | 14 July 1968 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States | 1930 | Nominated by William Cogswell Clarke. [45] |
1939 | |||||
![]() | May Tweedy Mellanby [u] | 9 September 1882 London, United Kingdom [g] | 5 March 1978 London, United Kingdom | 1939 | Nominated jointly with Edward Mellanby. [46] |
![]() | Susan Gower Smith [v] | 9 December 1897 Greenville, South Carolina, United States | 3 October 1983 Durham, North Carolina, United States | 1939 | Nominated jointly with David Tillerson Smith and Julian Ruffin; nominated by Osvaldo Polimanti. [47] |
1940 | |||||
![]() | Olive Watkins Smith [w] | 29 April 1901 Worcester, Massachusetts, United States | 1983 Brookline, Massachusetts, United States | 1940 [x] | Nominated jointly with George Van Siclen Smith; nominated by Frank Arthur Pemberton. [48] |
1941 | |||||
![]() | Sona Valikhan [Vəlixan] [y] | 19 June 1883 Kharkiv, Russian Empire [n] | 4 April 1982 Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union [z] | 1941 [x] | Nominated by the Azerbaijan Medical Institute. [aa] |
1946 | |||||
![]() | Gerty Theresa Radnitz-Cori [ab] | 15 August 1896 Prague, Austria-Hungary [l] | 25 October 1957 Glendale, Missouri, United States | 1946, 1947 | Awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Bernardo Houssay . [50] |
![]() | Militsa Nikolaeva Lyubimova-Engelhardt [ac] | 26 December 1898 Kazan, Tatarstan, Russian Empire [ad] | 22 December 1975 Moscow, Russia SFSR, Soviet Union [ad] | 1946 | Nominated jointly with Vladimir Engelgardt; nominated by Leon Orbeli. [51] |
1947 | |||||
![]() | Helen Brooke Taussig [ae] | 24 May 1898 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States | 20 May 1986 Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States | 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953 | [52] |
1951 | |||||
![]() | Miriam Friedman Menkin [af] | 8 August 1901 Riga, Russian Empire [ag] | 8 June 1992 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | 1951 | Nominated jointly with John Rock and Roger Alfred Auguste Vendrely; nominated by Bożydar Szabuniewicz. [53] |
![]() | Madge Thurlow Macklin [ah] | 6 February 1893 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | 4 March 1962 Columbus, Ohio, United States | 1951 | Nominated by Charles Clifford Macklin. [54] |
1952 | |||||
![]() | Elizabeth Bugie Gregory [ai] | 5 October 1920 New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States | 10 April 2001 New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States | 1952 | Nominated jointly with Selman Waksman and Albert Schatz; nominated by Jevrem Nedelkovitch. [55] |
1954–1974 | |||||
should be revealed by Nobel Committee | |||||
Others [j] | |||||
1977 | |||||
![]() | Rosalyn Yalow | 19 July 1921 New York City, New York, United States | 30 May 2011 The Bronx, New York, United States | 1977 | Award the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Andrew V. Schally and Roger Guillemin. |
1979 | |||||
![]() | Johanna Budwig | 30 September 1908 Essen, Prussia, German Empire [k] | 19 May 2003 Freudenstadt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 1979 | [56] [57] |
1983 | |||||
![]() | Barbara McClintock | 16 June 1902 Hartford, Connecticut, United States | 2 September 1992 Huntington, New York, United States | 1983 | Awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
1986 | |||||
![]() | Rita Levi-Montalcini | 22 April 1909 Turin, Kingdom of Italy [aj] | 30 December 2012 Rome, Italy | 1986 | Awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Stanley Cohen. |
1988 | |||||
![]() | Gertrude Belle Elion | 23 January 1918 New York City, New York, United States | 21 February 1999 Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States | 1988 | Awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with James W. Black and George H. Hitchings. |
1995 | |||||
![]() | Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard | 20 October 1942 Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Nazi Germany [k] | — | 1995 | Awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Edward B. Lewis and Eric F. Wieschaus. |
1997 | |||||
![]() | Lida Holmes Mattman | 31 July 1912 Denver, Colorado, United States | 6 August 2008 Essexville, Michigan, United States | 1997 | [58] |
2004 | |||||
![]() | Linda Buck | 29 January 1947 Seattle, Washington, United States | — | 2004 | Awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Richard Axel. |
2008 | |||||
![]() | Françoise Barré-Sinoussi | 30 July 1947 Paris, French Fourth Republic [b] | — | 2008 | Awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Luc Montagnier and Harald zur Hausen. |
2009 | |||||
| Elizabeth Blackburn | 26 November 1948 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia | — | 2009 | Awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Jack W. Szostak. |
| Carolyn Greider | 15 April 1961 San Diego, California, United States | — | 2009 | |
2014 | |||||
![]() | May-Britt Moser | 4 January 1963 Fosnavåg, Norway | — | 2014 | Awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Edvard I. Moser and John O'Keefe. |
2015 | |||||
![]() | Tú Yōuyōu | 30 December 1930 Ningbo, Zhejiang, Republic of China [f] | — | 2015 | Awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura. |
2020 | |||||
![]() | Huda Zoghbi | 20 June 1954 Beirut, Lebanon | — | 2020 | [59] |
2021 | |||||
![]() | Özlem Türeci Şahin | 6 March 1967 Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany [k] | — | 2021 | [60] |
2023 | |||||
![]() | Katalin Karikó | 17 January 1955 Szolnok, Hungarian People's Republic [ak] | — | 2023 | Awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Drew Weissman. |
From 1901 to 1974, 82 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 | 28 October 1816 Kassel, Prussia, German Empire [k] | 23 April 1903 Rome, Kingdom of Italy [aj] | 1901 | Nominated by Gabriel Monod. [61] |
1904 | |||||
![]() | Selma Lagerlöf | 20 November 1858 Värmland, Sweden-Norway [al] | 16 March 1940 Värmland, Sweden | 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909 | Awarded the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature. [62] |
![]() | Émilie Lerou | 10 April 1855 Penne-d'Agenais, Lot-et-Garonne, France | 10 February 1935 Valence d'Agen, Tarn-et-Garonne, France | 1904 | Nominated by Jules Claretie. [63] |
1905 | |||||
![]() | Eliza Orzeszkowa | 6 June 1841 Mil'kovshchina, Russian Empire [am] | 18 May 1910 Grodno, Russian Empire [am] | 1905 | [64] |
1908 | |||||
| Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche | 10 July 1846 Lützen, Prussia, German Confederation [k] | 8 November 1935 Weimar, Nazi Germany [k] | 1908, 1916, 1917, 1923 | [65] |
1910 | |||||
![]() | Molly Elliot Seawell | 23 October 1860 Gloucester, United States | 15 November 1916 Washington, D.C., United States | 1910, 1911 | Nominated by Charles W. Kent each time. [66] |
![]() | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach | 13 September 1830 Troubky-Zdislavice, Austrian Empire [l] | 12 March 1916 Vienna, Austria-Hungary [c] | 1910, 1911 | Nominated by Emil Reich each time. [67] |
1913 | |||||
![]() | Grazia Deledda | 28 September 1871 Nuoro, Italy | 15 August 1936 Rome, Italy | 1913, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927 | Awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927. [68] |
1914 | |||||
![]() | Dora Melegari | 27 June 1849 Lausanne, Switzerland | 31 July 1924 Rome, Italy | 1914, 1923 | [69] |
1922 | |||||
![]() | Sigrid Undset | 20 May 1882 Kalundborg, Denmark | 10 June 1949 Lillehammer, Norway | 1922, 1925, 1926, 1928 | Awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature. [70] |
![]() | Matilde Serao | 7 March 1856 Patras, Greece | 25 July 1927 Naples, Italy | 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925 | [71] |
1926 | |||||
![]() | Sofía Casanova | 30 September 1861 A Coruña, Spain | 16 January 1958 Poznań, Poland | 1926 | [72] |
