1990: Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Union
1989: The Dalai Lama, Tibet.1988: The U.N. Peacekeeping Operations
1987: Oscar Arias Sanchez, Costa Rica
1986: Elie Wiesel, United States.
1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Inc.
1984: Desmond Tutu, South Africa
1983: Lech Walesa, Poland
1982: Alva Myrdal, Sweden, and Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexico
1981: Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
1980: Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Argentina
1979: Mother Teresa, India
1978: Anwar Sadat, Egypt, and Menachem Begin, Israel
1977: Amnesty International, London
1976: Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, Northern Ireland
1975: Andrei Sakharov, Soviet Union
1974: Sean MacBride, Ireland, and Eisaku Sato, Japan
1973: Henry Kissinger, United States, and Le Duc Tho, Democratic Republic of Vietnam, who declined the prize
1972: No award
1971: Willy Brandt, Federal Republic of Germany