List of individuals nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

Since March 1901,[1] it has been awarded annually (with some exceptions) to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".

Thus, the awarding of the Prize was also postponed twelve times: Elihu Root (1912), Woodrow Wilson (1919), Austen Chamberlain (1925), Charles G. Dawes (1925), Frank B. Kellogg (1929), Norman Angell (1933), Carl von Ossietzky (1935), International Committee of the Red Cross (1944), Albert Schweitzer (1952), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1954), Albert Luthuli (1960), and Linus Pauling (1962).

Of the 918 revealed nominees from 1901 to 1974, only the following are currently living: Though the following list consists of notable figures deemed worthy of the prize, there have been some celebrated writers who were not considered nor even nominated such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Frances Xavier Cabrini, Leonard Henry Courtney, Baron Courtney, Olive Schreiner, Mary Harris Jones, Lorenz Werthmann, Matthias Erzberger, Aletta Jacobs, James Bryce, Crystal Eastman, Emmeline Pankhurst, Ben Salmon, Ida B.

Wells, Henry Stephens Salt, René Schickele, Olaf Kullmann, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Käthe Kollwitz, Suzuki Bunji, Fannie Fern Andrews, José Brocca, Anne Henrietta Martin, Alcide De Gasperi, Katharine Drexel, Helene Schweitzer, Marie Stopes, Pope John XXIII, W. E. B.

Du Bois, Robert Schuman, Malcolm X, Anna Julia Cooper, Kees Boeke, Che Guevara, Joseph Kentenich, Muriel Lester, Thomas Merton, Amparo Poch Gascón, C. W. W. Kannangara, Vera Brittain, Ammon Hennacy, André Trocmé, Rachel Carson, Oskar Schindler, Anna Mae Aquash, Golda Meir, Ava Helen Pauling and Rosa Parks were not included.