![]() | Ada Negri | 3 February 1870 Lodi, Italy | 11 January 1945 Milan, Italy | 1926, 1927 | [73] |
![]() | Concha Espina de la Serna | 15 April 1869 Santander, Spain | 19 May 1955 Madrid, Spain | 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1952, 1954 | [74] |
1927 | |||||
![]() | Edith Wharton | 24 January 1862 New York City, New York, United States | August 11, 1937 Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, Val-d'Oise, France | 1927, 1928, 1930 | [75] |
1928 | |||||
![]() | Anna de Noailles | 15 November 1876 Paris, France | 30 April 1933 Paris, France | 1928 | Nominated by Tor Hedberg. [76] |
![]() | Edith Howes | 29 August 1872 London, England | 14 June 1954 Dunedin, New Zealand | 1928 | Nominated by Francis Prendeville Wilson. [77] |
![]() | Blanca de los Ríos Nostench | 15 August 1956 Seville, Spain | 13 April 1956 Madrid, Spain | 1928 | [78] |
![]() | Ricarda Huch | 18 July 1864 Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany | 17 November 1947 Kronberg, Hesse, Germany | 1928, 1935, 1937, 1946 | [79] |
1930 | |||||
![]() | Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo | 19 September 1887 Los Teques, Miranda, Venezuela | 20 June 1959 Caracas, Venezuela | 1930 | Nominated by Manuel María Villalobos. [80] |
1931 | |||||
![]() | Laura Mestre Hevia | 6 April 1867 Havana, Cuba | 11 January 1944 Havana, Cuba | 1931 | Nominated Juan Miguel Dihigo Mestre. [81] |
![]() | Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić | 18 April 1874 Ogulin, Croatia | 21 September 1928 Zagreb, Croatia | 1931, 1935, 1937, 1938 | [82] |
1934 | |||||
![]() | Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício | 19 April 1884 Lisbon, Portugal | 3 November 1947 Lisbon, Portugal | 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947 | [83] |
1935 | |||||
![]() | Violet Clifton | 2 November 1883 Rome, Italy | 20 November 1961 Lytham St Annes, England, United Kingdom | 1935 [x] | Nominated by Nevill Coghill. [84] |
![]() | Elise Richter | 2 March 1865 Vienna, Austria | 23 June 1943 Theresienstadt Ghetto, Terezín, Czechia | 1935 [x] | [85] |
1936 | |||||
![]() | Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti | 20 January 1871 Vienna, Austria | 8 April 1955 Linz, Upper Austria, Austria | 1936 | [86] |
![]() | Cécile Tormay | 8 October 1875 Budapest, Hungary | 2 April 1937 Gyöngyös, Hungary | 1936, 1937 | [87] |
1937 | |||||
![]() | Maria Jotuni | 9 April 1880 Kuopio, Finland | 30 September 1943 Helsinki, Finland | 1937 | Nominated by Viljo Tarkiainen. [88] |
![]() | Sally Salminen | 25 April 1906 Vårdö, Åland, Finland | 18 July 1976 Copenhagen, Denmark | 1937, 1938, 1939 | [89] |
![]() | Maila Talvio | 17 October 1871 Hartola, Finland | 6 January 1951 Helsinki, Finland | 1937, 1939, 1947 | [90] |
1938 | |||||
![]() | Pearl Sydenstricker Buck | 26 June 1892 Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States | 6 March 1973 Danby, Vermont, United States | 1938 | Awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature; also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. [91] |
![]() | Margaret Mitchell | 8 November 1900 Atlanta, Georgia, United States | 16 August 1949 Atlanta, Georgia, United States | 1938 | Nominated by Sven Hedin. [92] |
![]() | Henriette Charasson | 13 February 1884 Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France | 29 May 1972 Toulouse, France | 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945, [an] 1947, 1949, 1954, 1957 | [94] |
1939 | |||||
![]() | Ethel Florence Richardson | 3 January 1870 East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | 20 March 1946 Hastings, England, United Kingdom | 1939 | Nominated by Sten Bodvar Liljegren. [95] |
![]() | Henriette Roland Holst | 24 December 1869 Noordwijk, South Holland, Netherlands | 21 November 1952 Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1939, 1950, 1952 | [96] |
![]() | Maria Dąbrowska | 6 October 1889 Russów, Kalisz, Poland | 19 May 1965 Warsaw, Poland | 1939, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1965 | [97] |
1940 | |||||
![]() | Gabriela Mistral | 7 April 1889 Vicuña, Chile | 10 January 1957 Hempstead, New York, United States | 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 | Awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature. [98] |
1941 | |||||
![]() | Ruth Comfort Mitchell | 21 July 1882 San Francisco, California, United States | 18 February 1954 Los Gatos, California, United States | 1941 [x] | [99] |
1943 | |||||
![]() | Elisaveta Bagryana | 16 April 1893 Sofia, Bulgaria | 23 March 1991 Sofia, Bulgaria | 1943, 1944, 1945, 1969 | [100] |
1945 | |||||
![]() | Marie Under | 27 March 1883 Tallinn, Estonia | 25 September 1980 Stockholm, Sweden | 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1958, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | [101] |
1948 | |||||
![]() | Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette | 28 January 1873 Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, France | 3 August 1954 Paris, France | 1948 | Nominated by Claude Farrère. [102] |
![]() | Dorothy Canfield Fisher | 17 February 1879 Lawrence, Kansas, United States | 9 November 1958 Arlington, Vermont, United States | 1948, 1949 | Nominated by David Baumgardt each time. [103] |
1950 | |||||
![]() | Karen Blixen | 17 April 1885 Rungsted, Denmark | 7 September 1962 Rungsted, Denmark | 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962 | [104] |
![]() | Gertrud von Le Fort | 11 October 1876 Minden, North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany | 1 November 1971 Oberstdorf, Bavaria, Germany | 1950, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963 | [105] |
1951 | |||||
| María Enriqueta Camarillo | 19 February 1872 Coatepec, Mexico | 13 February 1968 Mexico City, Mexico | 1951 | Nominated by Leavitt Olds Wright. [106] |
![]() | Katharine Susannah Prichard | 4 December 1883 Levuka, Fiji | 2 October 1969 Greenmount, Western Australia, Australia | 1951 | [107] |
1955 | |||||
![]() | Edith Sitwell | 7 September 1887 Scarborough, England, United Kingdom | 9 December 1964 London, United Kingdom | 1955, 1958, 1959 | [108] |
1956 | |||||
![]() | Melpo Axioti | 15 July 1905 Athens, Greece | 22 May 1973 Athens, Greece | 1956 | Nominated by André Bonnard. [109] |
![]() | Marthe Bibesco | 28 January 1886 Bucharest, Romania | 28 November 1973 Paris, France | 1956 | [110] |
![]() | Elizabeth Goudge | 24 April 1900 Wells, England, United Kingdom | 1 April 1984 Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom | 1956, 1959 | Nominated by Edmond Privat each time. [111] |
1958 | |||||
![]() | Elizabeth Bowen | 7 June 1899 Dublin, Ireland | 22 February 1973 London, England, United Kingdom | 1958 | Nominated by Roman Jakobson. [112] |
1959 | |||||
![]() | Juana de Ibarbourou | 8 March 1892 Melo, Uruguay | 15 July 1979 Montevideo, Uruguay | 1959, 1960, 1963 | [113] |
![]() | María Raquel Adler | ca. 1900 Argentine Sea | 28 July 1974 Bernal, Argentina | 1959, 1965 | [114] |
![]() | Anna Seghers | 19 November 1900 Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany | 1 June 1983 East Berlin, Germany | 1959, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972 | [115] |
1960 | |||||
![]() | Marie Noël | 16 February 1883 Auxerre, Yonne, France | 23 December 1967 Auxerre, Yonne, France | 1960 | Nominated by Maurice Bemol. [116] |
1961 | |||||
![]() | Cora Sandel | 20 December 1880 Oslo, Norway | 3 April 1974 Uppsala, Sweden | 1961 | Nominated by Harald Ofstad. [117] |
![]() | Giulia Scappino Murena | 1902 Ferrara, Italy | 1982 Bologna, Italy | 1961, 1962 | Nominated by Alfredo Galletti each time; also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. [118] |
![]() | Simone de Beauvoir | 9 January 1908 Paris, France | 14 April 1986 Paris, France | 1961, 1969, 1973 | [119] |
1963 | |||||
