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Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1975

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The Associated Press
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AP News, October 12th, 2007

Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1975:

_ 2007: Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for efforts to educate about the effects of man-made climate change.

_ 2006: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, the Bangladeshi bank he founded.

_ 2005: Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt, and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

_ 2004: Wangari Maathai, Kenya.

_ 2003: Shirin Ebadi, Iran.

_ 2002: Jimmy Carter, United States.

_ 2001: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

_ 2000: Kim Dae-jung, South Korea.

_ 1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders).

_ 1998: David Trimble and John Hume, Northern Ireland.

_ 1997: Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, United States.

_ 1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor.

_ 1995: Joseph Rotblat, Britain, and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

_ 1994: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat; Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, Israel.

_ 1993: Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk, South Africa.

_ 1992: Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala.

_ 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar (also known as Burma).

_ 1990: Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Union.

_ 1989: The Dalai Lama, Tibet.

_ 1988: The U.N. Peacekeeping Forces.

_ 1987: Oscar Arias Sanchez, Costa Rica.

_ 1986: Elie Wiesel, United States.

_ 1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, United States.

_ 1984: Desmond Mpilo Tutu, South Africa.

_ 1983: Lech Walesa, Poland.

_ 1982: Alva Myrdal, Sweden; Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexico.

_ 1981: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR.

_ 1980: Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Argentina.

_ 1979: Mother Teresa, India.

_ 1978: Anwar Sadat, Egypt; Menachem Begin, Israel.

_ 1977: Amnesty International, Britain.

_ 1976: Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, Northern Ireland.

_ 1975: Andrei Sakharov, Soviet Union.

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