Notes
- A Elihu Root, Austen Chamberlain, Charles G. Dawes, Frank B. Kellogg, and Norman Angell were all awarded their respective Prizes one year late because the Committee decided that none of the nominations in the year in which they are listed as being awarded the Prize met the criteria in Nobel's will; per its rules the Committee delayed the awarding of the Prizes until the next year, although they were awarded as the previous year's Prize.
- B Carl von Ossietzky's Prize was awarded in absentia because he was refused a passport by the government of Germany.
- C Dag Hammarskjöld's Prize was awarded posthumously.
- D Le Duc Tho declined to accept the Prize.
- E Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov's Prize was awarded in absentia because he was refused a passport by the government of the Soviet Union.
- F Aung San Suu Kyi's Prize was awarded in absentia because she was being held prisoner by the government of Burma. Following her release from house arrest and election to the Pyithu Hluttaw, Suu Kyi accepted her award in person on 16 June 2012.
- G Liu Xiaobo's Prize was awarded in absentia because he was imprisoned.
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