![]() | Nelly Sachs | 10 December 1891 Berlin, Germany | 12 May 1970 Stockholm, Sweden | 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 | Awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature, shared with Shmuel Yosef Agnon . [120] |
![]() | Ingeborg Bachmann | 25 June 1926 Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria | 17 October 1973 Rome, Italy | 1963 | Nominated by Harald Patzer. [121] |
![]() | Kate Roberts | 13 February 1891 Rhosgadfan, Wales, United Kingdom | 4 April 1985 Denbigh, Wales, United Kingdom | 1963 | Nominated by Idris Foster. [122] |
1964 | |||||
![]() | Ina Seidel | 15 September 1885 Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany | 2 October 1974 Schäftlarn, Bavaria, Germany | 1964 | Nominated by Günther Jachmann. [123] |
![]() | Judith Wright | 31 May 1915 Armidale, New South Wales, Australia | 25 June 2000 Canberra, Australia | 1964, 1965, 1967 | [124] |
![]() | Katherine Anne Porter | 15 May 1890 Indian Creek, Texas, United States | 18 September 1980 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States | 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 | [125] |
1965 | |||||
![]() | Marguerite Yourcenar | 8 June 1903 Brussels, Belgium | 17 December 1987 Northeast Harbor, Maine, United States | 1965 | Nominated Ida-Marie Frandon. [126] |
![]() | Anna Akhmatova | 28 June 1889 Odesa, Ukraine | 5 March 1966 Moscow, Russia | 1965, 1966 | [127] |
![]() | Marie Luise Kaschnitz | 31 January 1901 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 10 October 1974 Rome, Italy | 1965, 1967 | Nominated by Hermann Tiemann each time. [128] |
1967 | |||||
![]() | Lina Kostenko | 19 March 1930 Rzhyshchiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine | — | 1967 | Nominated jointly with Pavlo Tychyna and Ivan Drach; nominated by Omeljan Pritsak. [129] |
1968 | |||||
![]() | Marianne Moore | 15 November 1887 Kirkwood, Missouri, United States | 5 February 1972 New York City, New York, United States | 1968 | Nominated by Erik Lindegren. [130] |
![]() | Mildred Breedlove | 27 May 1904 Coal Hill, Arkansas, United States | 14 August 1994 Ferron, Utah, United States | 1968 | Nominated by United Poets Laureate International. [131] |
1969 | |||||
![]() | Nathalie Sarraute | 18 July 1900 Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Russia | 19 October 1999 Paris, France | 1969 | Nominated by Lars Gyllensten. [132] |
1970 | |||||
![]() | Victoria Ocampo | 7 April 1890 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 27 January 1979 Béccar, Argentina | 1970, 1974 | [133] |
1972 | |||||
| Nadine Gordimer | 20 November 1923 Springs, Gauteng, South Africa | 13 July 2014 Johannesburg, South Africa | 1972, 1973, 1974 | Awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. [134] |
| Doris Lessing | 22 October 1919 Kermanshah, Iran | 17 November 2013 London, England, United Kingdom | 1972, 1973, 1974 | Awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. [135] |
![]() | Astrid Lindgren | 14 November 1907 Vimmerby, Kalmar, Sweden | 28 January 2002 Stockholm, Sweden | 1972, 1974 | [136] |
1973 | |||||
![]() | Indira Devi Dhanrajgir | 17 August 1930 Hyderabad, Telangana, India | — | 1973 | Nominated by Krishna Srinivas. [137] |
![]() | Zenta Mauriņa | 15 December 1897 Lejasciems, Latvia | 25 April 1978 Basel, Switzerland | 1973 | Nominated by Mārtiņš Zīverts. [138] |
1974 [139] | |||||
![]() | Gwen Bristow | 16 September 1903 Marion, South Carolina, United States | 17 August 1980 New Orleans, Louisiana, United States | 1974 | Nominated by Lorenz B. Graham. [140] |
![]() | Chen Min-hwa | 7 September 1933 Longkou, Shandong, China | — | 1974 | Nominated by Emeterio Barcelón Barceló-Soriano (1897–1978). [141] |
![]() | Argentina Díaz Lozano | 5 December 1909 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras | 13 August 1999 Tegucigalpa, Honduras | 1974 | [142] |
![]() | Louise Weiss | 25 January 1893 Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France | 26 May 1983 Paris, France | 1974 | Also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. [143] |
![]() | Kamala Surayya–Das | 31 March 1934 Punnayurkulam, Kerala, India | 31 May 2009 Pune, Maharashtra, India | 1974, 1984 | Nominated by K. P. Kannan(?). [144] |
Others [j] | |||||
1975 | |||||
![]() | Anja Lundholm | 28 April 1918 Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | 4 August 2007 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany | 1975 | [145] |
1976 | |||||
![]() | Anaïs Nin | 21 February 1903 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France | 14 January 1977 Los Angeles, California, United States | 1976 | [146] |
1979 | |||||
![]() | Joyce Carol Oates | 16 June 1938 Lockport, New York, United States | — | 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 | [147] |
1981 | |||||
![]() | Mary Kawena Pukui | 20 April 1895 Kau, Hawaii, United States | 21 May 1986 Honolulu, Hawaii, United States | 1981 | [148] |
1984 | |||||
![]() | Andrée Chedid | 20 March 1920 Cairo, Egypt | 6 February 2011 Paris, France | 1984 | |
1985 | |||||
![]() | Ding Ling | 12 October 1904 Linli, Hunan, China | 4 March 1986 Beijing, China | 1985 | |
![]() | Susan Howe | 10 June 1937 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | — | 1985, 1987 | |
1987 | |||||
![]() | Christa Wolf | 18 March 1929 Gorzów Wielkopolski, Lubusz, Poland | 1 December 2011 Berlin, Germany | 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2004, 2007 | [149] |
1988 | |||||
![]() | Marguerite Duras | 4 April 1914 Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam | 3 March 1996 Paris, France | 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992 | |
1989 | |||||
![]() | Joan Didion | 5 December 1934 Sacramento, California, United States | 23 December 2021 New York City, United States | 1989 | |
![]() | Ana María Matute | 26 July 1925 Barcelona, Spain | 25 June 2014 Barcelona, Spain | 1989 | |
1990 | |||||
![]() | Maria Luisa Spaziani | 7 December 1922 Turin, Italy | 30 June 2014 Rome, Italy | 1990, 1992, 1997 | |
![]() | Margaret Atwood | 18 November 1939 Ottawa, Canada | — | 1990, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 | |
1991 | |||||
| Patricia Highsmith | 19 January 1921 Fort Worth, Texas, United States | 4 February 1995 Locarno, Switzerland | 1991 | [150] |
![]() | Janet Frame | 28 August 1924 Dunedin, New Zealand | 29 January 2004 Dunedin, New Zealand | 1991, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003 | [151] |
1992 | |||||
![]() | Matilde Alba Swann | 24 February 1912 Berisso, Argentina | 13 September 2000 La Plata, Argentina | 1992 | [152] |
![]() | Vizma Belševica | 30 May 1931 Riga, Latvia | 6 August 2005 Riga, Latvia | 1992, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 | [153] |
1993 | |||||
![]() | Toni Morrison | 18 February 1931 Lorain, Ohio, United States | 5 August 2019 New York City, New York, United States | 1993 | Awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
1994 | |||||
![]() | Wisława Szymborska | 2 July 1923 Kórnik, Poznań, Poland | 1 February 2012 Kraków, Poland | 1994, 1995, 1996 | Awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
1995 | |||||
![]() | Friederike Mayröcker | 20 December 1924 Vienna, Austria | 4 June 2021 Vienna, Austria | 1995, 2004 | [154] |
1996 | |||||
![]() | Iris Murdoch | 15 July 1919 Phibsborough, Dublin, Ireland | 8 February 1999 Oxford, England | 1996 | |
| Alda Merini | 21 March 1931 Milan, Italy | 1 November 2009 Milan, Italy | 1996, 2001 | [155] |
![]() | Inger Christensen | 16 January 1935 Vejle, Denmark | 2 January 2009 Copenhagen, Denmark | 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 | [156] |
1997 | |||||
| Alicia Ghiragossian | 13 July 1936 Córdoba, Argentina | 22 May 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States | 1997 | [157] |
1998 | |||||
![]() | Agustina Bessa-Luís | 15 October 1922 Amarante, Portugal | 3 June 2019 Porto, Portugal | 1998, 2018 | [158] |
