Sonning Prize Laureates
| Year | Recipient | Field | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Orhan Pamuk | author | Turkey |
| 2010 | Hans Magnus Enzensberger | author | Germany |
| 2008 | Renzo Piano | architecture | Italy |
| 2006 | Ágnes Heller | philosophy | Hungary |
| 2004 | Mona Hatoum | creative arts | United Kingdom |
| 2002 | Mary Robinson | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights | Ireland |
| 2000 | Eugenio Barba | theatre | Italy |
| 1998 | Jørn Utzon | architecture | Denmark |
| 1996 | Günter Grass | author | Germany |
| 1994 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | film | Poland |
| 1991 | Václav Havel | author and statesman | Czech Republic |
| 1989 | Ingmar Bergman | theatre and film | Sweden |
| 1987 | Jürgen Habermas | philosophy | Germany |
| 1985 | William Heinesen | author | Faroe Islands |
| 1983 | Simone de Beauvoir | author | France |
| 1981 | Dario Fo | theatre | Italy |
| 1979 | Hermann Gmeiner | founder of the SOS Children's Villages | Austria |
| 1977 | Arne Næss | philosophy | Norway |
| 1975 | Hannah Arendt | politology | Germany |
| 1973 | Sir Karl Popper | philosophy | Austria |
| 1971 | Danilo Dolci | social worker | Italy |
| 1970 | Max Tau | author | Germany |
| 1969 | Halldór Laxness | author | Iceland |
| 1968 | Arthur Koestler | author | United Kingdom |
| 1967 | Willem A. Visser't Hooft | theology | Netherlands |
| 1966 | Laurence Olivier | actor | United Kingdom |
| 1965 | Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi | author and statesman | Austria |
| 1964 | Dominique Pire | theology | Belgium |
| 1963 | Karl Barth | theology | Switzerland |
| 1962 | Alvar Aalto | architecture | Finland |
| 1961 | Niels Bohr | physics | Denmark |
| 1960 | Bertrand Russell | philosophy | United Kingdom |
| 1959 | Albert Schweitzer | philosophy | Germany |
| 1950 | Sir Winston Churchill | author and statesman | United Kingdom |
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