1903 |  | Marie Skłodowska Curie (shared with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel) | Poland and France | Physics | "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel" |
1905 |  | Bertha von Suttner | Austria–Hungary | Peace | Honorary President of Permanent International Peace Bureau, Bern, Switzerland; Author of Lay Down Your Arms. |
1909 |  | Selma Lagerlöf | Sweden | Literature | "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings" |
1911 |  | Marie Skłodowska Curie | Poland and France | Chemistry | "for her discovery of radium and polonium" |
1926 |  | Grazia Deledda | Italy | Literature | "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general" |
1928 |  | Sigrid Undset | Norway | Literature | "principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages" |
1931 |  | Jane Addams (shared with Nicholas Murray Butler) | United States | Peace | Sociologist; International President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. |
1935 |  | Irène Joliot-Curie (shared with Frédéric Joliot-Curie) | France | Chemistry | "for their synthesis of new radioactive elements" |
1938 |  | Pearl S. Buck | United States | Literature | "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces" |
1945 |  | Gabriela Mistral | Chile | Literature | "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world" |
1946 |  | Emily Greene Balch (shared with John Raleigh Mott) | United States | Peace | Formerly Professor of History and Sociology; Honorary International President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. |
1947 |  | Gerty Theresa Cori (shared with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Bernardo Houssay) | United States | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen" |
1963 |  | Maria Goeppert-Mayer (shared with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner) | United States | Physics | "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure" |
1964 |  | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | United Kingdom | Chemistry | "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances"[21] |
1966 |  | Nelly Sachs (shared with Samuel Agnon) | Sweden and Germany | Literature | "for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength" |
1976 |  | Betty Williams | United Kingdom | Peace | Founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People) |
 | Mairead Corrigan |
1977 |  | Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (shared with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) | United States | Physiology or Medicine | "for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones" |
1979 |  | Mother Teresa | India and Yugoslavia | Peace | Leader of Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta. |
1982 |  | Alva Myrdal (shared with Alfonso García Robles) | Sweden | Peace | Former Cabinet Minister; Diplomat; Writer. |
1983 |  | Barbara McClintock | United States | Physiology or Medicine | "for her discovery of mobile genetic elements" |
1986 |  | Rita Levi-Montalcini (shared with Stanley Cohen) | Italy and United States | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries of growth factors" |
1988 |  | Gertrude B. Elion (shared with James W. Black and George H. Hitchings) | United States | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment" |
1991 |  | Nadine Gordimer | South Africa | Literature | "who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity" |
 | Aung San Suu Kyi | Burma | Peace | "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights" |
1992 |  | Rigoberta Menchú | Guatemala | Peace | "in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples" |
1993 |  | Toni Morrison | United States | Literature | "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality" |
1995 |  | Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (shared with Edward B. Lewis and Eric F. Wieschaus) | Germany | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development" |
1996 |  | Wislawa Szymborska | Poland | Literature | "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality" |
1997 |  | Jody Williams (shared with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines) | United States | Peace | "for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines" |
2003 |  | Shirin Ebadi | Iran | Peace | "for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children" |
2004 |  | Elfriede Jelinek | Austria | Literature | "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power" |
 | Wangari Maathai | Kenya | Peace | "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace" |
 | Linda B. Buck (shared with Richard Axel) | United States | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system" |
2007 |  | Doris Lessing | United Kingdom | Literature | "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny" |
2008 |  | Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (shared with Harald zur Hausen and Luc Montagnier) | France | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discovery of HIV, human immunodeficiency virus" |
2009 |  | Elizabeth Blackburn (shared with Jack W. Szostak) | Australia and United States | Physiology or Medicine | "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase" |
 | Carol W. Greider (shared with Jack W. Szostak) | United States |
 | Ada E. Yonath (shared with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz) | Israel | Chemistry | "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" |
 | Herta Müller | Germany and Romania | Literature | "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed" |
 | Elinor Ostrom (shared with Oliver E. Williamson) | United States | Economics | "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons" |
2011 |  | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | Liberia | Peace | "For their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work" |
 | Leymah Gbowee |
 | Tawakel Karman | Yemen |
2013 |  | Alice Munro | Canada | Literature | "master of the contemporary short story" |
2014 |  | May-Britt Moser (shared with Edvard Moser and John O'Keefe) | Norway | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain" |
 | Malala Yousafzai (shared with Kailash Satyarthi) | Pakistan | Peace | "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education". |
2015 |  | Tu Youyou (shared with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura) | China | Physiology or Medicine | "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria" |
 | Svetlana Alexievich | Belarus | Literature | "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time" |