1999 | |||||
![]() | Simin Behbahani | 20 July 1927 Tehran, Iran | 19 August 2014 Tehran, Iran | 1999, 2002 | [159] |
2000 | |||||
![]() | Alice Munro | 10 July 1931 Wingham, Ontario, Canada | 13 May 2024 Port Hope, Ontario, Canada | 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013 | Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
2001 | |||||
![]() | Herta Müller | 17 August 1953 Nițchidorf, Romania | — | 2001, 2006, 2007, 2009 | Awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
![]() | Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen | 6 November 1919 Porto, Portugal | 2 July 2004 Lisbon, Portugal | 2001 | |
![]() | Assia Djebar | 30 June 1936 Cherchell, Tipaza, Algeria | 6 February 2015 Paris, France | 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 | |
2002 | |||||
| Leyla Erbil | 12 January 1931 Istanbul, Türkiye | 19 July 2013 Istanbul, Türkiye | 2002 | [160] |
![]() | Susan Sontag | 16 January 1933 New York City, United States | 28 December 2004 New York City, United States | 2002, 2003, 2004 | |
2003 | |||||
![]() | Elfriede Jelinek | 20 October 1946 Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria | — | 2003, 2004 | Awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| Svetlana Alexievich | 31 May 1948 Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine | — | 2003, 2004, 2006, 2014, 2015 | Awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
![]() | Klára Jarunková | 28 April 1922 Šumiac, Brezno, Slovakia | 11 July 2005 Bratislava, Slovakia | 2003 | [161] |
![]() | Giovanna Mulas | 6 May 1969 Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy | — | 2003 | [162] |
2004 | |||||
| Isabel Allende | 2 August 1942 Lima, Peru | — | 2004 | |
![]() | Muriel Spark | 1 February 1918 Edinburgh, Scotland | 13 April 2006 Uliveto Terme, Pisa, Italy | 2004 | |
2005 | |||||
![]() | Anne-Marie Albiach | 9 August 1937 Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, France | 4 November 2012 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France | 2005 | |
![]() | Hélène Cixous | 5 June 1937 Oran, Algeria | — | 2005 | |
![]() | Eeva Kilpi | 18 February 1928 Khiytola, Karelia, Russia | — | 2005 | |
| Nancy Morejón | 7 August 1944 Havana, Cuba | — | 2005 | |
![]() | Adélia Prado | 13 December 1935 Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil | — | 2005 | |
![]() | Adrienne Rich | 16 May 1929 Baltimore, Maryland, United States | 27 March 2012 Santa Cruz, California, United States | 2005 | |
![]() | Luisa Valenzuela | 26 November 1938 Buenos Aires, Argentina | — | 2005 | |
![]() | Maryse Condé | 11 February 1934 Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe | 2 April 2024 Apt, Vaucluse, France | 2005, 2007 | |
![]() | Dương Thu Hương | 1947 Thái Bình, Vietnam | — | 2005, 2009 | [163] |
2006 | |||||
![]() | Hanna Krall | 20 May 1935 Warsaw, Poland | — | 2006 | |
![]() | Elena Poniatowska | 19 May 1932 Paris, France | — | 2006 | |
2007 | |||||
![]() | Luz Pozo Garza | 21 July 1922 Ribadeo, Lugo, Spain | 20 April 2020 A Coruña, Spain | 2007 | [164] |
2008 | |||||
![]() | Marjorie Boulton | 7 May 1924 Teddington, Greater London, United Kingdom | 30 August 2017 London, United Kingdom | 2008 | [165] [166] |
2011 | |||||
![]() | Nawal El Saadawi | 22 October 1931 Kafr Tahla, Qalyubiyya, Egypt | 21 March 2021 Cairo, Egypt | 2011, 2012, 2021 | [167] [168] |
2012 | |||||
![]() | Mahasweta Devi | 14 January 1926 Dhaka, Bangladesh | 28 July 2016 Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 2012 | [169] |
![]() | Dacia Maraini | 13 November 1936 Florence, Italy | — | 2012 | [170] |
2015 | |||||
![]() | Anna Nerkagi | 15 February 1951 Yamalo-Nenets, Russia | — | 2015, 2018, 2020 | [171] [172] |
2016 | |||||
![]() | Lygia Fagundes Telles | 19 April 1918 São Paulo, Brazil | 3 April 2022 São Paulo, Brazil | 2016 | [173] |
![]() | Tess Osonye Onwueme | 8 September 1955 Ogwashi Ukwu, Delta, Nigeria | — | 2016 | [174] |
2018 | |||||
![]() | Olga Tokarczuk | 29 January 1962 Sulechów, Zielona Góra, Poland | — | 2018, 2019 | Awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019. |
2020 | |||||
![]() | Louise Glück | 22 April 1943 New York City, New York, United States | 13 October 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States | 2020 | Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
![]() | Giovanna Giordano | 12 November 1961 Milan, Italy | — | 2020 | [175] [176] |
![]() | Scholastique Mukasonga | 20 December 1956 Gikongoro, Rwanda | — | 2020, 2021, 2022 | [177] [178] |
2022 | |||||
![]() | Annie Ernaux | 1 September 1940 Lillebonne, Seine-Maritime, France | — | 2022 | Awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
![]() | Edwidge Danticat | 19 January 1969 Port-au-Prince, Haiti | — | 2022 | [179] |
2023 | |||||
![]() | Ida Vitale | 2 November 1923 Montevideo, Uruguay | — | 2023 | [180] |
2024 | |||||
![]() | Han Kang | 27 November 1970 Gwangju, South Korea | — | 2024 | Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature |
![]() | Maria Tedeschi | 3 January 1972 Naples, Italy | — | 2024 | [181] |
From 1901 to 1974, 60 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 1974, 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 | 9 June 1843 Prague, Czechia | 21 June 1914 Vienna, Austria | 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905 | Awarded the 1905 Nobel Peace Prize. [182] |
![]() | Belva Ann Lockwood | 24 October 1830 Royalton, New York, United States | 19 May 1917 Washington, D.C., United States | 1901, 1914 | [183] |
1903 | |||||
![]() | Priscilla Hannah Peckover | 27 October 1833 Wisbech, England, United Kingdom | 8 September 1931 Wisbech, England, United Kingdom | 1903, 1905, 1911, 1913 | [184] |
1905 | |||||
![]() | Henriette Verdier Winteler de Weindeck | 9 January 1832 London, United Kingdom | 20 March 1910 London, United Kingdom | 1905, 1907, 1910 | [185] |
1910 | |||||
![]() | Ángela de Oliveira Cézar de Costa | ca. 1860 Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos, Argentina | 25 June 1940 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1910, 1911 | [186] |
1913 | |||||
![]() | Anna Bernhardine Eckstein | 14 June 1868 Coburg, Bavaria, Germany | 16 October 1947 Coburg, Bavaria, Germany | 1913 | Nominated by Nils August Nilsson. [187] |
![]() | Lucia Ames Mead | 5 May 1856 Boscawen, New Hampshire, United States | 1 November 1936 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | 1913 | Nominated jointly with her husband Edwin Doak Mead; nominated by Samuel Train Dutton. [188] |
1916 | |||||
![]() | Jane Addams | 6 September 1860 Cedarville, Illinois, United States | 21 May 1935 Chicago, Illinois, United States | 1916, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 | Awarded the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. [189] |
1917 | |||||
![]() | Rosika Schwimmer | 11 September 1877 Budapest, Hungary | 3 August 1948 New York City, New York, United States | 1917, 1948 | [190] |
1918 | |||||
![]() | Mary Shapard | c. 1882 Mississippi, United States | c. 1950s Texas, United States | 1918 | Nominated by Morris Sheppard. [191] [192] |
1920 | |||||
![]() | Caroline Rémy de Guebhard | 27 April 1855 Paris, France | 24 April 1929 Pierrefonds, Oise, France | 1920, 1922, 1924, 1927, 1929 | Nominated by Lucien Le Foyer each time. [193] |
1922 | |||||
![]() | Eglantyne Jebb | 25 August 1876 Ellesmere, England, United Kingdom | 17 December 1928 Geneva, Switzerland | 1922 | [194] |
![]() | Elsa Brändström | 26 March 1888 Saint Petersburg, Russia | 4 March 1948 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | 1922, 1923, 1928, 1929 | [195] |
1931 | |||||
![]() | Annie Wood Besant | 1 October 1847 Clapham, Greater London, England | September 20, 1933 Adyar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India | 1931 | Nominated by Peter Freeman. [196] |
![]() | Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon | 15 March 1857 London, England | 18 April 1939 Rubislaw, Aberdeen, Scotland | 1931, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1937 | [197] [198] |
1933 | |||||
![]() | Margit Antonia Bárczy | 29 November 1877 Budapest, Hungary | 26 March 1934 Paris, France | 1933 | Nominated by Charles Dupuis. [199] |
1935 | |||||
![]() | Janet Miller | 30 September 1873 Fayette, Missouri, United States | 20 April 1958 Marlin, Texas, United States | 1935 | [200] |
![]() | Julie Bikle | 8 January 1871 Lucerne, Switzerland | 11 May 1962 Winterthur, Zürich, Switzerland | 1935, 1936, 1937, 1940 | [201] [202] |
1936 | |||||
![]() | Moina Belle Michael | 15 August 1869 Good Hope, Georgia, United States | 10 May 1944 Athens, Georgia, United States | 1936 | [203] |
![]() | Irma Schweitzer-Meyer | 20 January 1882 Baden, Aargau, Switzerland | 4 July 1967 Zürich, Switzerland | 1936, 1937 | Nominated by Nils August Nilsson. [204] |
1937 | |||||
![]() | Henrietta Szold | 21 December 1860 Baltimore, Maryland, United States | 13 February 1945 Jerusalem, Israel | 1937 | Nominated by Royal S. Copeland. [205] |
1938 | |||||
![]() | Princess Henriette of Belgium | 30 November 1870 Brussels, Belgium | 28 March 1948 Sierre, Valais, Switzerland | 1938 | [206] |
1939 | |||||
![]() | Carrie Chapman Catt | 9 January 1859 Ripon, United States | 9 March 1947 New Rochelle, New York, United States | 1939 | [207] |
1940 [x] | |||||
![]() | Helene Stöcker | 12 November 1869 Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | 24 February 1943 New York City, United States | 1940 | Nominated with Théodore Ruyssen Ludwig Quidde . [208] |
1946 | |||||
![]() | Emily Greene Balch | 8 January 1867 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | 9 January 1961 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States | 1946 | Awarded the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize, shared with John Raleigh Mott. [209] |
![]() | Alexandra Kollontai | 31 March 1872 Saint Petersburg, Russia | 9 March 1952 Moscow, Russia | 1946, 1947 | [210] |
1947 | |||||
![]() | Eleanor Roosevelt | 11 October 1884 New York City, United States | 7 November 1962 Manhattan, New York, United States | 1947, 1949, 1955, 1959, 1962 | [211] |
1948 | |||||
![]() | Katharine Glasier | 25 September 1867 Stoke Newington, London, England | 14 June 1950 Earby, Lancashire, England | 1948 | Nominated by Gilbert McAllister. [212] |
1949 | |||||
![]() | María Eva Duarte Perón | 7 May 1919 Los Toldos, Argentina | 26 July 1952 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1949 | Nominated jointly with Juan Perón; nominated by Virgilio Filippo. [213] |
![]() | Maria Montessori | 31 August 1870 Chiaravalle, Ancona, Italy | 6 May 1952 Noordwijk, South Holland, Netherlands | 1949, 1950, 1951 | [214] |
1951 | |||||
![]() | Wilhelmina of the Netherlands | 31 August 1880 The Hague, Netherlands | 28 November 1962 Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands | 1951 | Queen of the Netherlands, reigned 1890–1948 [215] |
1952 | |||||
![]() | Barbara Waylen | 1906 England | 1980 England | 1952 | Nominated by Norman Bentwich. [216] |
![]() | Elisabeth Rotten | 15 February 1882 Berlin, Germany | 2 May 1964 London, England | 1952, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961 | [217] |
1953 | |||||
![]() | Margaret Sanger | 14 September 1879 Corning, New York, United States | 6 September 1966 Tucson, Arizona, United States | 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1963 | [218] |
1954 | |||||
![]() | Helen Keller | 27 June 1880 Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States | 1 June 1968 Easton, Connecticut, United States | 1954, 1958 | [219] |
1955 | |||||
![]() | Gertrud Baer | 25 November 1890 Halberstadt, German Empire | 15 December 1981 Geneva, Switzerland | 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959 | [220] |
1959 | |||||
![]() | Olave St. Clair Baden-Powell | 22 February 1889 Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England | 25 June 1977 Bramley, Surrey, England | 1959 | [221] |
1961 | |||||
![]() | Marie-Elisabeth Lüders | 25 June 1878 Berlin, Germany | 23 March 1966 Berlin, Germany | 1961 | Nominated by Erich Mende. [222] |
![]() | Lotta Hitschmanova | 28 November 1909 Prague, Czech Republic | 1 August 1990 Ottawa, Canada | 1961, 1962 | Nominated by Arthur M. Smith(?) each time. [223] |
![]() | Gertrud Kurz-Hohl | 15 March 1890 Lutzenberg, Appenzell, Switzerland | 26 June 1972 Lutzenberg, Appenzell, Switzerland | 1961, 1962 | [224] |
![]() | Giulia Scappino Murena | 1902 Ferrara, Italy | 1982 Bologna, Italy | 1961, 1962 | Nominated by Udo Redano each time; also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. [118] |
1962 | |||||
![]() | Maude Miner Hadden | 29 June 1880 Leyden, Massachusetts, United States | 14 April 1967 Palm Beach, Florida, United States | 1962 | Nominated by Åke Sandler. [225] |
1963 | |||||
![]() | Marie-Catherien Leblanc | 30 December 1923 Montpellier, Hérault, France | — | 1963 | [226] |
![]() | Stella Monk | — | — | 1963 | Nominated by Mohamed Sahr Mustapha(?). [227] |
1967 | |||||
![]() | Sue Ryder Cheshire | 3 July 1924 Leeds, West Yorkshire, England | 2 November 2000 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England | 1967, 1968 | [228] [229] |
1969 | |||||
![]() | Kaoru Hatoyama | 21 November 1888 Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan | 15 August 1982 Tokyo, Japan | 1969 | [230] |
1970 | |||||
![]() | Alva Reimer-Myrdal | 31 January 1902 Uppsala, Sweden | 1 February 1986 Stockholm, Sweden | 1970, 1975 | Awarded the 1982 Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Alfonso García Robles. [231] |
![]() | Britta Holmström | 8 April 1911 Linköping, Sweden | 4 October 1992 Lund, Sweden | 1970 | [232] |
1971 | |||||
![]() | Louise Weiss | 25 January 1893 Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France | 26 May 1983 Paris, France | 1971 | Also nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature. [143] |
1972 [233] | |||||
![]() | Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu | 26 August 1910 Skopje, North Macedonia | 5 September 1997 Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 1972, 1974, 1975 | Awarded the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. [234] |
![]() | Isabelle Grant | 3 July 1896 Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland | 1 June 1977 London, England | 1972 | Nominated by Bizz Johnson. [235] |
![]() | Elise Ottesen-Jensen | 2 January 1886 Sandnes, Rogaland, Norway | 4 September 1973 Stockholm, Sweden | 1972 | [236] |
![]() | Annie Skau Berntsen | May 29, 1911 Oslo, Norway | November 26, 1992 Horten, Norway | 1972 | Nominated by Henrik Bahr. [237] |
![]() | Helen Suzman | 7 November 1917 Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa | 1 January 2009 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa | 1972 | Nominated by Richard Luyt. [238] |
1973 [239] | |||||
![]() | Pearl S. Buck | 26 June 1892 Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States | 6 March 1973 Danby, Vermont, United States | 1973 | Awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature. [91] |
![]() | Indira Gandhi | 19 November 1917 Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India | 31 October 1984 New Delhi, India | 1973 | Nominated by Buddha Priya Maurya. [240] 3rd Prime Minister of India (1966–1977, 1980–1984) |
![]() | Jeannette Rankin | 11 June 1880 Missoula, Montana, United States | 18 May 1973 Carmel, California, United States | 1973 | Nominated by Mike Mansfield; died before the prize was awarded. [241] |
1974 [242] | |||||
![]() | Conchita Cuchí Coll de Carlo | 1 September 1907 Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico | March 1981 San Juan, Puerto Rico | 1974 | [243] |
![]() | Hiltgunt Margret Zassenhaus | 10 July 1916 Hamburg, Germany | 20 November 2004 Baltimore, Maryland, United States | 1974 | [244] |
![]() | Jeanne DeFrance Streit | 4 November 1899 Lille, Nord, France | 18 October 2000 Stamford, Connecticut, United States | 1974, 1975 | Nominated jointly with Clarence Streit each time. [245] |
Others [j] | |||||
1976 [246] | |||||
![]() | Betty Williams | 22 May 1943 Belfast, Northern Ireland | 17 March 2020 Belfast, Northern Ireland | 1976, 1977 | Awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize in 1977. [247] |
![]() | Mairead Maguire | 27 January 1944 Belfast, Northern Ireland | (aged 81) | 1976, 1977 | |
![]() | Hualing Nieh Engle | 11 January 1925 Wuhan, Hubei, China | 21 October 2024 Iowa City, Iowa, United States | 1976 | [248] |
1978 | |||||
![]() | Imelda Romualdez-Marcos | 2 July 1929 San Miguel, Manila, Philippines | (aged 96) | 1978 | [249] |
![]() | Dorothy Day | 8 November 1897 Brooklyn Heights, New York, United States | 29 November 1980 Manhattan, New York, United States | 1978, 1979 | [250] |
1979 | |||||
![]() | Doris Twitchell Allen | 8 October 1901 Old Town, Maine, United States | 7 March 2002 Sterling, Virginia, United States | 1979 | [251] |
![]() | Hildegard Goss-Mayr | 22 January 1930 Vienna, Austria | (aged 95) | 1979, 1987, 2005 [ao] | [252] |
1981 | |||||
![]() | Geraldyn "Jerrie" Cobb | 5 March 1931 Norman, Oklahoma, United States | 18 March 2019 Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States | 1981 | [253] |
![]() | Helen Foster Snow | 21 September 1907 Cedar City, Utah, United States | 11 January 1997 Guilford, Connecticut, United States | 1981, 1982 | [254] |
1984 | |||||
![]() | Patricia Montandon | 26 December 1928 Merkel, Texas, United States | (aged 96) | 1984, 1985, 1986 | [255] |
1986 | |||||
![]() | Harriet Drury Van Meter | 27 December 1910 Fulton, Illinois, United States | 12 October 1997 Lexington, Kentucky, United States | 1986 | [256] |
![]() | Winnie Madikizela-Mandela | 26 September 1936 Mbhongweni, Eastern Cape, South Africa | 2 April 2018 Johannesburg, South Africa | 1986, 1988 | [257] [258] |
1987 | |||||
![]() | Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino | 25 January 1933 Paniqui, Tarlac, Philippines | 1 August 2009 Makati, Philippines | 1987, 1988, 1989 | 11 President of the Philippines, served 1986–1992 [259] [260] [261] [262] [263] |
1988 | |||||
![]() | Gro Harlem Brundtland | 20 April 1939 Bærum, Akershus, Norway | (aged 86) | 1988 | Prime Minister of Norway served 1981, 1986–1989, 1990–1996 [264] [265] |
![]() | Emmanuelle Cinquin | 16 November 1908 Brussels, Belgium | 20 October 2008 Callian, Var, France | 1988 | [266] |
![]() | Ruth Pfau | 9 September 1929 Leipzig, Saxony, Germany | 10 August 2017 Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan | 1988 | [267] |
![]() | Inga Thorsson | 3 July 1915 in Malmö, Sweden | 15 January 1994 in Stockholm, Sweden | 1988 | [265] |
![]() | Scilla Elworthy | 3 June 1943 Galashiels, Scotland | (aged 82) | 1988, 1989, 1991 | [268] |
![]() | Dulce de Souza Pontes | 26 May 1914 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil | 13 March 1992 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil | 1988, 1992 | [269] [270] |
1989 | |||||
![]() | Aung San Suu Kyi | 19 June 1945 Yangon, Myanmar | (aged 80) | 1989, 1990, 1991 | Awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. [271] |
1990 | |||||
![]() | Anne, Princess Royal | 15 August 1950 London, England | (aged 75) | 1990 | [272] |
| Chai Ling | 15 April 1966 Rizhao, Shandong, China | (aged 59) | 1990 | [273] [274] |
![]() | Elise M. Boulding | 6 July 1920 Oslo, Norway | 24 June 2010 Needham, Massachusetts, United States | 1990, 2005 [ao] | [265] [264] |
1992 | |||||
![]() | Rigoberta Menchú | 9 January 1959 Laj Chimel, Uspantán, El Quiché, Guatemala | (aged 66) | 1992 | Awarded the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. [275] [276] |
![]() | Elisa Molina de Stahl | 24 March 1918 Quetzaltenango, Guatemala | 3 November 1996 Guatemala City, Guatemala | 1992 | [275] |
![]() | Shulamit Katznelson | 17 August 1919 Geneva, Switzerland | 6 August 1999 Netanya, Israel | 1992, 1993 | [277] |
1995 | |||||
![]() | Toshi Akamatsu-Maruki | 11 February 1912 Chippubetsu, Hokkaido, Japan | 13 January 2000 Moroyama, Saitama, Japan | 1995 | [278] |
![]() | Agni Vlavianos Arvanitis | 9 March 1936 Athens, Greece | 7 April 2018 Athens, Greece | 1995 | [279] |
![]() | Leyla Zana | 3 May 1961 Silvan, Diyarbakır, Türkiye | (aged 64) | 1995, 1998, 2013 | [280] [281] [282] |
1996 | |||||
![]() | Heather Mills | 12 January 1968 Aldershot, Hampshire, England | (aged 57) | 1996 | [283] |
![]() | Nirmala Srivastava | 21 March 1923 Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, India | 23 February 2011 Genoa, Italy | 1996 | [284] |
1997 | |||||
![]() | Jody Williams | 9 October 1950 Rutland, Vermont, United States | (aged 74) | 1997 | Awarded the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, shared with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. [285] |
![]() | Vesna Teršelič | 1962 Ljubljana, Slovenia | (aged 63) | 1997 | [286] |
1998 | |||||
![]() | Jane Hamilton-Merritt | 5 February 1935 Hamilton, Indiana, United States | (aged 90) | 1998, 2000 | [287] |
1999 | |||||
![]() | Helen Prejean | 21 April 1939 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States | (aged 86) | 1999 | [264] [265] [288] |
![]() | Catherine Hamlin | 24 January 1924 Sydney, Australia | 18 March 2020 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | 1999, 2014 | [289] |
2000 | |||||
![]() | Kathy Kelly | 10 December 1952 Chicago, Illinois, United States | (aged 72) | 2000 | [265] [264] |
2001 | |||||
![]() | Elisabeth Mann Borgese | 24 April 1918 Munich, Bavaria, Germany | 8 February 2002 St. Moritz, Grisons, Switzerland | 2001 | [290] |
2002 | |||||
![]() | Maria Pearson | 12 July 1932 Springfield, South Dakota, United States | 23 May 2003 Ames, Iowa, United States | 2002 | [291] |
![]() | Esma Redžepova | 8 August 1943 Skopje, North Macedonia | 11 December 2016 Skopje, North Macedonia | 2002, 2004 | [292] |
![]() | Carla Del Ponte | 9 February 1947 Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland | (aged 77) | 2002, 2006 | [293] [294] |
2003 | |||||
![]() | Shirin Ebadi | 21 June 1947 Hamadan, Iran | (aged 78) | 2003 | Awarded the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize. |
![]() | Ding Zilin | 20 December 1936 Shanghai, China | (aged 88) | 2003 | [295] |
![]() | Lois Gibbs | 25 June 1951 Grand Island, New York, United States | (aged 74) | 2003 | [296] |
![]() | Irena Sendlerowa | 15 February 1910 Warsaw, Poland | 12 May 2008 Warsaw, Poland | 2003, 2007 | [297] [298] |
2004 | |||||
![]() | Wangarĩ Maathai | 1 April 1940 Tetu, Nyeri, Kenya | 25 September 2011 Nairobi, Kenya | 2004 | Awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. |
![]() | Nelsa Curbelo | 1 November 1941 Montevideo, Uruguay | (aged 83) | 2004, 2009 | [299] |
![]() | Íngrid Betancourt | 25 December 1961 Bogotá, Colombia | (aged 63) | 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010 | [300] [301] [302] [303] |
2005 | |||||
![]() | 1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe | a collective nomination of 1000 women from over 150 different countries for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. | 2005 | [304] | |
![]() | Taslima Nasrin | 25 August 1962 Mymensingh, Bangladesh | (aged 62) | 2005 | [305] [306] |
![]() | Birubala Rabha | 1954 Goalpara, Assam, India | 13 May 2024 Guwahati, Assam, India | 2005 | [307] [308] |
![]() | Zilda Arns Neumann | 25 August 1934 Forquilhinha, Santa Catarina, Brazil | 12 January 2010 Port-au-Prince, Haiti | 2005 [ao] , 2006 | [270] |
![]() | Yvonne Lime Feddersen | 7 April 1935 Glendale, California, United States | (aged 90) | 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 | Nominated jointly each time. [309] [310] |
![]() | Sara O'Meara | 9 September 1934 Knoxville, Tennessee, United States | (aged 90) | 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 | |
![]() | Betty Reardon | 12 June 1929 Rye, New York, United States | 3 November 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States | 2005, 2013 | [311] |
![]() | Meaza Ashenafi | 25 July 1964 Asosa, Ethiopia | (aged 61) | 2005 [ao] , 2015 | [312] |
![]() | Medea Benjamin | 10 September 1952 Freeport, New York, United States | (aged 72) | 2005 [ao] , 2015, 2016, 2017 | [313] |
2006 | |||||
![]() | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | 13 November 1969 Mogadishu, Somalia | (aged 55) | 2006 | [314] |
![]() | Rebiya Kadeer | 15 November 1946 Altay City, Xinjiang, China | (aged 78) | 2006, 2007, 2010 | [294] [315] [298] [303] |
![]() | Lidia Yusupova | 15 September 1961 Grozny, Chechnya, Russia | (aged 63) | 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 | [316] [317] [318] [302] |
![]() | Natty Hollmann | July 1939 Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, United States | 26 July 2021 Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, United States | 2006, 2009, 2012 | [319] |
2007 | |||||
![]() | Marta Beatriz Roque | 16 May 1945 Havana, Cuba | (aged 80) | 2007 | [320] [321] |
![]() | Sheila Watt-Cloutier | 2 December 1953 Kuujjuaq, Quebec, Canada | (aged 71) | 2007 | [313] [322] |
![]() | Oprah Winfrey | 29 January 1954 Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States | (aged 71) | 2007 | [323] |
![]() | Patricia Mónica Pérez | 14 July 1962 Buenos Aires, Argentina | (aged 63) | 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 | [324] |
2008 | |||||
![]() | Inge Genefke | 6 July 1938 Frederiksberg, Denmark | — | 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013 | [325] [326] |
![]() | Aminatou Haidar | 24 July 1966 Laayoune, Western Sahara | (aged 59) | 2008, 2021 | [264] [327] [328] |
2009 | |||||
![]() | Piedad Córdoba | 25 January 1955 Medellín, Colombia | 20 January 2024 Medellín, Colombia | 2009 | [329] [330] [331] |
![]() | Sima Samar | 3 February 1957 Jaghori, Gazni, Afghanistan | (aged 68) | 2009, 2010, 2011 | [303] [332] [333] |
![]() | Hawa Abdi | 17 May 1947 Mogadishu, Somalia | 5 August 2020 Mogadishu, Somalia | 2009, 2012 | [334] [335] |
2010 | |||||
![]() | Zura Karuhimbi | c. 1925 Gitarama, Muhanga, Rwanda | 17 December 2018 Musamo, Ruhango, Rwanda | 2010, 2011 | [336] [337] |
| Yolande Mukagasana | 6 September 1954 Butare, Huye, Rwanda | (aged 70) | 2010, 2011 | |
![]() | Svetlana Gannushkina | 6 March 1942 Moscow, Russia | (aged 83) | 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018 | [338] [339] [340] [341] [342] |
2011 | |||||
![]() | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | 29 October 1938 Monrovia, Liberia | (aged 86) | 2011 | 24th President of Liberia (2006–2018) Awarded jointly the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. |
![]() | Leymah Gbowee | 1 February 1972 Monrovia, Liberia | (aged 53) | 2011 | |
![]() | Tawakkol Karman | 7 February 1979 Shara'b As Salam, Taiz, Yemen | (aged 46) | 2011 | |
![]() | Ksenija Dumičić | Zagreb, Croatia | — | 2011 | [343] |
![]() | Israa Abdel Fattah | 1978 Benha, Qalyubiyya, Egypt | (aged 47) | 2011 | [344] |
![]() | Lina Ben Mhenni | 22 May 1983 Tunis, Tunisia | 27 January 2020 Tunis, Tunisia | 2011 | [345] [346] |
![]() | Roza Otunbayeva | 23 August 1950 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan | (aged 74) | 2011, 2012 | 3rd President of Kyrgyzstan (2010–2011) [339] |
2012 | |||||
![]() | Nasrin Sotoudeh | 30 May 1963 Langarud, Gilan, Iran | (aged 62) | 2012 | [347] |
![]() | Yulia Tymoshenko | 27 November 1960 Dnipro, Ukraine | (aged 64) | 2012 | Prime Minister of Ukraine, served 2005, 2007–2010 [348] [339] |
![]() | Angie Zelter | 5 June 1951 London, England | (aged 74) | 2012 | [349] [339] |
![]() | Lyudmila Alexeyeva | 20 July 1927 Yevpatoria, Ukraine | 8 December 2018 Moscow, Russia | 2012, 2013 | [350] [351] |
![]() | Alaa Murabit | 26 October 1989 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada | (aged 35) | 2012, 2017 | [352] |
![]() | Maggie Gobran | 1949 Cairo, Egypt | (aged 76) | 2012, 2014, 2020, 2023 | [353] [354] [355] [356] |
2013 | |||||
![]() | Malala Yousafzai | 12 July 1997 Mingora, Swat, Pakistan | (aged 28) | 2013, 2014 | Awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Kailash Satyarthi. [357] [340] [350] |
![]() | Claudia Paz y Paz | 7 June 1966 Guatemala City, Guatemala | (aged 59) | 2013 | [350] |
![]() | Lilia Shibanova | 13 October 1953 Voronezh, Russia | (aged 71) | 2013 | [340] |
![]() | Susana Trimarco | 25 May 1954 San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina | (aged 71) | 2013 | [358] |
2014 | |||||
![]() | Agnes Mariam Laham | 23 December 1951 Beirut, Lebanon | (aged 73) | 2014 | [359] |
![]() | Catherine Ashton | 25 March 1956 Up Holland, West Lancashire, England | (aged 69) | 2014 | [360] |
![]() | Anne Merriman | 1935 Liverpool, England | (aged 92) | 2014 | [361] |
2015 | |||||
![]() | Zainab Bangura | 18 December 1959 Yonibana, Tonkolili, Sierra Leone | (aged 65) | 2015 | [362] [363] |
![]() | Kathryn Bolkovac | c. 1960 Ohio, United States | (aged 65) | 2015 | [364] [363] |
![]() | Aminetou Mint El-Moctar | 13 December 1956 Nouakchott, Mauritania | (aged 68) | 2015 | [365] |
![]() | Queen Sofía of Spain | 2 November 1938 Psychiko, Greece | (aged 86) | 2015 | Queen consort of Spain, reigned 1975–2024 [366] |
![]() | Setsuko Thurlow | 3 January 1932 Hiroshima, Japan | (aged 93) | 2015 | [363] |
![]() | Leyla Yunus | 21 December 1955 Baku, Azerbaijan | (aged 69) | 2015 | [367] |
![]() | Jeanne Nacatche Banyere | Democratic Republic of Congo | — | 2015, 2016 | Nominated jointly each time. [362] [368] [369] |
![]() | Jeannette Kahindo Bindu | Democratic Republic of Congo | — | 2015, 2016 | |
![]() | Angela Merkel | 17 July 1954 Hamburg, Germany | (aged 71) | 2015, 2016 | Chancellor of Germany, served 2005–2021 [362] [370] |
![]() | Federica Mogherini | 16 June 1973 Rome, Italy | (aged 52) | 2015, 2017 | [362] [371] [372] |
![]() | Evelin Lindner | 13 May 1954 Hameln, Lower Saxony, Germany | (aged 71) | 2015, 2016, 2017 | [373] |
2016 | |||||
![]() | Nadia Murad | 10 March 1993 Kocho, Iraq | (aged 32) | 2016, 2017, 2018 | Awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Denis Mukwege. [374] [375] |
![]() | Jineth Bedoya Lima | 21 October 1974 Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia | (aged 50) | 2016 | [376] [377] |
![]() | Luz Marina Bernal | 1960 Soacha, Cundinamarca, Colombia | (aged 65) | 2016 | [378] [376] [377] |
![]() | Emilia Kamvysi | c. 1930 Lesbos, Greece | 12 March 2023 Lesbos, Greece | 2016 | [379] [380] |
![]() | Fatma Şahin | 20 June 1966 Gaziantep, Türkiye | (aged 59) | 2016 | [381] |
![]() | Susan Sarandon | 4 October 1946 Jackson Heights, New York, United States | (aged 78) | 2016 | [382] |
![]() | Constanza Turbay | Colombia | — | 2016 | [376] [377] |
2017 | |||||
![]() | Maria da Penha | 1 February 1945 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil | (aged 80) | 2017 | [270] [383] |
![]() | Olga Sadovskaya | 25 October 1980 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia | (aged 44) | 2017, 2018 | [342] |
![]() | Marianne Stöger | 24 April 1934 Matrei am Brenner, Tyrol, Austria | (aged 91) | 2017, 2020 | Nominated jointly each time. [384] [385] |
![]() | Margaritha Pissarek | 9 June 1935 Austria | 29 September 2023 Austria | 2017, 2020 | |
2018 | |||||
![]() | Anna Alboth | 1984 Warsaw, Poland | (aged 41) | 2018 | [386] |
![]() | Tarana Burke | 12 September 1973 New York City, United States | (aged 51) | 2018 | [387] [388] |
![]() | Lidija Doroņina-Lasmane | 28 July 1925 Ulmale, Aizpute, Latvia | (aged 100) | 2018 | [389] |
![]() | Jaha Dukureh | 1989 Gambia | (aged 36) | 2018 | [390] |
![]() | Oby Ezekwesili | 28 April 1963 Ukpor, Anambra, Nigeria | (aged 62) | 2018 | [387] [388] |
![]() | Latifa Ibn Ziaten | 1 January 1960 Tétouan, Morocco | (aged 65) | 2018 | [391] |
![]() | Elena Milashina | 28 October 1977 Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia | (aged 47) | 2018 | [342] |
![]() | Nataša Kandić | 16 December 1946 Belgrade, Serbia | (aged 78) | 2018, 2023 | [392] [393] |
![]() | Agnes Chow | 3 December 1996 Hong Kong | (aged 28) | 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 | [394] [395] [396] [397] [398] [399] |
2019 | |||||
![]() | Amanda Nguyen | 10 October 1991 Corona, California, United States | (aged 33) | 2019 | [400] |
![]() | Rosa María [Orozco] de la Garza | 6 July 1960 Mexico City, Mexico | (aged 65) | 2019 | [401] [402] |
![]() | Yvonne Ridley | 23 April 1958 Stanley, County Durham, England | (aged 67) | 2019 | [403] |
![]() | Sevgül Uludağ | 15 October 1958 Nicosia, Cyprus | (aged 66) | 2019 | [404] |
![]() | Loujain al-Hathloul | 31 July 1989 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | (aged 36) | 2019, 2020 | [405] [406] [407] |
![]() | Jacinda Ardern | 26 July 1980 Hamilton, New Zealand | (aged 45) | 2019, 2020 | 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand, served 2017–2023 [408] [409] [410] |
![]() | Ilwad Elman | 22 December 1989 Mogadishu, Somalia | (aged 35) | 2019, 2020 | [411] [412] [397] [413] |
![]() | Hajer Sharief | 1994 Libya | (aged 31) | 2019, 2020 | [412] [397] [413] |
![]() | Greta Thunberg | 3 January 2003 Stockholm, Sweden | (aged 22) | 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 | [414] [415] [416] [417] |
2020 | |||||
![]() | Nassima al-Sadah | 13 August 1974 Qatif, Saudi Arabia | (aged 51) | 2020 | [418] [407] |
![]() | Sally Becker | 29 March 1962 London, England | (aged 63) | 2020 | [419] [420] |
![]() | Leila de Lima | 27 August 1959 Iriga, Camarines Sur, Philippines | (aged 65) | 2020 | [421] |
![]() | Fawzia Koofi | 1975 Darwaz, Badakhshan, Afganistan | (aged 50) | 2020 | [418] |
![]() | Olga Romanova | 28 March 1966 Lyubertsy, Moscow, Russia | (aged 59) | 2020 | [418] [413] |
2021 | |||||
![]() | Maria Ressa | 2 October 1963 Manila, Philippines | (aged 61) | 2021 | Awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Dmitry Muratov. [422] [423] |
![]() | Stacey Abrams | 9 December 1973 Madison, Wisconsin, United States | (aged 51) | 2021 | [424] [425] |
![]() | Zineb El Rhazoui | 19 January 1982 Casablanca, Morocco | (aged 43) | 2021 | [426] |
![]() | Patricia Espinosa | 21 October 1958 Mexico City, Mexico | (aged 66) | 2021 | [398] |
![]() | Jane Goodall | 3 April 1934 Hampstead, London, England | (aged 91) | 2021 | [427] [422] |
![]() | Veronika Tsepkalo | 7 September 1976 Mogilev, Belarus | (aged 48) | 2021 | [427] [422] [428] |
![]() | Maria Kalesnikava | 24 April 1982 Minsk, Belarus | (aged 43) | 2021 | [427] [422] [428] |
![]() | Juliana Taimoorazy | 23 April 1973 Tehran, Iran | (aged 52) | 2021 | [429] |
![]() | Marilyn Waring | 7 October 1952 Ngaruawahia, New Zealand | (aged 72) | 2021 | [427] [422] |
![]() | Alexandra Wong | 16 May 1956 Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong | (aged 69) | 2021 | [430] [431] |
![]() | Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya | 11 September 1982 Mikashevichy, Belarus | (aged 42) | 2021, 2022 | [427] [422] [428] [432] [398] [399] |
2022 | |||||
![]() | Maria Elena Bottazzi | 1966 Genoa, Italy | (aged 59) | 2022 | [433] [434] |
![]() | Hope A. Cristobal | 14 December 1946 Guam | (aged 78) | 2022 | [435] |
![]() | Dee Dawkins-Haigler | 31 January 1970 Lithonia, Georgia, United States | (aged 55) | 2022 | [436] |
![]() | Opal Lee | 7 October 1926 Marshall, Texas, United States | (aged 98) | 2022 | [437] |
![]() | Shruti Nagvanshi-Raghuvanshi | 2 January 1974 Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India | (aged 51) | 2022 | [438] [439] |
![]() | Miriam Were | 12 April 1940 Kakamega, Western Province, Kenya | (aged 85) | 2022 | [440] |
![]() | Masih Alinejad | 11 September 1976 Qomi Kola, Iran | (aged 48) | 2022, 2023 | [441] [442] |
![]() | Gwyneth Ho | 24 August 1990 Hong Kong | (aged 34) | 2022, 2023, 2024 | [396] [443] |
![]() | Chow Hang-tung | 24 January 1985 Hong Kong | (aged 40) | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 | [444] [396] [445] [446] |
2023 | |||||
![]() | Narges Mohammadi | 21 April 1972 Zanjan, Iran | (aged 53) | 2023 | Awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. [447] [448] |
![]() | Liseby Elysé | 24 July 1953 Peros Banhos, Mauritius | (aged 72) | 2023 | [449] |
![]() | Silvia Foti | 1961 Chicago, Illinois, United States | (aged 64) | 2023 | [450] |
![]() | Kumudini Gupta | India | — | 2023 | [451] |
![]() | Denise Ho | 10 May 1977 Hong Kong | (aged 48) | 2023 | [396] [395] |
![]() | Li Kangmeng | 25 September 1997 China | (aged 27) | 2023 | [452] |
![]() | Vanessa Nakate | 15 November 1996 Kampala, Uganda | (aged 28) | 2023 | [417] [453] |
![]() | Margaret Ng | 25 January 1948 Tai Wai, Sha Tin, Hong Kong | (aged 77) | 2023 | [396] [395] |
![]() | Mahbouba Seraj | 1948 Kabul, Afghanistan | (aged 77) | 2023 | [448] [454] |
![]() | Jani Silva | c. 1968 Colombia | (aged 57) | 2023 | [455] [456] |
![]() | Victoria Tauli-Corpuz | 19 October 1952 Besao, Mt. Province, Philippines | (aged 72) | 2023 | [448] [457] [458] |
![]() | Zhang Zhan | 2 September 1983 Xianyang, Shaanxi, China | (aged 41) | 2023 | [452] |
2024 | |||||
![]() | Yasmina Cánovas | Barcelona, Spain | — | 2024 | [459] [460] |
![]() | Hind Khoudary | 28 June 1995 Gaza City, Palestine | (aged 30) | 2024 | [461] |
![]() | Heidi Kühn | 1958 San Rafael, California, United States | (aged 67) | 2024 | [462] |
![]() | Bisan Owda | 11 February 1997 Beit Hanoun, North Gaza, Palestine | (aged 28) | 2024 | [461] |
2025 | |||||
![]() | Elizaveta Gyrdymova (a.k.a. Monetochka) | 1 June 1998 Yekaterinburg, Russia | (aged 27) | 2025 | [463] [464] |
![]() | Mahrang Baloch | 3 February 1993 Kalat, Balochistan, Pakistan | (aged 32) | 2025 | [465] [466] |
![]() | Jolanta Duda | Poland | — | 2025 | [467] |
![]() | Îlham Ehmed | 1967 Afrin, Aleppo, Syria | (aged 58) | 2025 | [468] |
![]() | Huang Xueqin | 1988 Shaoguan, Guangdong, China | (aged 37) | 2025 | [469] |
![]() | María Corina Machado | 7 October 1967 Caracas, Venezuela | (aged 57) | 2025 | [470] |
![]() | Zuriel Oduwole | July 2002 Los Angeles, California, United States | (aged 23) | 2025 | [471] [472] |
![]() | Cheryl Perera | 1986 Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada | (aged 39) | 2025 | [473] |
![]() | Feride Rushiti | 12 September 1970 Gjilan, Kosovo | (aged 54) | 2025 | [474] |
![]() | Daniella Weiss | 30 August 1945 Bnei Brak, Tel Aviv, Israel | (aged 79) | 2025 | [475] [476] |
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. [477] |
![]() | Joan Robinson | 31 October 1903 Surrey, United Kingdom | 5 August 1983 Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1969, 1970, 1971 | [477] |
1971 | |||||
![]() | Barbara Bergmann | 20 July 1927 The Bronx, New York, United States | 5 April 2015 Bethesda, Maryland, United States | 1971 | [477] |
1972–1974 | |||||
should be revealed by Nobel Committee | |||||
Others [j] | |||||
2009 | |||||
![]() | Elinor Ostrom | 7 August 1933 Los Angeles, California, United States | 12 June 2012 Bloomington, Indiana, United States | 2009 | Awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, shared with Oliver E. Williamson. |
2019 | |||||
![]() | Esther Duflo | 25 October 1972 Paris, France | — | 2019 | Awarded the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, shared with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer. |
2023 | |||||
![]() | Claudia Goldin | 14 May 1946 New York City, New York, United States | — | 2023 | Awarded the 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. |
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